Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Fantasy Minute for October 25, 2005

Fantasy Minute for October 25, 2005:

Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs... a new book by two dozen authors and artists—including Lemony Snicket, George Saunders, Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, Nick Hornby, Jonathan Safran Foer, Marcel Dzama, and Barry Blitt—have donated their work to a collection benefiting 826NYC, a tutoring center in Brooklyn where kids can take creative writing classes for free. November 12 is a six city Noisy Outlaw extravaganza.

Stephen King's Picks:

Stephen is reading The Mad Cook of Pymatuning by Christopher Lehman-Haupt (Great) and To Kingdom Come by Will Thomas (Good)

He is listening to Drunken Lullabies, by Flogging Molly (Excellent) - One of Galaphile's top 5 albums of all time

His movie pick of the week is In Her Shoes, Directed by Curtis Hanson (Real Good)

Brian Jacques (High Rhulain) Cody's, 1730 Fourth Street, Berkeley CA, 7 p.m.

Octavia E. Butler (Fledgling) Hue-Man Bookstore, Harlem NY

R. A. Salvatore (The Promise of the Witch King) Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego CA, 7 p.m.

George R. R. Martin (A Feast for Crows) Ottakar's, Basingstoke, UK, 7 p.m.

George R. R. Martin (A Feast for Crows) Ottakar's, Woking, UK, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Clive Barker (Clive Barker Visions of Heaven and Hell) The Booksmith, San Francisco CA, 7 p.m.

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