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STORMY THURSDAY SPECIAL SUMMER DOUBLE ISSUE
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AVRAM DAVIDSON SOCIETY MEETING
The second meeting of the Avram Davidson Society will be held in
New York City on Friday, 8 October 1999, 12:30 p.m. at Zen Palate
restaurant off Union Square. All are cordially welcome.
Please
inform the Editor (wessells@aol.com) in order to reserve a big
enough table.
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THE ORTHODOX JEWISH LIFE STORIES
Time, place, transportation, and library opening hours were in favorable
conjunction earlier this summer when your Editor finally managed to
track down most of Avram Davidson's earliest publications: poems,
stories and essays that appeared in the pages of Orthodox Jewish
Life
in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Some of this material is apprentice
work and of comparatively lesser interest, but several of the pieces
are
full-fledged Davidsonian gems with strong fantasy elements. The
big
surprise was "The Land of Sinim" (Orthodox Jewish Life, June
1948), a
previously unrecorded story set in China, where traces of a vanished
Sino-Jewish culture are evoked. It's a poignant (but not mawkish)
story
that reflects many of the concerns that would be found in Avram's fiction
during the next forty-five years! Also of note is "The Fisherman...,
A
Tashlich Legend" (Orthodox Jewish Life, Sep.-Oct. 1950), a fantasy
tale.
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NEWS ITEMS
Robert Silverberg and Grania Davis, editors of The Avram Davidson
Treasury have been nominated for the World Fantasy Award in
the
Special Professional Award category. The Treasury, which
is now
available in paperback, won the Locus Award for best collection.
Grania Davis and Henry Wessells will edit The Other Nineteenth
Century, a volume of stories by Avram Davidson to be published
by
Tor Books.
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Your Editor apologizes for the silence between issues & for the
spare
content of the present overworked summer double issue. There are lots
of good things planned for the November issue.
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The Last Wizard with A Letter of Explanation
The second printing of 125 copies, May 1999, is now available.
Size : 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, xii pages. Printed offset and stapled
in stiff
paper wrappers.
The price is $10.00 per single copy (includes postage).
For orders of three or more copies, the price is $6.00 per copy
(includes postage).
To order send a cheque in U.S. funds, payable to Henry Wessells,
to :
Temporary Culture
P.O. Box 43072
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043-0072
Orders may be placed by e-mail to wessells@aol.com and will be
held until payment is received.
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The URL of the Avram Davidson Website is: http://www.avramdavidson.org/
This is a new URL, easy to remember but let your computer do
that for you.
Submissions of additional material for the Website are always
welcome.
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Next issue will be published in November 1999.
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