Guerrilla Lit Reading Series

READING WEDNESDAY JANUARY 28th

2009-01-02T10:25:00.008-05:00

The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Greg Sanders, James Yeh, and Jessie Male to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 PM

GREG SANDERS' collection of short stories, Motel Girl, was published by Red Hen Press in September. Publishers Weekly calls the collection "intelligent, funny, relevant and weird," while Rain Taxi Review of Books calls his stories "deft, enigmatic lyrics that pivot on an image or insight." Greg received his MFA from the New School and earns his living as a technical writer.

JAMES YEH is a founding editor of Gigantic, a former editor of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and a current intern in the fiction department of The New Yorker. Recently he completed his novel-in-stories I Love and Understand You and Would Be Perfect to You Now. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gigantic, Yankee Pot Roast, and The Morning News. He lives in Brooklyn. http://yehjames.blogspot.com

JESSIE MALE received her B.A. in creative writing from Oberlin College. She has worked as a magazine editor, a grant writer, and currently, a program coordinator at Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in numerous dance and trade publications. She is currently working on two nonfiction collections.

A Guerrilla Holiday

2008-12-09T12:03:00.003-05:00

The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series returns January 28th, 2009.

We wish you all happy holidays and a safe and happy New Year.

READING WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 19th

2008-11-07T10:46:00.011-05:00

This month's Guerrilla Lit Reading Series happens a week earlier than usual due to the Thanksgiving holiday. So please come by on Wednesday the 19th when we welcome Nick Burd, Morgan Matson, and Jenny Lederer to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 PM

NICK BURD attended the University of Iowa and received his MFA from the New School. His first book, a young adult novel called The Vast Fields of Ordinary, will be published in May 2009 by Penguin/Dial Books. He lives in Brooklyn.

MORGAN MATSON received her MFA in Writing for Children & Teens from The New School in 2007. Her first novel, Top 8, was published this October. She lives in Brooklyn and is working on her second novel.

JENNY LEDERER is originally from Providence RI and now lives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She writes short fiction in all flavors. This is her second reading.

READING WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29th

2008-10-07T14:13:00.008-05:00

The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Lee Goldberg, Dani Grammerstorf, and Nicole Spector to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 PM

Also, see some recent news from one of our former readers after the BIOS:

LEE GOLDBERG teaches literature, composition, and film at LaGuardia Community College. He has an MFA from New School University and is one of the founders of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series. His book reviews have been published at fictionwritersreview.com. Right now he is finishing his first novel and a collection of short stories. He is a native New Yorker and dreams of writing a book that reviews all the best pizza in the five boroughs.

DANI GRAMMERSTORF is using her MFA from the New School to make 1,000 paper cranes. Her nonfiction has appeared in Playgirl, and she is currently working on a short story collection, a novel that is sucking the life out of her, and an inappropriate essay that contains naughty language and naked people. Dani spends her days playing Scramble when she's supposed to be processing invoices at her day job. She expects to be fired soon. She lives in Queens, New York.

NICOLE AUDREY SPECTOR, originally from L.A, has lived in New York for the past eight years. She holds a B.A. from the New School. Her writing has appeared or is scheduled to appear in KGB's on-line lit mag, Flavorpill, and various travel, music and trade publications. She is currently working on her first collection of short stories.

NEWS from one of our readers! Alvin Eng who read for us in March will be at CUNY's Asian American Research Institute lecture series on Friday, October 17, 2008, from 6PM to 8PM, at 25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000, between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan. This event is FREE.

Alvin Eng is a playwright, performer and adjunct Professor of Creative Writing on the English Department faculties of John Jay, BMCC and Fordham. He will be reading from THE LAST EMPEROR of FLUSHING'S FINAL MANIFESTO--An Imperial Memoir in Queens English--the prose adaptation of his acclaimed memoir monologues, The Flushing Cycle and The Last Emperor of Flushing.

GUERRILLA LIT RETURNS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24th & SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27th

2008-07-31T09:36:00.028-05:00

On September 24th, the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Victoria Redel, Ronna Wineberg, Ed Hamilton, and Alex Smith to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30PM.

