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Cheap Wine, Plastic Chairs: Patricia Engel at McNally Jackson
Cheap Wine, Plastic Chairs: Patricia Engel at McNally Jackson
By Freddie Moore
August 16, 2013

A series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of an author reading: the Q&A. This week, Patricia Engel discusses writing, novels and the context of identity.

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Strange Finds: How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found
Strange Finds: How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found
By jake goldman
August 14, 2013

Doug Richmond explains how to create a whole new life for yourself in 100 pages. (If you really want to do it, though, do the exact opposite of everything he says.)

 

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Amazon’s Foray into Fanfiction: A World of Their Own?
Amazon’s Foray into Fanfiction: A World of Their Own?
By Iona Holloway
August 12, 2013

Wading through a quagmire of copyright, fair use, fandom and commercialization, writers, readers, publishers and advocates weigh in on Amazon’s Kindle Worlds.

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Cheap Wine, Plastic Chairs: Rob Sheffield and Julie Klausner at Strand
Cheap Wine, Plastic Chairs: Rob Sheffield and Julie Klausner at Strand
By Kate Gavino
August 09, 2013

A series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of an author reading: the Q&A. This week, Julie Klausner interviews Rob Sheffield about his memoir, Turn Around Bright Eyes.

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Cheap Wine, Plastic Chairs: Michael Paterniti at The POWERHOUSE ARENA
Cheap Wine, Plastic Chairs: Michael Paterniti at The POWERHOUSE ARENA
By Freddie Moore
August 05, 2013

A series that celebrates the best part of an author reading: the Q&A. This week, Michael Paterniti discusses cheese, love and betrayal.

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Strange Finds: "Flavors"
Strange Finds: "Flavors"
By jake goldman
July 31, 2013

An assortment of poetry, autobiography, drawings and humor that is as heartfelt as it is silly.

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Book Sword: Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Frank O’Hara & More
Book Sword: Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Frank O’Hara & More
By Kate Gavino
July 26, 2013

We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... deeper meaning? Hidden truth? Happy coincidence?

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A Live Reading of David Rakoff’s “Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish”
A Live Reading of David Rakoff’s “Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish”
By Sarah Bennett
July 25, 2013

The author’s final book read in its entirety by family and friends

 

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Strange Finds: “Really, Miss Henderson!”
Strange Finds: “Really, Miss Henderson!”
By jake goldman
July 24, 2013

A series of crude cartoons about a group of shipwrecked men and women stranded on small islands, trying and failing to have sex with each other. Oh, there’s also cannibalism.

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Cheap Wine, Plastic Chairs: Lindsay Hunter at Studio-X New York
Cheap Wine, Plastic Chairs: Lindsay Hunter at Studio-X New York
By Freddie Moore
July 24, 2013

"Cheap Wine, Plastic Chairs" is a weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the author reading: the Q&A. This week, Lindsay Hunter talks about short and sweet flash fiction.

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