Science fiction author and podcaster
Here are some photos from the Doomsday Film Festival. The first shot is me with my co-panelists John Langan (House of Windows), John Joseph Adams (The Living Dead), and David Wellington (Monster Island).
Here are some photos from my Halloween night appearance at McNally Jackson bookstore in Manhattan, where I was joined by Kenneth C. Davis (Sigmund Freud below), author of Don’t Know Much About History, who gave a short talk on the origins of Halloween. Other costumes pictured include Humbert Humbert & Lolita and Sylvia Plath & her oven. Thanks to The Desk Set for snapping these pictures.
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The zombie panel last weekend was a smashing success. Here’s a photo:
Here’s a shot of me reading my zombie short story “The Skull-Faced City” at Confluence. (Since it’s a scary story, I directed that all the lights in the conference room be extinguished, so the only illumination came from the laptop screen off of which I was reading.)
 Alpha Workshop Reading Series (with Asimov’s editor Sheila Williams) |
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Haircut:
The Kirtley Clan, Great Pond, July 2009
Photos from this month’s KGB Fantastic Fiction Reading Series.
Coloring eggs is serious business.
Here’s a photo from this month’s KGB reading, which featured Marie Rutkoski and Cassandra Clare.
 “Oh no, you guys! We forgot to wash our hands!” |
Here’s a photo I just came across from last October’s New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series, where I read my story “The Skull-Faced Boy.” I really like the Reservoir Dogs quality of this shot. So here’s me, John Langan, and Doug Cohen, a.k.a. the Bad Boyz of South Street. Swilling Poland Spring with my finger on my manuscript, yo. (Photo by Barbara Krasnoff.)
On Wednesday I went to this month’s fantastic fiction reading at the KGB bar where I met an enterprising young gent named Tom, who blogged about the evening and who also took this photo:
This morning I appeared alongside John Joseph Adams on Jim Freund’s Hour of the Wolf radio program on WBAI 99.FM in New York to discuss John’s recent anthologies The Living Dead and Seeds of Change. I also gave a reading of my story “The Skull-Faced Boy.”
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Part 2 – Reading
“The Skull-Faced Boy” by David Barr Kirtley, read by the author
Part 3 – Callers
Andy Duncan, Zora Neale Hurston, George Romero, From Dusk Til Dawn, Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead
Well, The Itty Bitty Titty Committee finally came out on DVD, so I actually had a chance to see it. I got a kick out of it. If you only watch one radical political lesbian comedy this year, and all that. I had randomly agreed to be an extra in a crowd scene, and I dragged along my friend Erica, and I actually ended up getting a few lines. (You can read about the entire miserable, miserable, miserable experience in this two-year-old blog post, written back when the wounds were still fresh.)
About 45 minutes into the movie, there’s a scene that intercuts between two different pairs of lesbians having sex. Immediately after that, though, is when things really heat up, when I make my appearance on screen. Here are some screen captures:
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everything that I did that day, only wearing high heels. |
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| In case there’s anyone I missed showing this book to, here’s me with a copy of Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2008, which glows from within with the light of its own awesomeness. |
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| It gets a little embarrassing sometimes how Karina hangs on my every word. |
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| You ever get that feeling like you just want to take off your con badge and whip someone with it? |
Here’s a photo taken at a Halloween party I attended last week. Due to cash flow problems related to my credit card info being stolen, I had no costume. Fortunately, the hostess had a spare fairy princess costume she let me borrow. Thanks, Kathleen!
 Here’s a pic of me taken at the Halloween reading last week. |
