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	Sound & Spirit:Ellen Kushner
		Ellen Kushner is a novelist, performer and public radio personality who unites her talents as host of WGBH Radio's remarkable series, Sound and Spirit.
		Ellen Kushner's children's story The Golden Dreydl: A Klezmer "Nutcracker" for Chanukah, which she performs live with Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, is available on CD from Rykodisc.
		Ellen Kushner recently moved to New York City, where she is working on a musical theatre piece (with composer Ben Moore), The Bone Chandelier, based on Jacobean revenge tragedy and nineteenth-century waltzes, a stage show (with Yale Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz) based on Jewish women's history, and a new novel.
	www.wgbh.org /wgbh/pages/pri/spirit/host.html (550 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Science Fiction
		Delia Sherman and Ellen Kushner's new book, The Fall of the Kings is one of the bawdiest and most intellectually stimulating novels of the year.
		Since the northerners interbred with the city dwellers, their bloodline survives, and the land itself seems to be calling out for the rebirth of the wizards and the rise of a new king.
		Kushner and Sherman's novel is a virtual treat for all the senses: The people of this city do not live on bread and cheese, they feast on pickled cherries and roasted goose livers, they drink hot chocolate to keep away the cold, and they frequent dockside bars where anything can happen—and usually does.
	www.bookpage.com /0211bp/fiction/science_fiction.html (680 words)

	Ellen Kushner, Privilege of the Sword
		Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint has the distinction of being among the most intelligent and stylish fantasy novels I've ever read.
		As it happens, I have to go back to a very basic definition of "fantasy" to make that statement, since Kushner's universe shares no characteristics with traditional fantasy save that she made it up and it is most definitely not this world.
		It's here that I'm reminded most of Jane Austen's novels, with the additional virtue that Kushner's satire is more contemporary: it becomes not just a study in class, but a dissection of our whole way of thinking, even in a supposedly post-feminist world, about men and women and what their appropriate roles are.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_kushner_privilege.html (944 words)

	Article: Interview: Ellen Kushner
		hile many know of Ellen Kushner as an award-winning novelist, she is also well-regarded as the host of PRI's Sound & Spirit with Ellen Kushner, a weekly program on national public radio, mixing music and ideas from a variety of disciplines and artists.
		Ellen paid her dues to publishing with such roles as editor of fantasy fiction (Ace Books/Grosset & Dunlap and Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster), copywriter, literary scout, and author of series books for children.
		Ellen is also the author of numerous works of short fiction and poetry published in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror annual collections, the four volumes of the Borderland series, Bending the Landscape, and other anthologies and magazines.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20021111/interview.shtml (1854 words)

	Yellow Springs Ohio, WYSO PUBLIC RADIO FM 91.3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ellen Kushner explores our own quiet, internal resistance, a stubborn survival skill that brings us strength to keep from going under.
		Join host Ellen Kushner for an award-winning celebration of friendship around the world and through the ages, in words and music.
		Ellen Kushner explores the music that happens when cultures meet: Join her for some glorious sounds as an Afghani caravan collides with a Pakistani trader's music; Tahitians discover Christian hymns; and American jazz man Warren Senders teams up with classical musicians from India.
	www.wyso.org /soundspirit.htm (415 words)

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		Ellen Kushner is also the author of the novel "Thomas the Rhymer," winner of both the Mythopoeic and World Fantasy Awards.
		Ellen Kushner: I actually created the world of "Swordspoint" when I was living in New York on the Upper West Side-not the recent, gentrified district, but the bad, old, pre-yuppie one.
		Ellen tried, but in the end, she invoked the "New York Rule": If you've ever lived near or in Manhattan, you know that nobody calls it that.
	www.baywindows.com /news/2002/12/05/Arts/Hot-Men.Having.Sex.A.Lesbian.Fetish-337752.shtml (1782 words)

