It's unbelievable:  Almost impossible these days to find a room in NYC for under $200!  I recommend:

• This 10/12 NYTimes article:  http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/7-manhattan-hotel-rooms-for-150-more-or-less/

• Colonial House Inn, W ( Read more... )

Tonight, my cousins Paul & Debra Saltzman Hill came up from lower Manhattan, where they've been living without power since the storm; Paul, an architect, has been organizing their building to make sure everyone has water and support - including getting people to carry water up to folks on the 12th floor (no elevators!), checking on the elderly, etc ( Read more... )

A lovely dinner last night at Paul Witcover's with Terri Windling & Christopher Schelling (our mutual agent) and assorted friends, for visiting author friend Liz Hand  . . . one of those dinners where the wit and wine flow free, and you wish it would never end (and that you could stop yawning after midnight!). The talk ranged from reading books to ( Read more... )

The most extraordinary thing happened to me today.

I returned to the apartment I lived in after college, the one that inspired my Riverside books, the one where I wrote Swordspoint and Thomas the Rhymer.

It happened because, about 3 years ago, I wrote this post about it.  Recently, the new owner found the post and wrote asking me if she was indeed ( Read more... )

An absolute peach of a day, or so it turned out after a stressy morning following up on last night's dreadful moth revelations (which were Tweeted & Facebook'd in ghastly RT*) - managed to make it to lunch date with Ellen Datlow, Betsy Mitchell (editors of considerable note) and visiting Israeli publisher (and BBF) Rani Graff at PongSri for Thai ( Read more... )

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It isn't always like this, I promise you.

But it can be.

All this month, NYC's wonderful Center for Fiction (formerly the Mercantile Library) presents a series of science fiction and fantasy events during centered on a celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin's novel A Wizard of Earthsea, called The Big Read.

I'll be participating in the events there on October 19th, 20th & 24th.  deliasherman moderates a YA panel this ( Read more... )

* Large, handsome African-American actor reciting obscure speech from Shakespeare's KING JOHN (very well! we all gave him money.  He began boomingly: "Your graces pardoned..." and we thought it was going to be a sermon at first! So good.).

* Korean kid with orange striped hair doing loud, impressive, complicated tap dance routine on platform @ 42nd ( Read more... )

Just found out that "Sleep No More" (which I wrote about here and Delia here ) did not close in the spring, or else is back:  running through Sept. 17th in NYC, for those who wish they had gotten a chance to see it.  Tix are pricey, but it's like nothing else on earth.

Best writeup may be Daniel Rabuzzi's here.

Saw the Alexander McQueen exhibit last night at the Met(ropolitan Museum).  Friends had harrowing tales to tell of the lines this week, but we somehow found the sweet spot and missed the worst of it.  There are 3 lines you must engage with:

(1) Getting into the museum building. 
This can involve standing outdoors and snaking into Central Park in ( Read more... )