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Table of Contents, Volume 5 (April 2016)

April 28, 2016 by Drew

After Dani’s trip to egg last month for Table of Contents, Vol. 4, I knew I had to make sure my schedule was clear for Vol. 5. Not only was the author of one of my favorite books of 2015 (Sara Nović, with her amazing Girl at War) going to be there, but two authors who I was excited to discover/rediscover were there too. It felt like the perfect blend of known and unknown and so I was excited to show up […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Books, Egg, egg restaurant, Evan Hanczor, Events, Features, Food, Rachel Cantor, readings, Recap, Recaps, Sara Majka, Sara Nović

Selected Shorts: Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi

April 21, 2016 by Drew

It’s been a while since I last dropped by Symphony Space for one of their terrific Selected Shorts evenings – but I couldn’t pass up the unbelievable double-whammy of Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi, so my schedule has been clear for months. The fact that Isaac Fitzgerald was guest-hosting just sealed the deal and so it was that I arrived on a nearly-warm, spring-has-sprung kind of night with excitement brewing in my heart. Dani and I were discussing, as we […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Colby Minifie, Events, Features, Fiction, Get in Trouble, Helen Oyeyemi, Isaac Fitzgerald, Kelly Link, Kirsten Vangsness, Recaps, Selected Shorts, Short Stories, Symphony Space, What is Not Yours is Not Yours

Table of Contents, Volume Four (March 2016)

April 12, 2016 by Dani

Because I am addicted to offbeat, curated literary events, I’ve been trying to attend a Table of Contents event at Egg for months – and I finally did it! The brainchild of Egg’s head chef Evan Hanczor, the series started as a full meal themed around a novel. The updated format of the series, however, has each event feature a lineup of contemporary authors reading from their recent work, along with small dishes inspired by the excerpts. The roster on March 16th (“Volume […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Books, Catherine Lacey, Dani Lencioni, Egg, egg restaurant, Evan Hanczor, Events, Features, Food, John Wray, readings, Recaps, Sarah Gerard, Table of Contents

Marie-Helene Bertino & Laura van den Berg at Community Bookstore

November 3, 2015 by Dani

To celebrate the paperback release of her first novel, Marie-Helene Bertino asked Laura van den Berg to join her at the adorable Community Bookstore in Park Slope for an evening of reading and conversation. I just finished 2AM at the Cat’s Pajamas and loved it. Find Me was my favorite read of 2014, and I devoured all LvdB stories I could get my hands on shortly thereafter. As I waited for the authors to take their places, I watched the bookstore’s resident cat […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas, Books, Community Bookstore, Conversations, Dani Lencioni, Dogs, Events, Features, Find Me, Laura van den Berg, Marie-Helene Bertino, Recaps, Writing

BookExpo America 2015

May 31, 2015 by Drew

THE BIG STACK. It didn’t fall over, which I thought was impressive. Another year, another BEA. Although not quite the same as it was last year: indeed, the gods of commerce have spoken and decreed that, lo, BEA shall be 2.5 days and BookCon shall have a full 2 all unto itself! Tremble before ReedPop! (Having had a pretty miserable time at the BookCon/BEA overlap day last year, I wasn’t about to drop additional money to get in this year […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: BEA15, BookExpo America, BookExpo2015, Books, Dani Lencioni, Drew Broussard, Events, Features, Javits Center, Lots of Books, Recap, Recaps

Selected Shorts: Make Something Up with Chuck Palahniuk

May 21, 2015 by Drew

my terribly messy scribblings all over the program… Have you ever been to a Chuck Palahniuk reading? The last one I went to, I got hit in the face with a bag of Almond Joy (hurled by Mr. P himself), inflated a beach ball, and caught a severed arm. So. Didn’t quite know what to expect at a slightly more refined event – but I knew Palahniuk would find a way to meld his delightfully weird sensibility with whatever he was […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Alex Hurt, Becky Ann Baker, Charles Baxter, Chuck Palahniuk, Clive Barker, Events, Features, Make Something Up, Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread, Mark Richard, Matthew Love, New York City, Recaps, Sam Underwood, Sarah Steele, Selected Shorts, Stephen King, Symphony Space

The Originals Series: Aleksander Hemon & Velibor Božović

April 8, 2015 by Drew

(from left: David Haglund, Aleksander Hemon, Velibor Božović) Last night’s Apple-store-hosted conversation between Aleksander (Sasha) Hemon and Velibor (Veba) Božović might not’ve been billed like other Originals Series events, but I think it’s safe to call it one: it had that same sense of curiosity, of doing something interesting and different with an author event, that the series’ somewhat looser events have had in the past. It’s just that the “something interesting and different” this time included putting on the show […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Aleksander Hemon, Apple, Apple Store, Art, Bosnia, Conversation, David Haglund, Events, FSG Digital Originals, FSG Originals, My Prisoner, Politics, Recap, Recaps, The Originals Series, Velibor Božović, Video

Selected Shorts: Welcome to Night Vale

March 19, 2015 by Drew

Cecil Baldwin reads from Will Eno / glows from his forehead third-eye If you’re an internet person – and, if you’re reading this, chances are good that you’re an internet person – you’ve heard of Welcome to Night Vale. The weird little-podcast-that-could following the goings on of a distinctly odd little community in the Southwestern United States has become a bonafide sensation: #1 podcast on iTunes, a touring live show, and a forthcoming novel from the creators. If you haven’t listened (or […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Carlos the Scientist, Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Events, Fantasy, Features, Horror, Jeffrey Fink, John Darnielle, Joseph Cranor, Mara Wilson, Matthew Love, New York Neo-Futurists, Night Vale, Performance, Reading, Recaps, Sci-Fi, Selected Shorts, Shirley Jackson, Short Stories, Symphony Space, The Mountain Goats, Theater, Weird, Welcome to Night Vale, Will Eno, WNYC

Laura van den Berg in Conversation with Catherine Lacey at McNally Jackson

February 19, 2015 by Dani

In the past month, I’ve discovered two new favorite books. Find Me by Laura van den Berg and Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey. Van den Berg (henceforth known here as LvdB) is getting crazy good press right now – Salon thinks she’s “the best young writer in America,” and I probably agree. Both books garnered 5+ ratings here on the blog. So I’m not alone! Much to my delight, the NYC launch of Find Me entailed a conversation between LvdB and Lacey at McNally Jackson. And it was great! Everything you […]

Categories: Events • Tags: 5+, Catherine Lacey, Dani Lencioni, Events, Find Me, FSG, Laura van den Berg, McNally Jackson, Nobody Is Ever Missing, Recaps

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