I met Adam Wilson in the fall of 2010, at a reading for Tao Lin’s new novel, Richard Yates. At the time, I had just started writing for The Outlet, and he was still working at BookCourt. I got to know him better since then—we read together once for Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and I’d see [...]
INTERVIEW: Adam Wilson, Author of Flatscreen — Learning to Be Bad at the Right Things
February 22, 2012 Adam Wilson, book release, Brooklyn, fiction, Flatscreen, Interview, Julia Jackson, literary, Regular Contributor, The OutletMeanwhile, in California… Taking Back the Inland Empire @ UCR’s Writers Week
February 22, 2012 Alexander Long, Christopher Buckley, David Ohlsen, Diane Wakowski, Dish, Gary Young, literary, Poetry, Polly Bee, prose poetry, Reading, Regular Contributor, Riverside, The Outlet, UCR, Writer's Week1. Alexander Long signing his book Light Here, Light There. While struggling over his dissertation, Philip Levine once let him hold the pen Larry Levis was writing with when he died. “This is the pen he was using / as he rose from an elegy / to get some water / and then became an [...]
Six Writers You May Have Read Online — Muumuu House at St. Marks Bookshop
February 22, 2012 Brandon Scott Gorrell, Dish, fiction, Giancarlo DiTrapano, LES, literary, Manhattan, Marie Calloway, Megan Boyle, Muumuu House, New York Tyrant, NYC, Poetry, Reading, Regular Contributor, Ryan Chang, Spencer Madsen, St. Mark's Bookshop, Tao Lin, The Outlet, Thought Catalog, Twitter1. Tao Lin: “‘an emo band called ‘jean rhys.’” 2. Marie Calloway, and some dude named Adrien Brody. I’d never been to an event at St. Marks Bookshop in the East Village, though I’m a regular patron. They have the best critical theory section in the city hands down, and when you don’t feel like [...]