{"id":772,"date":"2011-07-13T15:16:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T19:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/?p=772"},"modified":"2011-07-13T15:16:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T19:16:40","slug":"my-readercon-schedule-for-july-15-17th-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/my-readercon-schedule-for-july-15-17th-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"My Readercon Schedule for July 15-17th, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll be heading to <a href=\"http:\/\/readercon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Readercon<\/a> this weekend.  Readercon is one of the few conventions that I attend each year.  <a href=\"http:\/\/sfrevu.com\" target=\"_blank\">SFRevu<\/a> has a table in the dealers&#8217; room &#8212; our semi-annual book sale to clear out our basement actually so if you&#8217;re there stop by the table for a chat.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my schedule:<br \/>\nFriday: 12:00 PM G And They Lived Happily Ever After, Until They Died: Retelling Russian Folktales. Patricia McKillip, Gayle Surrette (leader). Ekaterina Sedia\u2019s The Secret History of Moscow, Catherynne M. Valente\u2019s Deathless, Patricia McKillip\u2019s In the Forests of Serre\u2026 it appears we\u2019re in the middle of a renewed interest in fairy tale retellings\u2014and specifically, postmodern, genre-challenging fairy tale retellings\u2014based in the folklore of Russia. Is there a specific element to Russian stories that makes them particularly fit for contemporary adaptation?<\/p>\n<p>Saturday: 7:00 PM ME The One Right Form of a Story. Judith Berman, Marilyn \u201cMattie\u201d Brahen, John Langan, Meghan McCarron, Gayle Surrette (leader). Quoth Mark Twain: \u201cThere are some books that refuse to be written\u2026. It isn\u2019t because the book is not there and worth being written\u2014it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.\u201d Anyone who has adapted a fairy tale for a poem or developed a short story into a novel might disagree, yet many authors have also spent years chasing stories that evade capture until they\u2019re approached in just the right way. What makes some stories easygoing and others stubborn? Is the insistence on a story \u201ctelling itself\u201d a red herring? And what does \u201cform\u201d really mean here?<\/p>\n<p>Hyperion and I look forward to meeting our readers and making new friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll be heading to Readercon this weekend. Readercon is one of the few conventions that I attend each year. SFRevu has a table in the dealers&#8217; room &#8212; our semi-annual book sale to clear out our basement actually so if you&#8217;re there stop by the table for a chat. 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