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Appearing: Tony Tulathimutte Lynn Strong Rebecca Schiff Caroline Zancan Kaitlyn Greenidge Jessica Tom On the Docket: Reading Audience Q&A Book Signing Panel Discussion Sackett Street Writers Workshop founder Julia Fierro hosts a celebration for the book-releases of SSWW instructors and alums, and some of this year’s most anticipated and acclaimed novels and story collections. Wine…
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New Crown Heights reading series, from their FB page: Hope you can join us for great lit and brews at the 4th edition of the Manhattanville Reading Series, a monthly happening for emerging writers at Crown Heights cafe Manhattanville Coffee. April’s featured reader is innovative short fiction star and Electric Literature editor-in-chief Lincoln Michel (Upright…
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Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop — Nonfiction Night Hosted by Michele Filgate Fri Apr 22, 7:00PM Host(s): Sackett Street Writers Workshop Appearing: Jennifer Baker Xeni Fragakis Yashica Dutt Michele Filgate On the Docket: Reading Book Signing Author Bio(s): Jennifer Baker is a writer of fiction & nonfiction, and an editor with over 14 years’ experience in…
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Ever get a book home you’ve been wanting to read for a long time, like you’ve seen all the hype around it, around the author, and you’ve been anticipating the joy of it, and then you can’t get past the first page? There’s something wrong in the voice, or the thing doesn’t move along, it…
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Just realized I’ve been reading about these events for a few days, and they’re all tied to a program celebrating Albert Camus’ one and only visit to New York, 70 years ago. From the sound of it, he wasn’t too taken with the city, but was greeted warmly. I’m hoping to make it to one of…
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Thu Mar 17, 7:00PM Appearing: Keija Parssinen Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Kimberly McCreight Tracy O’Neill Robin Wasserman On the Docket: Reading Book Signing About the Event: The next Sackett Street Writers’ Reading Series event, “Dangerous Lives of Young Women in Fiction,” celebrates the paperback release of The Unraveling of Mercy Louis, the second novel by SSWW alum…
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I read Tolstoy’s “Master and Man” recently, and it seems to be sticking with me. I can’t get it out of my head as the winter continues. I was reading an interview in VICE with the woman who refused Marlon Brando’s Oscar, Sacheen Littlefeather, and the short story popped up again in an unexpected way. She…
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INTERVIEWER How did you learn to control tone? RYAN I’ve always been sickened by the whole discussion of natural tone, natural voice. I think that’s ridiculous. Every tone, every voice is unnatural, and it is natural to be unnatural. So there’s nothing to talk about. It works or it doesn’t work. I don’t think that…
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My poem “Growing” is up today on the Pamplemousse site. Big thanks to Elizabeth A.I. Powell, Jensen Beach and the students of Johnson State College in Vermont for taking it.
Joe Sullivan 