The Lit List is a sometimes-weekly compendium of New York’s finest literary events and readings. Everything’s free unless it’s not. Something we should know about? Email dish@electricliterature.com. Monday, April 8 Where are Heidi Julavits, Fiona Maazel, Teddy Wayne, David Gilbert and Maris Kreizman hanging out? Franklin Park Reading Series. (Maazel just recommended some reading) Tuesday, [...]
The Lit List: April 8-12
April 8, 2013 David Gilbert, Diana Spechler, Dish, Douglas Rushkoff, Fiona Maazel, Heidi Julavits, Jim Shepard, Joshua Cohen, Joshua Henkin, Kathleen Alcott, Kristopher Jansma, Maris Kreizman, n+1, Ned Beauman, Nell Freudenberger, Pank Magazine, Sam Lipsyte, Teddy Wayne, the coffin factory, The Outlet, ThoughtsA Talking Cure
January 9, 2013 A Talking Cure, Barry Hannah, Benjamin Samuel, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Halimah Marcus, Justin Taylor, Laura Isaacman, Literary Mixtape, Monthly Mixtape, Randy Rosenthal, Recommended Reading, Regular Contributor, the coffin factory, The Outlet, The Rumpus, Water LiarsDear Readers, We have many exciting treats for you this morning! Firstly, We’re thrilled to present a new Recommended Reading story, courtesy of the good folks the The Coffin Factory. “A Talking Cure” by Justin Taylor (who last week curated a most excellent literary mixtape for The Outlet) is a veritable potpourri of intellectual, neurotic, literary delights. An engaged [...]
From Good to Great: Fiction Addiction at 2A
August 3, 2012 Brooklyn College, Bruce Springsteen, Christine Vines, Dish, erika anderson, fiction, Fiction Addiction, jeremiah cumberbatch, John Reed, Joshua Henkin, LCD Soundsytsem, Myla Goldberg, Reading, Reading Series, Regular Contributor, Steve Danziger, the coffin factory, The Outlet1. Christine Vines, Fiction Addiction’s indomitable host, is also “on fire.” 2. Nonfiction writers and realtors Blanca Marsh-Weinstock and Leon Feingold. “Someone Great” by LCD Soundsystem cling-clanged in the background of 2A’s upstairs lounge on Tuesday night as we gathered around not just one great someone, but four: writers Steve Danziger, John Reed, Myla Goldberg and [...]
Are You Coffin-Ready?: The Coffin Factory Issue Three Launch Party
June 29, 2012 Ali Hosseini, Chinelo Okparanta, coffin factory, Colleen Mills, Dish, Elina Mishuris, fiction, Housing Works, Justin Taylor, Laura Isaacman, literary journal, Nicole Treska, Randy Rosenthal, Reading, Regular Contributor, Sam Allingham, Sam Gold, the coffin factory, The Outlet–Lit event junkie and want to get involved? The Dish is looking for people to cover events for our blog. Send a brief bio and sample to dish@electricliterature.com. 1. Justin Taylor, novelist, poet, and short story writer; Lexi, who Randy insisted I call a “childhood friend”; Randy Rosenthal, mischievously grinning editor of The Coffin Factory; Laura [...]
Night of Indie — Small Press and Lit Mag Night at Franklin Park Reading Series
May 16, 2012 Crown Heights, Daniel Long, Dish, Elissa Schappell, fiction, Franklin Park, Jac Jemc, Miles Klee, Penina Roth, Reading, Regular Contributor, Robert Lopez, Ryan Chang, the coffin factory, The Fiddleback, The Outlet, The Paris Review, Tin House1. Joseph Riippi, author of A Cloth House, with Abigail Rose Welhouse, a poet and City College MFA candidate, a water sign, and a book publicist at Scott Manning & Associates. 2. Host and Curator Penina Roth opening up the night, with the elusive Penelope from Unnameable Books on Vanderbilt accidentally caught by my camera. A [...]
Better Off Dead: Coffin Factory’s Issue Two Launch Party at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
February 3, 2012 Adam Wilson, Carlos Labbé, Dish, fiction, Housing Works, Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, Jeannie Vanasco, Justin Taylor, literary, Manhattan, NYC, Poetry, prose poetry, Reading, release party, Sam Gold, SoHo, the coffin factory, The Outlet1. Michael Signorelli, Adam’s editor and beer rest; Adam Wilson, writer, Faster Times editor, mean-mugger; Sarah Rapp, Adam’s girlfriend and community manager at Behance; and Amanda Bullock, the Housing Works events director who brought these lit-loving beer-drinkers together. 2. Joe, Penguin representative, Tiffany, book blogger, and Robert, tie-wearing MTA employee who couldn’t tell me when I’ll be [...]
New Directions’ Secret to Success
December 10, 2011 Amazon, Barbara Epler, Benjamin Samuel, bolaño, bookstores, Borges, Céline, idiotic provincials, Interview, James Laughlin, lit blogs, Nabokov, Neruda, New Directions, News, Pound, Regular Contributor, Sebald, the coffin factory, The Outlet, Tom RobergeNew literary magazine The Coffin Factory printed an inspiring interview with Barbara Epler and Tom Roberge of New Directions. In case you haven’t heard of them, for the last 75 years, New Directions has been publishing some of the most influential voices in fiction, and their back list reads like a roll call of literary [...]