Ammiel Alcalay and Tiokasin Ghosthorse are the Prose Pros on Thursday, May 3. 6:30 to 7:45. (Also good food and good company.) We will pass the hat for the readers. Hope to see you there. Avenue A @ 6th Street. … Read More
Fifty pages of my memoir Outside Inside — expertly excerpted and condensed by Brigid Hughes — is featured in issue 22 of A Public Space. With many photographs. Issue 22 –print or digital— or an annual subscription — can be ordered here: http://apublicspace.org/magazine While … Read More
November 6 at 6:30. Basil will read from his new book, The Spoken Word/The Painted Hand (Marsh Hawk Press, 20l4*) and his old friend Hettie Jones will read some of her not-yet published short fictions. They are both being presented … Read More
Literary mischief, bravado inventions from two dazzling writers: Prose Pros presents Lynne Tillman and Lynn Crawford at SideWalk Café, March 6, at 6:30. Lynne Tillman’s fourth collection of stories Someday This Will Be Funny, was published in May 2011. And … Read More
Prose Pros is me and Elinor Nauen. We’ve been presenting monthly prose readings for seven years! Our two readers for February are Jenny Allen (New Yorker columnist) and Nancy Giles (CBS-TV columnist). A first for us: both writers have outstanding … Read More
Andrew Levy and Andrej Blatnik were presented by Prose Pros at the Side Walk Café, December 6, 2012. You can put Everything in – Less is more — Charles Olson said something about space as the essential American condition…am I misquoting? … Read More
Sorry, friends! The CD of our SideWalk show on August 2 was a wash. Technical gremlins, even before I got my fingers on it. So no MP3 – let alone a YouTube item. Here’s a snippet. No sound. No pictures. … Read More
Or “Le cadavre / exquis / boira / le vin / nouveau” As the opening act of David Kirchenbaum’s marvelous Boog City Poetry and Music Festival this August, Elinor Nauen and I concocted a variant of the rolling or exquisite … Read More