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.

New Stuff I've Had or Will Soon Be Having a Hand In

I edited and published, for the Faster Times, Sasha Fletcher's review of Gordon Lish's Collected Fictions -- "What It Is I Cannot Tell You." Includes full-color original art by Antonia Blair.

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I helped edit and compile, for Gigantic, the new online issue, featuring Nathan C. Martin's interview with Amy Hempel, the fourth installment of Leni Zumas and Luca Dipierro's graphic series Until I Find It (pictured above), new fiction by Ashley Farmer, plus an illustrated very short story by John Dermot Woods.

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Lincoln Michel and I will DJing our usual "Kings County Society for Fitness, Science & Musical Merriment" party at the Manhattan Inn this Friday night in Greenpoint. Flyer by Andrew Bulger.

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Save the date! Gigantic is teaming up with Open City to present Sweet Home New York: A Reading at this year's LitCrawl in the Lower East Side. Date for the reading is September 11th. Flyer by Sybille Schenker.

gigantic issue #2 release party

come drink rare and thematic brooklyn "american ale," listen to awesome readers, watch awesome performance, hang out with all your friends.

Gigantic Issue #2 Release Party
Saturday, February 27, 2010
6:30-10:30pm
Free

"rsvp" here

from our blog:

"Please join us in celebrating the release of Gigantic's second issue: Gigantic America. Featuring interviews with Lydia Millet, Adrian Tomine and Sam Lipsyte; new fiction from Robert Coover and Leni Zumas; art by Thomas Doyle and Thomas Allen; along with collectible biographies of famous Americans, as written by, among others, Deb Olin Unferth, Michael Kimball, Clancy Martin and Stephen O'Connor.

Our release party will include short readings from Gigantic #2 contributors Deb Olin Unferth, Stephen O'Connor and Sasha Fletcher; a dance performance by artist Lydia Bell; an installation by Dinh Q. Lê; a special "surrogate" reading by Mike Topp in place of Brian Beatty; cheap drinks and all the fun and miscellaneous delights you've come to expect from things Gigantic.

Best of all, it's free! Come early, stay forever."