Featured Authors
Sam Brumbaugh
Sam Brumbaugh was born in Washington, D.C. He was a founding partner and creative director of SonicNet. He has been the talent executive and producer for a number of music-related shows for PBS and Canal Plus, and is currently producing a documentary on the life and times of Townes Van Zandt. He lives in New York City.
Rachel Sherman
Rachel Sherman was born in 1975. She holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Open City, Post Road, n+1, and StoryQuarterly, among other publications, and in the book Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Nerve.
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A Letter from Thomas Beller
Dear Friends of Open City,
Frank Flaherty, an editor at the New York Times, had the top third of an old tree that lives in front of his house in Brooklyn blown off in a tornado that swept through town not …
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Letter from Thomas Beller
Dear friends of Open City,
I have recently been reading Open City author Toby Talbot’s book, The New Yorker Theater, with a foreword by Martin Scorsese. The book recounts the colorful history of Toby and her husband Dan’s pioneering adventures in …
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Letters
Narcotized by Narratives
Recently I ran into an old friend I had not seen in many years. Nina was a dancer when I knew her, but she had since switched careers to work in prisons and pursue a doctorate in social …
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Hear some of your favorite Open City-ites:
Sam Lipsyte
David Berman
Rick Moody
Thomas Beller …
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