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Music
I like my profound, transcendent musical experiences to come with mandolin and accordion when possible.
Movies
Gattaca. Barcelona. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. A Clockwork Orange. Heavenly Creatures. The Hudsucker Proxy. Clue.
Books
Just a few favorites of many: Dune, by Frank Herbert. The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman. A Swiftly Tilting Planet, by Madeleine L'Engle. Le Ton Beau de Marot, by Douglas Hofstadter. The Forgetting Room, by Nick Bantock. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke.
Heroes
Benjamin Franklin. Laurie Anderson. Douglas Hofstadter.
Editorial and creative director of WEIRD TALES, the world's oldest all-fantasy magazine. Editor of the INTERFICTIONS blog for the Interstitial Arts Foundation. Former editor of Pittsburgh Magazine and InPittsburgh Weekly.
Editorial and creative director of WEIRD TALES, the world's oldest all-fantasy magazine. Cover designer for Juno Books and Prime Books.
Stephen H. Segal @ Weird Tales's Companies
Wildside Press Magazines Rockville, MD US Editorial & creative director Weird Tales
7/2006 to present
Interstitial Arts Foundation US Board member Executive Board
1/2006 to present
WQED Multimedia Pittsburgh, PA US Managing editor Pittsburgh Magazine
3/2003 to 3/2005
Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh, PA US Publication designer Government Relations
Freelance
InPittsburgh Weekly Pittsburgh, PA US Editor
1/1998 to 9/2001
Stephen H. Segal @ Weird Tales congratulates all Weird Tales contributors for the magazine's 2009 Hugo Award nomination -- its first ever! Posted at 4:33 PM Mar 30 view more
The current gig: Editorial and creative director of the legendary WEIRD TALES, the world's very first magazine devoted to the literature of the fantastic. We're revamping and re-energizing for the new century, just in time for the magazine's 85th anniversary -- come take a look! I also design book covers and such for our publisher's affiliated fantasy/science-fiction lines, Juno Books and Prime Books.
I'm proud to serve on the board of the Interstitial Arts Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to cultivating and promoting weird, hard-to-categorize art that falls outside the boundaries and definitions of familiar genres or mediums.
Once upon a time, I was a local culture journalist in Pittsburgh, editing WQED's Pittsburgh Magazine and the now-defunct InPittsburgh Weekly. Here's my favorite thought from a favorite Pittsburgher, Fred Rogers: "Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel, a facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. We are intimately related. May we never even pretend that we are not."
Who I'd like to meet:
Stephen H. Segal @ Weird Tales's Friend Space (Top 31)
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Cheers!
We'd like you to know we've a new song up for your listening pleasure. It's called "Isabella", and it's about a Victorian baxter gent with an eye (and a murderous passion) for his lady. We hope you'll indulge and enjoy!
We also have links up on our profile to our new demo, available on iTunes and Amazon for just $3!
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