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Friday, September
30th 2016
 Columbia University’s Butler Library Presented an Exhibition and Symposium Honoring EQMM’s 75th Anniversary  The
EQMM 75th Anniversary
Exhibition will be
on view from September 26
to December 23 in the Rare Book
and Manuscript Library, Butler
Library, 6th Floor East.
Included will be some
of founding editor Frederic
Dannay’s correspondence with
several of the most important
writers of the
twentieth century, as well as
some of his edited manuscripts
(from the Frederic
Dannay papers, which are housed
at the library), as well as
original drawings for some of
the magazine’s early covers and
selections from the
correspondence of EQMM’s second
editor, Eleanor Sullivan.The EQMM 75th Anniversary Symposium was held on September 30 in Butler Library, Room 203. Participants included Joyce Carol Oates, Otto Penzler, Jonathan Santlofer, Robert Lesser, Charles Ardai, and several other authors, artists, and distinguished scholars of crime fiction. To know more on that rainy day in NYC read on, the article Dale 
and I wrote after attending you
can read
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October
12, 2016 Janet Hutchings had this to say on
EQMM's blog: "..., on September 30, many of us met again at Columbia University for a half-day EQMM symposium sponsored by the university’s Butler Library. It was an afternoon of insightful discussion, poignant recollections, a colorful and thought-provoking art presentation, a gripping reading by author Joyce Carol Oates, and much more. Rather than trying to summarize the afternoon myself, I’d like to direct you to two posts I’ve seen by attendees (see “Reflections on the 75th Anniversary of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine” by V.S. Kemanis and “A Diamond for the Queen” by Les Blatt)..." |
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| EQMM also made available the videos of
EQMM’s
75th-Anniversary Symposium, recorded at the
symposium on September 30, 2016.
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Introduced by Sean Quimby the panel "Making Mystery Matter: EQMM and the Shaping of American Crime and Detective Fiction," featured Sarah Weinman, Leah Pennywark, Jeffrey Marks, and Charles Ardai. 
(Audio and video by Ché Ryback, 56 min 23 sec) Part 2 of EQMM’s 75th-Anniversary Symposium, recorded at Columbia University’s Butler Library on September 30, 2016. Panel: A Brush With Death: Crime Fiction Cover Art and Illustration from the Pulps to the Present. Featuring Janet Salter Rosenberg, Laurie Harden, Tom Roberts, and Jonathan Santlofer (moderator). 
(Audio and video by Ché Ryback, 52 min 44 sec) Part 3 of EQMM’s 75th-Anniversary Symposium, recorded at Columbia University’s Butler Library on September 30, 2016. Panel: EQMM's Editor's at Work, featuring Russell Atwood, Otto Penzler, Josh Pachter , and Joe Goodrich (moderator).
(Audio and video by Ché Ryback, 56 min 23 sec) Part 4 of EQMM’s 75th-Anniversary Symposium, recorded at Columbia University’s Butler Library on September 30, 2016. Joyce Carol Oates reads from her story "Big Momma" from the March/April 2016 issue of EQMM. 
(Audio and video by Ché Ryback, 43 min 38 sec) Janet Hutchings, Jennifer B. Lee, and Sean Quimby offer closing remarks are included in the video above (starting around 27 min). Clearly the well moderated and interesting panels attest to Janet's driving attitude. As much as she's put into this event, it's also clear it gives energy back: |
 "... Everyone involved in these events—from
our panelists and moderators and speakers to the
library’s director Sean Quimby and the
exhibition curator Jennifer B. Lee—has proved an
inspiration to me and to the rest of EQMM’s
staff. As we go forward into our 76th year, it’s
with a sense of being fortunate to belong to a
truly extraordinary community... ." - Janet
Hutchings |
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Introduction |
Floor Plan | Q.B.I. |
List of Suspects | Whodunit?
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directed | New |
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