The album Dark Hope,
by Renée Fleming,
was released on June 8, 2010.
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Saturday, June 8, 2024
On this day in music history - Paradise and Lunch, by Ry Cooder (1974):
The album Paradise
and Lunch,
by Ry Cooder,
was released on June 8, 1974.
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Born on this day – Kate Wilhelm:
Kate
Wilhelm
Writer
June 8, 1928 – March 8, 2018
Credits:
Books:
A Flush of Shadows (1995);
A Sense of Shadow (1981); A Wrongful Death (2007); Abyss (1973); All For One (2012);
Alpha 5 (1974); And the Angels Sing (1992); Andover and the Android (1966); Angels!
(1995); Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 (1994); Best New Horror 4 (1993);
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection (1977); Better
Than One (1980); By Stone By Blade By Fire (2012); Cambio Bay (1990); Children
of the Wind (1989); City of Cain (1974); Clarion SF (1977); Clear and
Convincing Proof (2003); Cold Case (2008); Crazy Time (1988); Death of an
Artist (2012); Death Qualified (1991); Defense for the Devil (1999); Desperate
Measures (2001); Fantasy & Science Fiction, July / August 2012 (2012); Fault
Lines (1977); Fear is a Cold Black (2010); Forever Yours, Anna (1987); Heaven
is High (2011); Huysman's Pets (1985); I Know What You’re Thinking (1994); In
Between (2014); Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, October 1986 (1986); Isaac
Asimov's Aliens & Outworlders (1983); Juniper Time (1979); Justice for Some
(1993); Kate Wilhelm in Orbit, Volume One (2015); Kate Wilhelm in Orbit, Volume
Two (2015); Let the Fire Fall (1969); Listen, Listen (1981); Malice Prepense /
For the Defense (1996); Margaret and I (1971); Mirror, Mirror (2017); Moongate (2000);
More Bitter Than Death (1963); Music Makers (2012); Naming the Flowers (1992); Nebula
Awards 9 (1974); No Defense (2000); Oh, Susannah! (1982); Omni Visions Two (1994);
Orbit 11 (1972); Orbit 12 (1973); Orbit 3 (1967); Orbit 6 (1970); Seven Kinds
of Death (1992); Sister Angel (2012); Skeletons (2002); Sleight of Hand (2006);
Smart House (1989); Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions (1978); Storyteller (2005);
Sweet, Sweet Poison (1990); Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers
join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr (1987); The Best Defense (1994); The
Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1999);
The Bird Cage (2012); The Clewiston Test (1976); The Clone (1965); The Dark
Door (1988); The Deepest Water (2000); The Downstairs Room (1970); The Fullness
of Time (2012); The Giant Book of Terror (1994); The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky
(1986); The Good Children (1998); The Gorgon Field (1986); The Hamlet Trap (1987);
The Hills Are Dancing (1986); The House Share (2022); The Infinity Box (1975); The
Killer Thing / The Killing Thing (1967); The Mile-Long Spaceship (1963); The
Nevermore Affair (1966); The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 (1988); The Orbit
Science Fiction Yearbook Three (1990); The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two (1989);
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The Price of Silence (2005);
The Secret History of Science Fiction (2009); The Seventh Omni Book of Science
Fiction (1989); The Unbidden Truth (2004); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science
Fiction (2010); The Winter Beach (1981); Those Who Can: A Science Fiction
Reader (1973); Torch Song (2012); Welcome, Chaos (1983); Where Late the Sweet
Birds Sang (1975); Whisper Her Name (2012); With Thimbles, With Forks, and Hope
(2012); Yesterday's Tomorrows (2015).
Movies and television:
The Lookalike (1990); Out
of the Unknown (1965).
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Born on this day – John W. Campbell:
John
W. Campbell
Writer
June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971
Credits:
Books:
A New Dawn (2003); Analog
(1961); Analog 1 (1963); Analog 6 (1966); Astoundimg Science Fiction Vol. 10
No. 1 (1954); Cloak of Aesir (1952); Cosmic Kill / Beyond the End of Space
(2014); From Unknown Worlds (1938); Frozen Hell (2019); Invaders from the
Infinite (1961); Islands of Space (1957); Moon is Hell / Green World (2012); The
Best of John W Campbell (1973); The Black Star Passes (1953); The Elder Gods
(1951); The Essential Surrealism (2002); The Incredible Planet (1949); The John
W. Campbell Letters With Isaac Asimov and A.E. Van Vogt (1989); The Mightiest
Machine (1935); The Moon Is Hell (1951); The Space Beyond (1976); The Ultimate
Weapon (1936); Who Goes There? (1938).
Movies, video and
television:
Cineficción Radio (2020);
Prophets of Science Fiction (2012); Special Collector's Edition (2012); Tales
of Tomorrow (1952); The Thing (1982 / 2002
/ 2011); The Thing from Another World (1951).
Born on this day – Ernest B. Schoedsack:
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Director
Cinematographer
Producer
June 8, 1893 – December 23,
1979
Recommended reading - In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper (2016):
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In Sunlight or In
Shadow:
Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper (2016).
Edited by Lawrence Block.
ISBN: 9781681772455
Description:
A truly unprecedented
literary achievement by author and editor Lawrence Block – a newly commissioned
anthology of seventeen superbly crafted stories inspired by the paintings of
Edward Hopper.
"Edward Hopper is
surely the greatest American narrative painter. His work bears special
resonance for writers and readers, and yet his paintings never tell a story so
much as they invite viewers to find for themselves the untold stories within."
So says Lawrence Block,
who has invited seventeen outstanding writers to join him in an unprecedented
anthology of brand-new stories: In Sunlight or In Shadow. The results
are remarkable and range across all genres, wedding literary excellence to
storytelling savvy.
Contributors include
Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Connelly, Megan
Abbott, Craig Ferguson, Nicholas Christopher, Jill D. Block, Joe R. Lansdale,
Justin Scott, Kris Nelscott, Warren Moore, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffery Deaver,
Lee Child, and Lawrence Block himself. Even Gail Levin, Hopper’s biographer and
compiler of his catalogue raisonée, appears with her own first work of fiction,
providing a true account of art theft on a grand scale and told in the voice of
the country preacher who perpetrated the crime.
In
a beautifully produced anthology as befits such a collection of acclaimed
authors, each story is illustrated with a quality full-color reproduction of
the painting that inspired it.
Toni Morrison, on writing:
that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious,
problematic or just sweet.
– Toni Morrison.
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