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FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES TOMORROW,11/12, 8-10PM: "A Night with Electric Lit"

penina — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:55:23 +0000

Hope you can make it to our lit bash tomorrow night! We’re teaming up with the innovative fiction publisher ELECTRIC LITERATURE, showcasing four of their outstanding contributors: LYNNE TILLMAN (American Genius: A Comedy, Someday This Will Be Funny), J. ROBERT LENNON (Familiar, Castle), STEPHEN O'CONNOR (Here Comes Another Lesson), and SETH FRIED (The Great Frustration). FREE ADMISSION! DRINK SPECIALS: $4 PINTS, PLUS AN EXTRA $1 OFF THE 1ST 100 DRINKS! AND A RAFFLE WITH AMAZING LIT-THEMED PRIZES! Details: FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES -- "A Night with Electric Literature" Monday, November 12, 8-10 pm Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden 618 St. Johns place, between Franklin and Classon Avenues Crown Heights, Brooklyn SUBWAY: 2/3/4/5 to Franklin Ave. More on our authors: LYNNE TILLMAN is the author of five novels, four short story collections, including, most recently, Someday This Will Be Funny, one collection of essays, and two other nonfiction books. She collaborates often with artists and writes regularly on culture, and her fiction is anthologized widely. Her novels include American Genius: A Comedy, No Lease on Life, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1998 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Cast in Doubt, Motion Sickness, and Haunted Houses. Her essay collection, The Broad Picture, features work published in literary and art periodicals. She is the Fiction Editor at Fence Magazine, Professor and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at the University at Albany, and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. J. ROBERT LENNON is the author of seven novels, including Castle, Mailman, and the newly released Familiar, as well as a story collection, Pieces for the Left Hand. His fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, Playboy, and The New Yorker and been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Prize Stories. His book reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books. He lives in Ithaca, New York, where he teaches writing at Cornell University. STEPHEN O’CONNOR is the author of the short story collections Here Comes Another Lesson and Rescue and the nonfiction works Will My Name Be Shouted Out? and Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed. His fiction and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, One Story, The Missouri Review, Poetry Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Agni, Threepenny Review, Black Clock, The Quarterly, and other places, and his story “Ziggurat” was read by Tim Curry on Selected Shorts. His essays and journalism have been published in The New York Times, The Nation, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The New Labor Forum, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA programs of Columbia and Sarah Lawrence. For additional information, please visit <a href="http://www.stephenoconnor.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.stephenoconnor.net</a>. SETH FRIED’s work has appeared in numerous publications, including McSweeney’s, One Story, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and Vice. His debut short story collection, The Great Frustration, was published in May 2011 by Soft Skull Press. He also writes a literary humor column for Tin House, Das Kolumne.

FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES -- TOMORROW, 5/14 --ELISSA SCHAPPELL, ROBERT LOPEZ+

penina — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:15:10 +0000

Hope you can join us TONIGHT at 8 for our fourth annual travel-themed reading! Tonight's stars include literary icon MARK LEYNER (The Sugar Frosted Nutsack, The Tetherballs of Bougainville), short fiction author ERIC SASSON (Margins of Tolerance), humor writer and memoirist RUPINDER GILL (On the Outside Looking Indian), poet/novelist/memoirist MATTHUE ROTH (Losers, Yom Kippur a Go-Go), and an innovative translator of The Odyssey, POLLY BRESNICK (Old Gus Eats). We have a special sponsor -- the website Small Demons, which indexes people, places, and cultural references in books and will be providing extra drink discounts, giveaways, and a mixtape based on Mark Leyner's work As always, admission is FREE and we'll have $4 PINTS. In addition, SD is sponsoring an additional $1 off the first 100 drinks. Details: FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES -- "Travels & Journeys" Monday, July 9, 8-10pm Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden 618 St. Johns place, between Franklin and Classon Avenues Crown Heights, Brooklyn SUBWAY: 2/3/4/5 to Franklin Ave. More about our authors: MARK LEYNER is the author of the novels Et Tu, Babe, The Tetherballs of Bougainville, and, most recently, The Sugar Frosted Nutsack. He has also written several short story collections, including My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist. His nonfiction includes the #1 New York Times bestseller Why Do Men Have Nipples? He cowrote the movie War, Inc. and lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. ERIC SASSON is the author of the story collection Margins of Tolerance, which won the 2011 Tartt Fiction Award. An MFA graduate of NYU, he has taught fiction writing at the Sackett Street Writers Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Nashville Review, The Puritan, Connotation Press, Liquid Imagination, Alligator Juniper, Trans, The Ledge, and other places. RUPINDER GILL is the author of the memoir On The Outside Looking Indian. She has written for The Rumpus, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The National Post, CBC Radio, and the Canadian television comedy This Hour Has 22 Minutes. MATTHUE ROTH is the author of the memoir Yom Kippur a Go-Go and the novels Losers, winner of an ALA Rainbow Award, Never Mind the Goldbergs, named an. NYPL Best Book for the Teen Age, and Candy in Action. His picture book, My First Kafka, is forthcoming from One Peace Books. He also wrote the screenplay for the upcoming film 1/20. He is publishing his novel Enemies one chapter at a time in a scavenger hunt, and he will be starting graduate school at Brooklyn College in the fall. Also a video game designer, he lives in Brooklyn. POLLY BRESNICK's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail, The Fiddleback, elimae, LIT, MonkeyBicycle, decomp, The Six Sentence Review, and others. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is visually mistranslating Homer's The Odyssey, a section of which has been published as a chapbook by Publishing Genius. Curator and host of the monthly reading series "Writers Reading to Writers Listening to Writers Reading to Writers," she teaches creative writing to all sorts of people and is searching for a home for her novel.

