On this day in music history - The album Dark Hope, by Renée Fleming (2010)

Dark Hope

by Renée Fleming

was released on June 8, 2010.

On this day in music history - The album Paradise and Lunch, by Ry Cooder (1974)

Paradise and Lunch

by Ry Cooder

was released on June 8, 1974.

Born on this day – Dana Wynter:

 

Actress

June 8, 1931 – May 5, 2011

Born on this day – Kate Wilhelm:

Writer 

June 8, 1928 – March 8, 2018

Credits:

Books: 

A Flush of Shadows (1995); A Sense of Shadow (1981); A Wrongful Death (2007); Abyss (1973); All For One (2012); Alpha 5 (1974); And the Angels Sing (1992); Andover and the Android (1966); Angels! (1995); Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 (1994); Best New Horror 4 (1993); Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection (1977); Better Than One (1980); By Stone By Blade By Fire (2012); Cambio Bay (1990); Children of the Wind (1989); City of Cain (1974); Clarion SF (1977); Clear and Convincing Proof (2003); Cold Case (2008); Crazy Time (1988); Death of an Artist (2012); Death Qualified (1991); Defense for the Devil (1999); Desperate Measures (2001); Fantasy & Science Fiction, July / August 2012 (2012); Fault Lines (1977); Fear is a Cold Black (2010); Forever Yours, Anna (1987); Heaven is High (2011); Huysman's Pets (1985); I Know What You’re Thinking (1994); In Between (2014); Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, October 1986 (1986); Isaac Asimov's Aliens & Outworlders (1983); Juniper Time (1979); Justice for Some (1993); Kate Wilhelm in Orbit, Volume One (2015); Kate Wilhelm in Orbit, Volume Two (2015); Let the Fire Fall (1969); Listen, Listen (1981); Malice Prepense / For the Defense (1996); Margaret and I (1971); Mirror, Mirror (2017); Moongate (2000); More Bitter Than Death (1963); Music Makers (2012); Naming the Flowers (1992); Nebula Awards 9 (1974); No Defense (2000); Oh, Susannah! (1982); Omni Visions Two (1994); Orbit 11 (1972); Orbit 12 (1973); Orbit 3 (1967); Orbit 6 (1970); Seven Kinds of Death (1992); Sister Angel (2012); Skeletons (2002); Sleight of Hand (2006); Smart House (1989); Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions (1978); Storyteller (2005); Sweet, Sweet Poison (1990); Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr (1987); The Best Defense (1994); The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1999); The Bird Cage (2012); The Clewiston Test (1976); The Clone (1965); The Dark Door (1988); The Deepest Water (2000); The Downstairs Room (1970); The Fullness of Time (2012); The Giant Book of Terror (1994); The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky (1986); The Good Children (1998); The Gorgon Field (1986); The Hamlet Trap (1987); The Hills Are Dancing (1986); The House Share (2022); The Infinity Box (1975); The Killer Thing / The Killing Thing (1967); The Mile-Long Spaceship (1963); The Nevermore Affair (1966); The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 (1988); The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three (1990); The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two (1989); The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The Price of Silence (2005); The Secret History of Science Fiction (2009); The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction (1989); The Unbidden Truth (2004); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); The Winter Beach (1981); Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader (1973); Torch Song (2012); Welcome, Chaos (1983); Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1975); Whisper Her Name (2012); With Thimbles, With Forks, and Hope (2012); Yesterday's Tomorrows (2015).

Movies and television:

The Lookalike (1990); Out of the Unknown (1965).

Born on this day – Jerry Stiller:

Actor

Writer

Comedian

June 8, 1927 – May 11, 2020

Born on this day – Peggy Maley:

 

Actress

June 8, 1923 – October 1, 2007

Born on this day – Sheila Ryan:

Actress

June 8, 1921 – November 4, 1975

Born on this day – Alexis Smith:

 

Actress

Singer

June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993

Born on this day – Luigi Comencini:

Director

June 8, 1916 – April 6, 2007

Born on this day – John W. Campbell:

Writer

June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971

Credits:

Books:

A New Dawn (2003); Analog (1961); Analog 1 (1963); Analog 6 (1966); Astoundimg Science Fiction Vol. 10 No. 1 (1954); Cloak of Aesir (1952); Cosmic Kill / Beyond the End of Space (2014); From Unknown Worlds (1938); Frozen Hell (2019); Invaders from the Infinite (1961); Islands of Space (1957); Moon is Hell / Green World (2012); The Best of John W Campbell (1973); The Black Star Passes (1953); The Elder Gods (1951); The Essential Surrealism (2002); The Incredible Planet (1949); The John W. Campbell Letters With Isaac Asimov and A.E. Van Vogt (1989); The Mightiest Machine (1935); The Moon Is Hell (1951); The Space Beyond (1976); The Ultimate Weapon (1936); Who Goes There? (1938).

Movies, video and television:

Cineficción Radio (2020); Prophets of Science Fiction (2012); Special Collector's Edition (2012); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); The Thing (1982 / 2002 / 2011); The Thing from Another World (1951).

Born on this day – Ernest B. Schoedsack:

Director

Cinematographer

Producer

June 8, 1893 – December 23, 1979

Born on this day – Tomaso Albinoni:

 

Composer

June 8, 1671 – January 17, 1751

Recommended reading - In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper (2016)

 

In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper (2016).

Edited by Lawrence Block.

ISBN: 9781681772455

Description:
A truly unprecedented literary achievement by author and editor Lawrence Block – a newly commissioned anthology of seventeen superbly crafted stories inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper.

"Edward Hopper is surely the greatest American narrative painter. His work bears special resonance for writers and readers, and yet his paintings never tell a story so much as they invite viewers to find for themselves the untold stories within."

So says Lawrence Block, who has invited seventeen outstanding writers to join him in an unprecedented anthology of brand-new stories: In Sunlight or In Shadow. The results are remarkable and range across all genres, wedding literary excellence to storytelling savvy.

Contributors include Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Connelly, Megan Abbott, Craig Ferguson, Nicholas Christopher, Jill D. Block, Joe R. Lansdale, Justin Scott, Kris Nelscott, Warren Moore, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, and Lawrence Block himself. Even Gail Levin, Hopper’s biographer and compiler of his catalogue raisonée, appears with her own first work of fiction, providing a true account of art theft on a grand scale and told in the voice of the country preacher who perpetrated the crime.

In a beautifully produced anthology as befits such a collection of acclaimed authors, each story is illustrated with a quality full-color reproduction of the painting that inspired it.

Toni Morrison, on writing:

 

Writing is really a way of thinking – not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet. 
– Toni Morrison.

Born on this day – John W. Campbell:

 

Writer

June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971