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The Tenth Annual Mr. Lower East Side Pageant TONIGHT! and a bunch of other really good stuff

2008-11-13T15:43:46Z

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Join our own fabulous Reverend Jen tonight at the Bowery Poetry Club as she emcees the 10th Annual Mr. Lower East Side Pageant.

....Also in this email: David Rees (Get Your War On) and Matt Taibbi debate the question: How Doomed is America?
... An open mike event next week with Matthue Roth as well as a book release party for Lisa Klug, featuring Matthue Roth
... and the HUGE Williamsburg book party for Bad Habits: A Love Story, at Death by Audio, next weekend.

Read on for details.

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Calling All Dudes!
Reverend Jen Presents:
The Tenth Annual
Mr. Lower East Side Pageant
Thursday, November 13th, 10:00 P.M.
Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery) take the 'F' to 2nd Ave. or the '6' to Bleecker
$7

It's that time of year again – The time when autumn leaves fall gently onto the crumbling sidewalks and dudes who haven't seen the inside of a gym in over a decade suddenly want to look buff for the laydees…That's right, it's time for the annual Mr. Lower East Side Pageant whereupon the women and gay men of the Lower East Side choose one lucky man to rule the area south of Houston and east of Bowery.

The 10th annual Pageant will prove to be an extra-glamorous extravaganza, similar to the Ms. Universe Pageant, if all the contestants were hairy and liked Budweiser.
To compete in this cutthroat pageant, contestants need not live on the Lower East Side. (Because honestly, who can afford it anymore?) They simply must possess qualities, which would make them the proper representative of this neighborhood. (What those qualities are, I am not quite sure of…) They also must prepare for the following competitions: A 1-minute talent competition, a swimsuit competition, eveningwear and question and answer. Contestants must show up at 9:30 to sign up! Or they should e-mail revjen@revjen.com for details.

Last year's winner, comedian Sven Wechsler, will defend his crown (which comes complete with a detachable bong) in the most exciting event of the year. The chosen monarch will also receive a slice of pizza from Rosario’s, a six-pack of Budweiser, and the knowledge that he has been chosen by the people. Runner-up will receive the dubious honor of Mr. Tribeca, and will get to wear a smaller vagina-shaped crown throughout the year. There will also be prizes given for "best male tits," "congeniality" and "best nutsack."

Any woman or gay man who shows up is automatically a judge! Judges must be punctual because incomplete ballots will not be accepted! Reverend Jen, the Bob Barker of the L.E.S. will host the evening. Plus, there will be surprise celebrity judges and performers!

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Sat, Nov 15, 4pm
Funny Men: Rees vs. Taibbi: How Doomed is America?

Brooklyn Public Library

Comic artist David Rees (Get Your War On) and journalist Matt Taibbi (Spanking the Donkey) discuss politics and journalism, placing America's future on a scale of one to doomed. Should be hilarious.

Grand Army Plz., Brooklyn, NY 11238
at Flatbush Ave.
718-230-2100

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Wed, Nov 19, 7:30pm
Matthue Roth, author of Candy in Action, Hosts First Monthly 92Y Tribeca Open Mic at Makor
92Y Tribeca 200 Hudson St., New York

Part vaudeville, part Parisian salon, 92YTribeca's Open Mic is a playground for NYC's best and brightest emerging talent. Check out local writers trying out new material, up and coming musicians playing stripped-down versions of songs that you might hear on the radio six months from now, or just kick back with a drink and enjoy the vibe in our café. Or you can sign up to perform and show us your stuff! A three-minute limit per act will keep the night in motion. The very literary Elisa Albert, author of The Book of Dahlia, headlines the evening, and slam poet/novelist Matthue Roth hosts. Featuring Jeremiah Lockwood ("The Sway Machinery"), and some of the most amazing authors, poets, and singers you've ever wanted to see rock or mumble into a mic.

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Thu, Nov 20, 8pm
"Cool Jew" Release Party
92nd St. Y, NYC

Release party for Cool Jew by Lisa Klug, featuring Y-Love, Diwon, Basya Schechter, Chana Rothman, Dov Rosenblatt and Avi Hoffman of Blue Fringe, Naomi Less, the Goddess Perlman, Sarah Aroeste, Rav Shmuel and Soft Skull's Matthue Roth.

Free!

