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Showing posts with label new york city. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
This recap is so punk rock
UPDATE: We've tracked down one photo (shout-out to Tim and Monica Marx). Unfortunately, it's of me.
Punk Rock Fiction is over, with a minimum of hitches, and I'm really not exaggerating here, considering I'd flown in from Minnesota only a little over 24 hours earlier, only to be dropping into the beehive which is the Curse of the Promoter. (I guess I'm a promoter now, and Jason Amos would know). It shows that I'm a first-timer, since it was only today that I realized I forgot to do two crucial things at the reading, basics which any shameless huckster worth her salt would have known: send around an e-mail list, and take pictures, which explains why the space above this post is a boring blank void of nothingness and I fail at life. People are visual learners, after all, and we musn't disappoint them. Arianna Huffington said it, not me.
It's a shame, too: I could have gotten some good ones of Jason lighting his novel manuscript on fire and stepping on it.If I track down one of my dutiful staff photographers, perhaps I'll have some to post after all.
There'll probably be another one, probably not for several months, and not until I stop hyperventilating over this one and make some progress on my own novel. But anyway, I'd like to send out one more blogospheric thank you to Jason, Marina Kaganova, Amy Dupcak and especially David Hollander, whose 8-minute alliterative masterpiece about the F train was a literary freak-out. I'm lucky to know you all.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
She's such a punk
WARNING! Shameless self-promotion ahead:
Please join me, my closest friends, and a collection of the curious for my first curated literary event in New York City. Details below:
Claire Shefchik (Sarah Lawrence MFA '09) and Cornelia Street Cafe Present:
PUNK ROCK FICTION
Sunday, January 11, at 6:00 PM
Five young NYC writers will get all up in your face with their fresh, bold, funny and innovative prose. That's punk rock. That's Punk Rock Fiction.
Jason Amos (Sarah Lawrence MFA alum)
Amy Dupcak ((current New School MFA)
Marina Kaganova (current Columbia MFA)
Claire Shefchik (current Sarah Lawrence MFA)
and featuring:
David Hollander is the author of the novel, L.I.E. His short fiction has recently appeared in McSweeney's, Post Road, Swink, Unsaid, The Black Warrior Review, Sleeping Fish, and elsewhere; his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poets & Writers, and Gastronomica (and again, elsewhere). Hollander's work has been frequently anthologized, most recently in Best American Fantasy, 2007. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the writer Margaret Hundley Parker, and their daughter, Percy.
Detailed bios of all readers can be found here.
Doors open at 6. Admission is $7 and includes a free drink.
The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia St.
NYC
212-989-9319
Directions:
A, C, E, B, D, F & V to W. 4th St.
1 & 9 to Sheridan Square
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com
Please join me, my closest friends, and a collection of the curious for my first curated literary event in New York City. Details below:
Claire Shefchik (Sarah Lawrence MFA '09) and Cornelia Street Cafe Present:
PUNK ROCK FICTION
Sunday, January 11, at 6:00 PM
Five young NYC writers will get all up in your face with their fresh, bold, funny and innovative prose. That's punk rock. That's Punk Rock Fiction.
Jason Amos (Sarah Lawrence MFA alum)
Amy Dupcak ((current New School MFA)
Marina Kaganova (current Columbia MFA)
Claire Shefchik (current Sarah Lawrence MFA)
and featuring:
David Hollander is the author of the novel, L.I.E. His short fiction has recently appeared in McSweeney's, Post Road, Swink, Unsaid, The Black Warrior Review, Sleeping Fish, and elsewhere; his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poets & Writers, and Gastronomica (and again, elsewhere). Hollander's work has been frequently anthologized, most recently in Best American Fantasy, 2007. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the writer Margaret Hundley Parker, and their daughter, Percy.
Detailed bios of all readers can be found here.
Doors open at 6. Admission is $7 and includes a free drink.
The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia St.
NYC
212-989-9319
Directions:
A, C, E, B, D, F & V to W. 4th St.
1 & 9 to Sheridan Square
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com
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