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	John Kessel
		In 1997 alone, he had his job of eight years surreptitiously yanked from him, his bag (master tapes and all) checked and given away by a Staples clerk, and was nearly beaten to death by members of his audience.
		If what John Kessel does is the Blues, it is important to note that his music is an educated Blues, morphed through decades of jazz, rock & roll, country, funk, protest songs, Tin Pan Alley, and punk post-modernism.
		Kessel's songwriting is chock-full of Dylanesque wordplay, satiric humor, unspoken truths, lump-in-the-throat poignancy, venomous indictments, torrid passion, barbed manifestoes and torrential melodies.
	www.antifolkonline.com /JohnKessel.html (384 words)

	Kessel (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kessel is the name of a number of towns in the Netherlands and one in Belgium:
		Kessel is a planet in the fictional Star Wars universe.
		Kessel (cauldron) is a term used to describe a pocket of encircled military units.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kessel_(disambiguation) (149 words)

	John Kessel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His novella "Stories for Men" shared the 2002 James Tiptree Award for science fiction dealing with gender issues with M. John Harrison's novel "Light." He also is a widely published science fiction and fantasy critic, and organizes the Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop.
		Having obtained a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas in 1981, Kessel has taught classes in American literature, science fiction, fantasy, and fiction writing at North Carolina State University since 1982.
		Kessel was the literary executor after Rudner's death in 1995.)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Kessel (457 words)

	John Crowley Little and Big
		John Berry came to the reading bearing a mock copy of the Little, Big 25th edition: the cover, the pages, the paper, the binding -- everything but the text and the pictures.
		John Clute (present with us in Prague at the Center for the Future events) had visited Prague the year before, and told me that my descriptions of the city in the Aegypt cycle were convincing (geographically or topographically that is, the topic at issue).
		By lucky happenstance, an academic conference featuring papers on John was scheduled for a few months from that time, and I went down to Florida to hear the papers and talk to the authors.
	crowleycrow.livejournal.com (4780 words)

	author John Kessel interview
		Kessel: I really didn't write much in high school, but when I got to college I started writing and sending stories off.
		Kessel: I was teaching as an assistant instructor in graduate school, and I did have other jobs.
		Kessel: I would like them to be able to say, "This stuff is amazingly still worth reading 40 years later." I wouldn't mind them saying, "He was a decent human being, at least from what we can tell about his writing.
	www.hauntedcomputer.com /ghostwr8.htm (1028 words)

	John Kessel
		Although John Kessel isn't a name instantly recognized by the fan on the street, there are few people who command more respect among genre
		Kessel is known among the "filthy pros" as both peer and mentor.
		Kessel has won a handful of awards, including the Nebula (for his novella "Another Orphan").
	www.scifidimensions.com /Nov02/johnkessel.htm (131 words)

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		COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 7, 2007) — John Kessel, USA Volleyball’s director of membership development and disabled programs, was one of 19 individuals selected as a 2007 Sports Ethics Fellow as chosen by the Institute for International Sport and the Positive Coaching Alliance at Stanford University.
		Kessel is a charter member of USA Volleyball’s Coaches Accreditation Program (CAP) cadre as well as the Sports Medicine and Performance Commission, and directed the USAV Coaching Education department from 1999-2003.
		From 1987 to 1991 Kessel was the tournament director for the U.S. Jr.
	www.usavolleyball.org /VolleyballNews/news.asp?id=1518 (711 words)

	John Kessel: Corrupting Dr. Nice
		The motto of John Kessel's new novel may well be "The Past is just like today, only more so." Kessel postulates a world in which time travel is commonplace and travelers visit a wide variety of historical periods.
		Kessel dedicated the novel to nine Hollywood directors, including Preston Sturgiss, about whom Kessel recently wrote the short story "The Miracle of Ivar Avenue".
		While Kessel is not the only SF writer to base work on the classic comedies of Hollywood, I feel he does a better job than Connie Willis.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/kessel.html (542 words)

