Events

Open City Benefit Party

Posted on May 8, 2011

Please join Open City’s Board of Directors and the Benefit Committee
for a party to celebrate the publication of
They’re at It Again:
Stories from Twenty Years of Open City
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
7–10 p.m.
The Home of Wendy Flanagan and Chris O’Malley
162 East 92nd …

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Open City Pete’s Candy Store Reading

Posted on April 27, 2011

Please join us for a special Open City reading at
Pete’s Candy Store featuring
THOMAS BELLER & RACHEL SHERMAN

Thursday, April 28, 7:30 pm
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
(between Frost & Richardson)
Williamsburg
FREE
RSVP on Facebook

Thomas Beller is a co-founder and editor …

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Open City March KGB Reading

Posted on March 24, 2011

The Open City March KGB Reading presents:
JASON BROWN
and
SIGRID NUNEZ
Wednesday, March 30, 7PM
KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th Street (btw the Bowery & 2nd Ave.)
FREE
Sigrid Nunez has published six novels: A Feather on the Breath of God, Naked Sleeper, Mitz: The Marmoset …

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Many mentions in the press of Open City Magazine’s closing

Posted on March 7, 2011

The New York Observer
The Paris Review
Los Angeles Times
The Wall Street Journal
Publisher’s Weekly
Vanity Fair
The Faster Times
New York Magazine
There’s a Road to Everywhere…
National Book Critics Circle blog
The New Yorker

  …

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OPEN CITY MAGAZINE IS CLOSING AFTER 20 YEARS; OPEN CITY BOOKS TO CONTINUE

Posted on March 2, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 2, 2011
Open City Magazine is closing after twenty years. Open City Books, a mere tyke at ten years, continues. Starting with its first issue in 1991, Open City has made an important mark on the American …

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Bryan Charles reviews in The Rumpus and Vol. 1

Posted on February 15, 2011

The Rumpus Review by Shannon Elderon

I Felt a Need to Touch Someone
An aspiring writer’s memoir of September 11 focuses on the strangeness of life in New York City before and after the attack.
Bryan Charles’s memoir, There’s a Road to Everywhere …

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Open City reading at KGB on 2/23

Posted on February 14, 2011

Two great writers from the new issue, Open City #30, will read their fiction at KGB Bar:

KARAN MAHAJAN
and
EVAN REHILL

Wednesday, February 23, 7pm
KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th Street (btw the Bowery & 2nd Ave.)
FREE

Karan Mahajan was born in 1984 and grew …

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Bryan Charles reading in Oakland on 1/19

Posted on January 12, 2011

Bryan Charles will read, discuss, and sign his new memoir, There’s a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From
Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 7pm
Diesel Bookstore,
5433 College Ave., Oakland, CA
Read about the book and the author in the East Bay Express, …

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Photos from the Open City Holiday Party, 12/14

Posted on December 21, 2010

On December 14, 2010, Open City editors Thomas Beller and Joanna Yas threw a party at The Magician bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to celebrate the holiday season and the launch of the new issue, Open City …

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Open City Holiday/New Issue Party & Reading

Posted on December 2, 2010

Please join editors Thomas Beller and Joanna Yas for the 2010 Holiday Party to celebrate the launch of Open City #30

Tuesday, December 14, 7-9 p.m.

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