BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:KGB Bar | May 16, 2008 - June 15, 2008 PRODID:-//strange bird labs//Drupal iCal API//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080515T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080516T010000Z SUMMARY:Drunken! Careening! Writers! Triple A Writers DESCRIPTION:                  AAA-mazing Writers!                                                         Anne Elliott                                                                Angela Himsel                                                               Alyson Palmer                                                               And your guest host\, A. Rich Merritt                                                                                                                   Anne Elliott is a writer\, ukulelist\, and feral cat caretaker living in Brooklyn. Her fiction can be seen in Hobart\, Pindeldyboz\, Smokelong Quarterly\, FRiGG\, and others.  She blogs on felines\, fiction\, and writerly frustration at                                             http":"//assbackwords.blogspot.com                                                                                                                        Angela Himsel has been obsessed with God for a long while\, and she'\;d like to think that God is equally obsessed with her -- and with the rest of us.  In her novel\, God on the Couch\, God takes to the couch in an attempt to understand the Creator/creation relationship.  Angela'\;s writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the Jewish Week\, the Forward\, Lilith\,    online at beliefnet.com and elsewhere.                                                                                                                  Best known as the tallest third of the pop rock band\, BETTY\, Alyson Palmer also writes. BETTY has performed in venues all over the world since 1986 and is known to television audiences through their recognizable theme songs for Showtime’s "\;The L Word\,"\; HBO'\;s "\;Encyclopedia"\;\, "\;Cover Shot"\; on TLC\, Comedy Central'\;s "\;Out On The Edge"\; and Discovery TV'\;s "\;Ms. Adventure"\;.  Alyson has appeared on "\;The L Word"\; and "\;Who Wants To Be A Millionaire."\;. She writes and performs original    songs with long-time-love Tony Salvatore in Tony &\; Alyson  and Tot Rock in the raucous Tone Alley. She blogs at www.mamarox.com                                                                                                                                Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a reading series dedicated to the proposition that readings should be":" excellent\, well-read pieces that have at least one thing in them that makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts)\, and don'\;t run more than 15 minutes each.  For more information\, or to be added to the mailing list\, email CareeningWriters@aol.com.    URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-15_drunken_careeni.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-15_drunken_careeni.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080516T203000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080516T224500Z SUMMARY:The Mom Egg DESCRIPTION: URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-16_the_mom_egg.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-16_the_mom_egg.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080516T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080517T010000Z SUMMARY:Red Hen Press":" Nick Flynn\, Jennifer Michael Hecht\, and Nickole Brown DESCRIPTION: URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-16_red_hen_press_n.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-16_red_hen_press_n.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080517T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080518T010000Z SUMMARY:Unsaid DESCRIPTION: \;The literary journal Unsaid will host an evening of readings to celebrate the most recent edition of Unsaid and the release of Pamela Ryder'\;s debut novel\, "\;Correction of Drift."\;Along with Ryder Unsaid contributors Ottessa Moshfegh\, Rick Poinsett\, and Julia Holleman will read.www.unsaidmagazine.com URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-17_unsaid.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-17_unsaid.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080518T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080519T000000Z SUMMARY:Fiction":" N. S Koenings & Peter Melman DESCRIPTION: N.S. Koenings  is the author of the novel":" Blue Taxi and holds a BA in African Studies from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in socio-cultural anthropology from Indiana University\, where she also completed her MFA. in fiction. She currently teaches at Hampshire College. She reads from her collection":" TheftSurprising\, funny\, and utterly memorable stories about Africans\, Europeans\, and the places where they come together or collide. The path from Europe to Africa has been much traveled in literature but rarely in such an evocative\, nuanced\, and even playful way as in N.S. Koenings'\;s THEFT. - Publishers Weekly -Peter Melman was born in New York and raised in Louisiana\, where he earned his Ph.D. in English-Creative Writing from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.  