Category: Uncategorized
-
Read this piece about the Long Island house where John Coltrane (who would’ve been 89 yesterday) composed A Love Supreme and lived with his family ’til his death in 1967. The house is being turned into a museum, hopefully set to open in 2017. …Steve Fulgoni, a local business owner in Dix Hills who is…
-
My friends the Vibrojets will be playing this Friday to kick off Greenpoint Gallery’s Grand Salon. Doors, and their set, are at 8pm upstairs. More music follows them upstairs, and there’s more happening downstairs, too. 392 McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint, near the Pulaski Bridge. Come see some art and rock out!
-
Head on down to Borough Hall to check out all the vendors and the readers, and to get tickets to the readings at St. Francis College and other nearby locations. Highlights this year? Too many to name. But I’ll name Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie and Judah Friedlander. Pretty much every living writer you’ve ever heard…
-
Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop Mon Sep 14, 7:00PM Host(s): Julia Fierro Appearing: Alexander Chee Rob Spillman Hannah Tinti Jessica Loudis On the Docket: Panel Discussion Drinks Served Can you live in Brooklyn and learn to write? Will getting an MFA truly make you the writer you always wanted to be? Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop Founder…
-
Our next big show is September 1, on night one of Youthquake’s four-show September residency at The Grand Victory in Williamsburg. We’ll be on at 10pm. $9 cover. Don’t miss it!
-
Poet Charles Simic interviews his brother Milan in the New York Review of Books about attending avant-garde jazz shows up until 1965, particularly at the Alphabet City spot Slugs’. Milan’s favorite players at that time: Ornette Coleman and Jackie McLean, both of whom he befriended. He seems to have crossed paths with just about everyone…
-
Support Brooklyn independent presses a week from Saturday, then head over to the Queens Lit Fest in Long Island City. Brooklyn Small Press Flea Saturday, August 1, 2015 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Central Library, Plaza This pop-up book fair features Brooklyn’s finest indie presses, including A Public Space, Archipelago Books, BELLADONNA*, Electric Literature, Futurepoem,…
-
I got a chance to catch Nick Flynn last night at BookCourt. He was reading from his new book, My Feelings, which has some poems that, from listening to a few, will knock you out. I had never seen him read before, and I was struck by how unpretentious it was for a poetry reading.…
-
This is at 7pm, at BookCourt: Editors from NYC publishing houses talk about what really goes into the complex process of creating a book. Brenda Copeland, Executive Editor, St. Martin’s Press Emily Graff, Editor, Simon & Schuster Anya Lichtenstein, Editor, St. Martin’s Press Maya Ziv, Editor, Harper Collins Author Bio(s): Brenda Copeland is an Executive Editor…
Joe Sullivan 