6/30/12 Litmus Press Book Party

Litmus Press — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:01:40 +0000

Saturday, June 30, 2012; 7 pm Litmus Press presents:An Evening of New Poetry A multimedia celebration of new and recent releases: Then Go On by Mary Burger, I Want to Make You Safe by Amy King, O Bon by Brandon Shimoda, and Aufgabe #11. Featuring readings by Mary Burger, Amy King, Christian Nagler, Emily Abendroth, Ana Božičević, Carley Moore, and Simone White, artwork by Mary Burger and Yasmina Khan, music by Serena Jost, and a participatory performance by Todd Shalom (Elastic City). This event is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC). Beer has been lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery. Small bites from Sahadi’s. The Old Stone House 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215 (located in Washington Park, 3rd St. at 5th Ave.) F/R to Fourth Ave., R to Union St.

Summer Tutoring Available

engage.teach.learn. — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:29:36 +0000

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TONIGHT AT 8! FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES W/DIANE WILLIAMS, PATRICK SOMERVILLE+

penina — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:44:00 +0000

Hi, if you're free tonight, come join us as we launch our summer season with a stellar lineup of fiction writers: DIANE WILLIAMS (Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, NOON annual founder), JENNIFER MILLER (The Year of the Gadfly), indie superstar ELIZABETH ELLEN (Fast Machine), and Crown Heightser ANDREW COTHREN (Pushcart Prize-nominated short fiction writer). And in a rare NYC appearance, acclaimed Chicago-based author PATRICK SOMERVILLE (The Cradle, The Universe in Miniature in Miniature) will be giving a special preview of his upcoming novel THIS BRIGHT RIVER. NO COVER! $4 PINTS! FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES: Summer Kickoff Monday, June 11, 8-10pm Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden 618 St. Johns Place, between Franklin and Classon Avenues Crown Heights, Brooklyn FREE; $4 pints ONGOING SCHEDULE: Second Mondays Subway: 2/3/4/5 trains to Franklin Avenue <a href="http://franklinparkbrooklyn.com/category/events/" rel="nofollow">http://franklinparkbrooklyn.com/category/events/</a> More about our authors: DIANE WILLIAMS is the author of seven books, including, most recently, the short story collection Vicky Swanky Is A Beauty. The publisher and founding editor of the literary annual NOON, she has taught at Bard College, Syracuse University, and the Center for Fiction. Currently, she lives in New York City. PATRICK SOMERVILLE is the author of two novels, the forthcoming This Bright River and The Cradle, as well as two books of short stories, The Universe in Miniature in Miniature and Trouble. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, One Story, Epoch, GQ, Esquire, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is a MacDowell Fellow and the winner of the 2009 21st Century Award, given annually by the Chicago Public Library. He lives with his wife and son in Chicago, and he teaches creative writing in the MFA programs at Warren Wilson and Northwestern University. JENNIFER MILLER is the author of the novel The Year of the Gadfly and the nonfiction book Inheriting the Holy Land: An American’s Search for Hope in the Middle East. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Marie Claire, Men's Health, Salon, Guernica, The Millions, The Daily Beast, and other places. She holds an MFA in fiction and a MS in journalism from Columbia University and has taught writing at Columbia, WritopiaLab, and the Free Bird Writer's Workshop. A native of Washington, D.C., she now lives in Brooklyn. ELIZABETH ELLEN is the author, most recently, of the short story collection Fast Machine, which features her best work from the last decade. Her stories have appeared in numerous online and print journals, including elimae, Quick Fiction, Hobart, Lamination Colony, Mud Luscious, Sleepingfish, kill author, and Pindeldyboz. She is also the author of the chapbook Before You She Was a Pit Bull (Future Tense), and her collection of flash fictions, Sixteen Miles Outside of Phoenix, was included in A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women (Rose Metal Press). Currently, she lives in Ann Arbor, where she co-edits the literary journal Hobart and oversees Hobart's book division, Short Flight/Long Drive books. ANDREW COTHREN received his BA from Binghamton University. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Legendary, Drunken Boat, and Eleven Eleven, which nominated him for a Pushcart Prize. He currently lives in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.

