BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:KGB Bar | September 06, 2008 - October 06, 2008 PRODID:-//strange bird labs//Drupal iCal API//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080907T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080908T010000Z SUMMARY:Fiction":" Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum & Gary Amdahl DESCRIPTION:Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum’s first novel\, Madeleine Is Sleeping\, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2004. She was recently appointed head of the creative writing deparmtnet at the University of California. She lives in Los Angeles she reads from her book\, Ms. Hempel Chronicles “This story of a love affair is pure pleasure to read. Ms. Bynum can move you in one sentence from wit and hilarity to desperation and wrenching loss. She’s really good.” Jonathan Franzen - -Gary Amdahl lives in Los Angeles\,and is the author of Visigoth\, about which Thomas McGuane said\, "\;American wrath here puts on its several seductive faces and native charm\, suggesting our worst side has grown as comfortable as an old shoe."\;  He reads from his "\;darkly ludicrous"\; and "\;bitterly sophisticated"\; pair of "\;nihilistic"\; novellas\, I Am Death.  \; \; \; \;Contact":" Suzanne@kgbbar.com URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-07_fiction_sarah_s.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-07_fiction_sarah_s.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080910T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080911T010000Z SUMMARY:Jews and American Comics Launch DESCRIPTION:Paul Buhle is a senior lecturer at Brown University and the author or editor of more than thirty books\, including the three-volume Jews and  American Popular Culture. He also has edited several books of comic art\, including Wobblies!":" A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World\, A Dangerous Woman":" The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman\, Students for a Democratic Society":" A Graphic History\, and A People’s History of American Empire. He lives in Providence\, Rhode Island.Lawrence Bush edits Jewish Currents and was an editor of the arts journal Jews. He lives north of New York City.Kim Deitch\, a pioneer of underground commix\, edited Gothic Blimp\, the comic tabloid of the East Village Other\, in 1969\; contributed to many comic anthologies\; and in recent years has published several outstanding collections\, including The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (2002) with his brother\, Simon Deitch.Miriam Katin\, a Holocaust survivor\, left Hungary with her family for Israel in 1956. She has subsequently worked in Israeli animation and has drawn several children’s books in New York\, where she lives today.Peter Kuper grew up in Cleveland\, where he met Harvey Pekar and a visiting Robert Crumb\; moved to New York in 1978\; and worked on Richie Rich comics\, co-founded World War 3 Illustrated with Seth Tobocman\, and since 1997 has drawn the “Spy vs. Spy” feature for Mad magazine. He lives in New York when he is not in Mexico.Seth Tobocman grew up in Cleveland and published a comic fanzine with Peter Kuper\, has lived in New York’s Lower East Side since 1978\, was active in anti-gentrification street agitation in various ways\, has been a steady contributor to and editor of World War 3 Illustrated\, and published several highly charged political art volumes.For more information\, please visit www.jewcy.com/zeek. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-10_jews_and_americ.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-10_jews_and_americ.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080912T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080913T010000Z SUMMARY:Fiction":" Hannah Tinti & Michael Kimball DESCRIPTION:Hannah Tinti’s short story collection\, Animal Crackers\, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She is the editor of One Story magazine. She reads from her novel":" the Good Thief“Hannah Tinti has written a lightening strike of a novel- beautiful and haunting and ever so bright.” – Junot Diaz-Michael Kimball is the author of The Way the Family Got Away and How Much of Us There Was. He reads from his novel":" Dear Everybody“Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold onto this book. “ Christine Schutt URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-12_fiction_hannah_.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-12_fiction_hannah_.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080912T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080913T010000Z SUMMARY:Red Hen Press":" a reading DESCRIPTION: Douglas Kearney’s poetry has appeared in Callaloo\, nocturnes\, and Jubilat. A featured performer at the New York Public Theater among other venues\, Kearney has received a fellowship from Cave Canem and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. His collection\, Fear\, some was published by Red Hen Press in 2006. Jim Peterson’s fourth poetry collection\, The Owning Stone\, won The Benjamin Saltman Award and was published in 2000 by Red Hen Press.  