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10/27: An Evening with Chuck Palahniuk

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Thursday, October 27, 2011, 7:30 pm Bellefield Hall Auditorium
315 S Bellefield Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Moderated by Stewart O’Nan.

Chuck Palahniuk photo

Offbeat writer Chuck Palahniuk, the distinctive mastermind behind best-sellers Fight Club and Choke, comes to Bellefield Hall Auditorium with his new release DAMNED, due out on October 18, 2011. DAMNED follows Madison, a thirteen-year-old girl who discovers the unfortunate reality that she is not only dead, but also that she’s in Hell! This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it.  Of course, Palahniuk describes it better than we can: “Imagine if The Shawshank Redemption had a baby by The Lovely Bones and it was raised by Judy Blume, and you have my next new project.” Pittsburgh, get ready for Chuck.

Halloween, Edited by Paula Guran

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From Prime Books:

Shivers and spirits…the mystical and macabre…our darkest fears and sweetest fantasies…the fun and frivolity of tricks, treats, festivities, and masquerades. Halloween is a holiday filled with both delight and dread, beloved by youngsters and adults alike. Celebrate the most magical season of the year with this sensational treasury of seasonal tales—spooky, suspenseful, terrifying, or teasing—harvested from a multitude of master storytellers.

Contributors in Alphabetical Order:

  1. The October Game by Ray Bradbury
  2. Tessellations by Gary Braunbeck
  3. Memories by Peter Crowther
  4. Universal Soldier by Charles de Lint
  5. Auntie Elspeth’s Halloween Story (or The Gourd, The Bad, And The Ugly) by Esther Friesner
  6. Struwwelpeter by Glen Hirshberg
  7. Pranks by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  8. By the Book by Nancy Holder
  9. The Sticks by Charlee Jacob
  10. Riding Bitch by K.W. Jeter
  11. On the Reef by Caitlin R. Kiernan
  12. Memories of el Dia de los Muertos by Nancy Kilpatrick
  13. The Great Pumpkin Arrives at Last by Sarah Langan
  14. On a Dark October by Joe R. Lansdale
  15. Conversations in a Dead Language by Thomas Ligotti
  16. Hallowe’en in a Suburb by H.P. Lovecraft (poem)
  17. Pumpkin Night by Gary McMahon
  18. The Halloween Man by William F. Nolan
  19. Monsters by Stewart O’Nan
  20. Three Doors by Norman Partridge
  21. Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe (poem)
  22. Night Out by Tina Rath
  23. Hornets by Al Sarrantonio
  24. Tamlane by Sir Walter Scott (poem)
  25. Mask Game by John Shirley
  26. Pork Pie Hat by Peter Straub
  27. Halloween Street by Steve Rasnic Tem
  28. Tricks & Treats: One Night on Halloween Street by Steve Rasnic Tem
  29. The November Game by F. Paul Wilson
  30. Sugar Skulls by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

6/25: Jimmy Fund/Pittsburgh

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A pair of publicity shots from the Jimmy Fund event.  Click to enlarge the thumbnails.

Photo credit: Christina Gordon