VICTORIA REDEL is the author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction. Her latest novel The Border of Truth (Counterpoint 2007) weaves the situation of refugees and a daughter’s awakening to the history and secrets of her father’s survival and loss. Loverboy (2001, Graywolf / 2002, Harcourt), was awarded the 2001 S. Mariella Gable Novel Award and was chosen in 2001 as a Los Angeles Times Best Book. Loverboy was adapted for a feature film directed by Kevin Bacon. Her fiction and poetry have been widely anthologized. Redel’s work has been translated into five languages. Her most recent collection of poems, Swoon (2003, University of Chicago Press), was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

RONNA WINEBERG's collection of short stories, Second Language, won the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project Literary Competition. Her stories have appeared in Berkeley Fiction Review, Colorado Review, South Dakota Review, So To Speak, and other literary journals. She has received a fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the John Atherton Scholarship in Fiction at Bread Loaf, and fellowships to the Ragdale Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Ronna was a Finalist for the Willa Cather Fiction Prize, for Second Language. She has also been a Finalist in Moment Magazine's Short Story Contest. Ronna is the founding fiction editor of the Bellevue Literary Review, published by the Department of Medicine at New York University. She lives in New York City.

Ed Hamilton is the author of Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with the Artists and Outlaws of New York’s Rebel Mecca (Thunder’s Mouth Press, Nov 2007). He also writes Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog. His non-fiction has regularly appeared in the local newspapers, Chelsea Now and The Villager. Ed’s fiction has appeared in The River Walk Journal, SoMa Literary Review, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Exquisite Corpse, Southern Ocean Review, Limestone: A Journal of Art and Literature, Modern Drunkard, and Lumpen Times, as well as in dozens of online publications. Ed’s short story, Goddamn Watermelon, was published in Class Dismissed: 75 Outrageous, Mind-Expanding College Exploits (and Lessons That Won't Be on the Final) (Random House, July 25, 2006)

ALEX SMITH is the author of the book of poems, LUX. He has been published in Black Ink Horror, Left-Facing Bird, and Sink Review, among others. He is the founding editor of Red China Magazine, Dick Pig Review, and the publisher of Black Maze Books. He teaches English at John Jay College, and lives near Union Square.

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ON SEPTEMBER 27th, the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series curates one of 15 events at LitQuake's NYC Lit Crawl.

Venue for this special event: Solas 232 East 9th Street (Between 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue)

Lit Crawl at Solas starts at 7:15 PM. The readers are Tao Lin and Nicole Audrey Spector.

TAO LIN is the author of the poetry collections Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (Melville House) and you are a little bit happier than i am (Action Books) and two other books. He has been published in Noon and Vice.

NICOLE AUDREY SPECTOR, originally from L.A, has lived in New York for the past eight years. She holds a B.A. from the New School. Her writing has appeared or is scheduled to appear in KGB's on-line lit mag, Flavorpill, and various travel, music and trade publications. She is currently working on her first collection of short stories.

READING WEDNESDAY JULY 30th

2008-07-14T16:24:00.006-05:00

The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Dennis DiClaudio, James J. Williams, and Diana Roffman to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 PM for the last reading of the summer.

DENNIS DiCLAUDIO writes for a Comedy Central website that you, in all likelyhood, don't care about called Indecision 2008. He's the author of a number of books that you probably never picked up, the least un-famous of which being The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have. This fall, he has another book coming out that you almost certainly won't read called Man vs. Weather. He's had stories published in a number of journals and websites that you're not very interested in, including Opium, Elimae, Yankee Pot Roast, McSweeney's and Exquisite Corpse. His lifelong favorite football team, the Philadelphia Eagles, will never win the Super Bowl. He is a happy and confident man.

JAMES J. WILLIAMS III, a native Brooklynite, is an artist, curator and director of the Thorstein Foundation. His memoir I Was Going to Change the World appears this January in conjunction with his solo show I love everything at envoy.

DIANA ROFFMAN is a public school teacher, a green tea drinker, and a writer. Sometimes, all at once.

READING WEDNESDAY JUNE 25TH

2008-06-09T16:20:00.019-05:00

The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Nick Antosca, Emily Taylor, Molly McCloy, and Suzanne Dottino to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 PM.

