In 2008, Vital Theatre commissioned her to script a full-scale theatrical version. With Ellen as host and writer, the program aired nationally until 2010 many of the original shows can now be heard archived online.Īs a live stage performer, her solo spoken word works include Esther: the Feast of Masks, and The Golden Dreydl: a Klezmer ‘Nutcracker’ for Chanukah (with Shirim Klezmer Orchestra). In 1996, she created Sound & Spirit, PRI’s award-winning national public radio series. Upon moving to Boston, she became a radio host for WGBH-FM. Her stories have been translated into a wide variety of languages, including Japanese, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Latvian and Finnish. In addition, her short fiction appears regularly in numerous anthologies. In 2015, Thomas the Rhymer was published in the UK as part of the Gollancz “Fantasy Masterworks” line. Swordspoint was followed by Thomas the Rhymer (World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award), and two more novels in her “Riverside” series. She began her career in publishing as a fiction editor in New York City, but left to write her first novel Swordspoint, which has become a cult classic, hailed as the progenitor of the “mannerpunk” (or “Fantasy of Manners”) school of urban fantasy. Only Basil is not convinced-nor is he convinced that the city has seen its last king.Įllen Kushner weaves together multiple careers as a writer, radio host, teacher, performer and public speaker.Ī graduate of Barnard College, she also attended Bryn Mawr College, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. Of course, everyone now knows that the wizards were charlatans and the kings their dupes and puppets. Cloud, a brilliant and charismatic teacher ruled by a passion for knowledge-and a passion for the ancient kings. Tormented by his twin duties to his family and his own bright spirit, he seeks solace in the University. Theron Campion, a young nobleman of royal lineage, is heir to an ancient house and a modern scandal. But the blood of the kings runs deep in the land and its people, waiting for the coming together of two unusual men. Generations ago the last king fell, taking with him the final truths about a race of wizards who ruled at his side. Against a rich tapestry of artists and aristocrats, students, strumpets, and spies, a gentleman and a scholar will find themselves playing out an ancient drama destined to explode their society's smug view of itself-and reveal that sometimes the best price of uncovering history is being forced to repeat it. This stunning follow-up to Ellen Kushner's cult-classic novel, "Swordspoint," is set in the same world of labyrinthine intrigue, where sharp swords and even sharper wits rule.
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