Going to the opera with a Stanley knife

I owe about eight different posts, but this one is purely informational: my schedule for Boskone!

Reading
Friday 6:30 pm
Sonya Taaffe

Fear of Fairy Tales
Friday 7 pm
Greer Gilman, Theodora Goss (M), Mary Kay Kare, Josepha Sherman, Sonya Taaffe, Jane Yolen

The sanitized versions of fairy tales leave out what matters: the scary parts. The Grimms took out the sex, and the Victorians took out the horror (and the rest of the sex), so what's left? And why do we care? What is it about "fairy tales" that really make people uncomfortable—and how can this be effectively used in the modern genre?

Music Jam
Friday 11 pm
Alan F. Beck, Peter J. Heck, Rosemary Kirstein, Elise Matthesen, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Faye Ringel, Jon Singer, Adam Stemple, Sonya Taaffe

Rock, blues, jazz, folk—separately and in combinations . . . a music jam modeled after the "Minnesota Music Parties" . . . we think you'll enjoy it here in the east too!

Mining the Bible
Saturday 1 pm
Dan Keohane, James Morrow (M), Sonya Taaffe, Jane Yolen

No question about it—there are some terrific tales in the Bible. What are some that are particularly interesting to you, as a storyteller? How can you extract and use this material, while still howing some respect for its source (if that matters)?

Science Fiction/Fantasy Poetry
Sunday 10 am
Geoffrey A. Landis, Sonya Taaffe, Mary A. Turzillo, Jo Walton, Jane Yolen

Readings and discussion by our selected group of personable poets . . .

This should keep me busy. The reading on Friday is not finalized, but might be new prose. The music jam is Jane Yolen-related; I will be bringing ballads and things like ballads. Midrash had better count as the Bible, otherwise I got nothing. Hope to see you there!