NICK ANTOSCA's writing has appeared in The Barcelona Review, Nerve, The New York Sun, Identity Theory, The New York Tyrant, The Antietam Review, Hustler, Opium, elimae, and others. His first novel, Fires, was published in January 2007 by Impetus Press, and his second, Midnight Picnic, will be out in fall 2008.

EMILY TAYLOR received her MFA from The New School in May 2007, where she continues to serve as prose editor for LIT. She teaches creative writing and literature at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY and works in science publishing. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in the Green Mountains Review, Lost Magazine, The Baltimore Review, and Inkwell. In addition, an as-yet-unpublished story was a finalist for the 2007 Italo Calvino Prize given by the University of Louisville. She is completing her first novel.

An NYC Moth Storytelling Slam winner with work published in Nerve and Slate, MOLLY McCLOY has been called a "happy misanthrope," an "angel," and "one of the great storytellers of our generation." She's currently working on a family memoir that features urban wolves, suicidal rodeo horses, pot-smoking Cub Scouts and cross-dressing skinheads.

SUZANNE DOTTINO is senior editor at kgbbarlit.com and literary curator for the sunday night fiction reading series at KGB Bar. Her interviews and reviews have appeared in Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn Review and her plays have been produced in The Samuel French, and Women Center Stage Festivals.

Reading Wednesday May 28th

2008-05-17T12:12:00.014-05:00

The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Rachel Sontag, Jesse Dorris, and Elizabeth May to Bar on A. This reading starts earlier than usual: Please join us at 7:00 PM.

RACHEL SONTAG is the author of the memoir House Rules (HarperCollins). She was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois. She received her MFA in creative writing from The New School. She lives in New York City. House Rules is her first book.

"Sontag’s is a brave account, not only of what it’s like to take the brunt of an abusive parent’s wrath, but of what it means to have the courage to leave."
— Publishers Weekly

JESSE DORRIS' writing has appeared in Out, Black Book, The Brooklyn Rail, The Salt River Review, and the anthologies New York Sex: Stories and Latin Lovers. He co-edited the anthology Bésame Mucho with Jaime Manrique. He received an MFA from the New School, and is currently at work on a novel.

ELIZABETH MAY doesn't like women in skirts. The best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants, underneath the skirt and you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. Elizabeth thinks this is the best costume for the day. She received her MFA in creative writing from the New School in 2006.

Reading Wednesday April 30th

2008-03-27T13:16:00.005-05:00

The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Felicia C. Sullivan, Eugene Hwang, and Brian Fender to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 PM.

FELICIA C. SULLIVAN is a New York based writer with an MFA from Columbia University. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has been published in Swink, Post Road, Mississippi Review, Redivider, Pindeldyboz, Ballyhoo Stories, Publisher’s Weekly, the anthologies, Homewrecker – An Atlas of Illicit Loves (Soft Skull Press, 2005) and in Money Changes Everything (Doubleday, January 2007), among other publications. Recently, an excerpt from her memoir was a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2006 collection. Algonquin Books published her memoir, THE SKY ISN’T VISIBLE FROM HERE in February of 2008. She has been awarded fellowships from Tin House magazine and SLS Literary Seminars. She is the founder of the literary journal, Small Spiral Notebook, and is also the co-founder of the Non-Fiction series at KGB Bar.

EUGENE HWANG received an MFA from New School University in 2007 and received an honorable mention in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition for his story Counterclockwise. He currently lives in New Jersey and is working on his first novel, Consider the Ceiling. He is also helping to organize a symposium on the life and work of Alexander Lim, one of the most celebrated but misunderstood artists of our time.

BRIAN FENDER is a graduate of the New School University's MFA program for fiction writing. He spends the majority of his time walking the dog, commuting to work, selling beautiful but overpriced furniture, going to the gym, getting back on the train to go home and trying to get published somewhere in between.

READING WEDNESDAY MARCH 26

2008-03-07T11:03:00.009-05:00

The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Alvin Eng, Todd Zuniga, James Stobie, and Jonathan Reed to Bar on A this month. Join us at 7:30 PM.

