Annnnd....that second reading....

Very soon, I'll be reading twice in one week—after not having read in months! (Read aloud, that is. I've been reading-reading more or less constantly.)

1. On Monday, April 23 at 7 p.m., I'll join Tiphanie Yanique and playwright Bathsheba Doran at the First Person Plural series at Shrine World Music Venue (2271 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., near 134th St.—directions here).

2. And on Wednesday, April 25, at 6:30, Columbia Magazine holds its second annual "LIT night" at the Columbia Alumni Center (622 113th St., Bwy/Riverside, click here for free reservations), with David Rakoff and Hannah Tinti.

I'm simultaneously excited and petrified!

See you there?

Readings!

I'm delighted to announce that I'll be reading twice in April—in the same week! The first time will be on April 23 at the First Person Plural series in Harlem, sandwiched between Bathsheba Doran and Tiphanie Yanique. (More info here.)

The second time will be a couple days later...more info on that soon.

(I'll be updating my long-dormant Personal Days blog. As for the official Ed Park/Personal Days site—I think I've forgotten how to use it...!)

"Living & Writing New York" — 2/8 reading!

I'll be reading and participating in a panel tomorrow (Tuesday 2/8) at 7:30 p.m. at Fordham (the Lincoln Center campus, in Manhattan). The topic is "Living & Writing New York." I'm not sure what I'll read!

The other writers are Arthur Phillips, Mary Elizabeth Williams, and Jim Dwyer.

Rather complex directions here. It's in the 12th floor lounge at 113 W. 60th St.

Open City reading/party

I'll be reading next Tuesday (12/14) at Open City's Holiday/New Issue Party, around 8 p.m. (The party is from 7 to 9 at The Magician, 118 Rivington between Essex and Norfolk.)

Here is the official invite:




Fifteen smackers (i.e., $15) gets you in (& OPEN BAR!) and a copy of issue #30, which I'm honored to be in! My story is called "Bring on the Dancing Horses," and I'll be (I think) reading a bit from it that evening. (Or I might read a little from the story that I've been writing this week. WHO KNOWS?!) My last reading of 2011! Alissa Quart is reading!

Tonight! Reading at KGB...!

I return to KGB for a reading with Bryan Charles! (What will I read?!) More info here, but I'll just copy it for you:

The Open City October KGB Reading

Featuring readings by:

Bryan Charles
and
Ed Park

Wednesday, October 27, 7PM

KGB Bar
85 E. 4th Street (btw 2nd and 3rd)
NYC
FREE

Bryan Charles is the author of the novel Grab on to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way and Wowee Zowee, a book about the band Pavement. His memoir, There’s a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From, is forthcoming from Open City Books in November.

Ed Park is the author of the novel Personal Days. He is also a founding editor of The Believer and a former editor of the Voice Literary Supplement. A new story will appear in the winter 2010-11 issue of Open City.

EP at KGB with Bryan Charles

On Weds., Oct. 27, I'll be reading with novelist/memoirist/Pavement scholar Bryan Charles at KGB—it's a reading for Open City. (A story of mine will be in the winter issue.) Bryan's memoir, There's a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From (a VTS, as the narrator of Joseph Weisberg's 10th Grade would say), is out now from Open City Books.

I'm excited! I don't know what I'm going to read from yet. (Probably not Personal Days, the award-losing novel of 2008....)

Maybe something from the Work in Progress or the Work in Progress 2 (i.e., the Work in Progress that I'm not supposed to be working on until I finish the first Work in Progress, but which I sometimes still work on anyway). Or from the Work in Progress 3, a/k/a Disambiguation, originally the first Work in Progress, that I would occasionally read from in 2009? (Remember 2009?) Or maybe just this gemlike short story that is currently here [points to skull]...

Starts at 7! My only reading of the fall! A/k/a my only nocturnal appearance below 14th Street of the fall!

King Kullin'

"You are young," said the palaces and the temples and the shrines, "but we are old. The world was wild with youth when we were reared. You and your tribe shall pass, but we are invincible, indestructible. We towered above a strange world, ere Atlantis and Lemuria rose from the sea; we still shall reign when the green waters sigh for many a restless fathom above the spires of Lemuria and the green hills of Atlantis and when the isles of the Western Men are the mountains of a strange land.

"How many kings have we watched ride down these streets before Kull of Atlantis was even a dream in the mind of Ka, the bird of Creation? Ride on, Kull of Atlantis; greater shall follow you; greater came before you. They are dust; they are forgotten; we stand; we know; we are. Ride, ride on, Kull of Atlantis; Kull the king, Kull the fool!"

—Robert E. Howard, "The Shadow Kingdom" (1929)

(Via Grognardia)

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Speaking of Atlantis, I'll be reading next Wednesday (!) at 12:30 as part of the "Word for Word" series at the Bryant Park Reading Room. It's outside, free! It's Underwater New York day; the other readers are Deb Olin Unferth, Nelly Reifler, Said Sayrafiezadeh, and—new addition—Jennifer Egan! Plus Ben Greenman with a letter-writing activity and music from Michael Hearst.