	Ellen Kushner, Thomas the Rhymer
		Ellen Kushner chose her narrators for the four sections of Thomas the Rhymer well.
		Through Kushner's evocative and highly detailed storytelling, we are able to fill in the gaps of the old ballad as Thomas is introduced to the wonders and weirdness of his otherworldly home.
		She, like Gavin, tells the tale in the pragmatic, no-nonsense manner of hardworking rural folk, and their voices are both perfectly suited for grounding the magical nature of his disappearance, bookending his experiences with the simple stuff of normal life.
	www.rambles.net /kushner_rhymer.html (680 words)

	Book Review: The Fall of the Kings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ellen Kushner made quite the splash sixteen years ago with her debut novel, Swordspoint about sword for hire Richard St. Vier and his adventures and intrigues in the fictional fantasy city which Ms.
		Kushner herself described as "not-quite-equal parts of Elizabethan London, 18th century Paris, a dash of Regency of both, and even a little New York...." So rich and lush was Ms.
		Kushner reminded us of how skilled a novelist she is, going on to win the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in 1991.
	www.mythsoc.org /fokrev.html (507 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When Ellen Kushner was growing up, she loved fairy tales and stories of fantasy, the creation of entire fictional worlds by writers such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
		Today Kushner is herself a successful fantasy writer and host of a popular National Public Radio program, “Sound and Spirit,” but it wasn’t until last year that she got a chance to write an explicitly Jewish fairy tale of her own, in an unusual collaboration with a Boston-based klezmer band, the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra.
		Later, Kushner and the band added elements of audience participation, with riddles for the younger audience members to solve as an integral part of the plot.
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=5483 (808 words)

	Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman—Brief Biographies
		Ellen is the host, writer, and co-producer of this series (called "the very best program of its kind, ever" by Bill Moyers in The New York Times), which is Interstitial broadcasting at its finest: mixing music and ideas from a variety of disciplines, and from artists all around the world.
		Born in Washington D.C., Ellen was raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and spent some of her childhood in France.
		Ellen is also the author of numerous works of short fiction and poetry published in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror annual collections, the four volumes of the Borderland series, Bending the Landscape, and other anthologies and magazines.
	www.endicott-studio.com /bios/bioellendelia.html (1021 words)

	SF-Bokhandeln: Ellen Kushner
		Femton år efter att Kushner publicerade den lysande romanen Swordspoint kommer här en uppföljare, baserad 50 år senare i samma intriganta, sexiga och realistiska fantasyvärld.
		Ellen Kushner återvänder här till världen Riverside, som hon första gången skrev om i Swordspoint från 1987.
		Kushner har en skarp och ironisk prosa, och kärlekshistorien mellan St Vier och Alec hör till de bästa inom genren.
	www.sfbok.se /kat/author/1000/1419.htm (315 words)

	Sound & Spirit: Listen
		Ellen Kushner explores ways in which music can convey, or be, magic - spells that make the rain fall and the crops grow, wards of courage and protection, blessings or curses, chants of sleep and healing, and spells of love - with music from Igor Stravinsky to Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
		Ellen Kushner speaks with Frank Ostaseski of the San Francisco Zen Center Hospice about a Buddhist way to acceptance and peace, and she considers the spiritual growth that people may encounter when faced with the end of life.
		Join Ellen Kushner for a deeper look at the Book of Jonah, with the help of artists as diverse as comedian Lord Buckley and composer Alan Hovhaness, as she explores the music and meaning of the Biblical tale, and consider the implications of ignoring responsibility and one's inner voice.
	www.wgbh.org /wgbh/pages/pri/spirit/listen.html (1242 words)

	The Best Reviews: Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, The Fall Of The King Review
		Ellen Kushner and Della Sherman combine their talents to create a work that is sublimely rich in characterizations and a perspective similar to medieval Europe.
		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.
		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....
	thebestreviews.com /review7839 (478 words)