ALVIN ENG is a playwright, performer and educator. THE LAST EMPEROR of FLUSHING'S FINAL MANIFESTO is his first formal foray into prose, and is based on his similarly titled memoir monologue which he has performed at Dixon Place and Pan Asian Rep. among others. Eng is the editor/compiler of the play anthology/oral history, TOKENS? THE NYC ASIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE ON STAGE, that includes his play, The Last Hand Laundry in Chinatown. His plays and poetry have also been published in numerous anthologies and journals, and he has contributed commentaries to NPR's All Things Considered. Honors include grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Corporation For Public Broadcasting, and an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU. He is a proud Flushing, Queens native who currently lives in Manhattan, and was named after the Chipmunk cartoon character. www.alvineng.com

TODD ZUNIGA is the founding editor of Opium Magazine and a co-founder of the Literary Death Match reading series. A Pushcart Prize nominee, his fiction has appeared most recently in Canteen, and online at Lost Magazine. He is hard at work on the third draft of his second novel. During the day he works as a freelance editor for 1up.com and ESPN Video Games. He longs for a Chicago Cubs World Series victory and an EU passport.

JAMES STOBIE was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Portland State University in 2003. He has been published in the journal Anthos.

JONATHAN REED hails from Independence, Missouri. He got a degree in Philosophy in 1995 and not long after found himself living abroad, traveling extensively and occasionally teaching English. He lived in Prague for several years and then spent a year in rural Japan, on the gentle slopes of Mount Haruna. His last two months in Japan were spent in jail. He will be reading the beginning of the book he wrote describing that experience. He now lives in the East Village.

READING WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 27

2008-02-06T20:42:00.002-05:00

The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Ellis Avery, Aoibheann Sweeney, and Jessanne Collins to Bar on A this month. Join us at 7:30 for a special evening.

ELLIS AVERY - Named by New York Press as 2007’s Best Writer You've Never Heard of But Should Go Read Right Now, Ellis Avery is the author of THE TEAHOUSE FIRE, a first novel set in the tea ceremony world of 19th century Japan. Recently out in paperback from Riverhead Books, THE TEAHOUSE FIRE won three awards last year and is being translated into seven languages. Ellis lives in New York and teaches creative writing at Columbia.

AOIBHEANN SWEENEY has written book reviews for the New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World and The Village Voice Literary Supplement. She earned her B.A. at Harvard University and her MFA at University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. Her first novel, Among Other Things I’ve Taken Up Smoking, was an Editor’s Choice at the New York Times Book Review, and is a nominee for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and a finalist for the Border’s Original Voices Award. She is currently Director of the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

JESSANNE COLLINS is an editor at Playgirl magazine, where she writes features and odes to the phallic form. Her essays have recently appeared in the New York Press and on Salon.com. She has an MFA from the New School, and is the abandoner of three novels-in-progress, one of which is only one paragraph long.

Guerrilla Lit Returns

2008-01-10T17:42:00.000-05:00

Wednesday, January 30th at Bar on A

7:30 PM - 170 Avenue A @ 11th Street, NYC

Music provided by GPod.

The Readers:

Dani Grammerstorf
Matthew Quinn Martin
Jared Hohl
Randall J. Lotowycz

DANI GRAMMERSTORF is a writer who lives in Queens with two roommates, a fish named Rupert, and a red Crock Pot. Dani has an M.F.A from the New School and is currently finishing her first novel. Her nonfiction writing will soon appear in Playgirl magazine. She is one of the founding members of Guerrilla Lit.

MATTHEW QUINN MARTIN is a New York based writer and director. His original screenplay Slingshot was bought by Bold Films and made into a feature film starring Julianna Margulies, David Arquette, Thora Birch, Balthazar Getty and Joely Fisher. Slingshot premiered at the TriBeCa film festival and is now available on DVD, distributed by the Weinstein Co. His short film A Walk in the Park premiered at New York's Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater, was chosen as a Best of Festival selection at The NYC downtown Short Film Festival, and nominated for best short at Hoboken International Film Festival. Matthew recently completed work on the novel version of Slingshot and is currently in preproduction for his feature film directing debut, the horror-thriller Vamp, from his original screenplay.

JARED HOHL is from Donnellson, Iowa. His writing has appeared in YRB Magazine, Topic Magazine, the Associated Press newswire, and in the anthology The Apocalypse Reader published by Thunder's Mouth Press (May 1, 2007).

