July 2011
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Highlights reel from last night's event with...
Schaffert is telling funny stories about working for an alt-weekly in Omaha. Advertising! Hookers!
And now this: “She said to me, this opera is going to blow the lid off the funeral industry!” Oh, Schaffert. We lurve you.
Sternbach: “I don’t think about what people will think. I write what I want to write! … It’s very freeing to not imagine the...
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Jennifer Egan's latest short story is also a To Do... →
From the woman who pulled off a whole chapter in PowerPoint. God, we love Jennifer Egan.
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ONE OF US
Mom to daughter: "What about one of this series? *points*
Daughter: "Noooooooo, I can borrow those. I want one of THESE, so I can keep it forever!"
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The Weekly WORD
This past week we welcomed Stefan Merrill Block and Edmund White at a joint reading. These guys are both pros, and the Q&A went in really interesting directions (substitute sex-related for interesting and you’ll get the idea). Then on Friday night 60+ of Brooklyn’s most interesting singles gathered together for our Approximation of Pi(e) mixer, a joint event for the Brooklyn...
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Out of Print Apparel needs you to vote on their... →
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“WORD’s famed Between Two Covers singles board teams up with Brooklyn...”
– Thanks, Flavorpill! Details for the mixer here.
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“Jim: I always wanted to write a novel that focused on the Gowanus somehow. I...”
– From the excellent Q&A with Brooklyn’s own Jim Knipfel in Men’s Journal, by Kate Crane, regarding his new novel The Blow-Off.
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The Weekly WORD
This past Friday we had our very first Literary Karaoke night, which was loads of fun. Hosted by local author and NPR contributor Rachel Syme, the theme was Greatest Hits of the 90s. Reading selections ranged from literary (e.g. The Hours by Michael Cunningham, The Information by Martin Amis) to the hilarious (e.g. Private Parts by Howard Stern, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis) and we think...
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Guest Post: Fringe-ology, by Steve Volk
Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn’t
by Steve Volk
Writing Fringe-ology presented me with a number of challenges, the first and foremost being the strange looks I got from colleagues. “I’m going to investigate an old family ghost story I grew up with as a kid,” I’d say, and some of my closest friends would suddenly rear back a little from me, as if they...
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The Weekly WORD
This past week Susan Henderson, Caroline Leavitt, and Carey Wallace talked about the intersection of music and words at Largehearted Lit (keep your eye out for some audio, should be up tomorrow!), Alafair Burke and Phillip Margolin dropped by to chat with us about scary stories, and Paul Hoppe ran a monster-drawing workshop for kids (pictures coming later today). Signed copies are available for...
