What I'm Doing in September

Co-curating: Sat 9/10 Gigantic Exquisite Corpse* featuring short readings from Lynne Tillman, Dan Bevacqua, Anelise Chen, and Mitchell S. Jackson
Home Sweet Home
131 Chrsytie Street, NY, NY
8-9pm

Reading: Tues 9/13 30 Under 30 Anthology Reading** w/ Rachel B. Glaser, Mike Young, Danielle Adair, and Michael Stewart
Center for Fiction
17 East 47th Street, NY, NY
7pm

Representing Gigantic: Fri 9/16 PEN Literary Pub Quiz w/ Lincoln Michel, Sasha Fletcher, and Skyler Balbus
St. Ann's Warehouse
38 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY
7-9pm

DJing: Fri 9/30 Kings County Society for Fitness, Science & Musical Merriment w/ Lincoln Michel
Manhattan Inn
632 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Midnight-last call

*Part of LitCrawl 2011.
**Part of The Brooklyn Book Festival.

30 Under 30, Arrived

Just received my two contributor's copies for 30 Under 30, "an anthology of innovative fiction by younger authors," edited by Blake Butler and Lily Hoang. Other contributors in the anthology include Joshua Cohen, Rachel Glaser, Mike Young, Shane Jones, Andrea Kneeland, and many others.

Love the cover, which is by Zach Dodson, who is also a contributor.

Psyched to dig in.

big week last week/this week: i am being anthologized

(I don't know where this came from, or who did it, but it's pretty badass. looks kind of like royal art lodge.)

some of what has happened:

-just found out i will have some pieces in the "30 under 30" anthology of innovative writers under age 30, edited by blake butler and lily hoang. i submitted 5 one-page or so short stories, interlinked and collectively titled "you don't need a place to sleep if you don't plan on sleeping" or "5 shorts". bb does quality, everything he touches turns to awesome. m stoked very much about this

-helped edit/update this: GIGANTIC #1 ONE-SENTENCE PROSE PREVIEW

-did two readings, thank you for coming if you came

-after the second reading, threw an after party with ben at my apartment. geniuses were in attendance. sadly no pictures were taken, i got too drunk to remember, also my camera is pink (a xmas present from my father, pink was the cheapest color they had)

-met some fantastic new people (hellos to kathleen, kyle, kim, kendra, krag, kristoph, claus, erin, there are others)

-got "solicited"

-lost my phone

-found my phone

-wrote a not insignificant amount of facebook and gchat updates, alerting friends to both these occurences

-and now i'm prepping to interview gary shteyngart about meat, over meat. the man is an interview monster.

here he is discussing katz's delicatessan, pickles, and virility: