5/6/13 | Face2Face
5/6/13: Face2Face
ROBIN RICHARDSON
GABRIEL DON
ANTHONY CAPPO
THOMAS FUCALORO
JOSEPH A. W. QUINTELA
JOANNE VALENTE
JOHN REED
LIZ AXELROD
8pm to 10pm
Monday, May 6th
THE WEST
379 Union Ave
Brooklyn, NYC
4/24/13 | Molasses Books
4/24/13
Related to the Animal Farm Timeline that just went up, I have a talk scheduled with Nicholas Birns, a New School Colleague, at Molasses books.
Here's the event on FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/153515664816783/
Molasses Books is excited to announce the second installment in our monthly lecture series:
Animal Farm: 2013, 1998, 1954, 1946, 1879.
John Reed, the author of Snowball's Chance, the controversial parody of Animal Farm recently rereleased by Melville House, and Nicholas Birns, the author of Theory After Theory, discuss the legacy and surprising history of Animal Farm, from Russian gulags to U.S. schoolroom and MI5. For Orwell enthusiasts and detractors, this event is a must—a live exploration of a history that's often, quite ironically, misremembered.
We are delighted to host Mr. Reed and Mr. Birns, both Professors at The New School and recommend that y'all show up on time, as space is extremely limited and seating even more so. Beer & wine, coffee & tea will be for sale! (no BYOB!) Entrance, as always, is free.
7:30, 4/24/13
Molasses Books
770 Hart Street, btwn Knickerbocker and Wilson — off the Dekalb L train.
4/16/13 | La Pucelle, or Joan of Arc
4/16/13
Next Tuesday, 4/16, I'll be having a reading at the NYPL of my new Shakespeare project, La Pucelle (Joan of Arc). A few years back I put together a new tragedy by William Shakespeare (All The World's A Grave: Plume, 2008). Like that project, this is a new work assembled line by line from the works of Shakespeare. This one is a little different, in that it's a history, and a soliloquy.
Kate Eastman will be reading Joan.
Part of the NYPL "Shakespeare Week." Look forward to seeing people …
Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 1:15 - 2:30 p.m.
LA PUCELLE, OR, JOAN OF ARC, BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE & JOHN REED:
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium (Map and directions)
Fully accessible to wheelchairs
First come, first served.
STAT®REC: Initiation Rite
03/24/13
So this is STAT®REC, which I'm still playing around with. It is live and fully operational. Send me some material for it …
Berlin Collective is hosting an Initiation Rite to launch the site. Please come by and have a glass of wine.
Sunday, March 24:
2pm or 3:15
Gallery Brooklyn, 351 Van Brunt Street
Currently showing Berlin Collective Group Exhibition, "To Deny Our Nothingness"
STAT®REC & Berlin Collective
rite by Sonja Kostich
STAKE YOUR CLAIM.
March 19, 2013 6:30 p.m.
03/19/13 | The New School Public Programs
03/19/13
Nonfiction Forum: Josh Garrett-Davis
Look forward to talking to Josh Garrett-Davis about his recent book Ghost Dances: Proving Up on the Great Plains ...
Location:
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
Admission:
$5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID at the door or at the Box Office.
Box Office Information:
Single event purchases can be made online at any time at the New School Box Office. Series and discounted tickets must still be made in person or over the phone at The New School Box Office at 66 West 12th Street, main floor, Monday-Thursday 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., and Friday 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. The box office opens the first day of classes and closes after the last paid event of each semester. Reservations and inquiries can be made by emailing boxoffice@newschool.edu or calling 212.229.5488.
For events scheduled during the summer term, the box office will open one hour before each event.
Ah, ok, it happened, and I got a shaky video of Josh singing …
March 19, 2013 6:30 p.m.
1/24/13 | Pies and Scribes
1/24/13
Pies and Scribes
January 24th Thursday 8:30 pm
The Tuck Shop
115 Saint Marks Place
(between avenue A and first av)
1/16/13 | The Inimitable Dodger
"Milano Super Bunny" by Ralph Niese.
1/16/13
Informal reading of John Reed's THE INIMITABLE DODGER.
Cast: Marcie Henderson, Daniel Isengart, Celey Schumer, Brian Sheppard and Tony Torn. Directed by Melinda Hall.
http://www.facebook.com/events/490346207683227/
Wenesday, January 16, 7pm, no charge
Legion, 790 Metropolitan Ave. at Graham Ave. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
12/18/12 | Book Report: Lollion Chong, Aditi Sriram, Joel Whitney, John Reed
12/18/12
At Legion Bar, reading with Lollion Chong, Aditi Sriram and Joel Whitney. Lollion and Aditi are recent/current grad students: Columbia and The New School. We're hoping to make it something of a mixer. I'll be reading from Snowball’s Chance (order from Melville House, amazon, B&N, etc).
Tuesday, December 18, 8pm: Lollion Chong, Aditi Sriram, Joel Whitney, John Reed
Legion, 790 Metropolitan Ave. at Graham Ave. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
12/11/12 | Andrew Durbin, Carter Edwards, Krystal Languell, Minna Proctor, John Reed
12/11/12
The Book Report Reading
w/ Andrew Durbin, Carter Edwards, Krystal Languell, Minna Proctor, John Reed, hosts Leigh Stein, and Sasha Fletcher
Tue., December 11, 2012 at 7:00 PM
free! the gallery
(le) poisson rouge | 158 Bleecker Street | 212.505.FISH | info@lprnyc.com
21+
Once upon a time you were in third grade and you had to give book reports and it was awesome. The Book Report promises to deliver exactly what it promises: reports on books by the people who’ve read them. Join Leigh Stein and Sasha Fletcher and assorted literate guests for an evening that will remind you of 3rd grade in the best possible way.
http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/book-report-12112012/
10/23/12 | NYU Bookstore: John Reed, Joseph Salvatore, and Matthew Vollmer
10/23/12
NYU Bookstore: John Reed, Joseph Salvatore, and Matthew Vollmer
Tuesday, October 23rd, 6:30pm- 8:00pm
Panel discussion and reading by John Reed, Joseph Salvatore, and Matthew Vollmer
What does the choice mean for the writer, and what does it mean for the book? With the changing landscape of literature and publishing, how does the emerging author plot a course and find a road of her/his own?
Snowball’s Chance by John Reed is at its tenth anniversary edition; To Assume a Pleasing Shape (2011) is Joseph Salvatore’s debut collection of short stories; Matthew Vollmer is the co-editor of Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012).
http://www.bookstores.nyu.edu/webcomm/events/indexoct2012.html
10/04/12 | Sweet! Barbour, Reed, Simpson, Washington, Yanique
10/04/12
This month's Sweet! features:
Clayton Fox
Jennifer Gordon Thomas
Chisa Hutchinson
Dennis Pressey
Mickey Ryan
Reading:
"Danny" by Mary Barbour
An excerpt from "Snowball's Chance" by John Reed
"SNAFU" by Jeff Simpson
An excerpt from "Props" by Ellery Washington
"The Fisherman's Tale" by Tiphanie Yanique
Please note that this event is FREE and features a sweet HAPPY HOUR deal!
Three of Cups, 83 1st Ave @ 5th St.
(F/V to Second Ave)
October 4th, 7:30pm sharp.
http://www.facebook.com/events/492148604131079/?ref=ts&fref=ts
10/02/12 | Animal Farm: John Reed, Ginger Strand, Hope Ewing, and James Suffern
10/o2/12
Animal Farm Reading Series: John Reed, Ginger Strand, Hope Ewing, and James Suffern.
Tuesday, October 2 marks the return of NYC's destination for the newest and best satirical and/or critical writing: after a brief hiatus, ANIMAL FARM has been released from Rikers, on a technicality, and will resurface at Legion.
Nothing can really substitute for ANIMAL FARM, you know.
The event begins at 8 pm and is free. Legion is 790 Metropolitan Ave. at Graham Ave. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
When it comes to fun and literature, you honestly can't beat October 2: Readers are John Reed, Ginger Strand, Hope Ewing, and James Suffern. That's how you do things.
http://events.brokelyn.com/event/view/W8HrNPCeLzo=/brooklyn/legion/animal-farm
09/25/12 | ICI: Shadows and Outlines, the Reanimation Library
09/25/12
ICI: Shadows and Outlines: An Incomplete Portrait of the Reanimation Library
Tuesday, September 25, 6:30–8 PM
ICI Curatorial Hub
401 Broadway, Suite 1620
New York, NY 10013
Shadows and Outlines: An Incomplete Portrait of the Reanimation Library
The Reanimation Library is a small, independent public library based in Brooklyn. It is a collection of books that have fallen out of routine circulation and been acquired for their visual content. Outdated and discarded, they have been culled from thrift stores, stoop sales and throwaway piles, and given new life as a resource for artists, writers and cultural archaeologists.
Shadows and Outlines is a set of short readings made up entirely of excerpts from the library’s holdings paired with projected images from its image archive. Sequenced, unmediated fragments of found text and an accompanying stream of decontextualized images will provide a personalized, fractured and incomplete portrait of the wide-ranging attitudes, ideologies and visual systems contained within the collection. Join us to hear readings by Reanimation Library founder Andrew Beccone and two guest readers—writers Sarah Giovanniello and John Reed.
This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to rsvp@curatorsintl.org with Reanimation Library in the subject field.
For more information contact Misa Jeffereis at misa@curatorsintl.org.
09/19/12 | NBCC: Brooklyn Books Festival
09/19/12
NBCC: Brooklyn Books Festival
Breaking Into Book Reviews and Features
Park Slope Barnes & Noble, 267 7th Avenue (at 6th Street)
Wednesday, September 19, 7 p.m.
In conjunction with the Brooklyn Book Festival. Panelists include NBCC board member Michael Miller (Bookforum), David Propson (Wall Street Journal), NBCC board member John Reed (Brooklyn Rail), Parul Sehgal, (New York Times Book Review), Rob Spillman (Tin House), and Monica de la Torre (Bomb). Moderated by author and NBCC board member Susan Shapiro. Ten percent of book sales go to PEN's Emergency Writer's Fund.
http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/this-week-nbcc-events-in-brooklyn-and-san-francisco
09/19/12 | LitCrawl: Literature and Libations
09/15/12
6:00 PM
National Book Critics Circle (NBCC)
Scratcher, free
209 E. 5th St.
Goofs, gaffes, guilt. The National Book Critics Circle makes public apologies for the crimes of its ilk. Jeff Wright, Jerry Portwood, Carlo McCormick, David Cohen, Sam Sacks, Lucas Wittmann, David Haglund, Ellen Pearlman, C. Max Magee and several hated mystery guests will plead for forgiveness for villainy and negligence in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, The Daily Beast, PEN, The Millions, The Wall Street Journal, Art Forum, Art in America Paper Magazine, Out Magazine, the New York Press and many others yet to be guilted into participating! MC’d by John Reed. Sniveling entreaties from overbearing snobs will make this a thoroughly punishing and satisfying tribunal.
The Brooklyn Rail: Jeff Wright and Ellen Pearlman
Out: Jerry Portwood
Paper Magazine: Carlo McCormick
Art in America: David Cohen
The Wall Street Journal: Sam Sacks
The Daily Beast: Lucas Wittmann
Slate: David Haglund
The Millions: C. Max Magee
Guernica: Joel Whitney
The Washington Post: Jane Ciabattari
The New Inquiry: Helena Fitzgerald
http://litcrawl.org/nyc/schedule/national-book-critics-circle-nbcc
7:00 pm
LitCrawl: Literature and Libations
Von Bar, free
3 Bleecker Street
Three short readings, three long toasts, and uncertain evening. Authors stagger you with literature and libations. Edie Meidav reads from Lola, California, and offers a taste of her dangerous concoction, “the Red and Green.” Brando Skyhorse warbles in dulcet tones from The Madonnas of Echo Park, and tenders the divine bitter of “the Nasty Stepfather.” John Reed proffers Snowball’s Chance, now in paperback and liquid form. Special offers from the participating rathskeller.
09/11/12 | Pen Parentis: 9/11, Reed, Steinke, Hamm
09/11/12
"Sept. 11, 2012," Pen Parentis:
Theodore Hamm, John Reed and Rene Steinke
6:30pm-8:30pm
Private dining room at Wall&Water
inside the Andaz Wall Street
Located at 75 Wall Street, NYC (click to see map)
FREE admission
Ten minute walk from everywhere in the Financial District
2/3/4/5/J/M/Z to Wall Street, walk west. 2nd floor; enter on Pearl.
Ongoing readings monthly, every second Tuesday
PEN PARENTIS is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of PEN PARENTIS may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
09/11/12 | The New School Public Programs
09/05/12
Jumping in to talk to Chuck Wachtel about his 2010 novel 3/03 ...
The New School Public Programs
Fiction Forum: Chuck Wachtel with John Reed
Wednesday, September 5, 6:30 p.m.
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
$5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID at the door or at the Box Office.
Chuck Wachtel is the author of the novels Joe The Engineer, winner of the Pen/Ernest Hemingway Citation; The Gates; and 3/03, winner of the Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work. His other work includes a collection of stories and novellas: Because We Are Here, five collections of poems and short prose including The Coriolis Effect, and What Happens to Me. He has written the screenplay for Joe The Engineer, currently in development as a film. He teaches at NYU.
08/29/12 | McNally Jackson: Eric Banks and John Reed discuss Snowball, Napoleon, and G.O.
08/29/12
McNally Jackson: Eric Banks and John Reed discuss Snowball, Napoleon, and G.O.
What happens after Animal Farm? In John Reed’s raucous, totally unauthorized companion to George Orwell’s barnyard political allegory, Snowball’s Chance, exiled pig Snowball returns to the farm to implement a new regime of full-force capitalism.
Reed first released the book in 2002 -- when it was denounced by Christopher Hitchens and just barely escaped a lawsuit from Orwell’s estate. Snowball’s Chance is, like its antecedent, a strident political satire that has infuriated Marxists and capitalists alike.
Reed will be joined by Eric Banks, former Bookforum editor and president of the National Book Critics Circle, for debate and discussion.
7:00 pm
52 Prince St
New York, NY, 10012-3309
212-274-1160
08/20/12 | New York Public Library: MonoCulture, Contemporary Narrative
08/20/12
Mid-Manhattan Library presents
MonoCulture: How Popular Culture and Economy Shapes Contemporary Narrative
The New York Public Library
40th Street and 5th Avenue , 6th floor, 6:30 PM
New York, NY 10016
212-340-0873
Books, movies, television, internet, made-up and true-to life: stories move us, motivate us, disgust us—but what is the mechanism of cultural storytelling? Why do we hear some stories, and not others, and why is it that so many of the stories told by popular culture seem so familiar, so uniform? In this discussion, John Reed demystifies what makes a story mainstream, what makes a story experimental, and the underlying economic foundation of the story.
Snowball's Chance (tenth anniversary edition from Melville House Books):
Written in 14 days shortly after the September 11th attacks, Snowball’s Chance is an outrageous and unauthorized companion to George Orwell’s Animal Farm, in which exiled pig Snowball returns to the farm, takes charge, and implements a new world order of untrammeled capitalism.
A brilliant political satire and literary parody, John Reed’s Snowball’s Chance caused an uproar on publication in 2002, was denounced by Christopher Hitchens, and narrowly evaded a lawsuit from the Orwell estate. Now, a decade later, with America in wars on many fronts, readers can judge anew the visionary truth of Reed’s satirical masterpiece.
Elevators access the 6th floor after 6 p.m.
All programs are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.
07/31/12 | Fiction Addiction: John Reed, Myla Goldberg, and Steve Danziger
07/31/12
Fiction Addiction, Reading Series at 2A in the east village. FREE event. This month's event: Tuesday, July 31. 8 pm. Upstairs. The lineup includes Joshua Henkin (The World Without You, Matrimony, etc), Myla Goldberg (The False Friend, Bee Season,etc), John Reed (Snowball's Chance, etc) and Steve Danziger. A live feed of the event is broadcast onto the four-story brick wall across the street and $4 whiskeys are available to those who come for the reading.
Extra details:
Event takes place at 2A, 25 Avenue A at Second Street and Avenue A. Nearest subways include the F at 2nd Avenue, the 6 at Bleecker, the BD at Grand or the JMZ at Essex.
phone: (212) 505-2466
website: fictionaddiction.org
Past readers now include Edmund White, Patrick McGrath, Darin Strauss, John Wray, Dale Peck, David Goodwillie, Ben Greenman, Said Sayrafiezadeh, Meg Wolitzer, Paul La Farge, William Giraldi, Thad Ziolkowski, Joshua Furst, Jennifer Gilmore, Terese Svoboda, Diana Spechler, Christopher Bollen, Fiona Maazel, Amy Waldman, Elissa Schappell, Alison Espach, James Hannaham, Nadia Kalman, Matt Dojny, Robert Lopez, Justin Taylor, Victoria Brown, Benjamin Hale, Seth Fried, Alethea Black, Nick Ripatrazone, Kiese Laymon, Susan Tepper, Tom Hopkins.
07/25/12 | The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series: John Reed, Leigh Stein, and Danny Goodman
07/25/12
The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series: John Reed, Leigh Stein, and Danny Goodman
The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series is pleased to announce that our reading scheduled for Wednesday, July 25th will feature John Reed, Leigh Stein, and Danny Goodman.
The reading will occur at BAR on A at 7:30 PM. The event is FREE and open to the public.
John Reed is the author of the novels, A Still Small Voice (Delacorte Press), The Whole (MTV / Simon & Schuster), Snowball’s Chance (Roof Books, forthcoming 2012 in a tenth anniversary edition from Melville House), All The World’s A Grave: A New Play By William Shakespeare (Penguin / Plume), and Tales of Woe (MTV Press).
Leigh Stein is the author of the novel The Fallback Plan, which New York Magazine called “a masterwork of the post-collegiate babysitting genre.” Her full-length poetry collection, Dispatch from the Future, is forthcoming from Melville House in July.
Danny Goodman teaches both high school English and fiction writing for the Gotham Writers’ Workshop in New York City. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in various places, most notably Paper Darts, Brevity, Found Press, and Mixer. He edits the literary journal, fwriction : review, and is badly in need of a nap.
The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series on Facebook
07/24/12 | LIMITED TIME ONLY (LTO) presents MAD-LIB [rary]
07/24/12
New York, NY – On Tuesday, July 24th, 2012, from 7pm to 9pm, the creative collaborative and production team LIMITED TIME ONLY (Legacy Russell, Stina Puotinen, and Sarah Giovanniello) invite you to join an exciting new "choose-your-own-adventure" hosted as part of the Curatorial Hub at Independent Curators International in TribeCa.
The MAD-LIB[rary] will be an opportunity for the public to participate in true Mad Lib fashion in a zany, surreal, Dada-inspired, and perhaps nonsensical assemblage extravaganza. MAD-LIB[rary] invites artists and writers—an explosive combination of luminaries and rising stars—to contribute limited edition material of their choice.
The event will provide attendees from the realms of the art and literary worlds alike an opportunity to curate their own magazine or booklet content, and B-Y-O-creative-vision. Paying homage to the histories of literature, art, book-art, found art, flea markets, and book fairs, MAD-LIB[rary] provides an alternative from the glossy, pre-packaged culture of mass media.
MAD-LIB[rary] is all at once a living archive, a museum, a magazine, a madness—on July 24th, get crazy with us!
FEATURING EDITIONS BY niv Acosta, Braulio Amado, Mónica de la Torre, Diane Exavier, Sarah Gentile, Kara Hearn, Scott Hug, Maria Lokke, Mollie McKinley, Rachel Milano, J. Morrison, Clifford Owens, Annie Powers, John Reed, Jen Schwarting, Heather Warren-Crow, and Grant Worth.
This event is free and open to the public though space is limited.
For more information and to RSVP, please email rsvp@curatorsintl.org with LIMITED TIME ONLY in the subject. To learn more about the presenters, please visit: http://curatorsintl.org/events/mad_library
What is LIMITED TIME ONLY?
LIMITED TIME ONLY (LTO) is a creative collaboration and curatorial production team.
“Limited Time” speaks to the time we allow ourselves to think (and play) outside the banalities of the day-to-day, and “Only”—well, that means it’s made just for you. LTO will encompass the sometimes sporadic and spontaneous nature of the events we make for you to enjoy.
Check out a recap of our last program at ICI—Dead Letter Office Hours—by visiting the program overview via ICI's platform, or by clicking here for a brief video summary!
06/12/12 | The Coffin Factory, CLMP, and the NYPL Present: What’s a Writer?
06/12/12
June 12, 2012
Periodically Speaking Series: The Coffin Factory, CLMP, and the New York Public Library Present:
What’s a Writer?
In a time when there is an explosion of aspiring writers, print & online journals, and graduate programs geared toward the study of writing, The Coffin Factory aims to discuss what it means to be a writer today. The panel will include John Reed, Bonnie Nadzam, and Jacques Strauss.
John Reed is the author of the novels, A Still Small Voice, The Whole, the SPD bestseller, Snowball’s Chance, All the World’s a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare, and Tales of Woe; more at JohnReed.org
Bonnie Nadzam earned a PhD from the University of Southern California. She is the author of the novel Lamb, which won the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. Her fiction and poetry have been published in The Kenyon Review, The Mississippi Review, and other journals.
Jacques Strauss was born and raised in South Africa. He is the author of The Dubious Salvation of Jack V. He currently lives with his partner in a “bad ass suburb” in South London.
There will be a brief reading followed by a discussion.
The event will take place from 6-7:30 PM at the New York Public Library.
Visit Facebook Event Page for more information or to RSVP.
05/31/12 & 06/02/12 | Chicago in New York City
05/31/12 & 06/02/12
Jason Pettus, of the CCLAP, Kevin Haworth, David David Katzman, Traci Kim, Oriana Leckert, Lauryn Allison Lewis, Ben Tanzer amd Sally Weigel are coming to town. The Chicago group has set up readings in New York. I'll be reading and hanging out Thursday and Saturday. The CCLAP publishes extraordinary books, one of which I was in. American Wasteland: Bleak Tales of the Future: http://www.cclapcenter.com/wasteland/
Here are all four of their visiting gigs. I'll be out Thursday and Saturday.
THURSDAY: Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Manhattan
DOORS OPEN: 7 pm
PERFORMANCES: 7:30-8:30
LINEUP: Katzman, Kim, Lewis, Nelson, Reed (emcee: Pettus; we'll draw
names from a hat at all four shows to determine actual reading order)
SPECIAL NOTES: NPR is apparently doing a big music show right after
us, so we absolutely must be off the stage at 8:30. I think we're
getting booted from the actual club at that time too, so we'll
probably need to go to a nearby bar to hang out afterwards.
FRIDAY: Book Thug Nation
100 N. 3rd Street, Brooklyn (between Berry St. and Whythe Ave.)
DOORS OPEN: 7 pm
PERFORMANCES: 7:30-9/9:30(?)
LINEUP: Katzman, Leckert, Lewis, Nelson, Weigel (emcee: Kim)
SPECIAL NOTES: We will be joined on this night by Joshua Boardman,
Rohin Guha, Niina Pollari and JD Scott of local litmag Moonshot, so
this promises to be an overlong show. Please keep it in mind when
determining what to read, and please err on the short side if at all
possible.
SATURDAY: Vaudeville Park
26 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn
DOORS OPEN: 7 pm
PERFORMANCES: 8:00-10:00(?)
LINEUP: Katzman, Leckert, Lewis, Nelson, Reed, Weigel (emcee: Kim)
SPECIAL NOTES: We will be sharing this bill with local music group
Battle Of The Camel; we'll figure out that night whether the band
would be interested in actually performing in the background during
readings, or whether all the authors will go up first and the band by
themselves afterwards. There will also be an outdoor arts festival
going on in the neighborhood at the same time, so prepare yourself for
some walk-in traffic who might have no idea what's going on.
SUNDAY: KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street, Manhattan
DOORS OPEN: 7 pm
PERFORMANCES: 7:30-8:30
LINEUP: Katzman, Leckert, Lewis, Nelson, Tanzer, Weigel (emcee: Pettus)
05/08/12 | Writing, Editing, and Publishing in the Americas
05/08/12
The Coffin Factory & Farrar, Straus and Giroux Present:
Writing, Editing, and Publishing in the Americas
A conversation on publishing from the perspective of writers who are also editors in both North and South America. The panel will include John Reed, Justin Taylor, Carlos Labbé, and Andrés Neuman, and will be moderated by Craig Epplin.
Andrés Neuman will also read from his new novel, Traveler of the Century (FSG May).
Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Time: 7PM – 9PM
Location: McNally Jackson Bookstore, 52 Prince Street, New York, New York
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, or to RSVP, please visit our Facebook Event Page.
04/17/12 | Heavy Summer Reading
04/17/12
InDigest Reading Series presents: Heavy Summer Reading
w/ John Reed , Rebecca Wolff and Christopher Bollen
Tue., April 17, 2012 / 7:00 PM
free! the gallery
(le) poisson rouge | 158 Bleecker Street | 212.505.FISH | info@lprnyc.com
About This Event
Minimum Age:
21+
Doors Open:
7:00 PM
Show Time:
7:00 PM
Description:
This is a general admission event in The Gallery at LPR.
Artists
Heavy Summer Reading
John Reed
Author of the novels, A STILL SMALL VOICE (Delacorte Press), THE WHOLE (MTV / Simon & Schuster), the SPD bestseller, SNOWBALL’S CHANCE (Roof), ALL THE WORLD’S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Penguin/Plume), and TALES OF WOE (MTV Press); MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University; Books Editor of the Brooklyn Rail; published in Open City, Artnet, Artforum, Paper Magazine, New York Press, Brooklyn Rail, Timeout New York, Bomb Magazine, Playboy, Art in America, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal; current member of the board directors of the National Book Critics Circle.
Rebecca Wolff
Rebecca Wolff was born in 1967 in New York City to Pamela Perry Wolff, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Anthony Wolff, a native of Brookline, Massachusetts who was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Her older brother is Nic Wolff. Rebecca and Nic attended the Fifteenth Street School, a "free" school based on A. S. Neill's Summerhill School in Suffolk, England, until 6th grade. Rebecca went on to Friends Seminary for middle school, and then to Stuyvesant High School. She published her first poem at the age of 15, in Seventeen Magazine, and her next soon after in the journal Hanging Loose's special section for high school age writers.
Wolff spent her first one and a half years of college at Bennington, in Vermont, majoring in Poetry, dropping out during the Field Work Term of her sophomore year, while she was interning at David R. Godine publishers. She stayed in Somerville, Massachusetts for a year and a half and worked the first of many jobs in the health food industry. Eventually Wolff finished her undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, attaining a Bachelors Degree with a Special Concentration in Poetry and Self-Consciousness in 1991. Her final year of undergraduate study was spent in Glasgow, Scotland, at the University there, though much of her time was spent hitchhiking around Europe, protesting the Gulf War as a member of the Socialist Party, and re-foresting the moorlands as a member of the "Green Group." Upon her return to the United States Wolff traveled to Iowa, where she attended the Iowa Writers Workshop, from which she received her MFA in Poetry in 1993. Wolff then spent several years living in Truro, on Cape Cod, and working at another health food store. She next moved to Houston, Texas, where she entered the MFA program in Fiction, but only stayed a year. While in Houston Wolff was employed as managing editor of the journal Gulf Coast, and it was this experience that allowed her to think that she would be able to organize her own literary journal, which she began doing upon her return to New York City in 1997.
In the spring of 1998 Fence was launched, with a crew of founding coeditors including Caroline Crumpacker, Jonathan Lethem, Frances Richard, and Matthew Rohrer. The next nine years of Wolff's life were devoted to publishing the journal, and also to Fence Books, launched in 2001, in a fairly typical "labor of love" style. During these years Wolff found paying gigs at the Poetry Society of America, BOMB magazine, and as a freelance editor for publications such as BookForum and PenguinPutnam. In 2001 her first book of poems, Manderley, was published by the University of Illinois Press, after having been selected for the National Poetry Series by Robert Pinsky. In June, 2002 Wolff married the novelist Ira Sher, and their son Asher Wolff was born in August. In September of 2004 Wolff's second book of poems, Figment, was published by W. W. Norton as a winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and in December Margot Sher was born. In the summer of 2005 the family relocated permanently to Athens, New York, a river town in the Hudson Valley. In 2007, Fence and Fence Books found sponsorship at the University at Albany, in partnership with the New York State Writers Institute, of which Wolff is now a Program Fellow.
Christopher Bollen
Christopher Bollen is a writer who lives in New York City. He regularly writes about art, literature, and culture, and his first novel, Lightning People, will be published in Septemberl 2011. He is currently the Editor at Large at Interview Magazine.
Photo: Danko Steiner
The Coffin Factory Reading
10/25/11
Bonnie Nadzam, John Reed, Fred Reynolds & Steve Danziger will be reading their featured pieces from The Coffin Factory.
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street
New York, NY
Darin Strauss, John Reed and Jim Hanas at Le Poisson Rouge
2/13/11
Darin Strauss, John Reed and Jim Hanas at Le Poisson Rouge
7:00 PM, 158 Bleeker St
Minimum Age:
21+
Doors Open:
7:00 PM
Show Time:
7:00 PM
InDigest 1207 Reading Series
InDigest also presents InDigest 1207, a reading series that takes place monthly in New York City and quarterly in Minneapolis. In addition to their own work, readers are encouraged to bring in something that has informed or influenced them in some way. The result is often funny, sometimes strange, but always interesting, showing us how we are all constantly influenced by what we see, hear, and read.
NBCC Publishing Panel
6/22/11
With O Magazine book editor Sara Nelson,
NYTimes Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus,
Author John Reed, Author David Goodwillie,
Literary agents Julie Just & Betsy Lerner
& Scribner's editor Paul Whitlatch. Moderated by Susan Shapiro.
Wednesday June 22 from 6:30 to 8:30
NYU bookstore 726 Broadway
Free.
10% of book proceeds go to charity
Heidi Julavits, Zach Samalin, John Reed at KGB For Bomb Magazine
12/12/10
Heidi Julavits, Zach Samalin, John Reed at KGB For Bomb Magazine
KGB Bar
85 E 4 Street
New York, NY 10003
December 12, 2010
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
NBCC, Small Press Month
3/30/11
Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal (moderator) w/ John Reed (Brooklyn Rail), Tim Brown, John Madera, John Deming.
NBCC Celebrates Small Press Month
7:00 pm
NYU Bookstore 726 Broadway New York, NY
http://www.bookcritics.org/
Pen Parentis Benefit
12/14/10
A Literary Holiday Party to benefit Pen Parentis!
with John Reed, Liz Rosenberg and Lena Roy.
DATE: Tuesday, December 14
TIME: Party starts at 6:30-8:30
LOCATION: The Libertine Library at Gild Hall, 15 Gold Street, NYC
With Special Guests,
John Reed
Writer, editor, father of two and critically acclaimed novelist of, A STILL SMALL VOICE SNOWBALL'S CHANCE, and TALES OF WOE.
Liz Rosenberg
Is a mother a fiction writer and a poet. She is an award-winning author of more than 25 books for young readers and 3 books of prize-winning poetry. She reads from HOME REPAIR her acclaimed first novel for adults.
Lena Roy
Teaches creative writing workshops for kids and teens with Writopia Lab in NYC and Northern Westchester where she lives with her family. Her debut novel, EDGES is out this December!
Plus beautiful live music, raffles, drink specials, book giveaways and more!
Book the babysitter because this is the one Pen Parentis Literary Salon you don't want to miss!
The Pen Parentis Literary Salon is more than a fantastic reading series that showcases new and known writers. It's also a supportive community that celebrates the craft of writing and the joys and challenges of writing while parenting.
The $20 suggested donation at our Holiday Salon goes toward basic operating costs and funding the Pen Parentis Fellowship for New Parents.
No other reading series in New York City provides an opportunity for writers and readers to come together and talk with such intimacy about writing and parenting. Please come out and support a great organization and have a great time doing it with live music, raffles, drink specials, book giveaways and fun galore!
THANK YOU!
Pen Parentis logo designed by Melissa Guion
www.penparentis.org
Pen Parentis
176 Broadway 14F
New York, New York 10038
John Reed and Matt De La Pena
10/27/10
John Reed and Matt De La Pena read from new works.
7pm
The Kettle of Fish
59 Christopher Street
Michael Mejias, coordinator
Tales of Woe at We Three Productions
10/11/10
Tales of Woe at ... We Three Productions
Bar 82
136 2nd Avenue @ St. Marks
212-228-8636
www.bar82nyc.com <http://www.bar82nyc.com>
telreadings@gmail.com
Subway: 6 Train to Astor Place, F Train to 2nd Ave., L Train to 3rd Ave.
FREE
Monday, October 11th at 8 P.M.
Toni Yancey
Toni (Antronette) Yancey, MD, MPH is Professor, Department of Health Services, and Co-Director, UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity in the School of Public Health. She serves on the Board of Directors, among others, of the Partnership for a Healthier America, supporting First Lady Obama's Let's Move campaign. Her second book, Instant Recess: Building a Fit Nation 10 Minutes at a Time, has just been released.
Sarah Shaefer
Sarah Shaefer moved to NYC in 2005. An award-winning actress and writer, she has done everything from a Pepsi commercial involving silver spandex and an elliptical machine to playing a supporting role in Yelling to the Sky (2011) starring Oscar-nominated Gabourey Sidibe and Zoe Kravitz. She will be shooting a lead role this winter in the feature Tiger Lily Road by filmmaker Michael Medeiros. She is very grateful to Wayne for asking her to read some of her work.
JOHN REED
Author of the novels, A STILL SMALL VOICE (Delacorte Press), THE WHOLE (MTV / Simon & Schuster), the SPD bestseller, SNOWBALL’S CHANCE (Roof), ALL THE WORLD’S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Penguin/Plume), and the forthcoming TALES OF WOE (MTV Press) TalesofWoe.com <http://talesofwoe.com/> ; MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University; Books Editor of the Brooklyn Rail; published in Open City, Artnet, Artforum, Paper Magazine, New York Press, Brooklyn Rail, Timeout New York, Bomb Magazine, Playboy, Art in America, Los Angeles Times; current member of the board directors of the National Book Critics Circle.
ALIX STRAUSS
A media savvy social satirist, Alix has been a featured lifestyle and trend writer on national morning and talk shows including ABC, CBS, CNN, and the Today show. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, New York Post, Time Magazine, and Entertainment Weekly, among others. She is the author of the award winning short story collection The Joy of Funerals, Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious, and the recently released, Based Upon Availability. Called “sharp and brilliant” by Elle magazine, and “A mesmerizing novel” by Booklist (starred review) Based Upon Availability delves into the lives of eight seemingly ordinary women, each who pass through a swanky Manhattan hotel. While offering sanctuary to some, solace to others, the hotel captures their darkest and twisted moments as they grapple with family, sex, power, love, and death. Please visit her web: www.alixstrauss.com <http://www.alixstrauss.com/> .
A. Grant McCrea
Once a high-school dropout and sort of homeless bum-like person for eight years, Grant McCrea went on to become one of the "world's leading litigation lawyers," (well, according to several editions of the Euromoney Guide -- take it for what you will). He still dips his hand, gingerly, into the law business from time to time, and writes novels (Dead Money, Random House 2006; Drawing Dead, RH 2008, Card Dead, RH, forthcoming) and other stuff. He made a final table in a World Poker Tour event, busting out in seventh place with AA against some donkey's overcall with 87 offsuit, and once lost $38,000 of real money in one poker hand, to a guy reputed to be a member of the Russian mob. He is a Chess Master of very little repute, though a teacher of some renown in all of the above pursuits. He is currently at work on his rags to riches and back to rags memoir.
Tales of Woe at Literary Death Match
10/08/10
Michael Kupperman, John Reed, Emily Flake, R. Sikoryak, Anthony Lappé, Ashley C. Williams, and Dan Pirarro at Literary Death Match
Tales of Woe at ...
When: doors at 7 pm, show starts at 7:30 (sharp). Afterparty at Von
Cost: $7 in advance, $10 at the door.
Under 18 will not be admitted.
Opium Magazine’s ComicCon Literary Death Match.
A little bit slower than a speeding bullet. Arguably 18% more powerful than a locomotive, completely incapable of leaping any sized buildings in any amount of bounds. It's a lark! It's an amazement! It's LDM NYC - The ComicCon episode!
A seemingly mild-mannered bunch, these writer/artists are breaking away from the ComicCon NYC madness, donning their capes and tights (metaphorically, we hope) to partake of the ultimate multimedia... showdown. Who are these masked combatants? Illustrator/comic artist Michael Kupperman (Snake'N'Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret), cartoonist Emily Flake (Lulu Eightball), R. Sikoryak (creator of Masterpiece Comics), and wirter/director Anthony Lappé (Shooting War).
From behind a force field of awesomeness, a trio of judges will decide who competes in for the title. Author/critic John Reed (Tales of Woe) will judge Substance, flanked by actress Ashley C. Williams (The Human Centipede) judging Performance, and cartoonist Dan Pirarro (Bizarro) will lay down the law on Intangibles. The final battle will determine whose emerges the Hero, and who joins the ranks of LDM's worthy, though vanquished, mortals.
This is a one-of-a-kind, not-to-be-missed, super-spectacular LDM for the ages! Costumes encouraged. Hilarity guaranteed.
Hosted by Ann Heatherington and Erin Hosier
Tales of Woe at KGB
09/19/10
Benjamin Hale & Deborah Willis, John Reed
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
KGB Bar
85 E 4 Street
New York, NY 10003
NBCC, Name that Author, Brooklyn Book Festival, 2010
9/12/10
NBCC’s Name that Author, Brooklyn Book Festival
September 12, 2010 8:00 pm
St. Francis Screening Room
180 Remsen Street Brooklyn, NY
NBCC “Name that Author” returns to the book festival with 2008 champ Brigid Hughes (A Public Space), 2009 champ Martha Southgate (Third Girl from the Left), critics Eric Banks, Steve Kellman, and David Haglund. John Reed (Tales of Woe), emcee. NBCC president Jane Ciabattari, referee/quizmaster.
180 Remsen Street, half a block from Borough Hall main stage, 5:00 PM
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Lit Quake’s NYC Lit Crawl Presents: National Book Critics Revise and Recant
09/11/10
Lit Quake’s NYC Lit Crawl Presents: National Book Critics Revise and Recant
September 11, 2010 10:15 pm
White Slab Palace 77 Delancey St New York, NY
Goofs, gaffes, guilt. As part of the tumultuous (and free)Litquake NYC Lit Crawl on September 11, the National Book Critics Circle and other critics make public apologies for their crimes. Critic Dale Peck and current and former NBCC board members including Lev Grossman, Lizzie Skurnick, John Reed, Mark Rotella and Jane Ciabattari, will plead for forgiveness for villainy and negligence in their reviews. Heartfelt entreaties from the crowd will make this a thoroughly punishing and satisfying tribunal.
This is the third annual Lit Crawl New York, which originators describe as a madcap concept created by San Francisco’s brilliant literary festival, Litquake, back in 2004. It’s a bar crawl… with literature!
You can check the details here: http://litcrawlnyc.wordpress.com/
Tales of Woe Release Party
09/08/10
MTV Press and the Brooklyn Rail to celebrate the release of John Reed’s Tales of Woe.
Wednesday, September 8 at 7pm.
The Boiler (Pierogi), 191 North 14 St. at Berry. (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
available at booksellers August 17
more at www.talesofwoe.com
Woe at Open City’s PARKLIT
09/08/10
Tales of Woe at ...
Open City’s OPIUM LITERARY DEATH MATCH in Sara D. Roosevelt Park.
Actually, it’s three readings (a Battle of the Boroughs), followed by a game of dodgeball.
July 28, 6:30 - 7:45
Sara D. Roosevelt Park (North side of the Park beneath Houston Street) (map)
FREE!
Directions: Subway: D or B to Grand Street, F or V to 2nd avenue, J to Bowery, #6 to Bleecker Street
Opium Magazine and PARKLIT present: "“Battle of the Boroughs”"
The creators of the acclaimed and outrageous competitive reading series “Literary Death Match” make mayhem in the great outdoors this July in the Lower East Side. Born and bred in New York City, these writers are as complex, provocative and original as the city that’'s shaped them. Expect the unexpected and come ready to rumble -- this showdown will not be a spectator sport!
Michelle Carlo (The Bronx)
Ed Lin (Manhattan)
John Reed (Brooklyn)
The Next Decade in Book Culture: NBCC at BEA
05/27/10
Book Expo America
May 27, 2010 1:00 pm
Jakob K. Javits Center, Room 1E14
655 West 34th Street New York, NY
The Next Decade in Book Culture
A conversation sponsored by the National Book Critics Circle
Moderated by National Book Critics Circle board member John Reed
With these little handy things called books on slated for extinction, what is a reviewer to do? IPads, Nooks, Kindles? What are these little plastic things with buttons? And what are they doing to our beloved reflections? We are set on the launch pad—the engines are heavy with fuel, and are rumbling. But where are we going? We bring together a panel of writers, editors, and professionals, established on the vanguard, to discuss prospects for the review and how it may change, in the near future.
Carolyn Kellogg writes about books for the Los Angeles Times. She started her first litblog in 2004, was the web editor for the radio show Marketplace and is a blogging consultant for the Getty Museum.
Will Murphy is Executive Editor at Random House. Previously he was Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press, and Literary Editor at the University of California Press. His authors include Salman Rushdie, Bernard-Henri Levy, Nassim Taleb, Jeff Shaara, Jon Clinch, Bing West, and David Brooks.
Ed Nawotka is the founder and editor-in-chief of PublishingPerspectives.com, a daily online trade magazine for the international publishing community. He is also a contributing editor at Publishers Weekly and a widely published freelancer. Prior to starting Publishing Perspectives, he was book columnist at Bloomberg News and daily news editor of Publishers Weekly.
Denise Oswald is Editorial Director of Soft Skull Press. Prior to that she was Senior Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where she oversaw the Faber and Faber list for nearly a decade. While there her authors included Pulitzer, PEN, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences award winners; as well as national and regional bestsellers. Among the wide variety of artists she’s worked with are Colin Beavan, Anne Carson, Courtney Love, and Neil LaBute. She currently sits on the advisory board of The Feminist Press.
John Reed is a National Book Critics Circle board member and Books Editor of The Brooklyn Rail. His work has been published in Open City, Artnet, Artforum, Paper Magazine, New York Press, Brooklyn Rail, Timeout New York, Bomb Magazine, Playboy, Art in America, Los Angeles Times, and many other venues. He is author of the novels, A STILL SMALL VOICE (Delacorte Press), THE WHOLE (MTV / Simon & Schuster), the bestseller, SNOWBALL’S CHANCE (Roof), the recently released ALL THE WORLD’S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Penguin/Plume), and the forthcoming TALES OF WOE (MTV Press).
Craig Morgan Teicher is a poet, critic and blogger. He is the editor of MediaBistro’s eBookNewser blog, the poetry editor of Publishers Weekly, and a prolific freelance reviewer. His new book of stories and fables, Cradle Book, is due out in June from BOA Editions. He is a National Book Critics Circle board member.
Kate Travers is a marketing, media, and branding strategist to publishers, authors and literary organizations. Most recently, Kate was the Strategic Marketing and Special Events Director at powerHouse Books and the powerHouse Arena. Kate began her career in publishing nearly ten years ago at HarperCollins Publishers. She moved on to become the Director of Mariner Books at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Strategic Marketing Director at the Literary Ventures Fund. Kate serves on the Literary Council of The Brooklyn Book Festival and is a member of the Women’s Media Group.
Introduction by Jane Ciabattari, NBCC president.
http://www.bookcritics.org/
KGB: For Real Horrors
09/19/10
Elyssa East & John Reed
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
KGB Bar
85 E 4 Street
New York, NY 10003
2001: A Space Odyssey, at Cabaret Cinema
02/19/10
COSMIC CABARET CINEMA
Fridays at 9:30 p.m.
Free with a $7 bar minimum.
(Be sure to arrive by 9 to secure a drink and a ticket – these things can sell out fast.)
February 19
John Reed & Matt Lenski introduce 2001: A Space Odyssey
Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
212.620.5000
*Museum members may reserve Cabaret Cinema tickets in advance by calling (212) 620-5000 ext. 344, which will be held no later than 9:30 p.m.
*Museum members at the Sustaining level and up may reserve actual cabaret tables in advance.
All The World’s A Grave at The American College Theater Festival
01/26/10
AMERICAN COLLEGE THEATRE FESTIVAL FESTIVAL XLII JANUARY 26-31, 2010
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DURHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE
ALL THE WORLD'S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
by John Reed
Friday, January 29, 7:30
Paul Creative Arts Center
More at: http://www.kcactf1.org/festival_info_New.asp
Directed by Professor Paul Kuritz
Costume design by Carol Farrell
Scenic and Lighting Design by Michael Reidy
Music by George MacDonald ’10
Commedia staged by Amanda Huotari
Film by Matt Reynolds ’10
The Cast, in order of appearance ...
HAMLET, the Prince of Bohemia: Timothy Fox
JULIET, the Princess of Aquitaine: Marielle Vigneau-Britt
THE QUEEN, wife to Old Hamlet, the king of Bohemia: Caroline Servat
MACBETH, lover to the queen (and soon to be king): Rory Cosgrove
GUILDENSTERN: Kate Fetrow
ROSENCRANTZ: Max Arnell
THE WEIRD ONES: Caitlyn DeFiore, Lauren Christianson, Travis Jones, Diana Jurand, Corrina Parisi, Adam Rawlings, Marketa Ort
As Noble Guests: Adam Rawlings, Lauren Christianson, Diana Jurand, Corrina Parisi
As Player King: Travis Jones
As Player Queen: Caitlyn DeFiore
As Player Villain: Lauren Christianson
As Doctor: Adam Rawlings
As Messenger: Marketa Ort
As Soldiers: Adam Rawlings, Travis Jones, Corrina Parisi, Marketa Ort, Diana Jurand
IAGO, lieutenant to the prince: Kevin “Artist” Chambers
ROMEO, general to the prince: Drew Gallagher
KING LEAR, the king of Aquitaine and father of Juliet: Stan Spilecki
OLD HAMLET’S GHOST: Timothy Fox
QUEEN’S LADY: Jen Flanagan ‘12
POLONIUS: Nikhil Krishna
Hamlet goes to war for Juliet, the daughter of King Lear, returns home to find that his mother has murdered his father and married Macbeth. Iago persuades Hamlet that Juliet is having an affair with Romeo.
"The literary trick of the year" - New York Post
"Such an original idea." - Sir Ian McKellan
"Fascinating and entertaining" - Booklist
"The power of Shakespeare's language flickers uneasily, surging and hissing and fizzing out only to revive and fade again as the words play against their new contexts." - John Wilson, Books and Culture
All The World’s A Grave at Bates College
11/16/09
ALL THE WORLD'S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
by John Reed
Sunday Nov 15 1:00pm and 7:30pm
"Talkback" at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16,
Directed by Professor Paul Kuritz
Costume design by Carol Farrell
Scenic and Lighting Design by Michael Reidy
Music by George MacDonald ’10
Commedia staged by Amanda Huotari
Film by Matt Reynolds ’10
The Cast, in order of appearance ...
HAMLET, the Prince of Bohemia: Timothy Fox
JULIET, the Princess of Aquitaine: Marielle Vigneau-Britt
THE QUEEN, wife to Old Hamlet, the king of Bohemia: Caroline Servat
MACBETH, lover to the queen (and soon to be king): Rory Cosgrove
GUILDENSTERN: Kate Fetrow
ROSENCRANTZ: Max Arnell
THE WEIRD ONES: Caitlyn DeFiore, Lauren Christianson, Travis Jones, Diana Jurand, Corrina Parisi, Adam Rawlings, Marketa Ort
As Noble Guests: Adam Rawlings, Lauren Christianson, Diana Jurand, Corrina Parisi
As Player King: Travis Jones
As Player Queen: Caitlyn DeFiore
As Player Villain: Lauren Christianson
As Doctor: Adam Rawlings
As Messenger: Marketa Ort
As Soldiers: Adam Rawlings, Travis Jones, Corrina Parisi, Marketa Ort, Diana Jurand
IAGO, lieutenant to the prince: Kevin “Artist” Chambers
ROMEO, general to the prince: Thomas Chapman
KING LEAR, the king of Aquitaine and father of Juliet: Stan Spilecki
OLD HAMLET’S GHOST: Timothy Fox
QUEEN’S LADY: Jen Flanagan ‘12
POLONIUS: Nikhil Krishna
Hamlet goes to war for Juliet, the daughter of King Lear, returns home to find that his mother has murdered his father and married Macbeth. Iago persuades Hamlet that Juliet is having an affair with Romeo.
"The literary trick of the year" - New York Post
"Such an original idea." - Sir Ian McKellan
"Fascinating and entertaining" - Booklist
"The power of Shakespeare's language flickers uneasily, surging and hissing and fizzing out only to revive and fade again as the words play against their new contexts." - John Wilson, Books and Culture
NBCC, Name that Author, Brooklyn Book Festival 2009
9/13/09
National Book Critics Circle “Name that Author” contest
Brooklyn Book Festival, September 13, 2009.
12 pm Noon on the main stage at
Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201
Emcee: John Reed is book editor of The Brooklyn Rail. His work has been published in Art in America, Open City, Artnet, Artforum, Paper Magazine, New York Press, Brooklyn Rail, Time Out New York, BOMB Magazine, Playboy and many other venues; he is the author of the novels, A STILL SMALL VOICE (Delacorte), THE WHOLE (MTV / Simon & Schuster), the 2004 bestseller, SNOWBALL’S CHANCE (Roof), ALL THE WORLD’S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Penguin/Plume), and the forthcoming TALES OF WOE (MTV Press). He is an Associate Creative Writing Professor at New School University
Defending champ, Brigid Hughes is the founding editor of A Public Space, an independent magazine of literature and culture. Previously, she was the editor of The Paris Review.
New Contestants:
David Haglund is the managing editor of PEN America, the literary magazine published by PEN American Center. He has taught literature and writing at Harvard, Oxford, and Hunter College, and has written for The London Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Slate, Bookforum, and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.
Steven G. Kellman was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2007. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications including the Texas Observer, Chronicle of Higher Education, Huffingtonpost.com, Chicago Tribune, Review of Contemporary Fiction, the Believer, Bookforum, and Georgia Review. His books include Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth (Norton, 2005), The Translingual Imagination (Nebraska, 2000), Loving Reading: Erotics of the Text (Archon, 1985), and The Self-Begetting Novel (Columbia, 1980). Kellman is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Maureen N. McLane is a critic, poet, and scholar. A contributing editor at Boston Review, her articles on poetry, contemporary fiction, teaching, and sexuality have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, American Poet, The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, Chicago Review, and Harvard Review. In 2003 she won the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing. She is the author of Same Life: Poems (FSG, 2008), Balladeering, MInstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2008), and Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population and the Discourse of the Species (CUP, 2000; paperback, 2006); she is also co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (CUP, 2008). She is currently associate professor of English at NYU,
Geeta Sharma Jensen is an NBCC board member, the former books editor of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and a graduate of Bennington’s low residency MFA program. Her short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic and Hunger Mountain.
Martha Southgate is the author of Third Girl from the Left , which won the Best Novel of the year award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It was shortlisted for the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy award. Her previous novel, The Fall of Rome, received the 2003 Alex Award from the American Library Association and was named one of the best novels of 2002 by Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post. She is also the author of Another Way to Dance, which won the Coretta Scott King Genesis Award for Best First Novel. Her non-fiction articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O, Premiere, and Essence. She was the Associate Chair of the Writing Department at Eugene Lang College at New School University and has taught there as well. She now teaches in the Brooklyn College MFA program. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two children.
Craig Morgan Teicher is the poetry editor for Publishers Weekly. His reviews also appear in many other publications, including Bookforum, Boston Review and Time Out New York. His first book of poetry, Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems, came out in 2008. He lives in Brooklyn
Clues are drawn from the text of the NBCC award winners in fiction over the past 35 years.
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All The World’s A Grave with the American Shakespeare Lab
04/27/09
ALL THE WORLD'S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
by John Reed
Terrence O’Brien directs a reading of the play, featuring:
Katharine Abbruzzese, Michael Borrelli, Richard Ercole, Maia Guest, Eleanor Handley, Katie Hartke, Jason O'Connell, Kelsey Olson, John Christian Plummer, Ryan Quinn, Gabra Zackman
American Shakespeare Lab
Monday, April 27, 2008, 8 PM
Gershwin Hotel
7 East 27th Street
limited seating at the Gershwin, so please rsvp here or at: contact@alltheworldsagrave.com
alltheworldsagrave.com
the book, Penguin/Plume, is available where books are sold
http://www.gershwinhotel.com/
Center for Independent Publishing Writer’s Conference 2009
04/25/09
Center for Independent Publishing Writer’s Conference 2009
Fifth Annual Writer’s Conference
NYCIP
20 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan
Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25
Information/Registration at:
http://www.writersconferencenyc.org/
Saturday, April 25, 2009
11am - 12:15pm
Writing Process Q&A
Greg Downs
Hannah Tinti
Arthur Phillips
Justin Courter
John Reed, moderator
Book Expo America, Reviews 2010
05/31/09
Book Expo America, Reviews 2010
2:00 pm
The Javits Center
655 West 34th Street New York, NY
As one newspaper towns go to no newspaper towns, as bloggers get sponsors, as networking sites burgeon in content, what is the future of the book review? We are poised now at the juncture—the transition is underway. But a transition to what? For some, the readership created by the internet is something to applaud. We bring together a panel of writers, editors, and professionals, established on the vanguard, to discuss prospects for the review and how it may change, in the near future.
A National Book Critics Circle panel for the 2009 BEA
Ben Greenman (New Yorker, writer/reviewer)
Bethanne Patrick (PW blogger, Twitter and more)
David Nudo (Formerly New York Times, PW and Shelfari)
Otis Chandler (Goodreads CEO and founder)
Peter Krause (seems like a brand new thought, syndicates reviews to internet sites through his company, TacticCompany, formerly of Muze)
Moderated by John Reed, Books Editor, the Brooklyn Rail, NBCC board member
http://www.bookcritics.org/
Small Press Month Reading, at KGB
03/15/09
Small Press Month, Evening of Readers
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
http://www.smallpressmonth.org/events/
Amy Koppelman is the author of the novels A Mouthful of Air and, most recently, I Smile Back. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.
Elizabeth Skurnick’s poetry has appeared in the Iowa Review, Barrow Street, The New Haven Review, The Pinch, the Delta Review, and the anthology Shade (Four Way Books, 2004). Her light verse has been featured in the Vintage’s Best of the Blogs, on New York magazine online, and on NPR’s Weekend Edition. “Grand Central, Track 23” was recently chosen for the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Everywhere series. A frequent contributor to NPR’s Books We Like series as well as book sections in the Chicago Tribune, New York Times, and LA Times. A book of essays on young adult fiction, Shelf Discovery, will be published by HarperCollins in 2009.
John Reed is the author of the novels, A STILL SMALL VOICE, THE WHOLE, the 2004 bestseller, SNOWBALL’S CHANCE, the recently released ALL THE WORLD’S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, and the forthcoming TALES OF WOE. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, London Telegraph, Timeout New York, Artforum, Paper Magazine, Bomb Magazine, Playboy and many other venues.
KGB Bar
85 E 4 Street
New York, NY 10003
NBCC, Future reviews
9/16/09
NBCC ANNUAL MEETING
10 AM-12:30 PM
The New School University
80 5th Avenue, 8th floor, room 802
11:30 a.m. panel:"Book Reviews 2010: What Will They Look Like?"
Ron Charles, Senior Editor, The Washington Post Book World; Geeta Sharma Jensen, book editor, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; John Reed, book editor, The Brooklyn Rail, and David L. Ulin, book editor, the Los Angeles Times. Moderated by NBCC VP/Membership Marcela Valdes, Publishers Weekly
http://www.bookcritics.org/
All the World's A Grave at Telephone Bar
02/09/09
We Three Productions Present Biweekly Readings of
Poetry and Prose in
The Library Lounge at The Telephone Bar
149 2nd Avenue @ 9th Street
telreadings@gmail.com
FREE
PASCAL ESCRIOUT
Pascal is a native of France and has been studying for three years at HB studios with Edward Morehouse. He appeared in several HB Ensemble productions. He will soon be seen in the movie Thira directed by Matthew Panepinto. You can see him "onstage" every night in his Long Island City French bistro Tournesol and Wine Jazz Bar Domaine performing the "French attitude."
AJA-MONET
Aja-Monet is a Cuban-Jamaican poet originally from East NY, Brooklyn, residing in Harlem, NY. At 21 years old, she is currently the youngest Grand Slam Champion of the Lower East side's legendary Nuyorican Poet's Café. Her work is classically surrealist, engaging altogether Hip Hop, Soul, and literary audiences. She dedicates her time and energy working with inner-city adolescence, providing performance poetry workshops and opportunities. Aja-Monet is currently finishing up her B.A. at Sarah Lawrence College where she is studying Writing, Theology, and Psychology.
JOHN REED
John Reed is the author of the novels, A STILL SMALL VOICE, THE WHOLE, the 2004 bestseller, SNOWBALL'S CHANCE, the recently released ALL THE WORLD'S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, and the forthcoming TALES OF WOE. Books Editor of the Brooklyn Rail since 2004; MFA from Columbia University; current NBCC Board member; published in Open City, New York Press, Brooklyn Rail, Timeout New York, Bomb Magazine, Playboy and many other venues.
LAURA ZINN FROMM
Laura Zinn Fromm holds an MFA from Columbia University. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Business Week, New Jersey Life & Leisure and Ducts.org <http://ducts.org/> . She teaches fiction and creative non-fiction at the JCC/Manhattan and Columbia. Visit her blog at flawedmom.blogspot.com <http://flawedmom.blogspot.com/> .
All The World’s A Grave at the Gershwin Hotel
11/18/08
The Gershwin Hotel
7 E. 27th Street
(bet. 5th & Madison)
http://www.gershwinhotel.com
Ben Greenman and John Reed
select unrelated, self-serving excerpts from recently published works* ...
With special guest appearances from the emerging and outrageously talented
Yael Korman, Kseniya Melnik and Lauren Wilkinson
* Ben's "Correspondences," from Hotel Saint George, and John's "All The World's A Grave," from Penguin Plume
the book, Penguin/Plume, is available where books are sold
http://www.gershwinhotel.com/
All The World’s A Grave at Issue Projects Room
11/12/08
The Littoral Reading Series at Issue Project Room (voted one of the Top 50 "secrets" by Time Out New York: http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/features/23933/what-the-guidebooks-wont-tell-you/21.html) returns on 11/12, featuring John Reed and Michael Kimball, and a very special musical guest. 232 3rd Street at 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn, NY, 11215. 8pm. $10.
www.issueprojectroom.org
All The World’s A Grave at Book Culture
10/22/08
All The World's A Grave at Book Culture
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
36 West 112th Street
New York, NY 10025
865-1588
webmaster@bookculture.com
Matthew Sharpe and John Reed read from new work.
http://www.bookculture.com/
All The World’s A Grave at the National Arts Club
10/17/08
All The World's A Grave at the National Arts Club, hosted by Fran Gordon
15 Gramercy Park South
NY NY 10003
212 475 3424
John Reed and Ben Greenman, read from current works.
Ben Greenman is an editor at the New Yorker and the author of several acclaimed books of fiction, including Superbad, Superworse, and A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories About Human Love.
John Reed is the author of A STILL SMALL VOICE (Delacorte), SNOWBALL’S CHANCE (Roof Books), THE WHOLE (MTV Books/ Simon & Schuster), the newly released ALL THE WORLD’S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Penguin/ Plume), and the forthcoming TALES OF WOE (MTV Books 2009).
http://www.nationalartsclub.org/
Reed and Breckenridge at KGB
10/5/08
John Reed and Donald Breckenridge
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
KGB Bar
85 E 4 Street
New York, NY 10003
Lit Crawl NYC, 2008
09/27/08
Litquake's legendary Lit Crawl is going east for a massive, one night literary extravaganza in New York City on September 27. The madcap concept, created in 2004 in SF, will kick-off in the Lower East Side at 6 p.m. (highlighted by events curated by FSG Books at R Bar and the New Yorker's Ben Greenman at Happy Ending), wander up to the East Village for 7:15 readings (with L Magazine's "The Best of Literary Upstart" at The Common Ground and NY Tyrant contributors at Arrow Bar) then over the bridge to Williamsburg for delights at 8:30 (where Opium's Literary Death Match does battle at Supreme Trading and BOMB Magazine wows at Pete's Candy Store). And way, way more.
All followed by a party for the ages at Supreme Trading! (at 9:30-until forever). Please do join us.
You can check the details here: http://litcrawlnyc.wordpress.com/
Events in the Lower East Side will begin at 6 p.m.
Events in the East Village will begin at 7:15 p.m.
Events in Williamsburg will begin at 8:30 p.m.
Brit Lit (7:15)
Boxcar Lounge, 168 Avenue B (at 11th St.)
Bloomsbury and Penguin present an evening of British humor.
John Reed is a creative writing professor at the New School and author of several novels including the 2004 bestseller, Snowball’s Chance (Roof). He will read from All The World’s A Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare, a literary trick in which Reed has cobbled together bits from the Bard’s classics to create an entirely new play.
Luke Dempsey is the Editor in Chief of Hudson Street Books. He will read from A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All (Bloomsbury USA, 2008), his account of an epic journey around America, all in search of the rarest and most beautiful birds the country has to offer. Hilarity ensues.
All The World's A Grave at Kettle of Fish
9/24/08
JOHN REED, JOSH GAYLORD, MEGAN ABBOTT
Please be reminded that the Kettle of Fish is located at 59 Christopher Street and that the magic starts around 7 PM.
Michael Mejias, coordinator
All The World’s A Grave: Brooklyn Books Festival
09/14/08
All The World’s A Grave: Brooklyn Books Festival
Sunday, September 14, 2008
South Stage
1:00 p.m. All the World’s a Grave. Actors from Troupe will perform excerpts from John Reeds’ new book by Shakespeare.
4:00 All the World’s a Grave. Actors from Troupe will perform excerpts from John Reeds’ new book by Shakespeare.
Directions:
By car from Manhattan: Coming over the Brooklyn Bridge, stay straight on Adams Street. Turn right on Joralemon Street.
By car from New Jersey and Staten Island: Verrazano Bridge to 278West. Take Exit 27/Atlantic Avenue and turn onto Atlantic Avenue. Turn left on Boerum Place. Turn left on Joralemon Street.
Public Transportation: 2, 3, 4, 5 to Borough Hall; R to Court Street; A, C, F to Jay Street/Borough Hall
http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/
NBCC, Name That Book
9/13/08
National Book Critics Circle, Brooklyn Rail and Melville House invite you to an evening of literary fun and games in advance of Brooklyn Book Day
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Melville House Publishing
145 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn NY 11201
718 722 9204
info@mhpbooks.com
NBCC president Jane Ciabattari, Melville House publisher Dennis Loy Johnson, author and Brooklyn Rail book editor John Reed, hosts
"Name that Author," featuring former winners and finalists of the NBCC awards in fiction, with panelists Donald Breckenridge (Author, Brooklyn Rail Fiction Editor), Brigid Hughes (A Public Space), Brooklyn authors Colin Harrison and NBCC member Kathryn Harrison,James Marcus (NBCC board member, author and Columbia Journalism review senior editor), Lizzie Skurnick (NPR reviewer, blogger, NBCC Board Member), and David L. Ulin (NBCC board member, author, book editor, Los Angeles Times). Emcee: John Reed, book editor, The Brooklyn Rail, novelist, NBCC member.
Drawings for award winning books
Trains: F, A, C to first stop in Brooklyn (Dumbo). From the F train, go right down Jay Street to Plymouth, turn left on Plymouth. From the A or C, walk down Washington Street to Plymouth, turn right on Plymouth to 145.
Bios:
Donald Breckenridge is the Fiction Editor of The Brooklyn Rail, Editor of The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology (Hanging Loose Press, 2006), co-editor of the InTranslation website and recently was nominated for a Pen/Nora Magid Award. In addition, he is the author of more than a dozen plays as well as the novella Rockaway Wherein (Red Dust, 1998), and the novel 6/2/95 (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002). His second novel Arabesques for Sauquoit is forthcoming from Autonomedia (Summer 09) and his third novel YOU ARE HERE is forthcoming from Starcherone Books (Spring 09).
Jane Ciabattari is president of the National Book Critics Circle and author of the short story collection "Stealing the Fire," (2002). Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times,Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Columbia Journalism Review, Ms. magazine, KGB Bar Lit, Verbsap, Literary Mama.com, The North American Review and elsewhere.
Brigid Hughes is the founding editor of A Public Space. Previously, she edited The Paris Review.
Dennis Loy Johnson is the co-publisher of Melville House.
James Marcus is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut as well as six translations from the Italian. He is currently Editor at Large at the Columbia Journalism Review and Senior Editor at Propeller.com.
John Reed is author of the novels A Still Small Voice (Delacorte), the 2004 bestseller, Snowball's Chance (Roof), The Whole (MTV books), and the forthcoming All The World's A Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare (Penguin/Plume, September). He has edited the Books Section of the Brooklyn Rail since 2004.
Lizzie Skurnick is an NBCC board member and NPR "Books We Like" contributor with regular columns on vintage young adult literature on Jezebel.com, and recent reviews and essays in Chicago Tribune and LAT. A yet untitled book focusing on classic young adult novels is forthcoming from HarperCollins in 2009.
David L. Ulin is an NBCC board member and book editor of the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of "The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith," and editor of "Another City: Writing from Los Angeles" and "Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology," which won a 2002 California Book Award.
All The World’s A Grave at McNally Jackson
09/05/08
Jennifer Lee Carrell will read from her NY Times bestseller, Interred with their Bones, and John Reed will read short selections, followed by an actor’s scene reading from All The World’s A Grave: a new play by William Shakespeare.
McNally Jackson, 7pm, 52 Prince St. (b/t Lafayette & Mulberry) New York, NY 10012 212.274.1160
All The World’s A Grave: New York Marble Cemetery
08/30/08
ALL THE WORLD'S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
by John Reed
Workshop Performance
Saturday and Sunday, August 30 and 31, 2008
New York Marble Cemetery
Theater Under The Stars
House Opens at 4:30 pm for pre-show picnics, Ticket Prices: $25 (tax deductible)
BUY TICKETS
Location: New York Marble Cemetery
The Cemetery is in the East Village, just east of Greenwich Village and north of the Lower East Side. There is metered parking on the streets. The closest subway stops are the F and V trains at Lower East Side / Second Avenue and the # 6 train at Bleecker & Lafayette. The Cemetery's street-side gate is on the west side of Second Avenue, between 2nd and 3rd Streets The next-door neighbor, Provenzano-Lanza Funeral Home (43 Second Avenue) has a prominent tan awning over its' sidewalk.
In benefit ofAxis-Ability Youth Theater Camps
shakespeareinthevalley.com
Cast:
Hamlet: James Patrick Nelson
Iago: Rob Bradford
Romeo: Anthony Nelson
MacBeth: Will Hammond
King Lear/Ghost: Joe Mallon
Juliet: Caitlin Chuckta
Queen: Donna Devlin
Emelia: Mary Riley
Rosencrantz: Megan Atkinson
Guildenstern: Noelle Fair
Maria: Olivia Whelan
Hecate: Stephanie Danielson
Witch 1: Kaitlin Mausser
Witch 2: Jennifer Garza
Witch 3: Jamie Theissen
Player King: Richie Venezia
Player Queen: Amanda LaPergola
Player Killer: Lissa Bak
New York Public Library
08/26/08
Mid-Manhattan Library presents
The Changing Story:
Evolving Narrative in Creative Writing
The New York Public Library
40th Street and 5th Avenue , 6th floor
New York, NY 10016
212-340-0873
What are contemporary story structures? How narrative oriented are we? This discussion will cover the story structures we see everyday—online, at home, on paper— and provide a context for the story as it adjusts and readjusts to expectations and technology. Film, television, short stories, novels, the internet: how do the possibilities differ on a macro level? And where are we headed?
Elevators access the 6th floor after 6 p.m.
All programs are FREE and subject to
last minute change or cancellation.
All The World’s A Grave: Shakespeare in the Valley
08/21/08
ALL THE WORLD'S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
by John Reed
Thursday, August 21, 2008
"Sneak Peek" Workshop
Theater Under The Stars
Ticket Prices: $10 children (12 & Under), $20 adults (PG 13 Rated)
Location: Mary Devlin-Margaret Harmony "Women of Grace" Outdoor Stage in Waterville Valley, NH (Adjacent Indoor stage if rain)
shakespeareinthevalley.com
KGB Reading Series
3/30/08
John Reed and Jane Ciabattari
KGB Bar
85 E 4 Street
New York, NY 10003
Kettle of Fish
11/28/07
GABBY MOSS
Gabby is a veteran of this series and her work has been published in Bitch, Venus, and Lost Magazine. She will be reading a new chapter from TENNIS WHITES, her novel-in-progress.
JOHN REED
John’s work has appeared in Paper Magazine, Time Out New York, and Playboy. He is the author of A STILL SMALL VOICE (Delacorte, 2000-01), SNOWBALL’S CHANCE (Roof Books, 2004), THE WHOLE (MTV Books/ Simon & Schuster, 2005), and the forthcoming ALL THE WORLD’S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Penguin/ Plume 2008).
DAVID YOO
David is a veteran of both this series and the Writers House Reading Series at Coliseum Books. He’s a graduate of Skidmore College and has an advanced degree from the University of Colorado-Boulder. His debut fiction, GIRLS FOR BREAKFAST, was published by Random House in 2005. He’ll be reading from his forthcoming novel, STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE (Random House, 2008).
Please be reminded that the Kettle of Fish is located at 59 Christopher Street and that the magic starts around 7 pm.
Brooklyn Books Festival, NBCC Panel
9/16/07
Brooklyn Books Festival
Sunday, September 16, 1:00 p.m.
Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont St.
Why Book Reviews Matter:
How We Decide What to Read (Next)
Jane Ciabattari, NBCC board member and short story writer (moderator)
Kathryn Harrison, novelist, critic, memoirist
Colin Harrison, executive editor, Scribner
John Reed, novelist, books editor, Brooklyn Rail
Harvey Shapiro, poet and former editor, New York Times Book Review