His poetry has been widely published in such journals as Poetry\, Georgia Review\, Shenandoah\, and Prairie Schooner\, and was awarded a 2002-2003 Poetry Fellowship by the Virginia Arts Commission.  His first novel\, Paper Crown\, was published in 2005 by Red Hen.  He is currently Coordinator of Creative Writing at Randolph-Macon Woman'\;s College and lives in Lynchburg\, Virginia. Cate Marvin'\;s first book\, World'\;s Tallest Disaster\, was chosen by Robert Pinksy for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002\, she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New England Review\, Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, Fence\, The Paris Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Slate\, Verse\, Boston Review\, and Ninth Letter. She is co-editor with poet Michael Dumanis of the anthology Legitimate Dangers":" American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books\, 2006). Her second book of poems\, Fragment of the Head of a Queen\, was published by Sarabande in August 2007. A recent Whiting Award recipient and 2007 NYFA Gregory Millard Fellow\, she teaches poetry writing in Lesley University'\;s Low-Residency M.F.A. Program and is an associate professor in creative writing at the College of Staten Island\, City University of New York. Eleanor Lerman’s first book of poetry\, Armed Love\, was published when she was 21. It was nominated for a National Book Award\, but when it was reviewed in The New York Times\, it was called X-Rated. Two years later she published Come the Sweet By and By. It would be twenty-five years until she wrote another book of poetry\, The Mystery of Meteors\, which was published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2005\, Sarabande published her fourth book\, Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-12_red_hen_press_a.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-12_red_hen_press_a.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080914T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080915T010100Z SUMMARY:Fiction":" Joe Meno & Arthur Nersesian DESCRIPTION:Joe Meno is the best-selling author of the novels Hairstyles of the Damned\, the Boy Detective Fails\, how the Hula Girl Sings\, and Tender as hellfire\; as well as the short story collection. Bulubirds used to Croon in the Choir. He was the winner of the 2003 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction and is a professor of creative writing at Columbia College in Chicago. He reads from his illustrated story collection Demons in the Spring “Eclectic\, funny\, constantly surprising- these are the things a short story collection should be allowed to be\, and Joe Meno’s Demons in the Spring absolutely is. Add to his rock solid prose and big heart a wonderful idea – how each story is illustrated by a modern master- then you have a rich\, unforgettable stew of a book\,” Dave Eggers -  \; Arthur Nersesian is the author of six novels including the cult classis Fuck-up\, Chinese Takeout\, Unlubricated and Suicide Casanova. He is also the author of East Village Tetralogy\, a collection of four plays. He was the recipient of the Columbia University Armenian Center’s 2004 Anahid Literary Award. He lives in New York City. He reads from his novel":" The Swing Voter of Staten Island URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-14_fiction_joe_men.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-14_fiction_joe_men.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080916T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080917T010000Z SUMMARY:KGB Nonfiction Presents":" Dirty Words night DESCRIPTION: Dirty Words":" A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex is playful take on bedroom talk—a smart\, funny encyclopedia with entries written by notable contemporary writers\, and edited by Ellen Sussman. Ellen Sussman is the editor of Dirty Words":" A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex\, Bad Girls":" 26 Writers Misbehave and the author of the best-selling novel On a Night Like This. Abiola Abrams'\;s debut novel\, Dare\, a chick-lit Faust\, was published by Simon &\; Schuster. Thorn Kief Hillsbery'\;s most recent novel\, What We Do Is Secret\, was short-listed for the 2006 Lambda Literary Award. His other novels include War Boy and the forthcoming King &\; Country. Whitney Joiner writes for the New York Times\, Seventeen\, Glamour and other publications. Allison Lynn is the author of the novel Now You See It. Zoe Rosenfeld is a writer and freelance book editor. Mary-Ann Tirone Smith is the author of the memoir\, Girls of Tender Age\, and eight novels. Her latest is Dirty Water":" a Red Sox Mystery. Victoria Redel is the author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction\, including The Border of Truth\, Loverboy and Swoon. Natalie Danford is the author of Inheritance and the coeditor of Best New American Voices. Josh Emmons is the author of The Prescription for a Superior Existence and The Loss of Leon Meed. Adam Wilson is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA program. Ravi Shankar has published a book of poems\, Instrumentality\, and coedited Language for a New Century. Rachel Sherman is the author of a book of short stories\, The First Hurt. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-16_kgb_nonfiction_.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-16_kgb_nonfiction_.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080917T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080918T010000Z SUMMARY:Fantastic Fiction":" Holly Black and Lauren McLaughlin DESCRIPTION: FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series\, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present":"Holly Black is a bestselling author of contemporary fantasy novels. Her books include the Modern Faerie Tale series\, The Spiderwick Chronicles\, and her graphic novel series\, The Good Neighbors.Lauren McLaughlin'\;s short stories have appeared in Salon.com\, Interzone\,Year'\;s Best SF\, and Sybil'\;s Garage. Her first novel\, Cycler was just published and will be followed by a sequel in the fall of 2009. A film adaptation of Cycler is currently in the works.* Mobile Libris will be selling bookswww.kgbfantasticfiction.org \;Subscribe to our mailing list":" http":"//groups.yahoo.com/group/kgbfantasticfiction/ URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-17_fantastic_ficti.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-17_fantastic_ficti.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080918T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080919T010000Z SUMMARY:Drunken! Careening! Writers! More Cute Boys! DESCRIPTION: \;Andy Bragen\, Will Clark\, and Kevin Draine  URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-18_drunken_careeni.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-18_drunken_careeni.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080921T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080922T010000Z SUMMARY:Fiction":" Lucia Nevai & Samantha Hunt DESCRIPTION:Lucia Nevai is the author of the novel Seriously and two story collections\, Star Game\, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award\, and Normal\, Her stories have appeared in Tin House\, the Iowa Review\, Zoetrope All0Story\, The New Yorker\, and other literary magazines. A native of Des Moines\, Iowa\, she currently lives in upstate New York. “ Salvation is an absolute knockout\,” - Alice Sebold  \;Samantha Hunt is the author of the acclaimed first novel the Seas\, which In 2006 won a National Book Foundation award for writers under thirty-five. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker and McSweeney’s She lives in Brooklyn. She reads from her novel":" The Invention of Everything "\;Samantha Hunt is a writer of enviable talent\, honesty\, virtuosity and- yes-virtue. And in this book her power comes into its full heat and light. You hold in your hands an important\, fun\, educational\, magic read."\; Darrin Strauss URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-21_fiction_lucia_n.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-21_fiction_lucia_n.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080925T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080926T010000Z SUMMARY:Behind the Book DESCRIPTION: URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-25_behind_the_book.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-25_behind_the_book.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080926T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080927T010000Z SUMMARY:NYU Emerging Writers Series DESCRIPTION: URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-26_nyu_emerging_wr.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-26_nyu_emerging_wr.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080927T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080927T230000Z SUMMARY:Mirror Princess After Party DESCRIPTION: URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-27_mirror_princess.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-27_mirror_princess.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080927T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080928T010000Z SUMMARY:Paragraph Reading Series DESCRIPTION: This monthly Paragraph reading series features the writing of its members. Join us for some fabulous stories by Lisa Ebersole and Anne Pelletier. This reading is proud to be part of Litquake'\;s legendary Lit Crawl. Free and open to the public. Lisa Ebersole writes\, directs and acts. Her feature film Brother recently premiered at Tribeca Cinemas and her short film Puddin'\; has screened at festivals nationwide. Lisa'\;s plays Brother\, People Die That Way\, Methinks\, and Mouth Pieces have been produced off off Broadway in New York. Her newest play\, Mother\, will open in late 2009. Lisa is a founding member of the kids educational website\, BrainPOP\, for which she currently edits videos. Lisa graduated from NYU and studied acting with Tom Noonan and Austin Pendleton. Anne Pelletier\, is a Research Arts student in the MFA Program in Fiction Writing at Columbia University. There she has developed a collection of short fiction\, Meat and Meat Byproducts\, thematically-linked stories about all kinds of hunger. She has taught a writing workshop to a group of lovely\, talented and super-smart undergraduates whom she loves. She conjugates the verb to lie in her sleep and reads Fowler'\;s to relax. Anne lives in New York City and is at work on a novel. More about Litcrawl":" Litquake'\;s legendary Lit Crawl is going east for a massive\, one night literary extravaganza in New York City on September 27. The madcap concept\, created in 2004 in SF\, will kick-off in the Lower East Side at 6 p.m. (highlighted by events curated by FSG Books and the New Yorker'\;s Ben Greenman)\, wander up to the East Village for 7":"15 readings (with Canteen Magazine and NY Tyrant starring) then over the bridge to Williamsburg for delights at 8":"30 (where Opium'\;s Literary Death Match and BOMB Magazine will be in the spotlight). All followed by a party for the ages in Williamsburg! URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-27_paragraph_readi.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-27_paragraph_readi.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080928T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080928T230000Z SUMMARY:Mirror Princess After Party DESCRIPTION: URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-28_mirror_princess.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-28_mirror_princess.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080928T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080929T010000Z SUMMARY:Fiction":" Johnny Segura & Elaine Szewcyzk DESCRIPTION:Johnny Segura reads from his novel":" Occupational Hazards \;Elaine Szewcyzk reads from her novel":" I'\;m With Stupid  URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-28_fiction_johnny_.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-28_fiction_johnny_.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080930T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081001T010000Z SUMMARY:KGB Non-fiction Night Welcomes Mike Edison’s Banned Book Party with friends David Hadju and Richard Nash DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the American Library Association’s Banned Book Week\, Mike Edison will perform “Pornography\, Part I” from his book I Have Fun Everywhere I Go":" Savage Tales of Pot\, Porn\, Punk Rock\, Pro Wrestling\, Talking Apes\, Evil Bosses\, Dirty Blues\, American Heroes\, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World.He’ll also be discussing freedom of speech and banned and challenged books with his guests David Hajdu\, author of the The Ten-Cent Plague":" The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America\, and Richard Nash\, editorial director of Soft Skull Press\, who will also be reading from Arming America\, a book which spent four years in the American Library Association'\;s list of the top five most challenged books.  Expect “professional beatniks” and “state-sponsored fear\,” as well as a “Name That Banned Book Contest” — winners to receive “appropriately chosen prizes.”  \; \; URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-30_kgb_non_fiction.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-09-30_kgb_non_fiction.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081003T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081004T010000Z SUMMARY:Wreckage of Reason":" Anthology of XXperimental Prose by Contemporary Women DESCRIPTION:Spuyten Duyvil celebrates the release of Wreckage of Reason":" Anthology of XXperimental Prose by Contemporary Women Writers hosted by Nava Renek\, editor of the anthology. Wreckage of Reason includes innovative writing by 39 contemporary women writers.  Readers will include Rosebud Ben-Oni\, Jessica Treat\, Anna Mockler\, Roni Natov\, Elizabeth Bachner\, Alexandra Chasin\, Tsipi Keller\, Cyndi Reeves\, &\; Debra DiBlasi.For more information\, visit www.myspace.com/wreckageofreason. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-10-03_wreckage_of_rea.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-10-03_wreckage_of_rea.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081004T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081005T010000Z SUMMARY:Smartish Pace":" A Reading DESCRIPTION: URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-10-04_smartish_pace_a.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-10-04_smartish_pace_a.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081005T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081006T010000Z SUMMARY:Fiction":" John Reed & Donald Breckenridge DESCRIPTION:John Reed reads from his book":" All The World’s A Grave-Donald Breckenridge is the Fiction Editor of The Brooklyn Rail and Editor of The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology  andrecently was nominated for a Pen/Nora Magid Award. In addition\, he is theauthor of more than a dozen plays as well as the novella Rockaway Wherein\, and the novel 6/2/95. His secondnovel Arabesques for Sauquoit is forthcoming from Autonomedia. He reads from his novel":" YOU ARE HERE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-10-05_fiction_john_re.html UID:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-10-05_fiction_john_re.html END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR