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Notable NYC: 3/7–3/13
Saturday 3/7: Douglas Kearney and Ariel Yelen join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Kimberly Lyons and Sharon Mesmer read poetry. Unnameable Books, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 3/8: Suzanne Dottino,...
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Notable New York, This Week 3/22 – 3/28
This week in New York a tribute to George Carlin, James Wood reads a book he’s never read before, Shya Scanlon gets other people to read his poems, NYC Twestival 2010, Huggabroomstik, Jeff Lewis and...
View ArticleTales of Woe
Tales of Woe descends from one circle of hell to the next, an act of sabotage against the Hollywood narrative of sin, suffering, and redemption. Twenty-five true stories of unimaginable suffering,...
View ArticleWho is Ana Mendieta?
Who is Ana Mendieta? brings the story of its eponymous central character into the public eye once again as a graphic novel detailing her career as an artist and her unsolved death. In 1951, Theodore...
View ArticleThe Ecstasy of Influence
In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem skips through culture—fine arts to music to literature to the personal and collective context of it all. Lethem carries his enthusiasm with elegant but...
View Article“the literary apologia”
Novelist John Reed, who wrote an excellent piece for us last year on the politics of narrative, talks with Slant about repentant book critics. The conversation includes some kind word for our book...
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The Rumpus Interview with John Reed
Some books double as a matchstick: if struck in the right conditions, they can cause a wildfire. Snowball’s Chance (2001) was one such book. The kindling, however was immodest: George Orwell’s Animal...
View ArticleThe Other John Reed
Writer John Reed is a genre buster. His new book, Free Boat: Collected Lies and Love Poems, is a collection of sonnets about love scenarios mostly gone amok, which he began sharing on Facebook some...
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Notable NYC: 3/18–3/24
Saturday 3/18: Lisa Robertson and Uljana Wolf join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 3/19: Michelle Hogmire, Edward Barkin, Claudia Summers, and Matt Basillere celebrate contributions...
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Notable NYC: 12/9–12/15
Saturday 12/9: Nancy Hightower, Dorri Olds, Charles Sanchez, Dean Wrzeszcz, and Lisa L. Kirchner join the Trumpet Fiction series. KGB, 7 p.m., free. Dia Felix and Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie join the...
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