The 5ive:ten Readings: April 2008

Sunday, April 20, 2008

April 19th Reading

Another big crowd at Miná's Gallery in Hampden to hear Michael Downs, Maud Casey, and Michael Kimball.

Jen Michalski took over hosting duties for the evening.

Michael Downs read "At the Beach," featured in The Missouri Review.

Maud Casey read "Fugueur," selected by Rick Moody as a finalist in The Bellevue Literary Review's Goldenberg Prize for Fiction and published in Spring 2008 issue of the Bellevue Literary Review.

510's own Michael Kimball read excerpts from his forthcoming novel, Dear Everybody, available September 1st.

Thanks again for coming out, and join us on May 17th for John Rowell, Geoff Herbach, Betsy Boyd, and Adam Robinson!

Your Hosts

Michael Kimball (emeritus) is the author of six books, including Big Ray, Dear Everybody, Us, and, Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard). His work has been translated into a dozen languages, and featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and in Vice, as well as in The Guardian, Bomb, and New York Tyrant. His next book is about the arcade game, Galaga (Boss Fight Books, 2014).

Jen Michalski's novel THE TIDE KING was published by Black Lawrence Press (2013; winner of the Big Moose Prize). She is the author of two collections of fiction, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS (So New, 2007) and FROM HERE (Aqueous Books, 2013) and a collection of novellas, COULD YOU BE WITH HER NOW (Dzanc Books, 2013). In 2013 she was named one of “50 Women to Watch” by The Baltimore Sun and won a “Best of Baltimore” for “Best Writer” from Baltimore Magazine. Her stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the founding editor of the literary quarterly jmww, host of the reading series The 510 Readings in Baltimore, and interviews writers at The Nervous Breakdown.

Past 510 Readers

Sam Lipsyte, Deb Olin Unferth, Maud Casey, Blake Butler, Andy Devine, Michael Kimball, Leni Zumas, Brian Evenson, Rupert Wondolowski, Marion Winik, Stacey D'Erasmo, Jessica Anya Blau, Tita Chico, Elise Levine, Sherrie Flick, Dylan Landis, Rahne Alexander, Kyle Minor, Thomas Glave, Chad Willenborg, Sheri Booker, Danielle Ariano, Aubrey Hirsch, Kelcey Parker, Danuta Hinc, Heather Rounds, Simon Frueland, Chris Bauman, Leslie F. Miller, Geoffrey Greif, Ric Royer, Thad Rutkowski, David Housley, Christine Stewart, Scott Price, Ivy Goodman, Jamie Gaughran-Perez, John Barry, Shane Jones, Michael Downs, Tania James, Michael Pollack, Paula Bomer, Jason Tinney, Sam Ligon, Johanna Rodgers, Donald Breckenridge, Susan Muaadi-Darraj, Lalita Noronha, Rosalia Scalia, Jen Michalski, John Rowell, Geoff Herbach, Betsy Boyd, Adam Robinson, Justin Sirois, Savannah Schroll Guz, Shanthi Sekaran, John Dermot Woods, Glenn Moomau, Rafael Alvarez, Christine Schutt, William Henry Lewis, Larry Doyle, Kathleen Rooney, Susan McCallum-Smith, Richard Peabody, Patricia Schultheis, Tim Wendel, Jackie Corley, Linda Franklin, Kathy Flann, Merrill Feitell, Sean Carman, Karen Lillis, Charles Rammelkamp, Madeleine Mysko, Joseph Young, David R. Matthews, Luca Dipierro, Deborah Rudacille, Lia Purpura, Brian Eden, Robin Hemley, A.E. Peterson, Dan Fesperman, Madison Smartt Bell, Darcelle Bleau, Robert Lopez, Geoff Becker, Laura van den Berg, Josh Weil, Caryn Coyle, Jane Delury, Meghan Kenny, Ron Tanner, Jane Satterfield, James Magruder, Terese Svoboda, Rachel Sherman, Kevin Sampsell, Todd Whaley, Ashlie Kauffman, David Franks, Molly Gaudry, Kim Calder, Kate Wyer, Jamie Iredell, Joshua Furst, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Alison Livingston, Paula Bomer, Aryn Kyle, Jon Cotner, Andy Fitch, Justin Kramon, Joanna Howard, Carolyn Parkhurst, Matt Bell, Dawn Raffel, Jenny Hollowell, Janice Shapiro, Amber Noelle Sparks, Megan McShea, Shya Scanlon, Robin Black, Ken Sparling, Pat King, Nik Korpon, Tara Laskowski, Susi Wyss, Janice Eidus, Mikita Brottman, Jen Grow, Sarah Rose Etter, Steve Himmer, Paul Maliszewski, Joseph Riippi, Scott McClanahan, John Brandon, Sandra Beasley, Christine Grillo, Greg Olear, Laura Ellen Scott, Mark Cugini, John Rowell, Jackie Wang, Isaac James Baker, Rachel Demma, Sara Lippmann, Christine Lincoln, Matt Norman, J. R. Angelella, Elisabeth Dahl, Stephanie Barber, Ben Loory, Mike Young, Timmy Reed, Megan Boyle, Elissa Schappell, Carissa Halston, Nancy Murray, Robb Todd, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Mikita Brottman, James Magruder, Adam Prince, Noy Holland, Sam Michel, Amber Sparks, Matt Bell, Robert Kloss, Julian Berengaut, Roy Kesey.