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THIS IS GOING TO BE HUGE

Sat, Nov 22, 8pm
Cristy Road Bad Habits Party and Book Launch
Death by Audio in Williamsburg
49 South 2nd Street Brooklyn 11211

Book release party for Cristy C. Road's illustrated novel Bad Habits: A Love Story.

With Music By:
THE MEASURE (SA) (www.myspace.com/themeasuresa)
CHEEKY (www.myspace.com/cheekyli)
LOVE OR PERISH (www.myspace.com/loveorperishnyc)
EACH OTHER'S MOTHERS (www.myspace.com/eachothersmothers)
HOMEWRECKERS (Pop Punk from NYC. Feat. members of Party Line, The Unlovables, Girlcrush. Oh, and Cristy Road sings.)

Featuring readings by CRISTY ROAD and FLY

Interspersed DJ Sets (for dancing) By Sir Loins and Tommy Hottpants

There will be Booze!

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That's the news for now.

Looking forward to seeing you at some of these things.

Best,
Soft Skull Press

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John Giorno at McNally Jackson and David Rees at Brooklyn Public Library and more!

2008-11-07T18:05:29Z

Greetings from Softskull!

Just a reminder about a few upcoming events. Tonight, November 7th at 7:30, John Giorno will read from his new book, Subduing Demons in America at the Rubin Museum in Chelsea. And, he will be reading at the McNally Jackson bookstore with a Q&A lead by Soft Skull author Douglas Martin on Monday, November 10th at 7 pm. Also this week the Brooklyn Library will be hosting two great events: The Brooklyn Independents Series on Wednesday, November 12 at 7 pm (the series features a consortium of highly regarded, cutting-edge independent literary publishers, including Soft Skull!), and a discussion lead by Comic artist David Rees, author of Get Your War On and journalist Matt Taibbi author of Spanking the Donkey.

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Tonight! Friday, November 4th

John Giorno Reads from his new book Subduing Demons in America at 7:30 at the Rubin Museum in Chelsea located on

150 West 17th Street,
New York, NY 10011

The reading will be followed by a book signing in the Lounge area of the Rubin Museum, and will likely devolve into an extended celebration of demons, America, subduing, and books in general. The whole thing lasts until 10 PM. This event is free and open to the public. Also, a special bonus-event, set to occur directly after the party/demon/signing: Rosanne Cash and Joe Henry IN the Rubin Theater, and at 9:30, Francine Prose introducing the epic, the unmatched, the Criterion-collected and unanimously celebrated "Battle of Algiers.

For more information on this event visit the Rubin Museum's Website: http://www.rmanyc.org/programs-events/index.xml?context=programs-events/index.xml

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Monday, November 10th

John Giorno Reads from his new book Subduing Demons in America at 7 pm at McNally Jackson Bookstore:

52 Prince St.
(b/t Lafayette & Mulberry)
New York, NY 10012

there will be a Q&A Session led by Douglas Martin author of Soft Skull books like "In the Time of Assignments", "Branwell", and "Outline of My Lover", as well as the editor of "The Haiku Year."

For more information about this event visit Mcnally Jackson online at ttp://www.mcnallyjackson.com/
And for more information about Get your War On visit Soft Skull's Website: http://softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=978-1-59376-213-1
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Wed, Nov 12, 7p

Dweck Center Central Library Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238

Brooklyn authors including Michael Thomas, Nicky Dawidoff and Kevin Baker add their legends to baseball literature! The Brooklyn Independents Series features independent publishers like Akashic Press, BOMB Magazine, A Public Space, Tin House Press and Soft Skull. It is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

For more information on this event visit the Brooklyn Library's website: http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/branch_library_detail.jsp?branchpageid=265

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Sat, Nov 15, 4p

Comic artist David Rees, Author of Get Your War On and journalist Matt Taibbi Spanking the Donkey discuss politics and journalism, placing America's future on a scale of one to doomed at the Brooklyn Public Library

Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238

For more information about Get your War On visit Soft Skull's Website: http://softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=978-1-59376-213-1

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Thanks for reading. Come out and support!

Best,
Soft Skull Press

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Print fair this weekend! And John Giorno at the Rubin next Friday....

2008-10-31T16:14:00Z

come one, come all...

Cannonball Press and Supreme Trading proudly present the 2008 version:

PRINTS GONE WILD 4!!
The fourth ever annual vernacular printacular mega-hairy brooklyn affordable print fair. (OK, they did one in St. Louis too)

The ORIGINAL AND ONLY 50-bucks-and-under American print fair.

