The Physicality of Books

Biographical Notes

Interviews · Originals · August 16, 2003

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Alan DeNiro is a Rat Bastard with work appearing in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and the Small Beer Press anthology Trampoline, among others. [web site]

Cory Doctorow is continually subjected to hardcopy appearances of his books, when he would rather they all appear solely as ASCII files. His Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom has received excellent reviews, with a short story collection due out from Four Walls Eight Windows. [web site]

L. Timmel Duchamp’s fiction has appeared in Leviathan 2, Leviathan 3, and many issues of Asimov’s SF Magazine. Her nonfiction has appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet magazine and Fantastic Metropolis (where she serves as a co-editor). Her work will soon appear in The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. [web site]

Lawrence Dyer is the author of the just-released A Cottage on the Moss, a nonfiction book about living in remote rural Northern England. [web site]

Carol Emshwiller, an NEA grant recipient, recently won the Philip K. Dick Award for her novel The Mount. Her short story collection Report to the Men’s Club and Other Stories was a finalist for the award. [web site]

Brian Evenson is a professor at the University of Brown. His widely-acclaimed short fiction has appeared in many literary magazines, including Conjunctions, and has been collected in Altmann’s Tongue and other books. His fiction is forthcoming in The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. [web site]

Tim Feeney is the current editor of The Review of Contemporary Fiction.

Jeffrey Ford, winner of a World Fantasy Award, is the author of the recent critically-acclaimed The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque and the fiction collection The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant. His fiction has or will soon appear in SciFiction, The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, and many others. [web site]

Karen Joy Fowler’s award-winning novels include Sarah Canary. She has just completed a novel entitled The Jane Austin Book Club. [web site]

Neil Gaiman is the author of the national bestseller American Gods. His fiction is forthcoming in several anthologies, including The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. [web site]

Stephen Gallagher is a widely-published English novelist who has also worked in television and movies. White Bizango, from PS Publishing, is his latest book. [web site]

Theodora Goss’ fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming from Alchemy, Fantastic Metropolis, LCRW, and others. Her story “The Rose in Twelve Petals” will appear in the next Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. [web site]

Mia Hanson’s evocative and often mysterious photography has graced several book covers. She lives in New York City with Hawk Alfredson, the noted surrealist painter.

M. John Harrison’s most recent books are the Tiptree Award-winning novel Light and the Night Shade collection Things That Never Happened. [web site]

Barry Hughart won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel, The Bridge of Birds. Subsequent novels in the same Oriental milieu have received rapt critical attention and established Hughart as a major fantasy writer. [web site]

Rhys Hughes is a Welsh author often compared to Italo Calvino. Tartarus Press published his most recent book, Stories From a Lost Anthology. New books are forthcoming from Ministry of Whimsy and from Night Shade Books, with short fiction in The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases.