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Upcoming Open City (or Open City-related) Events:
CLICK
HERE FOR 2008 PARK-LIT LINE UP
CLICK HERE FOR LENI ZUMAS'S FAREWELL NAVIGATOR BOOK TOUR
Past events:
The Open City April KGB
Reading
Featuring
REBECCA DONNER
JAMES HANNAHAM
VIJAY SESHADRI
Wednesday, April 30, 7pm
KGB Bar
85 E. 4th Street (btw 2nd and 3rd Aves.)
New York City
FREE
REBECCA DONNER is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Sunset Terrace. She
is the former Literary Director of the renowned KGB Fiction Series, and editor
of On The Rocks: The KGB Bar Fiction Anthology. Her book reviews, essays,
and stories have appeared in Bookforum, The Believer, People Magazine, Post
Road, Small Spiral Notebook, and other publications. When she’s not
writing prose, she spends her time composing songs for the ongoing “Follies”
series at Symphony Space. This June, DC Comics will publish her first
graphic novel, Burnout.
JAMES HANNAHAM's fiction has appeared in The Literary Review, Nerve, and Fresh
Men. He has written for the Village Voice, Spin, Interview, New York Magazine,
Time Out New York, and others. He holds an MFA from the Michener
Center at UT Austin and has been a colony rat at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony,
the Blue Mountain Center, and Chateau de Lavigny.
VIJAY SESHADRI is the author of two books of poems, Wild Kingdom and The Long
Meadow, as well as many essays, articles, and reviews. He teaches at Sarah
Lawrence College.
The May Open City KGB Reading
LENI
ZUMAS author of the new Open City Books release, FAREWELL
NAVIGATOR
and CHRISTINE SCHUTT, whose new novel, ALL SOULS,
is just out from Harcourt
Wednesday,
May 28, 7pm
KGB Bar
85 E. 4th Street
New York City 10003
212.625.9048
FREE
A very special Open City
reading at the Drawing Center featuring:
JONATHAN AMES
VESTAL McINTYRE
REBECCA WOLFF
Wednesday, March 19, 6:30 pm
The Drawing
Center
35 Wooster Street (between Grand and Broome)
New York City
FREE
Jonathan Ames is
the author of the novels I PASS LIKE NIGHT, THE EXTRA MAN,
and WAKE UP, SIR! and the essay collections MY LESS THAN SECRET LIFE,
WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE?, and I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW.
Vestal McIntyre is the author of the story collection YOU ARE NOT THE ONE.
His first novel, LAKE OVERTURN, will be published by HarperCollins in 2009.
Rebecca Wolff is the author of two prize-winning books of poems, MANDERLEY
(winner of the National Poetry Series, University of Illinois Press, 2001)
and FIGMENT (Barnard Women Poets Prize, W.W. Norton, 2004). She is the
founding editor of the literary journal Fence and of its publishing arm,
Fence Books.
The reading coincides with
the Drawing Center's "Selections Spring 2008,"
curated by Nina Katchadourian.
READING & TALKING
REALISM:
On Monday, March 3, The Kitchen will present Reading and Talking Realism:
An Evening with Open City and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood.
The two-part evening will combine the fun of a typical reading with a rare
opportunity for readers and writers to talk about the strength of the realist
mode, its dominance in fiction and its influence on other genres, in the past,
present and future. The first segment will feature writers Keith Gessen,
Jenny Davidson, Frederic Tuten and Eileen Myles
reading portions of their own work.
In the second segment, the writers will participate in a panel discussion
about the tradition of realism in literature and how their work both derives
from and criticizes it. The panel will be led by Patrick Gallagher, a contributing
editor to Open City and former managing editor of Mr. Beller's Neighborhood.
Keith Gessen is a founding editor of the literary magazine n+1. He has written
on contemporary Russian and American literature for Dissent, The Nation, The
New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books. Gessen’s first novel,
All the Sad Young Literary Men, is forthcoming from Viking Press in April
2008.
