Nathan Tyree: The last time I
I’ll be leaving early tomorrow morning for the trip to NYC. My train from KC leaves at 7:45. We plan on visiting the Museum of Modern Art, the Central Park Zoo, President Clinton’s office, Empire State Building and other points of interest all leading up to the reading Sunday night at the
KGB Bar.
Those reading will be:
Andrew Lewis Conn is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, P (SoftSkull, 2003). Following a starred review in Kirkus, P was chosen as one of the summer's best books by The Austin Chronicle, Nerve, The Oregonian, Salon, and Time Out New York, and was named one of the best books of the year by The Village Voice and The Austin Chronicle. P was translated into Greek by Electra Publishing and into Portuguese for publication in Brazil by Editora W11.
Conn's other writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Film Comment, Time Out New York, and The Believer. He has been a resident at the Ledig House International Writers' Colony and Yaddo.
A Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Cornell University, Conn recently completed his second book, The Last American Novel and is at work on his third, O, Africa!
Nic Kelman is the international bestselling novel, Girls, published by Little, Brown and Co. as well as Video Game Art, an art history of video games published by Assouline. His writing and photography have appeared,among other places, in Elle, Glamour, The Village Voice, and Black Book, as well as various anthologies. He holds a B.S. from MIT and an M.F.A. from Brown University.
Nathan Tyree is a writer from Kansas. His fiction and poetry has appeared in places like Edifice Wrecked; decomP; The Beat; Doorknobsand Body Paint; Flesh and Blood; Problem Child; The Shallow End; Lightning Journal; Journal of Modern Post and too many others to list. In addition to The Flash his work has been anthologized several times. Nathan is the author of Mr. Overby is Falling. He has never mastered the oboe.
Jackie Corley was born in 1982. She developed Word Riot in March 2002 with the help of Paula Anderson. Word Riot Press,an independent publishing press, evolved out of the magazine in January 2003.Jackie's writing has appeared on-line at MobyLives.com, 3AM Magazine and SerialText and in print in BOOM! For Real and Consumed: Women on Excess (So New Media).
This is all in support if
The Flash, the new anthology edited by Peter Wild and featuring stories by:
Laird Hunt, Kitty Fitzgerald, Daren King, Matthew David Scott, Denise Mina, Ian Sansom, Martin Ouvry, Nick Stone, Shelley Jackson, Nicholas Royle, J Robert Lennon, Patrick Neate, Nicholas Blincoe, Niall Griffiths, Conrad Williams, Darran Anderson, Willy Vlautin, Kevin Spaide, Sara Gran, Daniel Wallace, Avital Gad-Cykman, Stav Sherez, Jackie Corley, Ben Richards, Patricia Duncker, Susan Elderkin, Stephen McCauley, Gina Ochsner, Dermot Bolger, Kevin MacNeil, Mark Dunn, Clare Dudman, Shiromi Pinto, Nic Kelman, Rick Moody, Sam Lipsyte, Percival Everett, Joel Lane, Erin C Murphy, Christopher Coake, Jonathan Lethem, Samuel Ligon, Nathan Tyree, Lauren Milne Henderson, Femke Colborne, Kevin Sampson, Jeremy Sheldon, Chad Taylor, Kevin Sampsell, Andrew Lewis Conn, Andrew Holmes, Peter Wild, Mitch Cullin, Katherine Dunn, Lila Lundquist, Ben Myers, Lana Citron, Nicola Mostyn, Damon Galgut, Steven Sherrill, Ray Fracalossy, Michel Faber, Jeff VanderMeer, Shelley Silas, James Flint, Stewart Lee, Paul Blaney, Paul Di Filippo, Barry Yourgrau, John Williams, Richard Evans, Charlie Williams, Scott Mebus, Robert Sheppard, Matthew Cheney, Danny King, Jess Walter, Hiag Akmakjian, Rebbecca Ray, Matt Thorne, Kate Pullinger, Jeffrey Ford, Brandon Stosuy, Emily Maguire, Matthew De Abaitua, Christopher Brookmyre, Steve Aylett, Aimee Bender, Bob Thurber, Steve Almond, Nick Johnstone, Simon Crump, Stella Duffy, Arthur Nersesian, Carlton Mellick III, Ewan Morrison, Matt Haig, Cintra Wilson, Rhonda Carrier and Fred Dutton.
All proceeds go to Amnesty International.
I'll try to post from NYC
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