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4th Street Fantasy Schedule (prelim)
Jun. 12th, 2013 11:21 am4th Street Fantasy is coming up in a week and half now. As per the norm, I'm on a panel, noted below. I'll be in and out even more than usual this year, since we have an 80th bday party for a friend on Saturday night and my pal Rachel Gold is doing a Trans YA reading with author Kirstin Cronn-Mills at Addendum Books (the back part of Subtext Books in St. Paul) Sunday afternoon at 2PM. But lots of other folks will be around so don't that slow you down if the spirit moves you.
Saturday
9:30 – 10:30AM
Intertextuality and Originality
No book exists independent of the literary conversation, no matter how much its author may want it to. Elizabethan faeries are inevitably going to compared to each other, just like dark lords, destined heroes, and vampire-werewolf-mortal love triangles will. Given that very little authors can do will seem novel to experienced readers, how should they approach topics that many readers have been conditioned to read in a certain light? How can works that aim to deconstruct cliches avoid being read as "just X from Y's perspective"?
Lynne Thomas (M), Tappan King, Chris Modzelewski, Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Catherine Lundoff
Saturday
9:30 – 10:30AM
Intertextuality and Originality
No book exists independent of the literary conversation, no matter how much its author may want it to. Elizabethan faeries are inevitably going to compared to each other, just like dark lords, destined heroes, and vampire-werewolf-mortal love triangles will. Given that very little authors can do will seem novel to experienced readers, how should they approach topics that many readers have been conditioned to read in a certain light? How can works that aim to deconstruct cliches avoid being read as "just X from Y's perspective"?
Lynne Thomas (M), Tappan King, Chris Modzelewski, Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Catherine Lundoff