Schlesinger wins 2021 Thomas Wolfe Award independenttribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from independenttribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
indeed, still is one of my heroes. While I didn’t meet him until 2002, when I first went to Lawrence for the Sturgeon Award ceremony, I already admired his writing, both fiction and non-fiction, and had benefited greatly from his expansive, benevolent influence on science fiction as critic, anthologist, conference organizer and educator.
Sitting rapt in Jim’s KU office as he talked about the field he loved, I realized that my own mentor John Kessel had sat there just the same, as Jim’s student in the 1970s.
Kessel was my thesis director at North Carolina State University, and for years afterward, I passed to my own writing students the scores of aphorisms I learned from him. One day, when I did this in his presence, Kessel fidgeted and cleared his throat and confessed that he had stolen most of those aphorisms from Jim Gunn.
Sometimes people want to try a new author and they don’t know where to start, and everything they pick up seems to be book VIII of a series. These posts are an attempt to answer that question, in alphabetical order, working my way along my bookshelves. Of course, my bookshelves do not contain all the books in the world. They don’t even contain all the books I’ve read, as over the years I’ve read a lot from libraries, I’ve lent books to people who haven’t return them, I lost books in a divorce, and when my son moved out. Also, there are a lot of books and authors I have never read. So please add any authors I don’t list, with good starting points. And don’t hesitate to argue with me, or with each other, if you think there’s a better place to start with anyone.
Bookmarks NC Humanities Presents: Whose Water Is It Anyway? Community Event Tuesday, January 19, 2021 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Join us for “Whose Water Is It Anyway?”, an interactive panel discussion on drought, water rights, our water supply, and other themes presented in our selected Statewide Read Novel, The Water Knife. This event features award-winning writer and NC State Professor John Kessel, author Jacqui Castle, and North Carolina Drought Management Advisory Council member Klaus Albertin in a fast-paced conversation moderated by Charlotte Readers Podcast host Landis Wade. This Statewide Read is part of North Carolina Humanities’ “Watershed Moments” initiative. Free event; registration required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-water-knife-panel-discussion-tickets-12.