Sunday, September 16, 2012

DEBUT LIT presents "New On Tap" Thursday, September 20 at 7 pm.

Come see NYC debut poets, novelists and memoirists peddle their wares in this BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL, 2012 BOOKEND EVENT showcase. In honor of Pacific Standard's microbrews, these authors will read original short work on the theme of "new on tap."

Readers will include:

Greg Gerke (There's Something Wrong with Sven)
Austin LaGrone (Oyster Perpetual)
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (A Tiger in the Kitchen)
Laren McClung (Between Here and Monkey Mountain)
Ralph Sassone (The Intimates)
Hugh Sheehy (The Invisibles)

Co-hosted by Debut Lit founder and writer Rebekah Anderson and
PitchKnives & Butter Forks bloggers Jason Leahey and Shannon Dunlap.

www.DebutLit.com
www.brooklynbookfestival.org

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Holodeck improv comedy September 25 at 8 pm.

A monthly show where all the comedy is made up on the premises. See some of the city's best indie improv teams perform their stuff. Hosted by the improv group Local Hero with this month's special guests Free Kittens, Scrambled Legs, and musical improv from Hollywood, Kansas.

Step into the Holodeck where all your fantasies come true. Just be sure to knock if Commander Riker's in there.

Local Hero are:
Peter Cestaro
Alessandra Migliaccio
Michael Romanos
Bardia Salimi

Free Kittens:
Kim Brown
Max Cardilla
Betsy Kenney
Liz Noth
Jibri Nuriddin
A.J. Patton
Matt Radlow
Szoke Schaeffer

Scrambled Legs:
Sara Feinstein
Darin Guerrasio
Randy Reiman
Jake Smith

Hollywood, Kansas:
Evan Altshuler
Henry Russell Bergstein
Nikita Burdein
Allison Castellano
Katie Foster
Caryn Lewi
Curtis Retherford
Claire Wilmoth

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

September 26, 7 pm: DadWagon Presents: Theodore Ross.


Join Theodore Ross for a reading from his new book, Am I a Jew?, recently published by Hudson Street Press.

“I was nine years old when my mother forced me to convert to Christianity…”

Theodore Ross was nine years old when he moved with his mother from New York City to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Once there his mother decided, for both personal and spiritual reasons, to have her family pretend not to be Jewish. Theodore went to an Episcopal school, where he studied the Bible, sang in the choir, and even took communion. Later, as an adult, he wondered: Am I still Jewish?

Seeking an answer, Ross travels around the country and to Israel, visiting a wide variety of Jewish communities. From “Crypto-Jews” in New Mexico and secluded ultra-devout Orthodox towns in upstate New York to a rare Classical Reform congregation in Kansas City, Theodore tries to understand himself by experiencing the diversity of Judasim.

Quirky and self-aware, introspective and impassioned, Am I a Jew? is a story about the universal struggle to define a relationship (or lack thereof) with religion.

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Outside of Sleep launch reading September 19 at 7 pm.

Celebrate chapbooks, birthdays, and friendship!

Featuring readings by Brian Trimboli, Sarah V. Schweig, Eric Kocher, and Florencia Varela.

Eric Kocher received his MFA from the University of Houston. Some of his work has appeared or is forthcoming in A Public Space, Best New Poets 2011, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He currently teaches at the University of South Carolina Upstate.

Sarah V. Schweig is the author of the chapbook S (Dancing Girl Press). Her poems have appeared in BOMB Magazine, Boston Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, and Verse Daily, among others. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia University, where her manuscript was the recipient of the David Craig Austen Memorial Award for poetry. She lives in Brooklyn.

Brian Trimboli has received fellowships to teach and study poetry from Bucknell University, Hartwick College, and New York University. He has poems published in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Third Coast, and Forklift, Ohio. He spends most of his time thinking of escape plans from potential apocalypses.

Florencia Varela's poems have been featured in journals such as Western Humanities Review, Washington Square Journal, Gulf Coast Review, Diagram, Drunken Boat, and Poetry Daily. She is the author of the chapbook Outside of Sleep (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). She completed her MFA at Columbia University, and currently lives in Brooklyn with a pup named Sue.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Bodega magazine launch party September 7 at 6 pm.

BODEGA is throwing a party to celebrate the launch of our first issue!

EMMA STRAUB will be reading from her new book, Laura Lamont's Life In Pictures. ADAM SOLDOFSKY will be reading poetry. Come to Pacific Standard in Brooklyn to hear them and mingle with Bodega editors and friends!

Happy hour special on drinks: $1 off everything until 8 pm!

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Emma Straub is the author of the novel Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures and the story collection Other People We Married. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published by Tin House, The Paris Review Daily, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Time, Slate, Cousin Corinne’s Reminder, and many other journals, and she is a staff writer for Rookie. Emma lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she also works as a bookseller.

Adam Soldofsky was born in Oakland, California and raised in the Silicon Valley. He received his MFA from New York University in 2007. Poems of his have recently been featured in Paperbag (www.paperbagazine.com) and Clementine Magazine (https://sites.google.com/a/clementinemagazine.com/issue5/).

Issue #1 will go live on our site Tuesday, September 4th, featuring some incredible fiction and poetry, plus an interview with Emma Straub!

Monday, August 20, 2012

Save the Date: Poetry with Philip Fried and John Brehm Oct. 30 at 7:30 pm.

It's a ways off, but we wanted to give you an early heads-up on a special poetry reading we'll be doing in late October (namely, the 30th at 7:30 pm) with Philip Fried and John Brehm. The rough details on your illustrious readers:

Philip Fried has published five books of poetry, the most recent being Early/Late: New and Selected Poems (Salmon, 2011). Publishers Weekly called that book “skillful and memorable,” and The Literary Review declared, “In realms between and including the Almighty and actuarial tables, Fried speaks every language faithfully and eloquently. Rejoice! Read!”

John Brehm was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and educated at the University of Nebraska and Cornell University. He is the author of Sea of Faith, which won the 2004 Brittingham Prize, and Help Is on the Way, which won the 2012 Four Lakes Prize, both from the University of Wisconsin Press.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Holodeck Improv Comedy August 21 at 8 pm.

A monthly show where all the comedy is made up on the premises. See some of the city's best indie improv teams perform their stuff. Hosted by the improv group Local Hero with this month's special guests Cindy & Linda, Rain and Food.

Step into the Holodeck where all your fantasies come true. Just be sure to knock if Commander Ryker's in there.

Local Hero are:
Peter Cestaro
Alessandra Migliaccio
Michael Romanos
Bardia Salimi

Rain are:
Andy Bustillos
Betsy Kenney
Hao Lian
Ian Stroud
Brian Urreta

Food are:
Jessie Jolles
Trevor Lyon

Cindy & Linda are:
Jaclyn Backhaus
Emma Barash
Isabelle Barbier
Mason Hu
Lane Kwederis
Eli Mason
Chris Nester
Michael Resnick