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Harlan Ellison essays (book recommendation) [message #91850] Wed, 26 June 2013 01:04
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I'd like to recommend _Sleepness_Nights_in_the_Procrustean_Bed_, a book of rare
and previously unreprinted essays by Harlan Ellison, edited by Marty Clark.
It contains the Introduction to the "Harlan Ellison Issue" of F&SF, some
speeches and program book essays from WorldCons, several essays normally rather
hard to find for some of us since they were originally published in Los Angeles
magazine, Video Review, and other magazines.  Two of the items come from SFWA
speeches: these show briefly that Ellison does know quite a good deal about
the movie business and its attitudes towards writers.  There is also an account
of Ellison's participation in the March on Montogomery in '65; this article is
a chilling time-capsule/time-bomb of the hatred and fear in Alabama concerning
the Civil Rights marches.

This volume may be a bit hard to find (I only saw it accidentally in a bookstore
I normally don't go to), so here's some publishing info from the back cover:
The Borgo Press, Distributed to the trade by Newcastle Publishing Co., Inc.,
P.O. Box 7589, Van Nuys, CA  91409.  It has a copyright date of 1984.
ISBN 0-89370-270-6.  To interested Cambridge Mass folk, I found mine in
the Paperback Booksmith in Harvard Square in the science fiction section.

L S Chabot
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