September 10, 2012

My uncle’s chocolate shop is my kind of heaven (Taken with Instagram)

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September 10, 2012

September: Overdose

Monday, September 10 Franklin Park in Crown Heights @ 8

Brian Evenson, Joshua Henkin, Kathleen Alcott, Courtney Elizabeth Mauk, J.E. Reich

Tuesday, September 11 Barnes & Noble in Union Square @ 7

Junot Diaz book launch: This Is How You Lose Her

Thursday, September 13 Literary Death Match @ 7

Fiction vs nonfiction featuring BOMB Magazine, The Atavist and Vol 1 Brooklyn

Saturday, September 15 Annual Lit Crawl

6-6:45 Fake it! with Center for Fiction @ KGB

7-7:45 Writers Reading Other Writers with Gigantic/Believer @ Botanica Bar

8:15-9 Tweet Talk @ Berkli Parc Café, The Great Gatsby in 140 characters or less

Sunday, September 16 Sunday Salon @ Jimmy 43 @ 7

Robin Hemley, Justin Torres, Lara Stapleton, Jessica Hagedorn

Monday, September 17 Public Assembly from 7 to Forever

Opening Night Party for Brooklyn Book Festival

Tuesday, September 18 B&N in Union Square OR Public Assembly

Salman Rushdie reads his memoir at B&N @ 7

Three-Minute Stories from Vol 1 Brooklyn at Public Assembly @ 7

Wednesday, September 19 Park Slope Barnes & Noble @ 7

Book Review Publishing How To with John Reed, Monica de la Torre, David Propson, Rob Spillman

Thursday, September 20 Franklin Park @ 7

ringShout: A Place For Black Literature celebrates Jacqueline E. Luckett, Calvin Baker, Erica Kennedy

Friday, September 21 Powerhouse OR Greenlight Bookstore

Jeffrey Eugenides at Powerhouse @ 7

Indie Lit Party at Greenlight @ 7:30

Saturday, September 22: East River Ferry @ 1 & Public Assembly @ 8

“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” by Walt Whitman. Open reading of Brooklyn’s most beloved poem on East River Ferry. Pier 1, Old Fulton St & Furman St

AND

Emma Straub Hollywood Variety Hour: Emma Straub, Magnetic Field’s Stephin Merritt, Andrew McCarthy, Maris Kreizma at Public Assembly.

Sunday, September 23: Brooklyn Book Festival & Lee Bacon @ Book Court @ 4

Monday, September 24: Book Court @ 7

Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop Alum: A.N. Devers, Aryn Kyle, Anna North, Joe Sullivan

Thursday, September 27: NYU @ 7

Zadie Smith reads NW @ NYU Kimmel Center for University Life, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium

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August 2, 2012

Summer commute (Taken with Instagram)

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August 2, 2012

August: Tiny, Beautiful

Thursday, August 2 Barnes & Noble in Union Square @ 7

Cheryl Strayed reading tiny beautiful things

Tuesday, August 7 Powerhouse Arena @ 7

Launch of Joshua Cohen’s Four Messages

Wednesday, August 8 McNally Jackson @ 7

Real Characters: Kate McKinnon, Mike O’Brien, Hallie Haglund, Dawn Fraser

Sunday, August 12 Launchpad in Crown Heights @ 4 (to 9)

Renegade Reading Series partay, with readings & bbq

Monday, August 13 Franklin Park Reading Series in Crown Heights @ 8

Tayari Jones, Victor Lavalle, Lincoln Michel, Courtney Maum & Caitlin Elizabeth Harper

Wednesday, August 15 Powerhouse Arena @ 7

Celebrating Julia Child’s 100th birthday: Chefs and food writers Tamar Adler, Dave Crofton, Matt Lewis, Deb Perelman, and Alyssa Shelasky plus trivia, a bake-off, prizes, drinks and treats

Thursday, August 16 KGB Bar @ 7

Drunken Careening Writers: Jennifer Blowdryer, Dael Orlandersmith, Rosie Schaap

Wednesday, August 22 Book Court @ 7

William Bryant Logan, Air: The Restless Shaper of the World

Thursday, August 23 Housing Works @ 7

The Moth Story Slam: Yin/Yang

Monday, August 27 Words by the Water @ 7

Tin House Fall 2012 issue

Tuesday, August 28 McNally Jackson @ 7

New Inquiry folks & readings from Mike Thomsen’s new essay collection Levitate the Primate: Handjobs, Internet Dating, and Other Issues for Men

Fiction Addiction at 2A @ 8

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August 2, 2012

Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N": How to Be Friends With Another Woman

roxanegay:

1. Abandon the cultural myth that all female friendships must be toxic, bitchy or competitive. This myth is like heels and purses—pretty but designed to SLOW women down.

1A. This is not to say women aren’t bitches or toxic or competitive sometimes but rather to say that these are not defining…

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July 31, 2012

How to Rocket Launch Your Book into Publicity Heaven

A response to Molly Templeton’s call for how-to pieces by women.

1. Start your own eponymous television show. This will be muy useful if you ever have time to write, and if that writing coalesces into a book, and if someone decides to publish that book. Think about it. Piénsalo bien.

2. Explore space. Nothing major, just the moon. No, the moon is pedestrian. Must be Mars. Mars equals mega publicity. Sure, death beckons, but so does fame. Pen chapters three to seven during the long flight.

3. Star in a major motion picture. Focus on a summer blockbuster. Enlist a trainer, possibly an acting coach. Wear sunshine yellow hot pants. This will be wunderbar for that book of yours. (You’re still writing it, right?)

4. Whip up a coup d’état. Coups are actually very simple to execute, as evidenced by all those crazy coups we’re always hearing about—heck, it’s coup-koo! Incite one in a country you’ve never heard of (if you’re American, the world is your oyster). You could even become a benevolent dictator, which would be fantastique material for your book.

5. Be famous. Wouldn’t this be a lot easier if you were already famous?

6. Fly. Proceeded by: learn to fly. Seek under: rocket launch. Seek under: heaven.

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July 11, 2012

Win a FREE Bike from The Paris Review!

rebellitor:

simonbooks:

Want to win a FREE bicycle from The Paris Review? Well, you have to work for it a little bit.

HERE’S HOW YOU DO IT:

Write a short short story about the above illustration in the style of one of five great writers.

Check it out: “in celebration of the Tour de France—and thanks to the generosity of Hudson Urban Bikes—we, along with Velojoy, are giving away one of Hudson Urban Bikes’ Beater Bicycles Roadster. This classic city bike comes in a men’s and a women’s model, both of which may be seen in the diabolical and rather enigmatic illustration above.

To win the HUB Beater, tell us what you see in this picture: in three hundred words or fewer; in the style of (choose one!) Elizabeth Bishop, Ray Bradbury, Joan Didion, Ernest Hemingway, or P. G. Wodehouse.”

Ooh. I… I might have to do this actually.