Photos!

The mayhem took place, and it was fantabulous. See the full album here.

Venue Change!!

Times change. People change. Venues change.

BOMB Magazine’s BOMB-aoke!, originally slated for the Bowery Poetry Club at 7 p.m., is now taking place at: Gallery Bar (120 Orchard St.), still at 7 p.m.

Enjoy!

Your Perfect Weekend includes a Lit Crawl!

Time Out New York recommends you check us out as a part of Your Perfect Weekend — how could you resist?

The New Yorker can’t wait… Can you?

We’re excited about the buzz surrounding Lit Crawl NYC 2009.  It’s going to be a great night!  Check out what The New Yorker has to say about us!!!

 

Lit Crawl Twitters @litcrawlnyc

Lit Crawl NYC is just a week away!  Make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates, featured venues, and more leading up to the event. @litcrawlnyc

We’ll also be providing live updates and photos as the literary madness unfolds at various events on May 16!  

So if you’re paralyzed by indecision between the words of wise women and an exhilarating match of literary wits with Harper Perennial, or can’t decide whether to indulge your sexy side with French accents or hot tales from the bedroom and beyond with YourTango, or if your athletic zeal is at odds with your humorous side in the decision between the Literary Basketball League and hilariously interviewed writers at Opium Live! — don’t stress about it!   

Just sit back and enjoy your reading of choice, and periodically check your mobile device if you can’t stand not knowing if something better is happening elsewhere.  We’ll let you know of all the memorable moments that are sure to make Lit Crawl NYC one of the greatest literary nights of your life!

There are so many fantastic readings to choose from, so check out the full schedule to get ready.  See you all on the Crawl!

BOMB Magazine Presents: BOMB-aoke! @ Bowery Poetry Club

Join the editors of BOMB Magazine for the much-anticipated return of live BOMB-aoke!  Help re-enact classic interviews from BOMB’s 28 years in a karaoke-style format. Act out Jonathan Safran Foer interviewing Jeffrey Eugenides (BOMB #81), or Willem Defoe by Frances McDormand (BOMB #55). The best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth lots of dough! Special guest poet & videomaker Brandon Downing shows projections of new video works that combine homophonic translation, cultural inadequacy, smoking jive tunes and curatorial practice with the cloying and destroying energy of FLARF, incurring joy, curiosity and a degree of fear!

Brandon Downing is a videomaker, visual artist, and writer originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. He now lives in New York City, where he works as an exhibit designer and writer. An online gallery of much of his recent photographic work can be seen at www.brandondowning.org. A feature-length DVD collection of recent video works, DARK BRANDON // ETERNAL CLASSICS, was released in 2007, and a monograph of his literary collages, LAKE ANTIQUITY, will be published by Fence in 2009.

Bringing a literary meaning to “live entertainment”: Opium Live! @ Happy Ending

Opium: Opium Live! 
Happy Ending 
302 Broome St. (between Forsyth and Eldridge)

Opium Live features seven-question interviews with today’s most innovative and exciting authors and artists. Usually set on the first Tuesday of every month at Manhattan’s Happy Ending, Opium Live features an hour-or-less of sharp and easy banter with plenty of twists (including audience participation).

Jack Boulware has written a couple of books, started a couple of magazines, and is co-founder of this Litquake thingie. His next book, an oral history of punk rock in the Bay Area, comes out this October from Penguin. www.jackboulware.com

Christopher Kennedy’s most recent book is Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2007). He directs the MFA Program at Syracuse University. He can be reached atchriskenne@gmail.com. He resides in Camillus, NY, near an industrious family of giant woodchucks. He has made a conscious decision to favor paratactical constructions. His stories also appear in Opium4: Live Well Now! (No Matter What).

Less is more. More is also more. At the Gigantic Microreading.

Gigantic Microreading @ Home Sweet Home 

Less is more. More is also more. Please join Gigantic, a new magazine of short prose and art, for three minute readings and/or artistic presentations from Gigantic #1 contributors Tao Lin, James J. Williams III, Yuka Igarashi, Ben Blum, Andrew Bulger, Matt Di Paoli and possibly others.

Ben Blum holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Berkeley. He is a fiction intern at The New Yorker and teaches writing to second graders at PS 110.

Andrew Bulger is a Brooklyn based artist and philosopher. He received a graduate degree in Philosophy from the London School of Economics and has since been exploring his preoccupations in art’s own language.

Yuka Igarashi is an MFA candidate in fiction at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Quick Fiction and Gigantic. She lives farther out than you do in Brooklyn.

Tao Lin (b. 1983) is the author of the forthcoming novella SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL (Sept. 2009, Melville House) and four previous books.

James J. Willams III is an artist and curator. He has had solo exhibtions in New York, Paris, London, Berlin and Miami. James is seeking help for his growing Law and Order addicton.

Matthew Di Paoli is a native New Yorker. At Boston College, he received the Dever Fellowship and recently completed his MFA at Columbia.

Shane Jones is the author of the novel LIGHT BOXES (PGP 2009). His next book, THE FAILURE SIX, will be published by Fugue State Press in January 2010.

Featured Venue: The Lounge featuring Single Woman of a Certain Age

Litquake co-founder Jane Ganahl, Ellie Slott Fisher, Irene Sherlock and Anne Buelteman – will read from the re-released anthology, “Single Woman of a Certain Age.” In essay topics that range from attending one’s first dance in decades to taking a midnight sail in Singapore harbor, expect worldly and witty observations about the joys and pitfalls of la vida sola, midlife-style.

Anne Buelteman is a stage actress who spent 11 years on the road with a major musical. A zealous diarist who is writing a memoir, her essay in “Single Woman of a Certain Age” is her first published work.

Ellie Slott Fisher is the author of “Mom, There’s a Man in the Kitchen and He’s Wearing Your Robe” and “Dating for Dads.” She is a contributor to “Single Woman of a Certain Age” and lives in Yardley, PA.

Jane Ganahl is the author of the memoir “Naked on the Page: the Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife,” editor of the anthology “Single Woman of a Certain Age” and co-founder of the Litquake festival.

Irene Sherlock teaches at Western Connecticut State University. Her poems and essays have been published in many places, including Poetry Motel and the New York Times, and her words have been broadcast on NPR.

Featured Venue: Muumuu House Cash-Money-Obama Millionaires @ Botanica Bar

Muumuu House (est. 2008) presents Brandon Scott Gorrell, Zachary German, and Abigail Lloyd in a wonderful evening of poetry and perhaps fiction. Muumuu House is a publishing company founded by Tao Lin; its first two publications are debut poetry-collections by Ellen Kennedy and Brandon Scott Gorrell.

Zachary German was born in 1988. Melville House will release his first novel, “Eat When You Feel Sad,” in February 2010. He lives in Brooklyn.

Brandon Scott Gorrell (b. 1984) is the author of “During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present” (Muumuu House, June 2009). He lives in Seattle.

Abigail Lloyd lives in Queens. Her website is www.alloyd2.blogspot.com.