	Bibliópolis: Editorial: El privilegio de la espada, de Ellen Kushner
		Ellen Kushner regresa al mundo de su obra de culto A punta de espada para desvelarnos los sorprendentes destinos de sus inolvidables protagonistas en una trama repleta de tensión, secretos, traiciones y escándalos.
		Ellen Kushner ha desarrollado una doble carrera como novelista y presentadora de radio.
		Kushner es también uno de los fundadores de la Interstitial Arts Foundation y miembro del Terri Windling’s Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts.
	www.bibliopolis.org /editorial/bibliofan/privilegioespada.htm (465 words)

	JEWSWEEK - Myth Inc. in action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ellen Kushner and Jane Yolen have made careers out of exploring folklore and mythology, helping to keep alive an ancient human tradition.
		Kushner's most recent release is a paperback of Thomas the Rhymer, which is based on a well-known ballad of a medieval minstrel whisked away by the Queen of Elfland.
		Kushner is the author of Thomas the Rhymer, The Fall of the Kings, and Swordspoint along with a prolific public radio show she hosts that has explored virtually every facet of mythology.
	www.jewsweek.com /bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l1314&enZone=Articles&enVersion=0& (1934 words)

	Stonehill College Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ellen Kushner’s musical drama, Esther: The Feast of Masks, will be performed at the Chapel of Mary at Stonehill on February 27, 2003 at 7:00 pm.
		All of the characters are performed by Kushner, accompanied by three of Boston’s finest musicians--Michael McLaughlin (music director, piano, accordion, guitar and vocals), Joseph Kessler (fiddle and vocals), Mary Casey (vocals and guitar).
		According to Kushner, who is also an award-winning author, “For hundreds of years, the Jewish people have been celebrating the spring festival of Purim by putting on masks and costumes and acting out the story of the Book of Esther.
	www.stonehill.edu /media_relations/articles/esther.htm (234 words)

	Mythic Journeys Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ellen Kushner is a novelist, performer and public radio personality.
		Her most recent novel, The Fall of the Kings (written with Delia Sherman, Bantam, 2002), is set in the same invented city as her first, the cult classic Swordspoint (described by Gene Wolfe as 'the book we would have had if Noel Coward had written a vehicle for Errol Flynn').
		Ellen Kushner's children's story The Golden Dreydl: a Klezmer 'Nutcracker' for Chanukah, which she performs live with Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, is also available on CD from Rykodisc.
	www.mythicjourneys.org /guests_kushner.php (176 words)

	Sound & Spirit: What's New?
		Set between Kushner's previous novel, Swordspoint, and her collaboration with Delia Sherman, The Fall of the Kings, Privilege is an marvelous tale crackling with energy, wit, and wonders.
		And there I am onstage with them, moving the show from act to act with a narration that sounded just like the weekly radio show Tulsans enjoy on KWGS — only improvised on the spot, to catch the "vibe" of the musicians and, more important, of the audience who had come out to hear them.
		Ellen Kushner's Upcoming Appearances page around the country.
	www.wgbh.org /wgbh/pages/pri/spirit/new.html (1235 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Swordspoint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the highly stratified world of Kushner's nameless old city, the aristocrats living in fine mansions on the Hill settle their differences by sending to the thieves' den of Riverside for swordsmen who will fight to the death for a point of someone else's honor.
		Kushner wrings intense conflict from her constrained setting by cutting to the heart of her characters' motivations.
		Kushner's novel reads like a forerunner of the recent social intrigue fantasy from authors like Jacqueline Carey, and she deserves credit for this landmark work that pioneered that subgenre.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553585495?v=glance (2532 words)

	The SF Site: Blowing the Horns of Elfland -- Ellen Kushner and the Magic of Music
		Born in Cleveland, Ellen Kushner went to Bryn Mawr College then graduated from Columbia University.
		Kushner studied that story and dozens of other works of folklore to better understand and incorporate their elements into her lyrical book.
		This collection, which she is co-edited with Keller and novelist Delia Sherman, was issued by Roc Books and offers speculative insights from 15 writers (including Kushner) into the enchanting energy of music.
	www.sfsite.com /10b/kush19.htm (915 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Thomas the Rhymer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A Boston-based radio producer, Kushner (Swordspoint) is at ease in Middle-Earth where Thomas, insouciant harper and rhymer, appears at the humble dwelling of a weathered crofter and his wife.
		Ellen Kushner has used an old ballad to create a fascinating and lovely tale of a young harpist and singer.
		it is no problem to admit that i heartily envy ms kushner writing skill: she is a wondrous writer, she handles her language with a subtlety unheard of and still she manages to avoid any overwriting, any mannerism.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553586971?v=glance (2120 words)

	Profile of Ellen Kushner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ellen Kushner, an award-winning author and Public Radio International (PRI) personality, is hosting an exciting new radio program.
		She said her background as a fantasy writer helped her formulate the program, which looks at a combination of spirituality, philosophy and myth.
		Kushner has been at Boston-based WGBH radio station since 1987.
	www.brynmawr.edu /Alumnae/bulletin/kushner.htm (229 words)

	Rambles: Ellen Kushner, Swordspoint
		It's a melancholy trend, although perhaps inevitable, that something that should be as fresh and inventive as fantasy literature so easily becomes formulaic, to the degree that there are subcategories with many examples, all easily identifiable and few really standing out.
		Kushner herself cites Trollope as an influence; I would add Sheridan, Fielding and Austen, and, due to some remarkably accomplished blank verse that has an amazingly authentic ring, the Elizabethans.
		This is an elegant, magical, bitchy book, in which Kushner creates a richly detailed society out of equal parts of Restoration and Georgian England (with a good measure of the lustiness and bloodiness of the Elizabethans) and puts it under the merciless scrutiny of a Jane Austen.
	www.rambles.net /kushner_swordspt03.html (593 words)

	Stonehill College Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ellen Kushner's original production held on December 3 at 7:00 pm
		Ellen Kushner's musical drama, The Golden Dreydl: A Klezmer Nutcracker, will be performed at the Chapel of Mary at Stonehill on December 3, 2003 at 7:00 pm.
		The Golden Dreydl: A Klezmer Nutcracker is a multifaceted production, performed by Ellen Kushner, writer and host of WGBH Radio's Sound and Spirit program and the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra.
	www.stonehill.edu /media_relations/articles/112503_KlezmerNutcracker.htm (228 words)

	SCIFI.COM Chat Transcript: Chat with Willima Shatner, July 24 2002
		Tonight we're pleased to welcome writers Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman and to return to that magical realm with their new novel, THE FALL OF THE KINGS
		Were chatting with writers Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, authors of the new novel THE FALL OF THE KINGS.
		Ellen: way back in the first Richard-and-Alec story, "Red-Cloak," there was a character that I read as implicitly, though not explicitly, supernatural.
	www.scifi.com /transcripts/2002/dshermanekushner1107.html (2400 words)

	Powell's Books - Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ellen Kushner grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, attended Bryn Mawr and Barnard Colleges, and has an A.B. from Columbia University.
		She started out after college working as a sf/f editor in New York City for Ace and then Pocket Books, but in 1987 found her way to public radio on WGBH 89.7fm in Boston, and has been on the air there ever since.
		In April 1996, PRI launched her new national, public radio series, Sound and Spirit, which explores the musical connections between myth and magic, folklore and literature, anthropology and history.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0553586971-0 (330 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Swordspoint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Kushner's authorial voice may be somewhat smug and self-conscious but that suits her subject.
		Kushner's wonderful small details make Riverside and its environs a living, breathing place that I feel like I lived in for a while myself.
		My only complaint is that I was bored by the wealthy characters and their political intrigues, and though I liked how Kushner tied it all to Alec I had no patience with that part of the novel or interest in any of it.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0553585495 (1500 words)

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