Just a quick reminder that the New Literary Issue 2 Release Party is happening tomorrow: Thursday, June 6th 7:00 – 8:30pm at Odradek’s Coffee House in Kew Gardens.
I’ll be reading an excerpt from my short story “The Trouble with Finklesteins” along with an array of Newtown authors.
Stop by and say hello!
I guess I have caught the reading bug. I recently signed up to participate in two events in June.
First, I’ll be reading part of my short story “The Trouble with Finklesteins” at the REZ Reading Series June 6th event, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm, held at Odradeks Coffee House (82-60 Austin Street by the LIRR), right in my neighborhood of Kew Gardens. The REZ Reading Series is a monthly program sponsored by Sullivan Street Press. Their June event will feature local authors from the Queens-based Newtown Literary. I wrote “The Trouble with Finklesteins” a few years back when I was in a contemporary short fiction phase. No feline shapeshifters or ancient worlds, the story focuses on the strained relationship of two thirty-something women and the terrible secret one of them is hiding.
Then, I’m back again reading from The Seventh Pleiade at an exciting, new venue with an ultra-cool name: Bureau of General Services – Queer Division, on June 9th 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm. BGSQD in SoHo (Strange Loop Gallery, 27 Orchard St., New York, NY, 10002) is “a queer bookstore and event space” that hosts regular literary happenings. Their June 9th event features seven Bold Strokes Books authors representing a wide variety of fictional work. You can check out the event below:
Both events are free. Come out and see me!!
Thanks to everyone for their concern during Hurricane Sandy.
My honey-bunny and I (and Chloë) are just fine. We are extremely lucky to live on high ground in Queens.
We spent a nervous evening with wind gusts shrieking around us from all four corners of our eighth floor apartment. But we didn’t lose power, and we were safe and cozy, snacking on our Halloween candy and watching RuPaul’s Drag Race, as well as Golden Girls re-runs.
How and when I will return to work is a big question mark, with the status of subways and trains uncertain. But that’s a really minor inconvenience considering the damage in other areas of the city.
My best wishes to my fellow New Yorkers during the recovery.
View of Kew Gardens, October 30, 2012. Gloomy but pretty much unscathed.