The Philadelphia Fantastic Authors and Editors Series invite you to
join us and meet author Jeffrey Ford reading from his latest collection,
The Drowned Life, published in 2008 from Harper Collins Perenial, which
contains 16 of Jeffrey Ford's recent stories.
The place is Moonstone Art Center, 110 S. 13th Street, Phila.,
Pa, conveniently located in Center City Philadelphia at the corner of
13th and Sansom Sts. The date and time is Friday, May 22, 2009 at 7:30 PM.
Signing of the work will immediately follow the event.
Included in the collection are: "The Night Whiskey," a story about a
strange berry that is harvested to make a liquor that when consumed sends its
patrons up into trees to sleep off its effects, "The Dreaming Wind," about a
chaotic wind that blows through a town every year physically changing its
buildings and inhabitants, "The Scribble Mind," which tells of a secret
society of individuals who can all perfectly reproduce a certain scribble that
indicates they have retained their memories of what life was like in their
mothers' wombs, "In the House of Four Seasons," a fractured tale of a
sanitorium in a cave beneath the ocean, reached only by a crystal submarine,
wherein the patients live in a setting of artificial nature and are ministered
to by a person half man, half woman, "The Dismantled Invention of Fate," a
science fantasy about an ancient astronaut, a lost love, an invention of
Fate, and an alien like a pile of mud, who tries to set things right. The
title story concerns a man who figuratively (financially and peronally) and
literally has "gone under" and roams an submerged city called Drowned Town
desperate to regain his place in life.
Jeffrey Ford is the author the novels The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
(Harper Collins), The Girl in the Glass (HC), The Cosmology of the Wider World
(PS), and The Shadow Year (HC). His Well-Built City trilogy, including The
Physiognomy, Memoranda, and The Beyond, has recently been reissued in
trade paperback from Golden Gryphon Press with new cover art by John Picacio.
Ford is also the author of over 80 short stories, which have appeared in
numerous magazines and anthologies. Some of them have been collected in
three books, The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, and The
Drowned Life. New short stories are due to appear shortly in the
anthologies, Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing (Small Beer
Press), The Beastly Bride (Viking), Haunted Legends (TOR), New Tales of Urban
Fantasy (St. Martins). His fiction has earned him 4 World Fantasy Awards,
The Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Nebula Award, the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire,
and the Fountain Award, and has been translated into 20 languages. Ford
teaches Early American Literature, Research Writing, Composition, The Graphic
Novel, and Fiction Writing at Brookdale Community College, where he's
worked for 22 years. He lives in south Jersey, in Medford Lakes, and is
married and has two sons.
Please join us Friday, May 22, 2009 to meet one of the most powerful
voices the genre has to offer.
PHILADELPHIA FANTASTIC
Philadelphia Fantastic presents a series of readings and informal
discussions by and with local and regional writers of speculative
fiction on the fourth Friday of the month. The events are free and
dinner with the guest afterwards is at a local restaurant on a pay as
you go basis.
UPCOMING READINGS
June 26, 2009- Lawrence Schoen
July 24, 2009- Catherine Asaro
August 28, 2009- Gardner Dozois, Michael Swanwick ( The Year's Best SF
Collection)
For further information about the Philadelphia Fantastic reading
series, contact Oz Fontecchio at [log in to unmask]
(mailto:[log in to unmask])
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