Get Lit is happening this Sunday, January 13, from 5 to 8 pm at Oak Vino. A limited number of copies are available for purchase at the book signing at No.3 Reading Room & Photo Book Works on Main Street from 3 to 8 pm. The book "Manos Sucias/Dirty Hands" is a collaboration between Paulette Myers-Rich, the visual artist Greg Slick and poet Seán Monagle. Can’t get in? Well there’s another chance to do something similar on Sunday the 20th, but you must read on.Īlso on Second Saturday is a book release event for Traffic Street Press’ "Trafficking in Poetry" series. It’s an evening of live storytelling by The Artichoke, hosted by Drew Prochaska and featuring Sandi Marx (seven-time Grand Slam Winner, The Moth), Jeff Simmermon (Grand Slam Winner, The Moth This American Life), Drew Prochaska (Risk! Story Collider), Richard Cardillo (Risk! Stories from the Stage, Susan Kent (The Moth), Micaela Blei (Grand Slam Winner, The Moth), Vanessa Golenia (Risk!) and John Blesso. Mentioning here anyway because it is just so cool that this is coming to Beacon. Saturday, January 12, 7:30 pm, is sold out online, but not sure if there will be additional tickets at the door. January 2019 Writerly Happenings This Weekend! Let’s lean/fall/dive/plunge/bellyflop on in. She’s happily frolicking in the bumper crop of essay collections that have been published in the past few years. Sounds fierce.Įxtremely well-published and well-coifed writer Lily Burana is reading “Thick” by Kiese Laymon, and “How to Write an Autobiographical Novel” by Alexander Chee. She says it's a dark, twisty, fairytale-ish story of desire and obsession and also a physically gorgeous object, with white text printed on black pages. Kristen Holt-Browning, writer and editor and co-producer of Get Lit, just finished reading “Northwood” by Maryse Meijer, a sort of novella-in-poems. Still working on “Warlight” by Michael Ondaatje. Also I just ate up the delicious entirety of the new memoir “She Wants It” by Jill Soloway, the creator of “Transparent,” and I highly recommend. So… I’m currently reading “The Mastery of Love” by Don Miguel Ruiz, which is threatening to turn me into the woman with too many rings on who can’t shut up about the amazingly transformational book she is reading. (Why, oh why, won’t he ever pick the red one?) It’s been so long, I know, did you miss me? We wanted to wait til after the holidays to round up the best of the local literary scene and now we have eaten all the brie and there are so many good writerly happenings afoot to attend! We will do them all! We are leaning in to 2019! Actually, we are so tired, we are mostly falling over, but the love of the written word sustains us, does it not? (Love of the written word, and brie - life sustainers.)īut first we need to discuss what to read right now. This is the transitional part, like when Mr.
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