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New Work

Joshua Furst — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:49:19 +0000

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.

Reading at the National Arts Club on November 9th!

Joshua Furst — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:31:38 +0000

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 9^th – 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.

Joshua Furst — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:22:56 +0000

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.

Joshua Furst — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:51:09 +0000

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!

Joshua Furst — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:52:09 +0000

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.

Joshua Furst — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:10:38 +0000

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.

Joshua Furst — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:32:08 +0000

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.

Joshua Furst — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:05:46 +0000

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…

Upcoming Sabotage Cafe readings!

Joshua Furst — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:30:00 +0000

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

Pratt Playwrights

Joshua Furst — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:35:35 +0000

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.