Jenny Davidson is the author of the novels Heredity, from Soft Skull Press
and The Explosionist, forthcoming from HarperCollins Children’s Books
in July 2008. Davidson is also an Associate Professor in the Department of
English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Frederic Tuten is the author of the novels The Adventures of Mao on the Long
March, Tallien, Tintin in the New World, Van Gogh's Bad Café and The
Green Hour, in addition to many stories and essays. Tuten is also a Professor
in the graduate fiction-writing program at City College of New York. In 1973,
he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Writing and in 2001 he was
given the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences.
Eileen Myles is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Irony
of the Leash, Sappho's Boat, On My Way, and, in 2007 Sorry, Tree from Wave
Books. She is also the author of the short story collection Chelsea Girls
and the novel Cool For You. Myles’s newest project is The Importance
of Being Iceland, her first full collection of art criticism.
Reading and Talking Realism will take place at 7:00 P.M. at The Kitchen (512
West 19th Street). Tickets are $5.
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National
Small Press Month Reading Marathon For
more information visit www.smallpressmonth.org
or call
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The Open City KGB Reading Series, started in 1999, takes place the last Wednesday
of every month.
Here's a list of everyone who's read at the series so far:
Jonathan Ames • Tony Antoniadis • Betsy Andrews • Jonathan Baumbach • Nico Baumbach • Daphne Beal • Joshua Beckman • Thomas Beller • David Berman • Jill Bialosky • Rachel Blake • Paula Bomer • Michael Brownstein • Annie Bruno • Sam Brumbaugh • Heather Byer • Angela Cardinale • Bryan Charles • Craig Chester • Emily Clark • Marcelle Clements • Susan Connell-Mettauer • Susan Chamandy • Gerard Coletta • Tom Cushman • Adrian Dannatt • Eric Darton • Gabriel Marc Delahaye • Mary Donnelly • David A. Fitschen • Victoria Floethe • Lesley Dormen • Dahlia Elsayed • Alicia Erian • John Epperson • Jack Fitzgerald • Bruce Jay Friedman • Sarah Goodyear • Josh Gilbert • Jesse Goldstein • Daniel Greene • Dana Goodyear • Elizabeth Grove • Christopher Hacker • Evan Harris • Noy Holland • Mira Jacob • Luis Jaramillo • Jeff Johnson • Ryan Kenealy • Hunter Kennedy • Saki Knafo • Peter Nolan Smith • Alix Lambert • Jessica Lamb-Shapiro • Heather Larimer • James Lasdun • Sam Lipsyte • Nick Mamatas • Matt Marinovich • Ann Marlowe • Donna Masini • Vestal McIntyre • Martha McPhee • Jim Merlis • Honor Moore • Carolyn Murnick • Eileen Myles • Ben Nachumi • Debbie Nathan • Maggie Nelson • Arthur Nersessian • Mike Newirth • David Nutt • Daniel Oppenheimer • Michael Panes • Vince Passaro • Daniel Pinchbeck • Mark Jude Poirier • Sarah Porter • Greg Purcell • Andrea Reising • Rebecca Reynolds • Matthew Roberts • Rick Rofihe • Matthew Rohrer • Saïd Sayrafiezadeh • John Seabrook • Eric Schlosser • Ryan Schneider • Harriet Shapiro • Harvey Shapiro • Jeff Sharlet • Sam Shaw • Nina Shope • Jeremy Sigler • Peter Nolan Smith • Christopher Sorrentino • Edward St. Aubyn • Sabin Streeter • Jean Strong • Toby Talbot • Bill Talen • Nick Tosches • Ben Turner • Lara Vapnyar • Jack Walls • Charles Waters • Paolina Weber • Amine Wefali • Shannon Welch • Rachel Wetzsteon • Jocko Weyland • Malerie Willens • Tim Wilson • Carlin Wragg
And here's a photo!
photo by Matt Roberts