RANDALL J. LOTOWYCZ has an MFA from the New School framed on his living room wall. Staring at it day in and day out, while never working on either of his two novels, inspired him to create the world's first magnetic dartboard calendar, which will be on sale this summer from Workman Publishing. The novels continue to remain unannounced.

Happy Holidays (Guerrillas on Vacation)

2007-11-30T11:08:00.000-05:00

Thank you for helping us end the 2007 season of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series.

Please join us again in January as we kick off the 2008 season and come back to this site for updates on the wonderful authors we have in store for the new year.

Reading Wednesday, November 28th

2007-11-01T13:58:00.000-05:00

Join us for a very special reading this month. It's a fiction filled going away party for our dear friend, Connor Coyne. So come out and wish him well on his move to Chicago.

Wednesday, November 28th at Bar on A

7:30 PM - 170 Avenue A @ 11th Street, NYC

Music provided by GPod.

The Readers:

Erik Rhey
Jessie Male
Bernie Kravitz
Connor Coyne

ERIK RHEY is a fiction writer and journalist originally from Wisconsin. He received a BA in journalism from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an MFA in fiction writing from The New School. His fiction has appeared in The Copperfield Review, Plum Biscuit, The Melic Review, and The Attic. Erik is also a senior editor at PC Magazine. He is currently working on his second novel and lives in Brooklyn.

JESSIE MALE graduated from Oberlin College in 2005 with a degree in creative writing. She grew up in Queens, lives in Brooklyn, and works full-time as a grant writer. Her writing has appeared in numerous trade and dance publications. She is currently working on her first nonfiction collection.

BERNARD J. KRAVITZ recently completed his MFA, in fiction, at the New School University. A responsible young man, who from time to time, puts food on the table as a freelance computer consultant. Until recently, he performed improv comedy around the country with Chicago City Limits, the critically-acclaimed national touring company. He was the founder and curator of 2773, a regular reading series in the East Village, featuring raw, unfinished short works by up-and-coming writers. His best fiction can be found in the love letters he writes to various glasses-wearing bookish types on the online personals. He lives in Brooklyn.

CONNOR COYNE grew up in the East Village of Flint, Michigan. He has an MFA in Fiction from the New School, and his contest winning dirty limerick was recently featured in the Dick Pig Review. He is a founding member of Chicago's Gothic Funk Nation and the Gothic Funk Triannual. He maintains a website at hereisnowhy

Reading Wednesday, October 24th

2007-10-09T09:41:00.001-05:00

We've scheduled The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series one week early this month. Please join us:

Wednesday, October 24th at Bar on A

7:30 PM - 170 Avenue A @ 11th Street, NYC

This month we welcome back honorary Guerrilla, James Freed. James has been doing some wonderful work with the Enclave reading series at Kenny's Castaways. If you haven't been to the Enclave yet, we recommend it. And now, on to the reader's bios:

The Readers:

James Stobie
Michael Zeiss
James Freed
Nick Antosca
Nicole Audrey Spector

JAMES STOBIE was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Portland State University in 2003. He has been published in the journal Anthos.

MICHAEL ZEISS has a B.A. in Fiction from Northwestern University. He has been published in Harp and Altar, an online literary journal based in Brooklyn. He lives in Woodside, Queens.

JAMES FREED's writing has appeared in The New York Times. Originally he is from Philadelphia, but now he lives in Queens where he teaches writing at LaGuardia Community College. He is chief curator for The Enclave reading series.

NICK ANTOSCA's stories have appeared in The Barcelona Review, Nerve, Identity Theory, The New York Tyrant, The Antietam Review, The Huffington Post, Hustler, Opium, and many others. His first novel Fires was published in January 2007 by Impetus Press. He graduated in 2005 with a film degree from Yale. His website is brothercyst.

NICOLE AUDREY SPECTOR is from L.A and now lives in New York. She holds a B.A from the New School. Her writing has appeared in KGB's on-line lit mag and various travel, music and trade publications. She is currently working on her first collection of short stories.