“Edgy Moms” Cocktail Party with Marian Fontana and Eliza Laura Nelson

BabelandBrooklyn — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:04:53 +0000

“Edgy Moms” Cocktail Party with Marian Fontana and Eliza Laura Nelson Thursday, May 17, 7pm, Free Babeland Brooklyn, 462 Bergen Street In collaboration with Edgy Mother’s Day, Brooklyn’s favorite alternative Mother’s Day event, Babeland invites you to ditch sippy cups for sex toys and let loose. Enjoy two readings about sex and motherhood by authors Marian Fontana and Elizabeth Laura Nelson while you sip Babeland Bubbly. We’ll raffle great prizes and the first fifteen moms to arrive will receive gift bags filled with items to hide from the kids. <a href="http://www.marianfontana.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.marianfontana.com/</a> <a href="http://babelandedgymoms.eventbrite.com/" rel="nofollow">http://babelandedgymoms.eventbrite.com/</a>

FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES -- TOMORROW, 5/14 --ELISSA SCHAPPELL, ROBERT LOPEZ+

penina — Sun, 13 May 2012 11:32:55 +0000

Hope you can join us TOMORROW NIGHT at 8 as we celebrate literary magazines and indie lit with readings from editors and fiction writers ELISSA SCHAPPELL (Blueprints for Building Better Girls, Tin House) and DANIEL LONG (The Fiddleback), along with indie stars ROBERT LOPEZ (Asunder, Kamby Bolongo Mean River), MILES KLEE (Ivyland), and JAC JEMC (My Only Wife). Subscriptions to TIN HOUSE, THE PARIS REVIEW and the acclaimed Park Slope-based lit journal THE COFFIN FACTORY will be raffled off, along with books from the night's authors and some special PARIS REVIEW merch. As always, admission is FREE and we'll have $4 PINTS. Details: FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES -- "Literary Journal & Small Press Night" Monday, May 14, 8-10pm Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden 618 St. Johns place, between Franklin and Classon Avenues Crown Heights, Brooklyn SUBWAY: 2/3/4/5 to Franklin Ave. More about our authors: ELISSA SCHAPPELL is the author of the story collections Blueprints for Building Better Girls, named one of the best books of 2011 by The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal, and Use Me, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, a New York Times Notable Book, and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. She is a contributing editor and the Hot Type book columnist at Vanity Fair, a former senior editor of The Paris Review, and co-founder and now editor-at-large of Tin House magazine. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. ROBERT LOPEZ is the author of two novels, Part of the World (Calamari Press) and Kamby Bolongo Mean River (Dzanc Books), and a collection of short fiction, Asunder (Dzanc Books). He has taught at The New School, Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and Pine Manor College's Solstice Low-Res MFA Program and was a 2010 Fellow in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. MILES KLEE is the author of the novel Ivyland (OR Books). He studied at Williams College under writers Jim Shepard, Andrea Barrett, and Paul Park. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Awl, The Huffington Post, The New York Observer, Salon, The Millions, and many other publications, online and off. He was born in Brooklyn and now lives in Manhattan. JAC JEMC is the author of the novel My Only Wife (Dzanc Books). Her work has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, Caketrain, Handsome, Sleepingfish, and other places. She is also the author of a chapbook of stories, These Strangers She'd Invited In (Greying Ghost Press), and the poetry editor for decomP Magazine. Jac blogs her rejections at jacjemc.wordpress.com. DANIEL LONG is an Oklahoman living in New York. His work has appeared, most recently, in New York Tyrant, elimae, and The Carolina Quarterly. He is managing editor of The Fiddleback and was recently named an Emerging Writers Fellow by the Center for Fiction.

