1. These flasks are actually designed to hold apple juice. 2. Crowded, yo. I usually get to Crown Heights’ Franklin Park absurdly early to snag a seat for the Franklin Park Reading Series because this shit fills up fast. Monday night, I got there especially early to ensure that none of the line-up’s star-studded heads [...]
Franklin Park Reading Series gets Electric (Literature)
November 14, 2012 A.M. Homes, Benjamin Samuel, Blake Butler, Christine Schutt, Clancy Martin, Community, Dan Josefson, Dish, fiction, Franklin Park Reading Series, Greenlight, Halimah Marcus, HTMLGiant, Lynne Tillman, Mitchell Jackson, New York Tyrant, Night With Electric Literature, Noy Holland, Paula bomer, Penina Roth, Reading, Regular Contributor, Ryan Chang, Sam Michel, Seth Fried, Sonja Sholklapper, The Milan Review, The Outlet, TinHouse, WORDAtticus Lish Party
April 9, 2012 Atticus Lish, Dish, fiction, Gordon Lish, illustrations, KBG, KGB Bar, LES, Life is with People, literary, Manhattan, New York Tyrant, NYC, Regular Contributor, release party, Sarah Lerner, The Outlet, Tyrant Books1. Screenshot of the introduction from the minisite. 2. Norman and Barbara Charles, friends of Gordon Lish, deep in conversation with painter Shelton Walsmith. KGB Bar on 4th st and 2nd ave was as crowded as it could likely ever legally get this past Saturday night. While normal circumstances would point towards the two hour [...]
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 [...]