Monday, March 9, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
The Pac-10 Tournament.
We'll have all the Pac-10 men's basketball tournament games here at Pacific Standard, including the Cal-USC first-round game Thursday at 9 pm. Come by to watch your favorite West Coast team!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Troegs Nugget Nectar back on tap, finally.
For those of you who have popped in every once in a while with feverish visages and glazed eyes, asking for the heavenly concoction known as Troegs Nugget Nectar, we have managed, through fiendish machinations, and at the cost of the lives of many good men, to get at least one keg in stock. Hopefully more will follow, but if we were you, we'd get down here and drink as much of this keg as possible, while it lasts.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
New comedy lineup for tomorrow.
There have been a few cancellations and replacements (including the addition of Wyatt Cenac). Here's the new lineup:
WYATT CENAC (The Daily Show, new film Medicine For Melancholy)
JESSI KLEIN (Showbiz Show)
ROB LATHAN (UCB, Funny or Die!)
ELLIOTT KALAN (The Daily Show)
SCOTT JACOBSON (The Daily Show, SNL's TV Funhouse)
And special co-host WILL HINES
WYATT CENAC (The Daily Show, new film Medicine For Melancholy)
JESSI KLEIN (Showbiz Show)
ROB LATHAN (UCB, Funny or Die!)
ELLIOTT KALAN (The Daily Show)
SCOTT JACOBSON (The Daily Show, SNL's TV Funhouse)
And special co-host WILL HINES
Monday, March 2, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Fiction reading April 21.
The Pacific Standard Fiction Series: Yearlings
featuring Nathaniel Rich and Ed Park
Tuesday, April 21st, 7:00 p.m.
82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York (between St. Marks and Bergen)
Books available on-site!
Drink specials selected by dartboard!
Come see why New York Magazine named us "Best New Literary Event of 2008!"
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Nathaniel Rich's first novel, THE MAYOR'S TONGUE (Riverhead), earned him praise on both sides of the Atlantic, with Stephen King calling it "an elegantly structured, brilliantly told novel, by turns terrifying, touching, and wildly funny, and always generous and magical." Rich, an editor at The Paris Review, is also the author of SAN FRANCISCO NOIR. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books.
“Nathaniel Rich spent most of his twenties re-shaping the Great American Novel to fit the 21st century . . . This is a novel with a big brain and a cheeky wink by an author who could well become one of the defining writers of his generation.” - The Sunday Telegraph [U.K.]
Ed Park's first novel, PERSONAL DAYS (Random House), was named one of the top 10 works of fiction of 2008 by Time Magazine, was a finalist for the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, and was recently named a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. At least one reviewer declared it "funnier than [Agatha] Christie." A founding editor of The Believer, Park has also written copiously for The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications.
“Quite simply, brilliant . . . PERSONAL DAYS follows life amid the desks of a corporation where office ways are laid bare in all their tedious and frequently hilarious detail . . . Park has strayed into Ricky Gervais's territory and may soon be its king.” - The Observer [U.K.]
featuring Nathaniel Rich and Ed Park
Tuesday, April 21st, 7:00 p.m.
82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York (between St. Marks and Bergen)
Books available on-site!
Drink specials selected by dartboard!
Come see why New York Magazine named us "Best New Literary Event of 2008!"
*
Nathaniel Rich's first novel, THE MAYOR'S TONGUE (Riverhead), earned him praise on both sides of the Atlantic, with Stephen King calling it "an elegantly structured, brilliantly told novel, by turns terrifying, touching, and wildly funny, and always generous and magical." Rich, an editor at The Paris Review, is also the author of SAN FRANCISCO NOIR. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books.
“Nathaniel Rich spent most of his twenties re-shaping the Great American Novel to fit the 21st century . . . This is a novel with a big brain and a cheeky wink by an author who could well become one of the defining writers of his generation.” - The Sunday Telegraph [U.K.]
Ed Park's first novel, PERSONAL DAYS (Random House), was named one of the top 10 works of fiction of 2008 by Time Magazine, was a finalist for the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, and was recently named a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. At least one reviewer declared it "funnier than [Agatha] Christie." A founding editor of The Believer, Park has also written copiously for The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications.
“Quite simply, brilliant . . . PERSONAL DAYS follows life amid the desks of a corporation where office ways are laid bare in all their tedious and frequently hilarious detail . . . Park has strayed into Ricky Gervais's territory and may soon be its king.” - The Observer [U.K.]
April 7 fiction reading.
The Pacific Standard Fiction Series: NYFA Night
featuring Christine Schutt, Paul La Farge, and Garth Risk Hallberg
sponsored by Housing Works
Tuesday, April 7th, 7:00 p.m.
