Category Archives: Public Reading

Reading in Union Sq Today

Park-Lit has a simple concept: writers read from their work,  outside, in a public park. Today at 6:30 on the 21st, Guernica (in association with Park-Lit and Open City magazine) will be having a reading in Union Square Park. (On … Continue reading

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Reading: Hosting Park-Lit in Union Sq

Park-Lit has a simple concept: writers read from their work,  outside, in a public park. At 6:30 on the 21st, Guernica (in association with Park-Lit) will be having a reading in Union Square Park. (On the south side, right in … Continue reading

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Sunday Salon: How It Went

That reading was one of my best. I read a short story I’ve been working on, “Burning From the Inside.” I’m glad it worked in front of a live audience. Supposedly the reading will be on YouTube at some point.

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Reading: Sunday Salon, June 13th

This Sunday June 13th at 7 pm, I’ll be reading a a new draft of a short story I’ve been working on at Sunday Salon. Continue reading

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Reading: Freerange Nonfiction, May 5th

I’ll be reading at the Freerange Nonfiction series this May 5th. I’ll be reading from something new: an essay about a particularly horrible event that happened to me when I was much younger: I interrupted a roommate who’d captured another, … Continue reading

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PEN World Voices and Guernica: A recap

Novelist Claire Messud (who was guest-editor at Guernica recently) led a panel discussion on women, diversity, and literature. I’ll let another Guernica writer Lorraine Adams sum up the event. Continue reading

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Reading: Tandem Readings, January 17th

Looks like I’m taking part in Tandem Readings’ monthly reading series at CELL THEATRE on the 17th. It’ll be with some great people: Irina Reyn, I introduced at a PEN World Voices event that Guernica sponsored a while back, and … Continue reading

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Reading: Old Made, Nov 11th

I’ll be reading at Old Made in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on November 11th at 441 Metropolitan Avenue, along with Catherine Foulkrod, Meghan Punschke, and Matthew Thorburn. It’s going to be a new short story I’ve finally finished.

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Guernica at Page Turner

November 14th, I’ll be at Page Turner, The Asian American Literary Festival. I’ll be introducing Guernica Guest fiction editors Amitava Kumar and V.V. Ganeshananthan, who will be conducting a reading, along with the writers who are featured in this week’s … Continue reading

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My reading last night

I thought the reading went well. Packed house. Read a story that’s unpublished, “A Big Big Love.” Now to send it out. . .

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Reading: Naked Angels, Jan 13th

I’m doing a reading at Naked Angels this coming Tuesday at 9. It’s a short story about love and so on. I doubt I’ll be reading it anywhere else. It’s going to be a one-time thing.

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Cornelia Street Cafe: Reading Tomorrow, December 16th

I’m doing a reading on the 16th at Cornelia Street Cafe along with Thaddeus Rutkowski and Alison Summers. From the Cornelia Street PR: Meakin Armstrong will read his short story “Gigantic” Meakin Armstrong is a screenwriter, magazine editor, fiction editor … Continue reading

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Reposting: Reading of Guernica fiction

Wednesday, June 18, 7pm Reading: Guernica Fiction Short fiction night. Novelist Alexander Chee guest edits a special issue of Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics featuring New Korean American Fiction and asks what it means to be Korean American. … Continue reading

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Tomorrow night: Guernica and Pen World Voices

Guernica magazine is sponsoring two PEN World Voices events. Tuesday, April 29thCrisis Darfur: A Conversation with Mia Farrow and Bernard-Henri Lévy8 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française ($15/$10 students) Friday, May 2ndLeaving Home: With Dinaw Mengestu, György Dragomán, and Saša … Continue reading

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“Desires” A Reading at the Cornelia Street Cafe

Last night’s reading at Happy Ending was great, but it’s on to a new one this coming Tuesday: DESIRES: A READING AT The Cornelia Street Café Tuesday, February 19th, 6:00 PM 29 Cornelia Street 212-989-9319 It’s a great little place … Continue reading

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