Showing posts with label Blake Butler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blake Butler. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

September 19th Readings: Blake Butler, Robert Lopez, Johanna Rodgers, Sam Ligon, Donald Breckenridge

Blake Butler is the author of EVER (Calamari Press) and Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books). He edits HTML Giant and blogs here.






Robert Lopez is the author of two novels, Kamby Bolongo Mean River and Part of the World. His fiction has appeared in dozens of publications. He teaches at The New School, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University.





Johannah Rodgers has been living and writing in Brooklyn for the last fifteen years. Her book, sentences, a collection of short stories, essays, and drawings, was published by Red Dust in 2007, and her chapbook, “necessary fictions,” was published by Sona Books in 2003. Her short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Fence, Bookforum, Fiction, CHAIN Arts , Pierogi Press, and The Brooklyn Rail, where she is a contributing editor. She teaches writing and literature courses at The City University of New York, where she is an assistant professor in English and is working on a project that investigates experimental approaches to storytelling and narrative through the use of "generated" and found language.


Samuel Ligon is the author of a collection of stories, Drift and Swerve (Autumn House 2009), and a novel, Safe in Heaven Dead (HarperCollins 2003). His stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth, Post Road, Keyhole, Gulf Coast, New England Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at Eastern Washington University's Inland Northwest Center for Writers, in Spokane, Washington, and is the editor of Willow Springs.



Donald Breckenridge is the fiction editor of The Brooklyn Rail, editor of The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology (Hanging Loose Press, 2006) and co-editor of the InTranslation website. In addition, he is the author of more than a dozen plays as well as the novella Rockaway Wherein (Red Dust, 1998), and the novel 6/2/95 (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002). His novel This Young Girl Passing is forthcoming from Autonomedia and his novel YOU ARE HERE is out now on Starcherone Books.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Molly Gaudry Says Nice Things About the 510

Last Saturday was a really great reading. Shane Jones was great. Blake Butler was great. Rahne Alexander was great. Kyle Minor and Kathleen Rooney were great. Molly Gaudry says a bunch of nice things about February's 510 Reading over here.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

February 21st Readings (It Is Going to Be So Great)

Blake Butler is the author of Ever (Calamari Press 01/09) and Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books 09/09). Brian Evenson calls Ever "a strange, visionary ontological dismemberment that takes you well beyond what you'd ever expect." Blake Butler's work has appeared in Fence, Willow Springs, Ninth Letter, Unsaid, and etc. He edits No Colony and HTMLGiant, lives in Atlanta, and blogs at blakebutler.blogspot.com.

Shane Jones was born in Albany, New York, the first child of Marcia and Dennis Jones. Educated at Buffalo University, he studied with Robert Creeley, Charles Bernstein and Susan Howe. He is the author of the short collections Maybe Tomorrow and I Will Unfold You With My Hairy Hands. Work has appeared widely online and in print. Of his first novel, Deb Olin Unferth said his "imaginative voice is like some winged thing . . . Light Boxes is a beautiful, heartful work."

Rahne Alexander is a writer and a multimedia artist from Baltimore. She is the vocalist and songwriter for the all-girl garage rock trio, The Degenerettes; she is also a producer of the Charm City Kitty Club, Baltimore's long-running queer cabaret. Rahne is a frequent contributor to City Paper and Smile Hon, You're In Baltimore and her award-winning films have screened in festivals across the US. www.rahne.com

Kathleen Rooney is the editor of Rose Metal Press and the author of the nonfiction books, Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object and Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America, as well as the poetry collections Oneiromance (an epithalamion) (Switchback Books, 2008), Something Really Wonderful, and That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (the latter two written collaboratively with Elisa Gabbert). Her essay Live Nude Girl appeared in the anthology Twentysomething Essays for Twentysomething Writers, and other essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Sycamore Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and Gettysburg Review.

Kyle Minor is the author of In the Devil's Territory, a collection of short fiction just out from Dzanc, and co-editor of The Other Chekhov, an anthology of Anton Chekhov's lesser-known and more lurid stories. His recent work appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2008, The Southern Review, and Random House's Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers. A Florida native, he now lives in Ohio, where he is at work on a novel and a nonfiction account of a kidnapping in Haiti.

You do not want to miss this reading.