My sister, being my sister, got us all passes to the Magic Castle over the holidays.

Sadly, I seem to have misplaced the show list, although I specifically remember Rob Zabrecky and Jonathan Pendragon, who obviously is out of jail. There was also a lovely close-up magician who did all his tricks with one hand (I think he has an injury) and had ( Read more... )

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them ( Read more... )

That's right, this Saturday at 12pm, the awesome Cecil Castellucci will be her new picture book, Grandma's Gloves at the Curious George bookstore in Harvard Square. You should all go!!!

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For those of you who twitter!

To celebrate the paperback release of GEEKTASTIC, won't you join the supremely fabulous Cecil Castellucci (aka my sister) and some of the other people who contributed (Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Libba Bray, Wendy Mass and Alvina Ling) for a tweetchat tonight, Monday July 12th at 8 PM EST / 5 ( Read more... )

The ECM+ has put up some highlights of the comic book opera on their site.

Check it out!

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The May 12 "InnerSpace", about 40 seconds in.

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The ECM+ put up some pictures of the comic book opera's first performance. Last performance is tonight, and it is pretty freaking amazing. You should all go ( Read more... )

As some of you know, my sister wrote the libretto for an opera. It's an original comic book opera Les Aventures de Madame Merveille and it was commissioned by the ECM+ in Montreal and debuts May 6th and 7th.
If you're local or going to be local, you should come!


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My sister is in town, and as is usual for her, she is sharing her genius with the world! (Well, with the teen and tween world in this case)

Information from her post below:

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Are you a teen or tween? Are you in Montreal? Do you want to write?

Well lucky you!

I'll be holding a teen writing workshop Sat. 1/ ( Read more... )

Silver Lake has a new public library.

Included in it is an art piece incorporating quotes from famous residents of Silver Lake.

A little birdie told me that in between Beck and John Cage sits this rather brilliant writer.

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