Writer Jeff VanderMeer's Ecstatic Days blog will feature a different guest blogger each week through October 10. The excitement kicks off with a celebration of the fiction of noir master Jack O'Connell, followed by, among others, NYT bestseller Michelle Richmond, Tiptree Award-winning fantasist Catherynne M. Valente, Soft Skull editor Richard Nash, Canadian writer/activist Minister Faust, Indian writer Vandana Singh, Brazilian critic Fabio Fernandes, crime writer Meg Gardiner, Romanian editor and publisher Horia Ursu, Russian-born novelist Ekaterina Sedia, publicist Matt Staggs, short story writer John Langan, and writer-editor Cat Rambo. Come visit and experience what promises to be a lively and diverse discussion. In recent months, Ecstatic Days posts on kosher imaginary animals post and writing a novel in two months both resulted in book deals. The blog is known for being a sometimes humorous, sometimes serious exploration of books, pop culture, and more.
Guest Blogging Kicks Off With Resurrectionist Week (July 8-11)
Critically acclaimed novelist Jack O'Connell will be guest blogging at Jeff VanderMeer's Ecstatic Days next week. O'Connell's The Resurrectionist is one of the most original American novels of the year. A quest by a father to save his son, a tale of mad scientists and dream-logic, the story of a band of "freaks" on their own strange journey, and the chronicle of an odd coma clinic, the book defies easy classification. Over the last two decades, O'Connell has redefined the noir genre with his surreal novels, such as the classic Box Nine. The Resurrectionist has been reviewed by the LA Times, BookPage, The San Francisco Chronicle, and many others. The New York Times Book Review wrote of the book, "“To call Jack O’Connell’s novels imaginative, or even original, doesn’t begin to say it...There’s something both exciting and unnerving about [his] kind of hallucinatory writing.” Also blogging, about O'Connell's work, will be multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow and lit blogger Kelly Shaw, with a special appearance by Galleycat's Ron Hogan.
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