AFTER 1989: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Race?

whynot_31 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:29:08 +0000

If this exhibit is only half as good as described, it will be awesome. For extra points, I'd get some people to wear sweatshirts from the now failed Antioch College! <blockquote>As Keyes described it (and others connected to the campus corroborate his observations), Antioch students regularly engaged, both inside and outside their classrooms, in the practice of "calling out" (public humiliation followed by social ostracism) their classmates for even the most trivial violations of an unwritten campus code of ideological propriety. One of the called-out was a Polish exchange student who had made the mistake of using the now-taboo word "Eskimos" instead of "Inuit" in reference to Alaskan aboriginals. Another called-out student had worn Nike sneakers, verboten among the radically sensitive because they are supposedly products of Indonesian sweatshop labor (the Nike-wearer was so demoralized by his treatment that he transferred).</blockquote> source: <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/306jqecg.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/306jqecg.asp</a>

AFTER 1989: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Race?

AAWW — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:21:05 +0000

Monday, March 5, 2012, 7PM powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 222-1331 THE CANON, PC AND RACIST SHOW-AND-TELL Featuring: DAS RACIST, EGO TRIP MAGAZINE, LATOYA PETERSON (RACIALICIOUS), THUY LINH TU, HAROLD AUGENBRAUM (NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION), ROBERTO BEDOYA Exhibits: The Canon, NEA Litigation Much of ‘90s multiculturalism was less about race than inventing polite ways to talk about racial taboos. Terms like “diversity” and “political correctness” blunted the unsavory aspects of dealing with racism, even as the right struggled to make English the national language and tamp down transgressive art, multicultural threats to the canon, and Ebonics. To kick off AFTER 1989, Ego Trip Magazine, the folks who gave us The Big Book of Racism, curates a slideshow of racialized advertisements—with call and response by hip hop trio Das Racist, who will judge whether the ads are racist or not. National Book Foundation Executive Director Harold Augenbraum, an early proponent of Latino and Asian American literature, discusses the canon. Roberto Bedoya will discuss the litigation between artist Karen Finley and the National Endowment for the Arts at the height of the Culture Wars—a lawsuit for which he was a co-plaintiff. NYU Professor Thuy Linh Tu interviews Latoya Peterson, editor of Racialicious, to break down how the Internet has unleashed the Pandora’s Box of racial discourse. This event is the first in the five-part series After 1989: Race After Multiculturalism. More info below. A project of The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, where we’re inventing the future of Asian American intellectual culture. -- AFTER 1989: Race After Multiculturalism The 90s are back! Although they're being resurrected in youth culture as the age of Cosby sweaters, animated gifs and 16-bit Nintendo soundtracks, the 1990s were at once the age of multiculturalism, premised on the idea that we could all just get along, as well as a decade divided with tense, often surreal, racial spectacle. offers an alternative racial history of the 1990s through a feisty five-part event series that's part symposium, part late night talk show, part Youtube nostalgia-fest. PLEASE VISIT <a href="http://after1989.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow">http://after1989.tumblr.com/</a> FOR MORE COMPLETE INFORMATION AND DETAILS ON THE OTHER EVENTS IN THIS SERIES.

FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES -- MONDAY, 12/12 -- LEV GROSSMAN, WILLIAM GIRALDI

penina — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:11:50 +0000

TONIGHT at 8: Magic! Monsters! Cheap beer and "creature cocktails"!Trivia and prizes! Author LEV GROSSMAN reading from THE MAGICIAN KING, named one of the best books of 2011 by numerous publications. And admission, as always, is FREE. Details: FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES -- "Monster Bash" Monday, December 12, 8-10pm Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden 618 St. Johns Place, between Franklin and Classon Avenues SUBWAY: 2/3/4/5 to Franklin Avenue FREE; $4 PINTS

FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES -- MONDAY, 12/12 -- LEV GROSSMAN, WILLIAM GIRALDI

penina — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:16:20 +0000

Hope you can join us for our pre-holiday reading! We're throwing a monster bash with novelists LEV GROSSMAN (The Magicians) and WILLIAM GIRALDI (Busy Monsters), short fiction authors NELLY REIFLER (See Through) and RYAN BRITT (Opium Magazine, Tor.com) and poet MONTANA RAY (La Petite Zine). Beware – you may encounter Sasquatch, aliens, werelions,dragons and demons! Check out our “creature cocktails” (rumor has it they may be green) if you dare, or just enjoy our usual $4 pints. And test your knowledge of movie and literary monsters with our trivia quiz. Prizes include books (The Magicians series, Busy Monsters and director John Landis's Monsters in the Movies)and fiendish paraphernalia. The details: FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES -- "Monster Bash" Monday, December 12, 8-10pm Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden 618 St. Johns Place, between Franklin and Classon Avenues SUBWAY: 2/3/4/5 to Franklin Avenue FREE; $4 PINTS Featuring: LEV GROSSMAN (The Magicians, The Magician King) WILLIAM GIRALDI (Busy Monsters) NELLY REIFLER (See Through) RYAN BRITT (Opium Magazine, Tor.com) MONTANA RAY (guns & butter, La Petite Zine) LEV GROSSMAN is the author of the bestselling novels The Magicians, The Magician King and Codex. A well-known cultural commentator, he is the book critic for TIME magazine and has written for numerous other publications, including the New York Times, The Believer, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, Salon and Wired. He is a graduate of Harvard and Yale and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters. WILLIAM GIRALDI is the author of the debut novel Busy Monsters. His work has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times Book Review, Georgia Review, The Believer, Kenyon Review and Poets & Writers. A senior editor at AGNI, he teaches in the Arts & Sciences Writing Program at Boston University. NELLY REIFLER is the author of See Through, a collection of stories. Her work has been published in McSweeney's, BOMB, Jubilat and the Milan Review, among others. She is an editor for the Recommendations section of Post Road, and she teaches at Sarah Lawrence and Pratt. RYAN BRITT writes fiction, non-fiction and plays. His writing has been published with Opium Magazine, Nerve.com, Soon Quarterly, Clarkes World Magazine, Good Magazine and elsewhere. He is the staff writer for the science fiction/fantasy blog Tor.com and teaches at The Gotham Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Brooklyn. MONTANA RAY is a writer and mother. Her concrete gun poetry appears in Lana Turner Journal, La Petite Zine and in her chapbook (guns & butter) published by Chicago-based dancing girl press (Sept. 2011). Her translations of the early work of Spanish poet Francisca Aguirre appear in Asymptote and in The Other Music: Selected Poems from the 1970s published by Brooklyn-based Argos Books (2011).

HANGING LOOSE Poets read at powerHouse Sundays Series. THIS SUNDAY, NOV. 20!

sssslope — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:41:27 +0000

Hanging Loose Poets Sunday, November 20, 2011, 5:00 pm at the powerHouse Arena. $5. Wine served. powerHouse Sundays proudly presents, on November 20, three poets with deep ties to Brooklyn’s Hanging Loose press: Robert Hershon, Joanna Fuhrman, and Mac Barrett. Please welcome them to our powerHouse Sundays series, which features emerging and established artists. In the intimate skylounge at powerHouse Arena in DUMBO, writers and photographers present their work, then stay to chat, answer questions, and sign books. $5. Wine served. About this event: 45 years ago, a group of poets got together and published Hanging Loose magazine — mimeographed loose pages in a cover envelope. The idea was: Poetry is for now. If you like it, stick a poem on a wall. If you don’t, then use it as a napkin. As of 2011, Hanging Loose has published almost 180 collections of poetry. Bob Hershon, born and raised in Brooklyn, is the author of 11 books of poetry, including his latest, The German Lunatic. He is co-editor of Hanging Loose Press. Joanna Fuhrman is the author of 4 books of poetry, including her latest, Pageant. Her poems have appeared widely in national literary magazines and journals. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University. Mac Barrett has written poems, fiction, reviews and essays; his work has appeared in Hanging Loose, The Brooklyn Rail, and Salon. He is a producer at CUNY TV.. Location: 37 Main Street in DUMBO Brooklyn, New York 718-666-3049 <a href="http://powerHousearena.com">powerHousearena.com</a> Trains: F is closest; a short walk from the A/C/2/3 SITE FOR INFO: <a href="http://susanhartman.net/powerhouse.html">SusanHartman.net</a>

Friends of Carroll Gardens Library Presents: An Evening with Arthur Phillips

wordscribe — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:37:54 +0000

An Evening With Arthur Phillips -- Join us for a reading and discussion of his latest novel The Tragedy of Arthur; with special guests the Guerilla Shakespeare Project performing a reading of scenes from the play within the novel Wednesday, November 2, 2011 7 PM – 9 PM – the Carroll Gardens Library, 396 Clinton Street at the corner of Union Street. Arthur Phillips, the best selling author of The Song is You, Prague and The Egyptologist, will be reading from and answering audience questions about his most recent novel The Tragedy of Arthur – a complex book which explores a range of emotional and literary ideas – from the question of how we come to grips with our deeply flawed families, to how those families shape who we become, to the question of writing itself and the job of the writer, who pulls us into an invented world but makes us feel real emotions. The book contains a full-length play – is it a newly discovered work of William Shakespeares’? Or a forgery by the protagonist’s con artist father? The Guerilla Shakespeare Project, which performed a sold out reading of the play this spring at the Public Theater, will do a reading of scenes from the play within the novel. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/books/review/book-review-the-tragedy-of-arthur-by-arthur-phillips.html?_r=1&ref=books&pagewanted=all"> The New York Times Review of Books</a> said about The Tragedy of Arthur: “[T]he novelist’s art is a cunning ability to lure the reader into treating counterfeit bills as if they were current. And this particular novel — a fictional memoir posing as a fraudulent introduction to a forged play — is a spectacular instance of the confidence game. It is a tribute to Arthur Phillips’s singular skill that his work leaves the reader not with resentment at having been tricked but rather with gratitude for the gift of feigned wonder.” Brought to you by the Friends of the Carroll Gardens Library with many thanks to Arthur Phillips and the Guerilla Shakespeare Project. Signed books by the author will be available for purchase. Tickets are FREE but you must register for guaranteed seating. Limit 4 tickets per registrant. <a href="http://arthurphillipsatlibrary.eventbrite.com/">Register here</a>. Just a few seats left!

Weekend Stories at the Brooklyn Public Library

rosasharne — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:15:54 +0000

Just a reminder, the third session will be this week on Saturday at 11:00AM at the Crown Heights Branch. Don't miss it!

Story Time For Toddlers at The Candy Rush

Garnett — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:22:06 +0000

Local Crown/Prospect Heights NYC Certified Elementary School Teacher, Louise Lax, hosts our very 1st "Story Time"!. Featuring Mufaros Beautiful Daughters accompanied by another favorite. We welcome all parents and toddlers. Place: The Candy Rush, 733 Franklin Avenue, between Park Pl & Sterling Pl Time: 12pm-12:30pm <a href="http://www.facebook.com/candyrushnyc">The Candy Rush</a> <a href="http://timeoutnewyorkkids.com/eating-shopping/173201/candy-stores-for-nyc-kids">Time Out Kids NY</a>

Weekend Stories at the Brooklyn Public Library

rosasharne — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:40:02 +0000

Brooklyn Public Library is offering a wonderful free storytime program for pre-schoolers. Weekend stories is offered at 14 different branches throughout the BPL system on Saturdays (Sundays at Kings Highway and Central). In this special six session series, families enjoy stories and craft activities that encourage the development of early literacy skills. Families will receive free books and other materials to continue the learning and fun at home. At the Crown Heights branch (New York Ave. @ Maple Street), the program meet on Saturdays at 11:00 AM.

FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES WITH KAREN RUSSELL TOMORROW AT 8!

