(7.21) Head over to Books on the Square Saturday afternoon when author Ann Hood will discuss her latest book “She Loves You (Yeah Yeah Yeah).” Bestselling author Hood (The Obituary Writer) revisits Beatlemania through her narrator Trudy Mixer, a sixth grader growing up in Rhode Island in 1966. When Trudy learns that the Beatles are …
(6.23) If life isn’t already weird and dark enough for you, the Arcade Asylum Series at the Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council will be hosting three authors this Saturday. The event is free but seating is limited. (Facebook event.) In celebration of Midsummer, we’re excited to welcome three major luminaries in weird and dark fiction: …
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“Celebrating the unspeakable practices of Robert Coover and the International Writers Project!” For three days, Brown University will celebrate novelist and freedom-to-write advocate, Robert Coover, through readings and performances by his former students, his colleagues and his admirers. Don DeLillo, Paul Auster, William Kennedy, T.C. Boyle, Marlon James, and a host of other literary luminaries …
(4.8) The annual gathering to recognize the unique literary contributions of renowned horror-fantasy writer H. P. Lovecraft takes place Sunday afternoon at the Ladd Observatory. The observatory will be open to visitors starting at 1:30 pm to view the historic scientific instrument collection and tour the building, rain or shine. If the skies are clear …
(3.22) Ada Books will be celebrating the publication of Steven Seidenberg’s SITU this Thursday evening with readings and a few special guests. Steven will read from the book and will be joined by writers Mary-Kim Arnold, Mairéad Byrne, and Sara Wintz. (Facebook event.) Steven Seidenberg is the author of Situ (Black Sun Lit), Null Set …
The Biltmore Hotel will play host to StokerCon 2018 this weekend, with events planned through Sunday. No reason that Bram Stoker fans would not be welcome here in the darkened heart of Lovecraft territory. Although, what’s with the tentacles? Is that a Stoker thing too? (Facebook event.) On tap: A banquet presentation of the Bram …
(2.25) The English Speaking Union will hold its annual competition this Sunday at the Providence Athenaeum. Rhode Island high school students (and one from Connecticut!) will present sonnets and soliloquies as they compete to represent Rhode Island at the National Shakespeare Competition in New York in April. The students will be judged by a panel …
(1.20) The Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council will host “In the Dark of Winter,” the mid-winter edition of the Arcade Asylum Author Series this Saturday. (Facebook event page.) This cold, winter evening will feature five New England authors whose tales will further chill you to the bone: Chris Irvin/Bracken Macleod/KL Peirera/Sonya Taaffe/Paul Tremblay Free and …
(9.16) The fall season of The Publicly Complex Reading Series begins Saturday with Alexis Almeida, Sussy Santana, and Christopher Kondrich. (Facebook event.) Why would they schedule this the same day as Oktoberfest at The Guild? No reason you can’t do both. (As far as I know, the wearing of lederhosen is not verboten.) Free, 6pm …
(8.20) NecronomiCon — the international festival of weird fiction, art, and academia — kicks off Thursday and runs through Sunday, August 20th. This event is held every other year around the date of H.P. Lovecraft’s birth and this is one of those years. This year’s guests of honor include renowned editor Ellen Datlow, filmmaker Richard …
Total immersion. That is apparently the process for sculptor/artist Gage Prentiss as he works on the H.P. Lovecraft statue that will one day stand sentinel by the Providence River on Steeple Street. Images of Lovecraft are taped and pinned up on every surface . . . staring. This was not a man given to big …
Hard on the huge success of his genre-bending horror movie “Get Out” (The New York Times called it an “exhilaratingly smart and scary freakout about a black man in a white nightmare”), Jordan Peele is teaming up with Bad Robot and writer/showrunner Misha Green to turn the thematically similar novel Lovecraft Country into a series …
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(4.7) The Friday Salon at the Providence Athenaeum — The Secret Life of H.P. Lovecraft — features author Paul La Farge discussing his new novel The Night Ocean. (La Farge wrote about this in The New Yorker.) Hailed by Publisher’s Weekly as “an ingenious and provocative work of alternative history,” Paul La Farge’s new novel …
Head over to Moses Brown at 4pm, Saturday, April 1, for a free community screening of Raoul Peck’s 2016 film, “I Am Not Your Negro,” hosted by Cable Car Cinema at the new Woodman Family Center on the school campus. (Facebook event page.) In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing …
(3.16) Hey, Cthulhu got named-checked on Samantha Bee the other night. Here he is up to his tentacles in executive orders. That’s how big a deal Lovecraft is — a Cthulhu reference goes unexplained. (Of course, her writers are probably . . . never mind.) Known as the father of weird fiction, Lovecraft has influenced …
(3.2) Nathaniel Philbrick’s “Mayflower” is one of my favorite books and will likely be the last word on the Pilgrims for some time. Such was my enthusiasm, that I subsequently picked up “Bunker Hill,” even though I wasn’t sure I needed an entire book on the subject, and it was equally fascinating. Philbrick has made …