82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York (between St. Marks and Bergen)
Books available on-site!
Philanthropic activities controlled by dartboard!
Come see why New York Magazine named us "Best New Literary Event of 2008!"
*
Christine Schutt, Paul La Farge, and Garth Risk Hallberg are 2008 Artists' Fellowship recipients of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This program is co-sponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a public program of NYFA. It is free and open to the public. We suggest a donation of one gently used book to benefit the Housing Works Used Book Cafe.
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CHRISTINE SCHUTT's most recent novel, ALL SOULS, is "exciting evidence that she continues to push the boundaries of fiction," according to The New York Times Book Review. Schutt's previous novel, FLORIDA, was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award. She is also the author of two short-story collections, A NIGHT, A DAY, ANOTHER NIGHT, SUMMER, and NIGHTWORK, chosen by John Ashbery as the best book of 1996 for the Times Literary Supplement.
"[In ALL SOULS,] Ms. Schutt imagines - or penetrates - an exclusive world at once sexy and lamentable, predictable but still mysterious. Her subject is not any one aspect of private school culture, but its almost intangible totality, the thing that gives a school, in all its decentered complexity, an identity. Miraculously, she achieves this." - The New York Sun
PAUL LA FARGE is the author of the novels THE ARTIST OF THE MISSING and HAUSSMANN, OR THE DISTINCTION, a New York Times Notable Book which won him praise from the San Francisco Chronicle as "a magician on the order of Prospero." His most recent book is THE FACTS OF WINTER. LaFarge has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Bard Fiction Prize. His stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney's, Bookforum, and Conjunctions, among others.
"Haussmann designed cities; LaFarge designs worlds - splendid, elegant edifices built on the rubble of our dreams and history." - Colson Whitehead
Garth Risk Hallberg is the author of A FIELD GUIDE TO THE NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY. His fiction has earned nominations for the Believer book award and the Pushcart Prize, and has been included in the anthology Best New American Voices 2008. He contributes to the literary blog The Millions, and on most Pacific Standard fiction nights, plays the role of "host."
"A Field Guide to the North American Family is a beautiful book. Beautiful because of the gentle way the story of two suburban families unravels for the reader . . . beautiful because the book itself has all the elements that make the act of reading seem like an event." - Bookslut
featuring Christine Schutt, Paul La Farge, and Garth Risk Hallberg
sponsored by Housing Works
Tuesday, April 7th, 7:00 p.m.
82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York (between St. Marks and Bergen)
Books available on-site!
Philanthropic activities controlled by dartboard!
Come see why New York Magazine named us "Best New Literary Event of 2008!"
*
Christine Schutt, Paul La Farge, and Garth Risk Hallberg are 2008 Artists' Fellowship recipients of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This program is co-sponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a public program of NYFA. It is free and open to the public. We suggest a donation of one gently used book to benefit the Housing Works Used Book Cafe.
*
CHRISTINE SCHUTT's most recent novel, ALL SOULS, is "exciting evidence that she continues to push the boundaries of fiction," according to The New York Times Book Review. Schutt's previous novel, FLORIDA, was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award. She is also the author of two short-story collections, A NIGHT, A DAY, ANOTHER NIGHT, SUMMER, and NIGHTWORK, chosen by John Ashbery as the best book of 1996 for the Times Literary Supplement.
"[In ALL SOULS,] Ms. Schutt imagines - or penetrates - an exclusive world at once sexy and lamentable, predictable but still mysterious. Her subject is not any one aspect of private school culture, but its almost intangible totality, the thing that gives a school, in all its decentered complexity, an identity. Miraculously, she achieves this." - The New York Sun
PAUL LA FARGE is the author of the novels THE ARTIST OF THE MISSING and HAUSSMANN, OR THE DISTINCTION, a New York Times Notable Book which won him praise from the San Francisco Chronicle as "a magician on the order of Prospero." His most recent book is THE FACTS OF WINTER. LaFarge has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Bard Fiction Prize. His stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney's, Bookforum, and Conjunctions, among others.
"Haussmann designed cities; LaFarge designs worlds - splendid, elegant edifices built on the rubble of our dreams and history." - Colson Whitehead
Garth Risk Hallberg is the author of A FIELD GUIDE TO THE NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY. His fiction has earned nominations for the Believer book award and the Pushcart Prize, and has been included in the anthology Best New American Voices 2008. He contributes to the literary blog The Millions, and on most Pacific Standard fiction nights, plays the role of "host."
"A Field Guide to the North American Family is a beautiful book. Beautiful because of the gentle way the story of two suburban families unravels for the reader . . . beautiful because the book itself has all the elements that make the act of reading seem like an event." - Bookslut
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