Category Archives: Events

The Bellwether presents NOCTURNE

February 14, 2015 by Drew

(photo credit: Dani Lencioni) I’ve never been a poetry guy. I mean, I respect the craft and do enjoy certain poets – but they are, without exception, poets who fall squarely inside my frame of reference: old white guys. Or at least they were. I started reading Saeed Jones’ Prelude to Bruise last week (much belatedly, I’ll admit) and while I’ve not finished it yet (so I won’t say too much and will save it for the review), it’s just about the […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Art, Brooklyn, Design, Events, Installation, Jordan Kisner, Music, Nocturne, Performance, Poetry, Prelude to Bruise, Recap, Saeed Jones, The Bellwether, The Cave

Selected Shorts: Teju Cole & Salman Rushdie

December 11, 2014 by Drew

(a hastily snapped photo during company bows at the end of the show – from L, Salman Rushdie, Zainab Jah, Michael Stuhlbarg, Teju Cole, Blythe Danner, Jeffrey Wright, Matthew Love) Well, it got sort of swept aside in all of the terrible new about human rights violations this week (and the past few weeks) but it turns out yesterday was Human Rights Day. And, as Matthew Love said at the top of the show, could you put better authors on stage […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Blythe Danner, Events, Fiction, In the South, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Stuhlbarg, NYC, Recap, Recaps, Salman Rushdie, Selected Shorts, Short Stories, Small Fates, Small Fates 2012, Symphony Space, Teju Cole, The New Yorker, Twitter, Zainab Jah

Selected Shorts: The Best American Short Stories 2014

November 20, 2014 by Dani

(ed. note – after much time thinking about it and a happy arrangement of circumstances that demanded it, we’re thrilled to bring you our first guest-written post here at RB. Dani’s bio can be found on the new contributor page. An immense thanks to Symphony Space and Selected Shorts – and to this new addition to the crew!) I should disclose two biases, which are that I love short stories, and I love being read aloud to. This is to say, I […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Amy Ryan, BASS14, Best American Short Stories 2014, Dani Lencioni, Dylan Baker, Events, Fiction, Guest Post, Jennifer Egan, Lauren Groff, Recaps, Selected Shorts, Short Stories, Symphony Space, T.C. Boyle, The Best American Short Stories

The Originals Series: Shelly Oria & Slothrust

November 19, 2014 by Drew

It’s cold outside! Like, really fucking cold. So, not surprisingly, the latest installment of The Originals Series headed indoors: to a strange room at 22 Boerum Place described alternately as a mausoleum, Turkish bath, former bank, and cult meeting space (all descriptions c/o David Rees) in Brooklyn. And while the vibe was a little stuffy at first, probably because nobody quite knew what to do in said slightly-crumbling marble space, it loosened up right quick – and that is, I […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Brooklyn Brewery, BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed Books, David Rees, Events, FSG Originals, Issue Project Room, Leah Wellbaum, New York 1 Tel Aviv 0, Parties, Recaps, Shelly Oria, Slothrust, The Originals Series

Selected Shorts 30th Anniversary

October 16, 2014 by Drew

Oh, the short story. So easy to fuck up – and yet, when done well, so absolutely transcendent. I have struggled with the form as a writer and, recently, as a reader: I find collections difficult to read and often don’t engage as much as I should with the individual stories that I do like. How it has taken me so long to discover Selected Shorts, I’ll never understand. For those unfamiliar, it’s a live event hosted at Symphony Space […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Amber Tamblyn, Anika Noni Rose, Christine Lahti, David Rakoff, Etgar Keret, Events, Features, Isaiah Sheffer, James Naughton, Michael Cerveris, New York City, Selected Shorts, Selected Shorts 30th Anniversary, Sherman Alexie, Symphony Space, Thomas Meehan

“We’re All Mad Here” with Lauren Beukes, Lev Grossman, and Jeff VanderMeer at Housing Works

September 23, 2014 by Drew

(photo courtesy of the Roving Typist himself, Mr. Christopher Hermelin) Last night, at Housing Works Bookstore in Manhattan, a convergence occurred. A humorous, heartfelt, intelligent, and all-around awesome convergence. Three authors were brought together to talk about how… well, how “we’re all mad here.” Because they’re all a little crazy and hey, so are we, so it all works out. A cool slideshow greeted the packed house of attendees while we waited for Lauren Beukes (Broken Monsters), Lev Grossman (The Magician’s […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Acceptance, Annihilation, Authority, Broken Monsters, Events, Fantasy, Fiction, FSG Originals, Horror, Housing Works, Housing Works Bookstore, Jeff Vandermeer, Lauren Beukes, Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land, The Magicians Trilogy, The Southern Reach Trilogy, We're All Mad Here, WORD Bookstore

The Originals Series: Catherine Lacey & Sasha Frere-Jones

July 25, 2014 by Drew

Have I told you how much I loved Catherine Lacey’s Nobody Is Ever Missing? Because I did, immensely. And we all know I love FSG’s Originals Series. And I also, also love The New Yorker. So, on yet another well-timed evening (weather-wise), all of these things came together out at Interstate in Brooklyn. There was also bourbon and Bud. And rocks on the ground, surrounding pieces of art that it was unclear whether or not we were supposed to step on… Anyway. […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Brooklyn, BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed Books, Catherine Lacey, Events, Features, FSG Originals, FSG Originals Series, Interstate, Isaac Fitzgerald, Nobody Is Ever Missing, Parties, Sasha Frere-Jones, The Originals Series

The Originals Series: Katherine Faw Morris & Deniro Farrar

June 6, 2014 by Drew

Summer’s pretty much here folks – and so the time is right for an outside party. We all know it and the weather gods smiled last night upon the fair borough of Brooklyn for the return of the FSG Originals Series. In a new venue (well, new to me anyway) and with a new host, it ended up being maybe the best one yet. First, a note on the space. Interstate is, it would seem, an art gallery – some lovely […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Brooklyn, BuzzFeed Books, Deniro Farrar, Events, Fiction, FSG Originals, Granta, Hip-Hop, Interstate, Isaac Fitzgerald, Katherine Faw Morris, Parties, Rebirth, The Originals Series, Young God

BookExpo America 2014

June 2, 2014 by Drew

Some swag, yo. I’m actually pretty stoked about every single one of these. Hard to believe it – but a whole year has gone by since last year’s trip to the Javits Center for BookExpo America. And this year, as Memorial Day Weekend began to recede, felt rather like it snuck up on me. I had not been as intensive about planning – although a few last-minute scribbles of a schedule did, in fact, help out this year – and […]

Categories: Events • Tags: BEA14, BookCon, BookExpo America, BookExpo2014, Books, Events, Features, Javits Center, New York

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