Landsman\, his debut novel\, has garnered a BookSense\, Barnes &\; Noble Discover Great New Writers\, and 2007 American Library Association Notable Book of the Year selection.  He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife Elena and eight-month-old son\, Charlie.He reads from his book":" Landsman"\;What America has been without is an Isaac Babel\, a writer who could filter the country’s defining conflict through a Jewish lens. That is\, until now. In his lush debut novel\, Peter Charles Melman tells the story of Elias Abrams\, a richly drawn representative of the roughly 3\,000 Jewish men who fought for the Confederacy . . . Melman’s most significant achievement\, though\, lies in breaking down the framework through which the Civil War story is conventionally told. North\, South\, black and white aren’t the key points of reference here . . . His book is ultimately anti-tribal. He offers good and bad Yankees\, good and bad Southerners\, good and bad Jews. Justice\, in the universe of Melman’s novel\, is achieved not collectively but individually\, and it’s colorblind."\; Jewish Daily Forward URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-18_fiction_n_s_koe.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-18_fiction_n_s_koe.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080519T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080520T010000Z SUMMARY:Amanda Michalopoulou and Donald Breckenridge DESCRIPTION: Amanda Michalopoulou was born in Athens\, Greece in 1966. She has had a daily newspaper column in Kathimerini since 1990\, and is the author offour novels\, two short story collections\, and a successful series of children'\;s books. She has won various awards\, in particular for her first short story collection\, Life is Colourful Outside\, and her first novel\, Wishbone Memories. She currently lives in Athens.Donald Breckenridge is the fiction editor of The Brooklyn Rail\, coeditor of the web-based Intranslation site\, editor of The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology (Hanging Loose Press '\;06) and was recently nominated for a PEN/Nora Magdin Award.He is the author of more than a dozen plays as well as the novella Rockaway Wherein (Red Dust '\;98) and the novel 6/2/95 (SpuytenDuyvil '\;02). His second novel Arabesques for Sauquoit is forthcoming from Autonomedia and his third novel YOU ARE HERE is forthcoming from Starcherone Books. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-19_amanda_michalop.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-19_amanda_michalop.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080520T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080521T010000Z SUMMARY:An Evening of Readings from the 2008 PEN Literary Awards DESCRIPTION: \;Cynthia Ozick and Alex Mindt URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-20_an_evening_of_r.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-20_an_evening_of_r.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080521T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080522T010000Z SUMMARY:Fantastic Fiction":" Jack O'Connell and Ekaterina Sedia DESCRIPTION:Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present":" Jack O'\;Connell\, author of The Resurrectionist\, just published by Algonquin\, and four previous novels set in the fictional city of Quinsigamond\, including Box 9\, Wireless\, The Skin Palace and Word Made Flesh. Ekaterina Sedia\, author of The Secret History of Moscow\, published by Prime Books this past November. Her next\, The Alchemy of Stone\, will be out this July. Her short stories have been published in a variety of magazines andanthologies. * Mobile Libris will be selling booksSubscribe to our mailing list":"http":"//groups.yahoo.com/group/kgbfantasticfiction/join URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-21_fantastic_ficti.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-21_fantastic_ficti.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080522T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080523T010000Z SUMMARY:Kinky Jews' Evening of Jewish Lit-Erotica DESCRIPTION: \;KINKYJEWS AND THE KGB BAR PRESENT":"An Evening of Jewish Lit-EroticaFeaturing":" Tsaurah Litzky\, Matthue Roth\, Lainie Speiser\, Albert Stern\, P.K.\, and With Special Musical Guest Avi Fox-RosenCOST":" FreeOPEN TO":" All1) Tsaurah Litzky'\;s erotica has appeared in over sixty-five publications including Best American Erotica eight times. Simon and Schuster published her erotic novella\, The Motion Of The Ocean\, as part of Three The Hard Way\, a series of erotic novellas edited by Susie Bright. Tsaurah'\;s prize winning course\, Silk Sheets – Writing Erotica will be entering its eleventh year at the New School in Fall 2008.  http":"//tsaurahlitzky.com2) Matthue Roth is the author of Candy in Action\, a novel about supermodels who know kung-fu (Soft Skull)\, as well as the novel Never Mind the Goldbergs and the memoir Yom Kippur a Go-Go. He and his wife just moved to Brooklyn\, and he keeps a secret diary at http":"//www.matthue.com.3) Lainie Speiser began her career in adult entertainment shortly after getting her BA in journalism from School of Visual Arts. She has worked as a writer\, spokesperson and publicist for Penthouse\, Girls of Penthouse\, Variations\, The Penthouse Forum\, Gallery\, Fox and Lollypops. In the fall of 2005 she was published in an anthology called Naked Ambition":" Women Who Work Behind The Scenes In Porn and in the Fall of 2007 she published her first solo book\, Threesomes":" For Couples Who Want To Know More. Both can be purchased at Borders\, Barnes and Nobles and on http":"//www.amazon.com.http":"//www.myspace.com/lainiespeiser4) Albert Stern is a writer and monologuist whose greatest contribution to the amorous life of the Jewish people was his rediscovery of the long lost Yiddish word for vagina in the essay "\;Jewish Sexuality\, Such As It Is":" Volume  1."\; Regretfully\, there will be no Volume 2. He was a co-founder of the Mouthpiece storytelling series\, and has appeared with Speakeasy Stories and The Liar Show. His writing has appeared on Fresh Yarn\, Mr. Beller'\;s Neighborhood\, and Smith Magazine.5) "\;P.K."\; is music teacher who lives with his wife in Manhattan. He holds Masters Degrees from Teacher'\;s College\, Columbia and The Gallatin School at NYU. P.K. enjoy reading\, walking and fencing (sabre) and on occasion\,bicycling. He has penned several erotic short stories at http":"//www.literotica.com.6) Avi Fox-Rosen is a singer\, songwriter and guitarist living in Brooklyn NY. He brings you ear candy for the overeducated.  Wacky characters collide and swap stories\, ranging from drunken angels attempting flight\, to 10 year old book worm serial murderers\, to onanistic pseudo biblical imaginings. Folk\, jazz\, world music and rock collide in his intricate songs and stunning guitar playing. 2007 was a milestone year as Avi independently released two albums\, "\;One"\; and "\;The Amazing Frozen String Quartet"\;. Come listen at http":"//www.frosenox.com.Previous readers in KinkyJews'\; Jewish Lit-Erotica Reading Series have included":" Kimberly Warner Cohen\, Rachel Kramer Bussel\, Laura Antoniou\, Karen Taylor\, Andy Horwitz\, Rachel Shukert\, David Bar Katz\, Michael T. Luongo\, Amy Sohn\, Apollo Braun\, Aaron Hamburger\, Jamye Waxman\, Wayne Koestenbaum\, Mindy Raf\, Miriam Datskovsky\, Elisa Albert\, Allen Ellenzweig\, Wayne Hoffman\, Ronnie Koenig\, Phil S. Stein\, Lisa Beth Kovetz\, Felice Shays\, Jay Michaelson\, Suzanne Portnoy\, Marty Beckerman\, Michael Dolan\, Susannah Perlman\, Sam J. Miller\, Margot Leitman and Lainie Speiser."\;a night of sexy Semitic takes."\; -Time Out New York"\;KinkyJews is putting alternative lifestyle minded Jews on the map."\; -Daily Jews"\;Oy\, this ain'\;t your grandma'\;s mah jong game!"\; -Eros Zine"\;...the self-styled KinkyJews group is growing fast and spreading across the globe."\; -Skin TwoKinkyJews\, the Next Generation of Jewish Kinksters\, brings together hundreds of young Jewish kinksters from across the USA and around the world. They welcome from the curious to newbies to the experienced. Similarly they welcome all sexual orientations and all streams of Judaism. Hip\, funky\, open minded\, interesting and otherwise different genres of Jews are encouraged to expand their horizons with them as well. For more information\, see":" http":"//www.kinkyjews.com URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-22_kinky_jews_even.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-22_kinky_jews_even.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080523T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080524T010000Z SUMMARY:Drunken Boat":" Launch Party\, Issue #9 DESCRIPTION: \;Drunken Boat\, international online journal of the arts\, launches its ninth issue on Mis/Translation and Poetics with a multimedia performance and reading.Join Drunken Boat\, international online journal of the arts\, for a speciallaunch party to celebrate Issue#9\, dedicated to the Panliterary Awards\, Poetics and a Mis/Translation folio. Come experience writers and multimedia artists Sandra Beasley\, Rand Richards Cooper\, Sean Thomas Dougherty\, Alena Hairston\, Karla Kelsey\, Steve Langan\, Hermine Meinhard\, Terese Svoboda\, Peter Yumi and Jonathan Zalben perform new work.Free and Open to the Public!Sandra Beasley won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize for her book Theories of Falling\, selected by Marie Howe. Her poems have appeared in SLATE\, The Believer\, 32 Poems\, Barrow Street\, Blackbird\, and the 2005 Best New Poets.She is an editor for The American Scholar in Washington\, D.C.Aaron Hamburger was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his short story collection The View from Stalin'\;s Head (Random House\, 2004)\, which was also nominated for a Violet Quill Award. His next book\, a novel titled Faith for Beginners\, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His writing has appeared in Poets and Writers\, The Village Voice\, Tin House\, Details\, and Nerve. Currently he teaches creative writing at Columbia University.Rand Richards Cooper is the author of The Last to Go and Big As Life. His fiction has appeared in Harper'\;s\, GQ\, Esquire\, and other magazines\, and he has been Writer-in-Residence at Amherst and Emerson colleges. A film criticfor Commonweal and Travel Correspondent for Bon Appetit\, Rand also writes acolumn about fatherhood\, "\;Dad on a Lark\,"\; for Wondertime.com. Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of ten books including Broken Hallelujahs from BOA Editions. His whereabouts are currently unknown as heis traveling to find the White City.Alena Hairston earned an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Brown University where she won the John Hawkes Memorial Prize for Fiction. Her recent work appears in Appalachian Heritage\, ABZ Journal\, and TheEncyclopedia Project. She has performed in various plays and was featured in Women Pharaohs for the Discovery Channel. She is a 2004 Poetry Fellow withthe Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and a 2007-2009 Cave CanemPoetry Fellow. Her first collection\, The Logan Topographies\, won Persea Books'\; inaugural Lexi Rudnitsky Memorial Prize for Poetry. Alena is an EnglishInstructor at Solano College in Fairfield\, Ca. She received tenure this year. Poet Karla Kelsey (Drunken Boat # 8) and Multi-media artist Peter Yumi (Drunken Boat #9) live in Central Pennsylvania. They both currently share an obsession with the work of John Cage and Merce Cunningham\; theirmultimedia composition Listening Devices was created using Cage'\;s mesostic poetic form.Steve Langan is the author of a collection of poems\, Freezing (New Issues\,2001)\, and a chapbook\, Notes on Exile &\; Other Poems (Backwaters\, 2005). His poems are in recent issues of Beloit Poetry Journal\, Octopus\, Poetry\, Salzburg Review\, Tarpaulin Sky and Zoland Poetry. Langan teaches in the University of Nebraska MFA in Writing program. Hermine Meinhard'\;s book Bright Turquoise Umbrella\, published by Tupelo Press\, was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America'\;s Norma Farber First Book Award. The winner of the Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Award\, her poems have appeared in American Letters &\; Commentary\, Barrow Street\, How2\, Verse Daily\,and many other journals. She teaches at NYU and the New York Writers Workshop at the Jewish Community Center Manhattan. Terese Svoboda has published eleven books of prose and poetry including Black Glasses Like Clark Kent\, winner of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and Pirate Talk or Mermelade forthcoming from Dzanc Press. The McGhee Professor in fiction at Davidson College spring 2008\, she most recently taught poetry for the Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya.Jonathan Zalben'\;s music for film\, theater\, and television has been shown at Slamdance\, SXSW\, Tribeca\, LA Film Festival\, New York International FringeFestival\, and Chicago Sketch Fest. His orchestral works have beenperformed by the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra and the New York University Orchestra. Zalben holds a U.S. patent for a muffler design. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-23_drunken_boat_la.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-23_drunken_boat_la.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080527T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080528T010000Z SUMMARY:NERVE":" Arianne Cohen\, Rachel Shukert\, and Will Doig DESCRIPTION:Arianne Cohen has had a lot of bad sex. Her work regularly appears in New York Magazine\, Marie Claire\, Fast Company and Popular Science\, among many others. She developed her reporting chops in Cambodia\, as a news reporter for the Cambodia Daily Newspaper\, under a Rockefeller Travel Fellowship from Harvard University.  She is currently at work on The Tall Book\, a narrative compendium of all things tall.Rachel Shukert is the author of Have You No Shame? (Random House/Villard).Her work has also been featured in Best Sex Writing 2008\, Best American Erotic Poems\, and 2033":" The Future of Misbehavior. She lives in New York City with her husband and her cat. Her website is rachelshukert.com.Will Doig is the editor of Nerve.com. He'\;s a regular contributor to Out Magazine\, The Advocate and Highlights for Children. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-27_nerve_arianne_c.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-27_nerve_arianne_c.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080528T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080529T010000Z SUMMARY:Open City ":" Leni Zumas and Christine Schutt DESCRIPTION: \;The Open City KGB Reading Series presentsLENI ZUMAS\, giving the very first reading to celebrate the publication of her brand-new story collection\, FAREWELL NAVIGATOR (Open City Books)and CHRISTINE SCHUTT\, reading from her new novel\, ALL SOULS CHRISTINE SCHUTT is the author of A Day\, A Night\, Another Day\, Summer (Northwestern\, 2005) the novel Florida (Northwestern\, 2004)\, a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction\, and Nightwork (Knopf\, 1996)\, a collection of short stories chosen by poet John Ashbery as the best book of 1996 for the Times Literary Supplement. Her most recent novel\, ALL SOULS\, will be published in June by Harcourt.LENI ZUMAS'\;s debut story collection FAREWELL NAVIGATOR is Open City Books'\; latest release (paperback original\, May 28). Her fiction has recently appeared in Open City\, Quarterly West\, and New Orleans Review. She is a winner of the AWP Intro Journals Award for Short Fiction. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst MFA program\, she teaches writing at Hunter College and plays drums in the Brooklyn post-punk band S-S-S-Spectres."\;Attention unrequited lovers\, sisters of suicidal brothers\, children of the legally blind":" you are not alone. Leni Zumas understands your quiet agony and describes it with such a wry\, unflinching familiarity that even the gory details ring true. If darkness has ever been your friend\, your story is inhere."