On the Murder of Hrant Dink
January 29th, 2007
PEN has issued a statement on the murder of the Armenian-Turkish journalist.
Archive for January, 2007
Free Issue of Small Spiral Notebook
January 26th, 2007
The fourth issue is fully available as an online edition.
Writers on the Rooftop Literary Series: Vincent Collazo
January 26th, 2007
February 5, 2007 / 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
YMCA, 357 9th Street, 7th Floor, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 11215
(between 5th & 6th Avenues–near F & R trains)
FREE; wheelchair accessible
Vincent Collazo, author of Sanity’s Bane–a novel which has become an underground Brooklyn sensation–will read an excerpt from his sure to be controversial novel-in-progress, The Monster & the Proxy. Questions and feedback welcome. Writers on the Rooftop is a monthly literary series curated by Burnley Duke Dame–held on the Y’s top floor, with a superb view of the Manhattan skyline as a backdrop. Free to all.
Washington Square Readings
January 24th, 2007
January 26, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction,
34 Ave A between 2nd and 3rd Sts
Washington Square Review presents:
Christina Duhig
Molly Brodak
Lynne Procope
Ross Gay
Mary Rechner
Katie Crouch
RELEASE PARTY, CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT AND READING TO BENEFIT WASHINGTON SQUARE REVIEW
On Friday, January 26, 2007, Washington Square Review, the semi-annual literary journal published by New York University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, will celebrate the publication of the Winter 2007 issue and announce the winners of the 2006-2007 fiction and poetry contest from 7-9pm at Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction, 34 Avenue A in New York City.
Current contributors will read from the new issue. Winners of the journal’s annual contest in poetry, judged by Nick Flynn, and fiction, judged by Darren Strauss, will also be announced. A reception will follow.
There is a suggested donation of $10, $5 for students, which comes with a free copy of the Winter 2007 issue as well as a back issue. Proceeds from the event will benefit the publication.
Washington Square Review is an innovative, nationally-distributed literary journal publishing fiction, poetry and essays by emerging and established writers. Edited and produced semi-annually by the students of the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program, Washington Square Review also sponsors an annual literary contest judged by eminent poets and writers, and hosts a series of popular readings in New York City. Recent contributors have included Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Diane Glancy, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Jessica Hagedorn, Brenda Hillman, David Lehman, Philip Levine, Rick Moody, Sharon Olds, Marie Ponsot, Matthew Rohrer, Charles Simic, Tom Sleigh and Chuck Wachtel.
Issue 19, Winter 2007 includes work by Phil Levine, Lauren Groff, and others and will be on newsstands by mid-February. For subscriptions and information please e-mail us at washington.square.journal@nyu.edu. Washington Square Review is a nonprofit literary journal publishing fiction, poetry, interviews and essays by new and established writers.
The Literary Journal of New York University’s Graduate Creative Writing Programtickets are a suggested donation of $10, $5 for students, which includes a free copy of the WSR as well as a back issue
Indie Press Series: Ig Publishing
January 24th, 2007
February 28, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
From McNally Robinson:
With Evan Mandery, author of Dreaming of Gwen Stefani
and John Sheppard, author of Small Town Punk
Ig Publishing (www.igpub.com) is an upstart Brooklyn press specializing in literary fiction and political nonfiction, particularly books coming out of the emerging “netroots” movement. Two of their starring new authors will read at this celebration of independents. Evan Mandery’s novel Dreaming of Gwen Stefani features a mathematical genius with a celebrity crush serving hot dogs at the “Papaya Queen”. John Sheppard’s Small Town Punk is a comedy of adolescence in 1980s Sarasota, Florida. Join us for an evening of comic novels by new voices.
Thrity Umrigar at McNally
January 24th, 2007
January 27, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
From McNally Robinson:
Author of The Space Between Us (HarperCollins)
Thrity Umrigar’s novel about a Bombay working class housekeeper and her widowed female employer won widespread praise when it was published in hardcover early last year. Now Umrigar’s nationwide tour brings her to McNally Robinson to read from the paperback edition of this story of class, culture, dreams, disappointments, and ultimately of the bonds between women. Join us for a reading and discussion with this esteemed journalist and novelist.
Author/Critic Event: Daniel Mendelsohn & Laura Miller
January 24th, 2007
February 26, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
From McNally Robinson:
Daniel Mendelsohn, author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (HarperCollins)
In Conversation with Laura Miller, book critic for Salon.com
Daniel Mendelsohn’s memoir The Lost, which details the author’s quest to discover the history of his family members lost in the Holocaust, has received high praise from authors and critics across the spectrum. This evening Mendelsohn speaks with one critic, Salon.com writer Laura Miller, about the process of discovery, writing from experience, and the aftermath of success born from tragedy. As both a professional critic and the editor of a culture magazine that has so highly praised and singled out the book for its literary achievement (Salon named The Lost one of the Best Books of 2006), Miller is an ideal interlocutor. Join us for what is sure to be an incredible conversation.
Michael Thomas at McNally
January 24th, 2007
February 22, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
From McNally Robinson:
Author of Man Gone Down (Grove/Atlantic)
On the eve of the unnamed black narrator’s thirty-fifth birthday he finds himself broke, estranged from his white Boston Brahmin wife and three children, and with just four days to come up with the money to keep his family afloat. Alternating between his past as a child in inner-city Boston and the present in New York City, we learn of his mother’s abuses, his father’s abandonment, raging alcoholism, and the best and worst intentions of a supposedly integrated America. Brooklyn author Thomas reads from his debut novel, a story of the American Dream gone awry.
Jonathan Raban at McNally
January 24th, 2007
February 20, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
From McNally Robinson:
Author of Surveillance (Pantheon)
In Jonathan Raban’s new novel, near-future America sees the War on Terror escalate and mutate into something resembling Orwell’s 1984, while a Seattle journalist attempts to uncover the truth behind a Holocaust memoir she suspects may be a fake. This imaginative novel, much praised upon its publication in Britain, explores secrets and surveillance in an atmosphere both fantastic and all too familiar. Join us for a reading and discussion with the author.