Indie Lit Culture This Week (Free)
Dec 1 & 2 | 11:00 AM to 5:00PM
This weekend, the annual Indie & Small Press Fair will return to General Society Landmark Building at 20 West 44th Street. Different panels will address a variety of interests, including tips for those seeking a literary career (finding the right literary agent, understanding self-publishing), readings from authors published by independent publishers (Indie Press Author Read-A-Thon: Notable Indie Authors Read Their Work), even a literary trivia smackdown between A Public Space and the New York Review of Books, and a discussion of independent culture itself. If last year was any indication, the space gets filled with an overwhelming number of tables making offerings at discounted prices, and for the panels that have caught your attention, you need to get there ahead of time, especially if it takes place later in the day.
Dec 4 | 7:00 PM
Circumference Magazine will present poets Wang Jiaxin (China) and Moikom Zeqo (Albania) at Housing Works Used Book Café at 126 Crosby Street.
Excerpt from Moikom Zeqo’s “The Double”:
When the Roman consul Lucus Anitius gave orders
For the legions to march into the Illyrian heartland
He had not only a chronicler on his war council
But also a double of King Gentius,
Dressed just like him, with painted eye-brows
Most certainly with a false sceptre,
And with a sentence learnt by heart:
“I am Gentius, King of the Illyrians!”
