If you’re in Brooklyn or the vicinity, please do try to check this out:
Sunday, June 8
7:00 pm — Freebird Books & Goods. 123 Columbia Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231. Reading/talk with Jim Shepard and Joshua Furst. (if nice weather will be in back garden of the store!).
I’ll be reading a new story very much in the Jim Shepard vein.
I’ll be giving one final new York City reading in conjunction with the Sabotage Cafe hardcover release. And it’s a big one! If you haven’t been to one of my readings yet, or even if you have, please do try to come to this one! And pass the word along to friends if you can! Here’s the info:
Friday, November 9th – 7:00 pm
The National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South
Joshua Furst
Porochista Khakpour
Luis Jaramillo
And special guest Rebecca Curtis
Reception to follow
Proper attire required. That means no jeans. Jacket for men.
american movie – the making of Northwestern
This clip isn’t Sabotage related, exactly, but it embodies what I feel is the Midwestern Spirit. Such despair. Such fatalism. It’s from American Movie, the great documentary about a Milwaukee filmmaker and his struggle to complete his horror masterpiece.
Sabotage Cafe 5 – Disillusionment / Conclusion
This is the final video in the series. Note the Nobody’s Fool logo drawn onto Cheryl’s sweatshirt. You’d almost think they were a real band!
The Sabotage Cafe 4 – Where I’m Living Now
Here’s part four of our five part series. In this one, Cheryl gives a tour of the squat in which she lives. It also features music by the Swing Heils, a Westchester punk band–that’s Chris Sweeney, one of my students, on vocals. The concert footage was shot at the legendary ABC No Rio.
Sabotage Cafe 3 – New Tattoo
This one is, I think my favorite. Mandy, our actress, riffed her way through it, and she came up with some great stuff. “Tramp stamp.” What a terrifically descriptive phrase.
The Sabotage Cafe – Street Level
Here’s video two! The frighteningly doped up guy at the beginning just happened to be walking past. We traded a cigarette for the rights to film him and he left us all feeling desperately sad.
The Sabotage Café — The Fire Escape
Some friends and I put together a bunch of youtube videos for the new novel. This is the first one, full of youthful rage and ennui. More will be on the way…
Tuesday, August 28: NEW YORK
7:00 p.m. — Wine and Cheese reception at Morningside Books, Broadway and 114th
Wednesday, August 29: NEW JERSEY
7:00 p.m. — Book Ends, 232 E. Ridgewood Ave, Ridgewood, NJ
Wednesday, September 5: BOSTON
7:00 p.m. — Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA
Sunday, September 16: NEW YORK
7:00 p.m. — KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th Street
Monday, September 17 MADISON, WI
7:00 p.m. — Borders, 3750 University Ave.
Wednesday, September 19: MINNEAPOLIS
7:00 p.m. — University of Minnesota Book Center, Coffman Memorial Union,
300 Washington Avenue SE
Thursday, September 20: MINNEAPOLIS
7:00 p.m. — The Loft Literary Center, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Friday, September 21: IOWA CITY
7:00 p.m. — Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque Street
Wednesday, September 26th: NEW YORK
8:00 PM — The Happy Endings Reading Series, Happy Endings, 302 Broome Street (@ Forsyth)
Friday, September 28th: Philadelphia
6:00 PM — Robins Bookstore, 108 South 13th Street
Tuesday, October 23rd: Event in New York
8:00 PM — Literary Death Match at The Kitchen, 512 W. 19th Street, NYC
Sunday, December 2: Reading in Chicago
Time TBA — The Myopic Fiction Series
My playwriting students will be mounting a marathon reading of the plays they’ve been working on all semester this coming Tuesday in the Pratt Student Union. Festivities will commence at 7 pm. The plays are all about twenty minutes long. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll be embarrassed for your past self as you cower in the presence of their precociousness.
