Notable New York, This Week 2/15 – 2/21
This week in New York Howard Bloom interviewed by Richard Foreman, Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik discuss mankind, John Cale reflects on music and art, Ed Park and Lynne Tillman read at Triple Canopy...
View ArticleA Night Together
A NIGHT TOGETHER: Presented by The Rumpus, Tin House and FlavorpillOn April 6, The Rumpus, Tin House and Flavorpill joined forces and presented a night of fiction, music, comedy and general mayhem at...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 2/8–2/14
Saturday 2/8: Adelle Waldman reads The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. (2013) with Rob Spillman, editor of Tin House. Brooklyn Public Librarty, 4 p.m., free. Adelle Waldman reads The Love Affairs of...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 5/10–5/16
Saturday 5/10: Stephen Boyer and Holly Pester join the Segue Series. Boyer compiled the Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.Rachel Kushner and Rob Spillman discuss The...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 2/14–2/20
Saturday 2/14: Aziza Barnes, Sasha Fletcher, and Montana Ray are Poets with Attitude. Mellow Pages Library, 7:30 p.m., free.Bill Berkson and Matt Longobucco read poetry. Dia: Chelsea, 6:30 p.m.,...
View ArticleA Writer By Any Other Name
For all her artistic clout, critics continue to dismiss Miranda July as “cutesy” and “twee,” labels that reflect an inability to distinguish between her work and her persona. Over at Guernica, Tin...
View ArticleThis Week in Short Fiction: A Guide to AWP
It’s that time of year again, where writers young and old, from all corners of the country, come to congregate in one gigantic, frenetic, neurotic, alcohol-infused crowd, in a couple of fancy hotels no...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 6/6–6/12
Saturday 6/6: Amy Elizabeth Bishop, Sarah Jean Grimm, Ashleigh Lambert, Nina Puro, and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke celebrate the latest issue of H-NGM-N. Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free.Sunday 6/7:...
View ArticleBerliners
I think that everyone writes for an ideal reader. Mine are friends in my heads, some of whom are no longer with me, with us.Darryl Pinckney, author of Black Deutschland, in conversation with Rob...
View ArticleAll Tomorrow’s Parties by Rob Spillman
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro,” is the mantra of Rob Spillman and his wife, the writer Elissa Schappell, as they shed their possessions and their established lives in New York and move...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 7/23–7/29
Monday 7/25: Jessica Winters discusses Break in Case of Emergency with Ed Park. Pier 1 Brooklyn Bridge Park, 7 p.m., free.Susan Daitch discusses The Lost Civilization of Solucidir with Emily Barton....
View ArticleNotable NYC: 12/10–12/16
Saturday 12/10: Mike Albo, Sandra Bauleo, Alexander Chee, Marcy Dermansky, Natalie Diaz, Elif Batuman, Angela Flournoy, Jill Hennessy, Alice Sola Kim, Téa Obreht, Rosie Schaap, Elissa Schappell, Parul...
View ArticleNotable Portland: 1/26–2/1
Thursday 1/26: James Galvin reads from his poetry, hosted by the Portland State University Creative Writing Department. Literary Arts, 4:30 p.m., free. Rob Spillman, cofounding editor of Tin House,...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 1/28–2/3
Sunday 1/29: Write to elected officials. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free. Robert Marshall, Clifford Chase, Alexander Chee, Lisa Cohen, and Matt Sharpe join the Sunday Night Fiction series. KGB Bar,...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 9/9–9/15
Saturday 9/9: Jessie Chaffee, Julia Fierro, Lev Grossman, Luis Jamarillo, Lisa Ko, Rob Spillman, Justin Taylor, Rakesh Satyal, Tracy O’Neill, Elissa Schappell, and Porochista Khakpour join SLICE...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 11/18–11/24
Saturday 11/18: Andrea Lawlor presents Paul Takes The Form of a Mortal Girl. Spoonbill & Sugartown Montrose, 7 p.m., free. Rex Renee Leonowicz presents When There Is No One and There Is Everyone....
View ArticleNotable NYC: 12/16–12/22
Saturday 12/16: Cynthia Arrieu-King, Elena Karina Byrne, and Maureen Alsop celebrate the work of Hillary Gravendyk. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Liz Bowen and Rachel Zolf join the Segue Series....
View ArticleNotable NYC: 1/13–1/19
Saturday 1/13: Rachel Levitsky and Michelle Taransky join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 3:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 1/14: Brian Gresko and Priscilla Becker join the Sunday Night Fiction Series. KGB Bar, 7...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 2/23–3/1
Saturday 2/23: Eileen Myles and Korakrit Arunanondchai join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 2/24: Teresa Carmody, Ru Freeman, Laura McCarty, Larissa Shmailo, Katherine Vaz, and...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 5/18–5/24
Saturday 5/18: Ryan Dobran and Bridget Talone read poetry. Unnameable Books, 7 p.m., free. Joshua Escobar and Matt Longabucco joins the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 5/19: Julia...
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