July 22nd, 2009 |
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Amnials, Reading Words Out Loud
This Saturday at 8 p.m., I’ll be playing the Logician in The Mighty Theater’s one-night-only production of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, a long, funny play about… well, conformity, drinking, logic, and rhinos, among other things. The show’s in Peekskill, at the Paramount. Here are the full details. And here is LoHud’s sneak-peak. Those in the Hudson/Westchester/MetroNorth region, check it.
FUN FACT: Rhinos are perissodactyls, or odd-toed ungulates. Looking up “perissodactyl” on Wikipedia yielded my new favorite sentence of the week, my emphasis:
In contrast to the Ruminant Artiodactyl ungulates, perissodactyls are hindgut fermenters; that is, they digest plant cellulose in their intestines rather than stomach.
April 6th, 2009 |
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Errata, Reading Words Out Loud
Actually, I didn’t meant to fool anyone, but I had Personal Crises going on last Wednesday which prevented me from reading with Mac “The Man” Wellman and others. I have apologized profusely to the Turnstyle coordinator and hope to still be allowed into the CUNY Graduate Center on occasion.
Reasons I highly respect the CUNY GC:
- Survived a mind-blowing Ph.D. history class there on the rise of Arab nationalism after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Now all I read are history books.
- Bought some wonderful outdated travel guides to the Middle East at a GC Library booksale.
- Saw Francisco Goldman and Junot Diaz interview each other in the GC theater. Hilarious, inspiring, death-defying, etc. Ran out and read all their books.
- Spartan website.
- Tried McDonald’s coffee once near the GC; could not endure said coffee; pondered long/hard about how coffee could possibly taste that much like burning tire. Found out the GC has pretty decent coffee.
&c.
March 26th, 2009 |
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Reading Words Out Loud
Next Wednesday at 6:30, I’m reading in with hyper-inventive playwright Mac Wellman, Fiction co-founder and Edge.org contributor Mark Mirsky, and fellow MFA students Anna Marrian, Kerry Carnahan, Diana Redman, Tejas Desai, Michelle Brule, JP Howard, and Laurel Kallen.
Your mission, should you choose to venture to Midtown after work for a dose of (possible) culture and (probable) humor:
Wed., 1 April, 6:30 p.m.
Martin E. Segal Theatre
The CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave at 34th
Free
The Turnstyle reading series “features the faculty and students of four CUNY graduate creative writing programs.” Performers “will read a mix of non-fiction, plays, fiction, and poems.”
More info at www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org.
February 2nd, 2009 |
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Reading Words Out Loud
TWIMC (to whom it may concern): I’ve been asked to “rouse the crowd” with a short story before writer-drawer Jonathan Ames takes the stage.
Feel free to stop by and drink free wine and eat free cheese, if so inclined. Ames (The Alcoholic and Wake Up, Sir!, among others) is a funny dude: He reminds me at times of John Hodgeman and the guy who writes Achewood.
The reading will take place this Friday, 6 Feb., at 7:00 p.m. at the 63rd St Y (at Amsterdam Ave., near Lincoln Center/Columbus Circle), in the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater. The 63rd St Y asks for a $5 donation.
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Future Readings/Book Signings At 63rd St:
20 Feb. - Roger Rosenblatt, author of Rules for Aging, Children of War, Lapham Rising, and Beet (from which he will be reading).
20 Mar. - James Tate, author of The Lost Pilot and many other amazing books of poetry. Personal hero.
3 Apr. - David Means, author of A Quick Kiss of Redemption, Assorted Fire Events, The Secret Goldfish, and more.
24 Apr. - Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm, The Black Veil, Right Livelihoods (a collection of three novellas from which he will be reading), and more.