Reading Wednesday, September 26th

2007-09-12T12:24:00.000-05:00

The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series returns from its August hiatus

Join us on Wednesday, September 26th at Bar on A

7:30 PM - 170 Avenue A @ 11th Street, NYC

The Readers:

Debra Liese
Scott Dahlie
Christian TeBordo
Molly Earle

DEBRA LIESE lived in Bristol, PA until she was lured over the Delaware river to Trenton. Her fiction appears in LIT, Redivider, and Painted Bride Quarterly, and has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is alternately an editor at The Literary Review, a teacher at the Princeton Arts Council, and in her favorite hours, the coordinator of a memoir program for senior citizens.

SCOTT DAHLIE is a graduate of the New School and is the prose editor for LIT magazine. He teaches English as a second language to immigrant children on Staten Island and is working on his first novel. He lives in Brooklyn.

CHRISTIAN TEBORDO is the author of three novels. His most recent, We Go Liquid, is available from Impetus Press. He is a 2007 recipient of a fellowship in fiction from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and he lives in Philadelphia.

MOLLY EARLE is a writer and high school English teacher living in
Brooklyn. She is a Quaker and avid consumer of oatmeal. She also
enjoys reading the poetry of William Blake, watching Project Runway,
teaching grammar, walking her dog, and travelling long distances to
eat local food.

Reading Wednesday, July 25th

2007-07-16T11:07:00.000-05:00

The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series continues Wednesday, July 25th at Bar on A

7:30 PM - 170 Avenue A @ 11th Street, NYC

The Readers:

Kate Hunter
Yvonne Garrett
Randall Letowycz
Jessanne Collins

KATE HUNTER grew up in Thetford, Vermont and Nashville, Tennessee, among other places. She moved to New York City at eighteen to go to school and has been here ever since, except for periods spent traveling in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. She lives in North Brooklyn with her dog, Tuva. Her novel, The Dream Sequence, has recently been published by Impetus Press. Her website is katehunter.info.

YVONNE GARRETT was born on the Oregon Trail and is descended from pirates. She has a B.A. from Smith where Richard Wilbur once told her she would never be a writer. She's been published in several music magazines, had stories in THEMA, BARDSONG, COMPASS ROSE and poetry in poeticdiversity, ROUX, SPIRE, SubtleTea and the BALTIMORE REVIEW. She is currently facing her 2nd year in the MFA program at the New School where she also works during the day. She lives in the East Village.

RANDALL J. LOTOWYCZ was once considered some sort of an 18-year-old child prodigy, but he was 24 at the time. He spends his days creating revolutionary new calendars, and his nights juggling two novels. His writing is currently featured in the 2008 Bad Cat calendar (now on sale), and soon in Halloween-themed greeting cards from Recycled Paper Greetings.

JESSANNE COLLINS' first, second, and third novels are all on indefinite hiatus. In the meantime, she's writing a tough-love advice column and a series of essays containing too much personal information, one of which is forthcoming in Playgirl. She recently moved from Brooklyn to Jersey City, where she will be holding her second stoop sale of the season next Sunday afternoon.

Reading Wednesday, June 27th

2007-06-06T10:10:00.000-05:00

So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.

from The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series continues Wednesday, June 27th at Bar on A

7:30 PM - 170 Avenue A @ 11th Street, NYC

The Readers:

Molly Rosen
Erica Ciccarone
Jim Guida
Brian Deleeuw
Anne O'Neil

MOLLY ROSEN is a writer and a chandelier-maker who lives in Manhattan. She likes to shoot bear and elk with a bow.

ERICA CICCARONE will have her first short story published in Ep;phany in the fall. The story, Pit, has been nominated by the editor for Best American Short Stories. He non-fiction has been published in A Gathering of the Tribes and Econoculture. She is a ghost-writer and novel editor living in Brooklyn.

JIM GUIDA is an Australian who has been detained in New York for the past three or so years. He currently works as an Assistant Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and has a series of aphorisms forthcoming in AGNI.

BRIAN DELEEUW received his MFA in Fiction from The New School this spring. He has written for Tin House, CITY, and New York Press, and is at work on his first novel.

ANNE O'NEIL is a retired trendscout who has written non-fiction for Salon.com , The Villager, The Downtown Express, Daily TV, The San Francisco Film Festival, and The Industry Standard. Her theory about the True Religion of Fashion will be published in the upcoming scholarly journal, Fashion Statements. She's working on a novel about people who are supposed to love each other, but are miserable to each other because they're selfish and has an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School. She lives in Red Hook.

