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.
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