David Barr Kirtley

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New Author Photo – June 2012

June 22, 2012 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

New author photo:

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Under the Moons of Mars at powerHouse Arena Photos

February 23, 2012 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Here are some photos from last night’s event at powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn to promote the anthology Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom. The book is edited by John Joseph Adams and includes my story “Three Deaths.”


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Photo David Barr Kirtley powerhouse Arena Under the Moons of Mars

Photo David Barr Kirtley powerHouse Arena Under the Moons of Mars

Photo David Barr Kirtley powerHouse Arena Under the Moons of Mars

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West Coast, December 2011

December 6, 2011 by David Barr Kirtley 2 Comments

david barr kirtley west coast december 2011

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John and Christie’s Wedding

August 22, 2011 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Here are some photos from the wedding of John Joseph Adams and Christie Yant. (George R. R. Martin had his wedding ceremony in the same venue a few hours later.)

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Worldcon Photos 2011

August 22, 2011 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Here are a few photos from Worldcon. Thanks to Chris Cevasco for snapping these.

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Confluence Convention Photos 2011

July 27, 2011 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Here are some photos from the past week:


Barnes & Noble reading with Ellen Kushner and Tamora Pierce


Reading my short story “Three Deaths” at Confluence


Acting as MC for the Alpha student readings at Confluence

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Alpha Workshop 2011 Reading

July 16, 2011 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Here are some photos from our reading last night at Barnes & Noble. (In the first photo we’ve got Scott Johnson, me, David Levine, and Mike Arnzen.)


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Matt and Jordan’s Wedding

June 6, 2011 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Here’s a photo from Matt & Jordan’s fun-tacular wedding at the Boston Museum of Science.


Matt London, Jordan Hamessley, John Joseph Adams, David Barr Kirtley, Douglas E. Cohen

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New Author Photo March 2011

March 6, 2011 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

New author photo. Really needed a pic of me smiling (that wasn’t from 2007) for the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy site.

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New Author Photo

January 1, 2011 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

I shaved my head and took a picture of it, and I liked the picture enough to use it as my new author photo:

David Barr Kirtley

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Living Dead 2 Book Launch at McNally Jackson

October 7, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley 2 Comments

Here are some photos from our zombie panel at McNally Jackson bookstore in SoHo to celebrate the release of The Living Dead 2.



Matt London (“Mouja”), John Joseph Adams (editor), David Barr Kirtley (“The Skull-Faced
City”
), Bob Fingerman (“The Summer Place”), David Wellington (“Good People”)

 

Topics included: Favorite zombie movies. Fast zombies vs. slow zombies. Infected living vs. walking dead. Zombie mashups. Zombie survival strategies. Plausibility issues with zombies. Zombies as metaphor. And finally, why is it considered gross to have sex with a zombie but not a vampire when aren’t they both just animated corpses and isn’t that discrimination?

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Alpha Workshop 2010 Photos

September 26, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Here are some pics of me from this year’s Alpha workshop. Thanks to Sarah Hollowell for snapping these.

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Reading my short story “The Ontological Factor” at Confluence

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Glaring at someone — probably named Katie — who was late reseating herself
after intermission. And, as always, I’m surrounded by romance and mystery.

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Am I really that much taller than Sarah Wood? Man, that’s crazy. This looks like some
weird Peter Jackson-style forced perspective shot. In other news, Cthulhu lives.

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More Hobbes

September 25, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Just working on my laptop…

David Barr Kirtley photo

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John Joseph Adams Odyssey Workshop

September 14, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley 2 Comments

So John Joseph Adams just announced that he’ll be lecturing at Odyssey. Unless something else comes up, I’m planning to tag along with him, so if you go to Odyssey next year you’ll get to meet/hang out with me for a day or two too. I attended Odyssey back in 2001, and to this day some of my best friends are people I met through the workshop. Here’s our class photo. (I’m the guy with the long hair on the far right.)

Odyssey workshop class photo 2001

While I was digging up that photo, I came across a few other old photos I thought I’d share. So here’s me at my very first Worldcon with some of my Clarion buddies, Mike Canfield, Toby Buckell, and Tom Gerencer:

Mike Canfield, David Barr Kirtley, Tobias Buckell, Tom Gerencer photo

And of course, here’s one of me receiving the Medal of Honor. Wow, seems only yesterday…

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New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series July 2010 Photo

September 9, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Here’s a photo from July’s New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series at the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art, which featured Paolo Bacigalupi and Saladin Ahmed. Unfortunately (or fortunately, I guess, depending on your point of view) my face is substantially eclipsed here by the sexy cranium of Chris Cevasco. More photos here.

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Read My Story “The Skull-Faced City” Free Online

August 29, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley 1 Comment

My story “The Skull-Faced City” is among the free samples over at the newly-launched website for the zombie anthology The Living Dead 2:

  “The Skull-Faced City”

A power-mad zombie rules over a city of the dead.

Text
Available Here

This is a sequel to “The Skull-Faced Boy,” so definitely read that one first:

  “The Skull-Faced Boy”

Two friends clash after coming back to life as zombies.

Audio
Read by Ralph Walters
Read by David Barr Kirtley

Text
Available Here

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New Photo from NYC Borders Reading

August 11, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Here’s another photo from last weekend’s Borders reading:

David Barr Kirtley Blake Charlton Laura Anne Gilman Saladin Ahmed Borders Bookstore New York 2010

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Saladin Ahmed, Laura Anne Gilman, Blake Charlton, David Barr Kirtley in NYC

August 7, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley 1 Comment

Tonight’s reading was a blast. Thanks again to Blake for organizing this. Here’s a photo:

Saladin Ahmed, Larua Anne Gilman, Blake Charlton, David Barr Kirtley
Saladin Ahmed, Laura Anne Gilman, Blake Charlton, David Barr Kirtley

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New Author Photo – August 2010

August 4, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley 1 Comment

New author photo:

David Barr Kirtley Author Photo August 2010

Today it occurred to me that I could probably use my Macbook’s built-in camera to record myself performing my stories. I tested it out, then started experimenting with different backdrops (bookshelves, blank wall, etc.). I dragged over my lamp to try out some dramatic lighting for reading a horror story. I accidentally ended up with this lighting here, which I thought looked kind of cool, so I snapped a few pics using Photo Booth, and I liked this one enough to throw it up on my site as my new author photo. Some people were giving me crap recently because my author photo was from way back in 2007, so I hope you’re all happy now.

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Dave and Hobbes Lying on the Couch

July 11, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

I’m going through some old discs looking for early stories, and I came across this photo of me and Hobbes. I think I’m about twenty here:


So I copied the pic over to my new laptop, where it just happened to end up in a folder near this photo from last year:


Plus ca change…

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David Barr Kirtley is an author and the host of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast on Wired.com, for which he’s interviewed well over a hundred guests, including George R. R. Martin, Richard Dawkins, Paul Krugman, Simon Pegg, Margaret Atwood, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
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