\; -Miranda July URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-28_open_city_leni_.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-28_open_city_leni_.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080529T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080530T010000Z SUMMARY:Design Criticism":" SVA's Reading Series":" Akiko Busch\, Paul Lukas and others DESCRIPTION: \;SVA'\;s Design Criticism reading series":" Akiko Busch\, Paul Lukas and others dish food-related design criticism.Paul Lukas is the former marketing columnist for Fortune magazine and the author of Inconspicuous Consumption":" An Obsessive Look at the Stuff We Take for Granted\, from the Everyday to the Obscure (Crown\, 1997). His related column on design website Core 77 dissects the cultural implications of consumer products---ranging from oddball foodstuffs like Heinz EZ Squirt Blastin'\; Green Ketchup to self-proclaimed "\;classic"\; commodities like Coca-Cola. Several years worth of these product investigations are collected in his fanzine\, Beer Frame":" The Journal of Inconspicuous Consumption.  In addition\, Paul writes about brand histories for FSB magazine and travel for Money magazine. In 1999\, he began writing Uni Watch\, a column about sports uniforms which ran in The Village Voice and Slate before appearing in its current spot on ESPN.com in 2004.Akiko Busch has written about design and culture since 1979. She is the author of Geography of Home":" Writings on Where We Live and The Uncommon Life of Common Objects":"  Essays on Design an the Everyday. Her most recent book\, Nine Ways to Cross a River\, a collection of essays about swimming across American Rivers\, was published in 2007 by Bloomsbury/USA. She was a contributing editor at Metropolis magazine for 20 years. Her essays have appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues\, and she has written articles for Architectural Record\, Elle\, Home\, House &\; Garden\, Metropolitan Home\, London Financial Times\, The New York Times\, Traditional Home\, Travel &\; Leisure and Wallpaper\, among other publications. In Fall\, 2005 she served as a Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair for the Visual Arts at the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. She has lectured widely on architecture and design and has appeared on public radio in the U.S. and Canada.  Currently\, she is a regular contributor to The New York Times Sunday regional section. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-29_design_criticis.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-29_design_criticis.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080530T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080531T010000Z SUMMARY:Paragraph":" Brian Sack and Sherri Rifkin DESCRIPTION: Brian Sack is the author of In the Event of my Untimely Demise (HarperCollins). He has written humor for a variety of publications that people actually read. He regularly appears on "\;CNN Headline¹s Glenn Beck "\;program as the show¹s ombudsman and will be regularly appearing as a humorist on Not Just Another Cable News Show if it'\;s not canceled. His website Banterist.com has been praised for not sucking. He is the voice oftalk show host Mike Riley in Grand Theft Auto IV.Sherri Rifkin\, a former TV marketing executive\, lives in New York City\, where she writes for a variety of entertainment and media clients\, including Bravo\, USA Network and the Style Network. Her first novel\, Love Hampton\, will be published by Griffin/St. Martin¹s Press in May 2008. She is the author of a number of web\, newspaper and magazine articles as well as two non-fictionbooks. She is currently at work on her second novel. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-30_paragraph_brian.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-30_paragraph_brian.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080601T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080602T010000Z SUMMARY:Fiction":" St. Petersburg Review DESCRIPTION: URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-06-01_fiction_st_pete.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-06-01_fiction_st_pete.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080608T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080609T010000Z SUMMARY:Fiction":" Mary Morris & Larry O'Connor DESCRIPTION: URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-06-08_fiction_mary_mo.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-06-08_fiction_mary_mo.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080611T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080612T010000Z SUMMARY:Exile Cinema DESCRIPTION: \;Former Village Voice film critic Michael Atkinson and other contributors reaed from the new book Exile Cinema URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-06-11_exile_cinema.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-06-11_exile_cinema.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080614T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080615T010000Z SUMMARY:Trumpet Fiction DESCRIPTION: URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-06-14_trumpet_fiction.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-06-14_trumpet_fiction.html END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR