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Dear Reader: "We Who Have Read The Girl Detective" -- a play based on a short story by award-winning author Kelly Link* will make its debut on August 30 in Philadelphia. Philadelphia-based theater group Invisible Cities will be putting on the play inspired by Kelly Link's story, "The Girl Detective," from August 30 to September 9 at Olde St. Augustine Church, N. 4th New Street (one block north of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge). Members of the Invisible Cities group read the story when it was originally published online at Ellen Datlow's speculative fiction site, Event Horizon, and then later when it was collected in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror XIII. On July 11 of this year they traveled up to see Link read "The Girl Detective" at her local bookshop, Book Court (163 Court Street, Brooklyn, 718-875-3677). Sales from that night were enough to push the book onto the Book Court bestseller list, something owner Henry Zook attributed not only to the reading but also the strong cover illustration and quote from local fave, Jonathan Lethem: "Kelly Link is the exact best and strangest and funniest short story writer on earth that you have never heard of at the exact moment you are reading these words and making them slightly inexact. Now pay for the book." The play runs concurrently with the World Science Fiction Convention which will be held from August 30 to September 3 at the Philadelphia Convention Center. Please forward any questions, requests for interviews, &c. to me at this email address. Sincerely, Gavin J. Grant
Kelly Link bio: Kelly Link's story "Travels with the Snow Queen" won the James Tiptree Jr. Award in 1997. Her story "The Specialist's Hat" won the World Fantasy Award in 1999 and "Shoe and Marriage" has been nominated for the 2000 World Fantasy Award. Her stories have been published in venues such as Fence, Asimov's, Century, and The Vintage Book of Amnesia. She received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She once won a free trip around the world. She currently lives in Brooklyn. Small Beer Press recently published her first collection, Stranger Things Happen. "We Who Have Read The Girl Detective" by
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Links: Reviews of Kelly Link's Stranger Things Happen
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