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Miranda July, Becky Stark, David Byrne at NYPL - review + photos



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Miranda July’s sold-out reading at the 42nd street Humanities and Social Sciences Library was much more of a formal event compared to the one organized by 192 Books three days prior. The vibe here was more wine-and-cheese, both of which were present. During the intermission, however, I did spot two young men excitedly having Michel Gondry autograph an orgami bird (or was it a plane?).

More photos, and review continues, after the jump.

bookish love May 22, 2007

Miranda July read at 192 Books

To be accurate, Miranda July read at Paula Cooper Gallery. It sits just around the corner from the tiny 192 Books, who organized the reading, and where it was originally supposed to be held. Perhaps best-known for having written and starred in the movie Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda’s in New York promoting her collection of short stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You. It comes in two choices of cover: yellow and pink.

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Continued after the jump.

A night with Miranda July and David Byrne

A different kind of show- New York Public Library will a host a night of reading by Miranda July, who wrote and starred in Me and You and Everyone We Know. Her friend Becky Stark of Lavendar Diamond will sing, and though David Byrne has written Arboretum, he will neither perform nor read, but will only ask Miranda questions. I attended her performance of Things We Don’t Understand and Definitely Are Not Going to Talk About at the Kitchen in March, where the adorable Michel Gondry was sitting behind us in the audience, and I truthfully told him Science of Sleep is the best movie ever.

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Miranda will be reading from her upcoming book No One Belongs Here More Than You. Tickets are $15.

bookish love December 15, 2006

Legion of Lit Mags 2006

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Elizabeth Searle

Legion of Lit Mags, 2nd Annual Reading and Magazine Fair
Galapagos Art Space, Williamsburg
Dec 2, 2006

This year’s Legion of Lit Mag fair was a night filled with fun. Nine literary magazines—Small Spiral Notebook, Ballyhoo Stories, BOMB, Pindeldyboz, Swink, Tin House, Quick Fiction, Opium and Post Road—united to showcase six exciting readers. The selection was a sprightly one, giving those in attendance a flavorful scoop of what these periodicals have been up to.

Continue after the jump

bookish love December 11, 2006

Amiri Baraka and Colin Channer at Small Press Fair

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Amiri Baraka

Matt Ashby writes: The room filled with about 60 people, some standing in the back, for the interview of Amiri Baraka by Colin Channer. Baraka, known for his poetry and activism, recently released a short story collection Tales of the Out and the Gone, published by Akashic Books, a Brooklyn-based independent house that also published a collection of Jamaican writers, Iron Balloons, as edited by Channer. Akashic’s publisher Johnny Temple introduced them.

More after the jump

bookish love November 27, 2006

Interview: Soft Skull Press

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Richard Nash, publisher of Soft Skull (left)

Soft Skull’s FAQ informs that this indie press began as a guerilla operation out of Kinko’s when founder Sander Hicks was an employee there in 1992. Hicks has parted since, but with Richard Nash serving as the publisher beginning 2001, it has been printing over 40 titles a year. Its titles span a range of genres, including fiction, poetry, politics, translations, art and erotica. To give the readers a sample of the work it’s been putting out, here are some of the books that were published this year: Lynn Tillman’s American Genius: a Comedy, Kevin Powell’s Someday We’ll All Be Free, Jonathan Becker’s Bush and Putin as Leaders, Nikolai Maslov’s Sibera, David Griffith’s A Good War Is Hard to Find, Marck Swartz’s H2O, and Martin Millar’s The Good Fairies of New York.

Interview after the jump