	Corrupting Dr. Nice Review
		Nice when Kessel dropped in a brief "explanation" of the multiple universes which result from time travellers interfering with the past: it seems that there are a finite number of "moment universes" originating one each 1/137.04 second, 137.04 being the "fine structure constant".
		But I suspect it also reflects Kessel's sure touch in giving his SF premise a plausible-sounding (though actually nonsensical) underpinning, even though we don't really believe in the premise.
		I must say, though, that these quibbles and weaknesses are basically excused by the constraints of the form Kessel is working in (that is, screwball comedy).
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/drnice.htm (608 words)

	James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel \| Interviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		SF author, editor and scholar John Kessel was born on in 1950 in Buffalo, N.Y. He currently resides in Raleigh, N.C., where he teaches American literature, science fiction, fantasy and fiction writing at North Carolina State University.
		Kessel: Most slipstream is overtly fantastic—it's not a matter of hiding or soft-pedaling the fantastic element, of slipping a dragon or mermaid into what would otherwise be a mainstream story.
		But if memory serves, it was John who suggested that maybe we ought to ask Mary for this wonderful story to point out that slipstream is not some butterfly collection we were exhibiting in a display case in the Museum of Defunct Literary Schools, but rather a movement that is still gathering momentum.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/interviews/sfw12963.html (2579 words)

	Henderson Co., IL Genealogy
		John Kemp, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in North Carolina, April 15, 1793.
		John Kessel, son of Joseph and Charlott (Wessbecher) Kessel, was born in Baden, Germany, August 25, 1839.
		Kessel is a member of the masonic and odd-fellows' fraternities.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/il/county/henderson/bios/k-bios.htm (1047 words)

	John Keith Kessel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I met John in graduate school in the Art Department at San Francisco State University in 1967.
		Most of the materials presented here are selections from the "NFMOA John Keith Kessel Archives" which primarily consists of poetry, writings, collages, drawings and small objects that he sent or gave me during the years 1967 - 1993.
		John created hundreds, if not thousands, works during his life in a wide variety of media and forms.
	www.spyrock.com /nadafarm/html/jkk-about.html (364 words)

	shaken & stirred: my hero, Mr. Kessel
		John is one of the best people I've ever had the pleasure to know and not only that, his work is amazing and I highly suggest you seek it out.
		I am writing in response to the front page article regarding John Kessel who calls himself an "author." I am appalled by the fact that he feels that is OK along with Mrs.
		Kessel’s statement of "reacting to superficial elements of works rather than engaging with the complete story." I did read "the whole story" and wished to this day that I had not.
	bondgirl.blogspot.com /2004/10/my-hero-mr-kessel.html (1145 words)

	Kessel Descendants
		Kessel, Anna D, wife,age 44, born in IA Kessel, Clarence, son, age 24, born in IA Kessel, Ralph J, son, age 16, born in IA Kessel, Robert A, son, age 11, born in IA Obit from the Fairfield Ledger July 7, 1947 pg 8 col 6
		Kessel was the son of the late Andrew and Mary Kessel.
		Ralph J. Kessel was born June 1, 1903, in Fairfield, the son of Joseph H. and Anna Messer Kessel.
	www.celticcousins.net /other/kessel_descendants.htm (3786 words)

	John Kessel
		He won a Nebula Award in 1982 for his story "Another Orphan." He also is a widely published science fiction and fantasy critic, and organizes the Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop.
		Having obtained a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas in 1981, Kessel has taught classes in American literature, science fiction, fantasy, and fiction writing at North Carolina State University since 1982.
		Kessel was the literary executor after Rudner's death in 1995.)
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/John_Kessel.php (366 words)

	www.myspace.com/johnkessel
		Kessel has collaborated with Jello Biafra, Kimya Dawson, Corey Glover, Adam Green, Daniel Johnston, Mark Kramer, Jeffrey and Jack Lewis, Jesse Malin, Of Montreal, Andy Shernoff & Simi of Suffrajett.
		Kessel has scored 2 independent films to date, and occasionally takes the odd gig as an actor.
		What Kessel does may not be for everyone, but only because not everyone is privy to what Kessel does.
	profile.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=6609189 (913 words)

	MySpace.com - jOhN kEsSeL - New York, New York - Lyrical / Americana / Rock - www.myspace.com/johnkessel
		Kessel has collaborated with Jello Biafra, Kimya Dawson, Corey Glover, Adam Green, Daniel Johnston, Mark Kramer, Jeffrey and Jack Lewis, Jesse Malin, Of Montreal, Andy Shernoff & Simi of Suffrajett.
		Kessel has scored 2 independent films to date, and occasionally takes the odd gig as an actor.
		What Kessel does may not be for everyone, but only because not everyone is privy to what Kessel does.
	www.myspace.com /johnkessel (1035 words)

	Amazon.ca: Good News From Outer Space : The Cult Novel Of Aliens Among Us: Books: John Kessel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kessel's (Freedom Beach) latest novel, a fl comedy of pre-millenial hysteria set a decade in the future, is an outstandingly original work.
		Settings are rich, drama is abundant, and Kessel's vision entertains even as it provokes the reader to examine their own values.
		Kessel is able to capture the chaotic nature of apocalyptic events and make the reader feel as though the he or she has been absorbed into the scene.
	www.amazon.ca /Good-News-Outer-Space-Aliens/dp/0312890419 (1574 words)

	John Kessel: Corrupting Dr Nice - an infinity plus review
		This deft, sharp, knowing, and very witty moral comedy is only John Kessel's second solo novel, after Good News from Outer Space (1989); but it is a very mature work all the same, in two respects.
		First, there is Kessel's own maturity: he has been writing excellent short stories for a long time, and these feed directly into his novels.
		In Kessel's scheme, time travellers can happily plunder and exploit any historical era they choose, as every instant is discrete from every other, and the appearance of a modern hotel industry in ancient Athens generates a separate, alternate "moment universe" instead of annihilating the future from which the tourists spring.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/drnice.htm (746 words)

	Kessel Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		As one of the most highly acclaimed sci-fi writers of the past 15 years, John Kessel's mordant wit and warm insight into the human condition comes to full flower in his short fiction.
		Kessel interviews over 160 people who were raised as non-Jews only to learn at some point in their lives that they are of Jewish descent.
		With humor, candor, and deep emotion, Kessel's subjects discuss the emotional upheaval of refashioning their self-image.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Kessel (1003 words)

	John Kessel: The Pure Product - an infinity plus review
		Kessel's basic concern is the tempering of idealism with realism, the recognition that human free will has sharp inherent limitations, and that any quest for absolute virtue is an exercise in barren extremism.
		Kessel repeatedly employs SF to question the genre's own hubris; and this technique is particularly impressive when SF itself, and its practitioners, are made into protagonists.
		In "Buffalo", Kessel's own father, working in an American labour corps at the height of the Depression, meets H. Wells, whose elitist utopianism is found sadly wanting even as it inspires some modest hope.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/purepro.htm (704 words)

	John Kessel: The Pure Product
		John Kessel's collection The Pure Product opens with the story, "Some Like It Cold," set in the same universe as his novel Corrupting Dr. Nice.
		While all of these stories are well written and Kessel's affection for Hollywood of a bygone era is clear, some of the stories work better than others.
		Appearing in this collection for the first time, "Faustfeathers," Kessel's retelling of the legend of Johann Faust's story in the form of a Marx Brothers comedy does not work as well, or as humorously as could be wished.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/product.html (493 words)

	Strange Horizons Reviews: Feeling Very Strange, edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, reviewed by Niall ...
		Kessel and Kelly's introduction gamely addresses these questions (and others), but fittingly it's from the fiction that we can draw the most succinct mission statement for the book.
		For Kessel and Kelly, slipstream isn't as vague as it is for Horton, but their description is still very general.
		For Kessel and Kelly, there's something about living now that inspires this kind of fiction; for me, slipstream is whatever makes you feel strange in ways that are specific to the time in which it was written.
	www.strangehorizons.com /reviews/2006/09/feeling_v.shtml (4208 words)

