Showing posts with label DUMBO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DUMBO. Show all posts

Friday, August 8, 2008

Links & 8 Corollary Arms 2 Hold You With


Post No Ills: An American Review... of Reviews

Coconut


Cortland Review

Sixth Finch

Oranges & Sardines


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Octopus & Xing press reading in DUMBO

Saturday, August 9th at 6PM Melville House celebrates the independent small press with a poetry reading featuring three new books: Undersleep by Julie Doxsee (Octopus), The Senator Letters by Jeremy Schmall (X-ing) and More Perfect Depictions of Noise by Justin Taylor (X-ing). The authors are joined by Matvei Yankelevich, author of The Present Work (Palm Press) and editor and translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook). Melville House is located at 145 Plymouth Street in DUMBO. F to York Street.


Hope to see you there!


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Matvei Yankelevich edited and translated TODAY I WROTE NOTHING: THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF DANIIL KHARMS (Overlook, 2007). He is a co-translator of OBERIU: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN ABSURDISM (2006). His translation of the Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "Cloud in Pants" appears in NIGHT WRAPS THE SKY: WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT MAYAKOVSKY (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2008). He is the author of a long poem, THE PRESENT WORK (Palm Press, 2006) and his writing has appeared in Fence, Open City, and many other literary journals. He teaches Russian Literature at Hunter College in New York City and edits the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn.


Jeremy Schmall is the editor and founder of The Agriculture Reader, a small-run, handmade arts annual. He is the author of The Senator Letters, Underneath an Obnoxious Moon, and an artist book, The Slapdown. He's been published in Hotel St. George, Pilot, Juked, and Forklift, Ohio. He lives in Brooklyn.


Julie Doxsee's poems have appeared recently in over thirty-five national and international journals, including Aufgabe, Fourteen Hills, and Tarpaulin Sky. Forthcoming publications include two books: Objects for a Fog Death (Black Ocean, 2008/2009) and Undersleep (Octopus Books 2007/2008), and two chapbooks: You Will Build a City Out of Rags (Whole Coconut 2007) and New Body a Seafloor Body (Seeing Eye Books 2008). The Knife-Grasses (Octopus Books), and Fog Quartets (horse less press) are now available. Beginning Fall 2007, she will join the full-time faculty at KoƧ University in Istanbul, Turkey.


Justin Taylor is the author of More Perfect Depictions of Noise. He is also the editor of two books: The Apocalypse Reader (Thunder's Mouth) and Come Back, Donald Barthelme (McSweeney's). He is the co-editor of The Agriculture Reader. His writing has appeared in numerous online and print publications, and he has been honored by Best American Essays (2007) and Best of the Web (2008). http://www.justindtaylor.net/


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Dear Lovely Friends,

I've organized a reading for one of my stellar Corollary authors, Summi Kaipa, on Sunday August 10th in Brooklyn. It is a rare treat to have her on the East Coast, and I'm thrilled at the opportunity to introduce her work to new audiences as well as invite those already familiar with her writing to have the pleasure of hearing her read. She'll be reading with the equally talented Tisa Bryant, whose recent book Unexplained Presence ought to be on everyone's reading list. Their bios are located below.


Sunday, August 10th

5pm

Corollary Press Presents Summi Kaipa and Tisa Bryant

Unnameable Books (Previously Adam's Books)

456 Bergen Street, Brooklyn

www.unnameablebooks.net

www.corollarypress.blogspot.com


Tisa Bryant is the author of Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007), a collection of original, hybrid essays that remix narratives from eurocentric film, literature and visual arts and zoom in on the black presences operating within them. She is currently working on [the curator], a fiction that meditates on identity, visual culture and the lost films of auteur Justine Cable, co-editing an anthology for AIDS Project Los Angeles, and is madly working to get Vol. 2 F-K of the Encyclopedia Project in the hopper.