penina — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:27:59 +0000

Hope you can join us tomorrow for an all-star lineup! We're incredibly honored to host KAREN RUSSELL, who was named to the New Yorker's "20 Under 40" list of the best young fiction writers and is the author of the novel Swamplandia! and the short story collection St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. And we're super-excited that three of our old friends and alumni -- STEFAN MERRILL BLOCK, TEJU COLE and DIANA SPECHLER -- will be rejoining us. Stefan, the internationally bestselling author of The Story of Forgetting, will be giving the debut reading of his new novel The Storm at the Door, which won't hit stores until next week. The event will run, approximately, from 8 until 10:15, the pints will be $4, and we'll have some extra seating. As always, admission is FREE! The details: FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES Monday, June 13, 8-10:15pm Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden 618 St. Johns Place, between Franklin and Classon Avenues Subway: 2/3/4/5 to Franklin Avenue Featuring: KAREN RUSSELL (Swamplandia!, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves) STEFAN MERRILL BLOCK (The Storm at the Door, The Story of Forgetting) TEJU COLE (Open City) DIANA SPECHLER (Skinny, Who by Fire) KAREN RUSSELL, a native of Miami, is the author of the novel Swamplandia! and the short story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. She has been featured in The New Yorker’s debut fiction issue and on The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 list, and was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. In 2009, she received the 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation. Three of her short stories have been selected for the Best American Short Stories volumes. She is currently writer-in-residence at Bard College. STEFAN MERRILL BLOCK was born in 1982 and grew up in Texas. His first novel, The Story of Forgetting, won Best First Fiction at the Rome International Festival of Literature, the 2008 Merck Serono Literature Prize and the 2009 Fiction Award from The Writers’ League of Texas. The Story of Forgetting was also a finalist for the debut fiction awards from IndieBound, Salon du Livre and The Center for Fiction. His second novel, The Storm at the Door, will be released on June 21. He lives in Brooklyn. TEJU COLE was raised in Nigeria and came to the United States in 1992. He is a writer, photographer, and professional historian of early Netherlandish art. Open City is his first novel. He lives in New York City. DIANA SPECHLER is the author of the novels Who By Fire and, most recently, Skinny. She has written for The New York Times, GQ, O Magazine, Esquire, Self, Details.com, the Wall Street Journal online, Nerve, Glimmer Train Stories, Moment, Lilith, and elsewhere. She received her MFA degree from the University of Montana and was a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. She teaches writing in New York City. Can't wait to see you! Penina

FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES THIS MONDAY, MAY 9, 8pm -- "Myth and Magic Night"

penina — Sun, 08 May 2011 01:39:50 +0000

This month we're escaping to an alternate reality where ghosts, witches and monsters roam freely and a portal in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden can transport you back to the Civil War. Featuring: ALEXI ZENTNER (Touch) HELEN PHILLIPS (And Yet They Were Happy) ZETTA ELLIOTT (A Wish After Midnight) ANTHONY TOGNAZZINI (I Carry A Hammer In My Pocket For Occasions Such As These) NED THIMMAYYA (Old Ghost Stories) The details: FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES-- "Myth and Magic Night" Monday, May 9, 8-10pm Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden 618 St. Johns Place, betwwen Franklin and Classon Avenues FREE; $4 pints More about our authors: ALEXI ZENTNER is the author of the debut novel TOUCH. Named a Discover Great New Writers pick for spring, TOUCH is the saga of a Canadian frontier family contending with ghosts, witches, and a savage wilderness. Alexi's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, Glimmer Train, Narrative, The Walrus, Slice Magazine, Orion Magazine, on FiveChapters.com, and in other publications. His short story “Touch,” which inspired his novel, was awarded a 2008 O. Henry Prize and his story “Trapline” won the 2008 Narrative Prize. He holds an MFA from Cornell University and lives in Ithaca, New York with his family. HELEN PHILLIPS is the debut author of the novel-in-fables AND YET THEY WERE HAPPY, which explores the tumultuous relationship of a young couple beset by monsters, natural disasters, and visitations from the likes of Noah, Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, and Anne Frank. Helen is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, the Meridian Editors’ Prize, and the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in PEN America, Brooklyn Magazine, Mississippi Review, Sonora Review, Salt Hill, and L Magazine, among others, and in the anthology American Fiction: The Best Previously Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Authors. She received her MFA from Brooklyn College, where she now teaches undergraduate creative writing and administers the MFA program. Originally from Colorado, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, artist Adam Thompson. ZETTA ELLIOTT is the author of the novel A WISH AFTER MIDNIGHT, which chronicles the time-hopping journey of a Crown Heights teen back to Civil War era Brooklyn. Zetta is a poet, essayist, and playwright. Her poetry has been published in the Cave Canem anthology, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Check the Rhyme: an Anthology of Female Poets and Emcees, and Coloring Book: an Eclectic Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by Multicultural Writers. Her essays have appeared in The Black Arts Quarterly, thirdspace, WarpLand, and Rain and Thunder. She won the 2005 Honor Award in Lee & Low Books’ New Voices Contest and published a picture book, Bird, in 2008. Her play Nothing but a Woman was a finalist in the Chicago Dramatists’ Many Voices Project. She lives in Brooklyn. ANTHONY TOGNAZZINI's first collection of short fiction, I CARRY A HAMMER IN MY POCKET FOR OCCASIONS SUCH AS THESE, was published by BOA Editions in 2007. He lives Brooklyn. NED THIMMAYYA is a writer, law student, and former rapper. His work has appeared in the Foundling Review, Up the Beanstalk, and is forthcoming in the Brooklyn Journal of International Law. He has written a short story collection, OLD GHOST STORIES, and is currently working on a new story collection and a novel. He has also written and recorded three rap albums: The Leap, Empire State, and The T-Notebook. Originally from Kinderhook, NY, he now lives in Crown Heights. Can't wait to see you! Penina

FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES TOMORROW AT 8 -- DARIN STRAUSS & DEB OLIN UNFERTH

penina — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:25:15 +0000

TOM0RROW NIGHT literary superstars DARIN STRAUSS and DEB OLIN UNFERTH, comedic genius RACHEL SHUKERT, and new hotshots CHIN-SUN LEE and CAMERON PAGE (a Crown Heights local) will share funny and poignant coming-of-age tales. As always, the fun is FREE and pints are $4. DARIN STRAUSS won this year's National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography for his searing memoir Half a Life, and DEB OLIN UNFERTH's innovative memoir Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War was praised as "brave" and "soulful" in the NY Times. Calling RACHEL SHUKERT'S memoir Everything Is Going to Be Great "a cross between David Sedaris and Chuck Pahalniuk," Entertainment Weekly noted that "lurking beneath the jabs and one-liners is an affecting--and pretty unforgettable--coming of age tale." Hope you can make it! Here are the details: FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES -- "Coming-of-Age Tales" Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden Monday, April 11, 8-10pm 618 St. Johns Place, between Franklin and Classon Avenues Subway: 2/3/4/5 to Franklin FREE; $4 pints Featuring: DARIN STRAUSS (Half a Life, Chang and Eng) DEB OLIN UNFERTH (Revolution, Vacation) RACHEL SHUKERT (Everything Is Going to Be Great, Have You No Shame) CHIN-SUN LEE (Shadowbox Magazine, SLAB) CAMERON PAGE (Pax Americana) DARIN STRAUSS is the author, most recently, of the memoir Half a Life, winner of this year’s National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. He is also the international bestselling author of the New York Times Notable books Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy, and the national bestseller More Than It Hurts You. His work has been translated into fourteen languages and published in seventeen countries. The recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing, he is a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU's creative writing program. DEB OLIN UNFERTH is the author of the recent memoir Revolution, as well as the story collection Minor Robberies and the novel Vacation, winner of the 2009 Cabell First Novelist Award and a New York Times Book Review Critics' Choice. Her work has been featured in Harper's Magazine, McSweeney's, The Believer, and the Boston Review. A Harper’s Bazaar “Name to Know in 2011,” she has received two Pushcart Prizes and a 2009 Creative Capital grant for Innovative Literature. She teaches at Wesleyan University and currently lives in New York. RACHEL SHUKERT is a playwright, performer, and the author of the memoirs Everything Is Going to Be Great and Have You No Shame? And Other Regrettable Stories. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's and Heeb, and on Salon, Slate, Gawker, Nerve, and The Daily Beast, as well as featured on National Public Radio and in numerous print anthologies. Shukert was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, and now lives in New York City with her husband and her bipolar cat. CHIN-SUN LEE received her MFA in Creative Writing/Fiction at The New School in 2009. Her work has appeared, most recently, in Shadowbox Magazine and is forthcoming in SLAB. As a freelance writer for Margit Publications , she covered trends in fashion and interior design. An East Village resident, she works as a clothing designer and is writing her first novel. CAMERON PAGE is a playwright and non-fiction writer. His plays have been performed at Pianos in New York City, the D.C. Arts Center in Washington D.C., and on the National Mall. His work has been published in Pax Americana, the D.C. City Paper, and Yale Medicine magazine. In 2007 he was awarded the Lerner Prize for outstanding medical writing. He has worked as a research assistant, an actor, a doctor, and a door-to-door salesman. He lives in Crown Heights.

Q & A with Junot Diaz

penina — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:38:26 +0000

Great. Thanks for the link!