Posts Tagged ‘events’

Largehearted Lit, with Marie Mutsuki Mockett and Emma Straub

Largehearted Lit, with Marie Mutsuki Mockett and Emma Straub

NYC-based writers: on Sunday, December 6 at 5 PM, gather for a free and awesome Largehearted Lit event at the Knitting Factory (361 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn).
We at FWR are big fans of (and frequent linkers to) David Gutowski’s LargeheartedBoy.com, a music-lit-culture website whose Book Notes column gives established and emerging authors the chance to create [...]

<em>Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia</em>, edited by Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker

Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia, edited by Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker

Life in Russia, said author Aleksander Snegirev, at Housing Works’ September 21 Rasskazy event, is uncomfortable, but always interesting. So, too, are the stories in this plump new anthology from Tin House: Arkady Babchenko’s beleaguered soldier returns to Chechnya a page away from German Sadulaev’s lyrical descriptions of Chechnya’s devastated countryside. The binding is a veritable trench across which both narrators peek at each other warily.

<em>Mentors, Muses, and Monsters</em> event at Greenlight Books

Mentors, Muses, and Monsters event at Greenlight Books

NYC-based writers, head to Brooklyn’s newest bookstore, Fort Greene’s Greenlight Books (686 Fulton St., at S. Portland), tonight (Monday, November 23) at 7:30 PM for a special event featuring local authors and the editor of Mentors, Muses, and Monsters, a book that we at FWR are excited to read.
This is also the bookstore’s first [...]

recommended event: short plays by Brian Bartels

recommended event: short plays by Brian Bartels

NYC-based writers: On Tuesday, September 22 at 7 PM, head to the Rattlestick Theater to see a one-night only reading of Mulletfingers: Short Plays on Hands and Fingers by FWR contributor Brian Bartels. I was lucky enough to attend another night of Brian’s hilarious yet thought-provoking plays, Versus, in March, and the short pieces [...]

Writing Regimen from the <em>Southeast Review</em>

Writing Regimen from the Southeast Review

The Southeast Review’s Writing Regimen is a 30-day writing project for poets, essayists, and fiction writers who crave some motivation and structure for a concentrated period of time. Another session (for adults) starts on October 1. (If you’re interested in the Young Writers’ Regimen, the next one begins August 31.)
For $15, writers will get the [...]

Infinite Summer with DFW

Infinite Summer with DFW

a href=”http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/07/14/infinite_summer/index.html”>Slate reports on Infintesummer.org, a reading-group/support group combo for those grieving David Foster Wallace’s death and those wanting to tackle his masterwork. The challenge:
Join endurance bibliophiles from around the world in reading Infinite Jest over the summer of 2009, June 21st to September 22nd. A thousand pages1 ÷ 92 days = 75 pages [...]

Symphony Space: Selected Shorts

Symphony Space: Selected Shorts

NY-based (or visiting) writers:
More short story love, this time with actors: Symphony Space presents “Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story,” in which “spellbinding short stories by established and emerging writers take on a new life when they are performed by stars of the stage and screen.”
Hosted by Isaiah Sheffer, performances [...]

<em>Araby</em>: a chamber musical adaptation of Joyce's <em>Dubliners</em>

Araby: a chamber musical adaptation of Joyce’s Dubliners

I’ll be attending this production on Friday; Joyce fans, look for my adaptation review on FWR–or better yet, join me for the show. You can read the short story “Araby” online here, and below is information from Dixon Place’s press release about the chamber musical:

THE *NEW* DIXON PLACE PROUDLY PRESENTS
In the tradition of Jacques Brel, [...]

recommended Book Tour podcast: Daniyal Mueenuddin and Justin Torres

recommended Book Tour podcast: Daniyal Mueenuddin and Justin Torres

a href=”http://fictionwritersreview.com/interviews/interview-with-alan-cheuse-to-catch-the-lightning-a-novel-of-american-dreaming”>When Alan Cheuse spoke with FWR last month, he highly recommended Daniyal Mueenuddin’s story collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, a book now teetering at the top of my “must-read” pile. In the meantime, we can all hear Mueenuddin read from his work via this NPR podcast from a recent Granta-sponsored event at McNally [...]

Cowgirls and Couplets: A Dirty Water Reading Rodeo

Cowgirls and Couplets: A Dirty Water Reading Rodeo

Hey, Boston-based writers! If you like western-themed mad-libs, raffles, and good short fiction, don’t miss this Sunday’s Dirty Water Reading Series event.
$1 suggested donation.