Summi Kaipa has authored several chapbooks, including "The Epics" (Leroy Press), "One: I Beg You Be Still" (Belladonna), and most recently "The Language Parable" (Corollary Press). For eight years, she was the editor of Interlope, a magazine publishing innovative writing by Asian Americans, and in 2002, she received a Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize to write and produce her first play. Once a resident of SF's bustling Mission District, Kaipa now resides in a quiet neighborhood in North Berkeley, where she has been earning a degree in clinical psychology and making excruciatingly slow progress on her first full-length manuscript.

Corollary Press is a small chapbook series devoted to new work by writers of color. Published out of Philadelphia, all books are hand-sewn in small editions of 150. Sueyeun Juliette Lee, the editor, specifically seeks out work by authors that challenge notions of difference, aesthetics, and genre








Thursday, April 10, 2008

3 Ways To Get Your Ears Filled

Thursday's can be fairly intense when it comes to attending readings- this Thursday is no different with three heavy-hitters- 2 in Manhattan & 1 in Brooklyn.

Word of Mouth April 10th at 7pm@ Bluestockings Radical Books1
72 Allen St. (Between Stanton and Rivington)

Readers will be:
TBD (poetry)
Melissa Febos (non-fiction)
John Findura (poetry)
Colie Hoffman (poetry)

Visit
www.megpunschke.com/wordofmouth.html for a complete list of events.

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We hope you will join us at 7 PM on Thursday April 10th at Melville House Books for a celebration of the need for a second printing of The Agriculture Reader, a handmade arts annual. Editors Jeremy Schmall and Justin Taylor, and Ag contributor (and Melville House author) Tao Lin will read. Akashic Books editor Aaron Petrovich will perform A Kind of Madness. The spirit of the independent press will be venerated. Cans of beer will hiss when you open them. You'll be sure you've seen that guy before, but where? No, not that guy, Sarah—the one over there, by the front door, with the blonde. Maybe we went to school with him. Copies of The Agriculture Reader #2, as well as all Melville House Books, will be available for purchase at the event.
Melville House Books is located at 145 Plymouth Street in DUMBO. F to York Street.

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Tao Lin is the author of the books Bed, Eeeee Eee Eeee, you are a little bit happier than i am, and several e-books. His new poetry collection, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, will be published this May by Melville House. His website is
http://reader-of-depressing-books.blogspot.com/

Jeremy Schmall is the editor and founder of The Agriculture Reader, a small-run, handmade art journal, and the author of a chapbook, Underneath an Obnoxious Moon, and an artist book, The Slapdown. He's been published in Hotel St. George, Pilot, Juked, and Forklift, OH: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety. He lives in Brooklyn.

Justin Taylor is the editor of The Apocalypse Reader, and Come Back, Donald Barthelme. His writing has been published by NPR, Paste, YETI, and numerous other journals, magazines and websites. His essay, "Fort Smith, Arkansas: A Monologue" was an honorable mention in Best American Essays 2007.
http://www.justindtaylor.net/

Aaron Petrovich is a writer of fiction and theatre. He is the editor and cofounder of Hotel St. George Press and an associate editor at Akashic Books. His theatrical works have appeared inn the Midtown International Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Source, and elsewhere. His debut novella, The Session, was published by Hotel St. George in 2007. A Kind of Madness is the audio portion of Agriculture Reader #2.

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Thursday April 10, 7pm (doors open at 6)
Jimmy's No. 43, NYC7th St between 2nd and 3rd Ave

Justin Marks
Jessamyn LeeAbry Montablano
Daniel C. MetzJ
eff Paris
Matt Henriksen

Musical performance by The Acoustic Sprinkle Geni

Friday, January 18, 2008

Melville House Opens in DUMBO Tomorrow


Daily Candy NYC had a write-up about Melville House's grand-opening tomorrow in DUMBO. I'm definitely excited to have them move into DUMBO and imagine the space is amazing. Read the write-up here

Saturday, October 20, 2007

A Slice of Pizza

Okay, it's Saturday and ridiculously nice for this time of year. I've decided that I'm going to walk over to DUMBO, get a slice of pizza, and read in the park. I think I'll just bring some lit magazines: Court Green, OCHO, and Saltgrass. Sorry Proust, I lug you around Mon-Friday so I get the weekends off!