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recommended reading: benefit for PEN America, featuring Edward Albee, Deborah Eisenberg, and others…

by Anne Stameshkin

Come one, come all to Global Correspondence: A Benefit Reading for PEN America When: February 24 @ 7 pm Where: Cooper Union’s Great Hall (7 East 7th St, NYC) Who: André Aciman, Edward Albee, Anthony Appiah, Lydia Davis, Deborah Eisenberg, Nathan Englander, Janet Malcolm, Francine Prose, Sarah Ruhl, and more Tickets are $15/$12 for students and PEN members. $50 tickets include a wine and cheese reception to follow. Click here to buy tickets. RSVP or invite others on Facebook. PEN America is a literary journal published by PEN, an organization dedicated to defending human rights and works around the globe. […]


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recommended reading: Nami Mun at B&N-Tribeca (NYC) on 1/12

by Anne Stameshkin

Join me tomorrow night at Barnes & Noble in Tribeca (97 Warren St. @ Greenwich St.) at 7 PM to hear Pushcart- and Hopwood-prize-winning Nami Mun read from her debut novel, Miles From Nowhere. And look for an interview (soon!) with Nami on FWR. Miles from Nowhere began as a collection of linked stories (two of which I had the pleasure to read in workshop at Michigan, and several of which have been published in prestigious lit journals). As a novel, it holds together beautifully; Miles remains episodic, but breaks between chapters feel hauntingly like lost years–perfect for this particular […]


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Jesmyn Ward reads *tonight* in Brooklyn – 8 PM @ BAM Cafe!

by Anne Stameshkin

I’m excited to hear Jesmyn Ward read from her beautiful debut novel Where the Line Bleeds. Her reading tonight is part of “Rear Windows,” a BAM Cafe event presented in partnership with A Public Space. This last installment of the Between the Lines series also features a reading by Ian Chillag, films by Félix Dufour-Laperrière and Eva Weber, and a multimedia performance by Dark Hand and Lamplight. Go here for directions and more information.


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recommended event: Periodically Speaking at the NYPL

by Anne Stameshkin

Don’t miss clmp‘s last Periodically Speaking event at the New York Public Library; editors from lit magazines Salt Hill, H.O.W., and Raritan will each introduce new writers. Details: Tuesday, December 9th, 6 – 7:30 pm DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room, The New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd (Fifth Ave. entrance; admittance is free)


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Munro trivia

by Anne Stameshkin

Andrea Walker shares choice tidbits from Munro’s session at the New Yorker Festival earlier this month: ‘Things you may not know about Alice Munro’: She sees her stories visually before they become words. She often starts with an image of some incident and the people involved—a sense of some action, or some effect that the characters have created on each other. She doesn’t know at that stage exactly what’s happened to them or what they’re saying to each other, only that these people somehow belong in the story together. Now brace yourself: “Housewife Finds Time to Write Short Stories” was […]


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tonight: NYC LitCrawl

by Anne Stameshkin

New Yorkers, tonight is your chance to get liquored up in bookish style. I’m talking about the first NYC LitCrawl (an off-shoot of San Francisco’s famed LitQuake ). FWR Contributor Lee Goldberg’s Guerilla Lit Reading Series is curating one of the events, a reading by Tao Lin and Nicole Audrey Spector (7:15 at Solas – East Village: 232 East 9th Street). San Franciscans, you get to enjoy LitQuake events from October 3-11, 2008. Check out the schedule.




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