Reading Wednesday, May 23rd

2007-04-22T21:19:00.000-05:00

The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series continues Wednesday, May 23rd at Bar on A

7:30 PM - 170 Avenue A, New York City

The Readers:

Ned Vizzini
Marco Rafala
Yew Leong Lee
Daniel Menasche
Kari Hoerchler

NED VIZZINI is the author of It's Kind of a Funny Story ("insightful and utterly authentic" --New York Times Book Review), Be More Chill, and Teen Angst? Naaah.... His work has been honored by the American Library Association, BookSense, and the New York Public Library and has been translated into five languages (forthcoming in Chinese). He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

MARCO RAFALA's fiction has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review. As a musician, he has opened for The Psychedelic Furs, The The, and The Fixx, and has contributed to the Nine Inch Nails tribute album, "Recovered in Nails." He is currently at work on his first novel.

YEW LEONG LEE is a Singaporean writer and artist whose work has been shown in China, Singapore, Germany, France and the United States. He has authored three hypertexts, one of which won the James Assatly Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2003. He also outed himself to a lot of people in The New York Times recently. His favorite bird is the autruche.

DANIEL MENASCHE was born with his caul in Portland, Oregon. His nonfiction has appeared in NYArts, and his first published short story is forthcoming in this summer's issue of Tin House. He received his MFA from the New School in 2007.

KARI HOERCHLER has been forewarning science fiction fans of Mother Earth's plans to take control of American society since the Republican National Convention hit Manhattan in 2004. In between sounding off screaming Sirens, she has scribed stories for EuroCheapo.com, HX magazine and The Maneater. Most recently, she has been spotted proofreading Wall Street legal briefs the size of Delaware, when they're not the size of the Cayman Islands.

"I have learned this -
hate an enemy knowing he may be my friend
love a friend knowing he may be my enemy.
Men are tricky things."
(679-682)

from Ajax by Sophocles (translated by Robert Cannon)

Join us.

The Next Reading is April 18th

2007-03-25T08:11:00.000-05:00

For the temporary relief of existential pain...

The Readers:

Suzanne Dottino
Scott Geiger
Scott Larner
Camellia Phillips
Jason Napoli Brooks

The time and place:

Wednesday, April 18th at 7:30 PM

Bar on A
170 Avenue A, New York City

SUZANNE DOTTINO is senior editor at kgbbarlit.com and literary curator for the sunday night fiction reading series at KGB Bar. Her interviews and reviews have appeared in Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn Review and her plays have been produced in The Samuel French, and Women Center Stage Festivals. She reads from her book, No Comment.

SCOTT GEIGER's fiction has appeared in LCRW, Conjunctions, and the 2007 Pushcart Prize anthology. He is a member of Architecture Research Office.

SCOTT LARNER has an MFA from New School University. His fiction has appeared in the Red Cedar Review and is upcoming in Red China Magazine.

CAMELLIA PHILLIPS has an MFA from New School University. Her nonfiction has appeared in Voices of A New Generation: A Feminist Anthology. She received a 2006 fiction writing residency at Blue Mountain Center.

JASON NAPOLI BROOKS' fiction has appeared in Pindeldyboz, Big Bridge, and the anthology America Street (HarperCollins), and his non-fiction in Index, NeueKunst, and Zing. He recently recieved The New School Chapbook Award for his novel in progress, Shelter.

Next Reading

2007-02-28T15:12:00.000-05:00

The next reading is on March 21st at 7:30 PM.

Location:

Bar on A
170 Avenue A, New York City

Readers:

Michael Hearst
Alex Smith
James F. Freed
Connor Coyne
Greg Young

Michael Hearst has published stories in journals such as McSweeney's, Parenthetical Note, and The Muse Apprentice Guild. He is also the founding member of the band One Ring Zero. Their album, As Smart As We Are, includes lyrics contributed by various authors including Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Lethem, A.M. Homes, Neil Gaiman, Rick Moody and Dave Eggers. In a matter of weeks, Michael will be releasing a solo album called "Songs for the Ice Cream Trucks."

