Filed under: events, press | Tags: James Yeh, Opium Literary Deathmatch, readings
tonight!
bowery poetry club, nyc 8pm, free:
more about this at the rumpus, vol. 1 brooklyn, and broke ass stuart
The Faster Times, The Rumpus, and Gigantic Present:
The 2009 Wall Street Holiday Party
Monday, December 14, 2009, 7 p.m.-10 p.m.
Glasslands 289 Kent Avenue (between 1st and Grand) Brooklyn
Come drink champagne and party like you just got a $3 million bonus!
As creative types–writers, journalists, artists etc.–we tend to miss out on big corporate holiday blowouts complete with chocolate fountains and drunken co-workers embarrassingly making out beneath mistletoe. Those of us who work from home rarely even see other people, or wear “clothing.”
So this year, let’s don our Wall St.-inspired Holiday Best (You know, that suit you had dry-cleaned about three years ago just in case you an opportunity to wear it arose), and get down like it’s 2003 and Bernie Madoff has yet to steal everyone’s money.
For one night only we can all pretend to be rich.
If you actually have a corporate job, never fear. This party will provide the kind entertainment no Wall St. firm would ever allow. We’ll be having an (affordable) silent auction, and entertainment TBA.
Join us in celebrating another fun, if fiscally irresponsible year!
Opus 217. Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890, by Paul Signac
(1890)
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Stories in Three Lines, v. 2
(Three-line Summaries with Links to Their Original Forms)
Inspired by Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines. Below, two stories, a novel and a collection of rejection letters are discovered, digested and summarized, all within three lines.
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The prisoner had been imprisoned for ripping a poster — “accidentally,” he claimed.
It was like the two of them were trying to make a snowman without enough snow.
Listen to a game on the radio, listen to people talk, listen to what happens when they talk, stuff’ll happen when they talk.
He could have just said “No.”
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THE CAVEMAN by Xiaoda Xiao, published in The Collagist.
WE DECIDED NOT TO GIVE THEM FACES by Kim Chinquee, also published in The Collagist.)
SPORTS by Kenneth Goldsmith, published by Make Now, Los Angeles, 2008.
REJECTION LETTERS FROM THE EYESHOT OUTBOX, VOLUME 9 by Lee Klein, published in Eyeshot.
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Stories in Three Lines, v. 1 found here.
Filed under: Website | Tags: adrian van young, brian evenson, carmen lau, monofonus, sasha fletcher
illustration courtesy of andrew bulger.
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the gigantic mini-monster issue:
brian evenson talks to adrian van young about the imperative of modern horror film
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fiction by sasha fletcher and carmen lau
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videos by monofonus
Gigantic, on who we are, what we’re planning next, and whether we prefer your hair up or down (an interview with Nicolle Elizabeth for Fictionaut).
Filed under: events, press | Tags: "You Don't Know Me" Benefit Bash, Ben Greenman, Bob Powers, BOMB, Bowery Electric, David Gates, events, Gigantic, james j. williams iii, John Wesley Harding, Joseph Keckler, Kalup Linzy, Opium, Scallywag & Vagabond, Sven Birkerts, The Dog House Band, The Library Is On Fire, The New York Observer
*All photos courtesy of Scallywag & Vagabond.
Check out their recap of the night’s revelry here. Here’s a snippet:
“BOMB Magazine with Gigantic and Opium magazines hosted an end-of-summer bash at Bowery Electric featuring a musical performance by a drag queen, two short plays, and another musical act that consisted largely of a guy speaking (rhythmically) to the audience about a dream he had, set to music. So of course, this means we need to talk about one thing: wolves. Or, in this case, ‘werewolves.’” ~ Scallywag and Vagabond
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In case you missed our earlier post, the Observer also ran a great review of the night.
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Much thanks to our performers and to all who attended! As well as to those who ran pre-press for the event and helped promote the evening including: HTML Giant, The New Yorker, Black Book, ARTmostfierce, [THING], The Daily News, and anyone who posted who we may have missed.
To join in the next Gigantic literary bash, stay tuned for news about our upcoming Issue II launch party!
Two new items up at the Gigantic website:
First is a fairly long interview with Clancy Martin, where Gigantic co-editor Lincoln Michel asks the novelist and philosopher some questions about the color yellow, Barry Hannah, Nirvana, the Greek god Dionysus, continental philosophy and how you write a novel.
Second is The soft destruction of a single entity over a period of time one might call, aging, a new short by Michael Martin.
Check them out!
Filed under: Website | Tags: Gigantic, Gigantic magazine, J.A. Tyler, joanna neborsky, Shya Scanlon, thomas doyle
It is here:
New website launch, new features, Art by Thomas Doyle, Fiction by Shya Scanlon and Fiction by J.A. Tyler.
Huge thanks go out to Joanna Neborsky, for designing it, and Daniel Carvalho, for programming it.
Stay tuned for weekly-ish updates!
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art by thomas doyle
