{"id":18470,"date":"2010-06-19T23:17:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T03:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18470"},"modified":"2015-02-03T13:28:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T18:28:38","slug":"in-which-i-join-the-kgb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/19\/in-which-i-join-the-kgb\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Join the KGB"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a busy week. How can I tell it’s been a busy week? One way is that I went to New York to read at the KGB Bar<\/a> on Wednesday night, and I’m only just telling you about it on Saturday!<\/p>\n

I got to Manhattan early that morning, and until I needed to head downtown in the evening, I spent my time in meetings with my boss. (Not, not Liz Lemon. And no, not Jack Donaghy, either.) The first person I spotted when I got to the bar was my partner in crime that night, Jack Ketchum, who was standing outside catching a smoke. Here we are inside in a photo taken by the evening’s co-host Ellen Datlow.<\/p>\n

\"ScottEdelmanJackKetchumKGB\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(For more photos, check out Ellen Datlow’s flickr stream<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I was glad to see my tribe outside of the usual convention circuit venues. If I lived in NY, I guess I’d be doing it all the time, but for me it was a rare experience to see my friends in something other than a strange hotel.<\/p>\n

I read about 85% of the title story from my collection What Will Come After<\/i><\/a>, shortening it so I could fit it into the time allotted. I’d originally been thinking of reading a shorter, lighter story in its entirely, but I was thankful that Ellen and her co-host Matt Kressel thought I should do otherwise. “What Will Come After” is me at my best, and even though I was getting so emotional reading it I almost lost it a couple of times, I’m glad that’s the side of me I got to show off.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot more I could share about the trip, including my amazing Thursday lunch at Shopsin’s<\/a>, which was almost (but not quite) enough to cause me to move back to New York, but I’ll have to leave all that for another time. Yes, I’m that busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a busy week. How can I tell it’s been a busy week? One way is that I went to New York to read at the KGB Bar on Wednesday night, and I’m only just telling you about it on Saturday! I got to Manhattan early that morning, and until I needed to head […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-18470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18472,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470\/revisions\/18472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}