Alex Smith's poetry has appeared in Octopus Magazine, The Dick Pig Review, and is forthcoming in the No Tell Motel: Bedside Guide anthology. He holds an MFA in poetry and fiction from the New School.

James F. Freed is a writer living in New York City. His reporting has appeared in the New York Times. Currently he is working on a novel, The Perpetual Garage Sale, about identity and theft.

Connor Coyne was born in Flint, Michigan. His work has been featured in the Saturnine Detractor and he is a founding member of Chicago's Gothic Funk Movement. He maintains a website at hereisnowhy.

Gregory Young is a freelance writer and music industry slave who is actively looking for literary representation for his recently written novel, Trucker Valley, a magic-realism homage to Mark Twain, urban myths and rednecks. He has written for HX Magazine, broadway.com, Oxygen, Entertainment Weekly, Prison Life, and once worked on marketing materials for a Japanese toilet. Originally a barefoot inbred from the Ozarks, he currently resides with the slightly better-dressed barefoot inbreds in the Lower East Side.

Thank You

2007-02-22T15:46:00.000-05:00

The second reading of our series was another great success. The partisans of the Guerrilla Lit Reading series would like to thank everyone who attended and participated in last night's event. Our next reading is Wednesday, March 21st. Check back soon for our list of readers.

The Planet of the Literary Apes

2007-02-08T21:40:00.000-05:00

gue·rril·la or gue·ril·la
Function: noun
Etymology: Spanish guerrilla, from diminutive of guerra war, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German werra strife (see WAR)

1. A member of an irregular military force operating in small independent groups capable of great speed and mobility that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment.
2. Warfare carried out by guerrillas.
3. What we are.

Welcome to the Guerrilla Lit Blog Page (or Gorilla Lit Blog Page). A mighty thank you to those who have made it to our past reading (or readings), and to those who have not yet attended a Guerrilla Lit Reading, it's okay.

If you have made it this far, fellow literary traveler, go ahead and delve deeper. We're nice, believe us. We only look like damn dirty apes.

Anyway, what we, as irregulars, are fighting for is a little island in the literary ocean. That's all. It will be an island of relaxation and chilling, guerrilla style. That means that all you writers out there come on by, read a little something--your zaniest, craziest, most brilliant work, perhaps--settle down, have a drink, talk to a lady friend, a man friend, or an ape friend and enjoy the night.

And all the rest of you looking for a good time? Well, pony up a little piece of your evening with us. We promise to shock, confound, and entertain with our excellent guerrilla (or gorilla) mojo.

Our next reading is on February 21st at 7:30 PM.

Location:
Bar on A
170 Avenue A, New York City

Readers:

Dani Grammerstorf
Meredith Franco Meyers
Jared Hohl
Elliott David
Justin Taylor

Dani Grammerstorf has her MFA from the New School University. She lives in New York City and is working on her first novel.

Meredith Franco Meyers' work has appeared in Modern Bride, Time Out New York, and SELF magazine among other publications. She is a contributing editor for LIT and will receive her MFA from New School University in May. She is at work on her first novel.

Jared Hohl is from Donnellson, Iowa. His writing has appeared in YRB Magazine, Topic Magazine, and on the Associated Press newswire. "Fraise, Menthe, et Poivre 1978", his first published short story, will appear in the anthology The Apocalypse Reader (Thunder's Mouth Press) in late May of this year.

Elliott David was born in Dallas, Texas. His short story, "So We Are Very Concerned" will be published in the anthology The Apocalypse Reader (Thunder's Mouth Press). He's studied conceptual sculpture in Los Angeles, concrete poetry in Brazil, and pop marketing in New York. He's a features contributor for Flaunt Magazine and the Art columnist for Bookslut. He lives in New York City.

Justin Taylor is the Books editor for Econoculture.com and the editor of The Apocalypse Reader (Thunder Mouth Press, May 2007), an anthology of new and selected short fictions about the end of the world. Justin's own writing (including fiction, journalism, and poetry) has been published by or is forthcoming in The Believer, YETI, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Punk Planet, and elsewhere. A full archive of his work is available at his website: www.justinDtaylor.net

And remember, under the various Geneva Conventions, members of such a guerrilla force qualify for Prisoner of War status if captured. And bananas.