	Amazon.com: Corrupting Dr. Nice: Books: John Kessel
		by John Kessel (Author) "As Sloane unlaced the bodice of Genevieve's peasant's dress all she could hear was his breathing, fast and light..." (more)
		In John Kessel's world, time travel has given humanity a great gift: the ability to exploit an almost infinite number of alternate pasts.
		Kessel (Good News from Outer Space) dedicates the novel to a slew of film directors (Capra, Wilder, Sturges, etc.) who mixed comedy and drama in their work.
	www.amazon.com /Corrupting-Dr-Nice-John-Kessel/dp/0312865848 (830 words)

	Science Fiction Book Club
		John Scalzi responds to Mark Helprin's Copyright Uber Alles essay from the weekend.
		And, of D'Amassa's Fantasy page, the new reviews are J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Hurin, The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks (coming soon from the SFBC), Deepwood by Jennfer Roberson (also coming soon from the SFBC), Poltergeist by Kat Richardson, and a number of YA novels.
		That second "introduction" is actually a series of letters between Bruce Sterling and John Kessel starting in 1985, which sounds like it's about the heart of the cyberpunk-humanist split.
	thebookblogger.com /sfbc (3575 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: John Kessel
		Bio: John Kessel was born in 1950 in Buffalo, New York.
		Filled with graceful, flowing prose, it provides insights into the nature of the "common man" and his relationship to society, and the failed idealism of Wells and other intellectuals of that era,...
		A convenient way for you to add many of John Kessel's works to your bookshelf at one time.
	www.fictionwise.com /servlet/mw?t=author.htm&authorid=11&id=2848 (644 words)

	John Kessel / James Patrick Kelly OmniVisions Interview
		Kessel: CORRUPTING DR. NICE has a rich paleontologist in it, who returns from the Cretaceous period with an infant specimen of a new species of apatosaurus.
		JF: John, I suspect your trip to the Galapagos' will be the grist for the mill for more than one piece.
		JF: John, you said "And sf has a history of great short stories, In my opinion, more than great novels." I believe this to be true, and further assert that sf has been doing more great things with short works than other forms of literature in the last few decades.
	www.hourwolf.com /chats/kesselkelly.html (3193 words)

	Tachyon Publications: Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, eds.
		John Kessel teaches American literature and creative writing at North Carolina State University.
		If it is true that the test of a first-rate mind is its ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time, then we live in a century when it takes a first-rate mind just to get through the day.
		Credit Kessel and Kelly, too, for the grace of their introduction, the art of the book's arrangement, and the modesty of their editorial presence, directing our attention away from themselves and toward either the authors of the stories or the participants in the amusing four-part discussion "I Want My 20th-Century Schizoid Art."
	www.tachyonpublications.com /book/FeelingVeryStrange.html?Session_ID=new&Reference_Page=/booksNew.html (692 words)

	Article: Interview: John Kessel, by Catherine Pellegrino
		n addition to being very tall, John Kessel is a prolific writer of speculative fiction.
		John Kessel: Since I teach separate courses on science fiction and fantasy, I'll speak about each separately.
		My SF course is generally organized as a historical survey from the beginnings of the genre to the present.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2001/20010903/kessel.shtml (3534 words)

	FLURB, a Webzine of Astonishing Tales.
		So here's Flurb #4, kicking off a second year of Flurb's world dominance of literary and unclassifiable SF-related webzines that are illustrated with paintings and photos by me. I plan to settle down to a leisurely pace of two issues a year.
		Charlie Anders, the sharpest-tongued emcee in San Francisco, is here with tale I'm so sure is great that I haven't even read it---but now that I've formatted it, and illustrated it (using the Surrelaist principle that any image fits with any text), I finally have time.
		When I turned sixty, my wife had the inspired idea of asking the party guests to write SF stories involving me. My daughter-in-law Penelope Thomas delivered this transreal and UFOlogical version of a trip our family took to the Sierras.
	www.flurb.net (488 words)

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