Supreme Trading
213 n 8th St. Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
718-599-4224
www.supremetradingny.com <http://www.supremetradingny.com/>;

Sat., Nov. 1nd           6pm-12am     Opening reception/party
Sun., Nov. 2nd          12-6pm           Fair is open all day

FEATURING:
The Amazing Hancock Brothers       McGregor, TX
Yeehaw Industries                             Knoxville, TN
Howling Print Studios                        Brooklyn, NY
Tugboat Press                                    Pittsburgh, PA
Bikini Press                                        Minneapolis, MN
Justseeds                                            Brooklyn, NY
Sean Star Wars                                  Laurel, MS
Kayrock Screenprinting                     Brooklyn, NY
Space 1026                                        Philadelphia, PA
Purgatory Pie Press                           New York, NY
Drive By Press                                    Madison, WI
Isle of Printing                                    Nashville, TN
Cannonball Press                              Brooklyn, NY

After last year's incredibly successful fair, Brooklyn's own Cannonball Press has again assembled an extraordinary menagerie of graphic artists under one roof, who will be present, displaying their prints, and selling them for $50 or less for two days only. Long-time champions of the affordable art cause, Cannonball Press has brought together these great artists as part of New York Fine Art Print Week so that New York can have a chance to see first-hand the incredible resurgence in affordable fine art printing that is happening across the country.

An entertaining sideshow will take place during the fair, featuring traditional Mexican music from Grupo Diamante Norteno, "deathgrass" titans the Black Death All-stars, a print-o-centric fashion show, emcee David Rees (of Get Your War On fame), a performance by the Amazing Hancock Brothers, and on-the-spot printing with Drive-By Press, which operates a mobile press out of the back of their van.

www.cannonballpress.com <http://www.cannonballpress.com/>;
The best affordable art in town, guaranteed.

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Also, unrelated: a week from today, John Giorno will be participating in a wonderful evening at the Rubin Museum in Chelsea, in honor of his new Soft Skull book: Subduing Demons in America.

"Subduing Demons in America" Book Party
Fri, Nov 7, 7:30pm
The Rubin Museum

John Giorno will be reading from his new book, "Subduing Demons in America." The reading will be followed by a book signing in the Lounge area of the Rubin Museum, and will likely devolve into an extended celebration of demons, America, subduing, and books in general. The whole thing lasts until 10 PM. This event is free and open to the public. Also, a special bonus-event, set to occur directly after the party/demon/signing: Rosanne Cash and Joe Henry IN the Rubin Theater, and at 9:30, Francine Prose introducing the epic, the unmatched, the Criterion-collected and unanimously celebrated "Battle of Algiers." See the museum's website for more: http://www.rmanyc.org

But how, you ask, do I get to this "Rubin Museum"? Public Transportation is aloe vera gel to your aching sunburn of a mind: By Subway: A, C and E to 14th St. (8th Avenue) 1 to 18th St. (7th Avenue) 1, 2, 3 to 14th St. (7th Avenue) F and V to 14th St. (6th Avenue) L to 14th St. (6th Avenue) N, R, Q, W, 4, 5 and 6 to 14th St. Union Square By Bus: * B20 to corner of 7th Avenue and 17th St. The Museum is at the corner of 7th Avenue and West 17th Street, and the entrance is on 17th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues.
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Have a great weekend!

Soft Skull.

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Get Your War On on the Bowery, events with CAConrad, ABC No Rio, and more

2008-10-22T15:44:44Z

Happy Wednesday!

We wanted to let you know about a few events coming up this week and next, featuring David Rees, creator of Get Your War On, CAConrad, performance poet extraordinaire and author of Soft Skull's Deviant Propulsion and the upcoming Advanced ELVIS Course...and several others.

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First a reminder that Cristy C. Road, author and illustrator of Bad Habits: A Love Story, will be reading with Deb Olin Unferth and Keith Lee Morris, music by Bronwen Exter, at the Happy Endings series TONIGHT. Andrew Krucoff of Young Manhattanite recommends the reading. Check it out; it's pretty funny:

http://youngmanhattanite.tumblr.com/post/55624430/dabbling-in-sincerity-another-boring-gamble

The Happy Ending Series requires the readers to take one public risk, while the the musicians, who perform two short sets with their original, lyric-driven music, are required to play one cover song and try to get the audience to sing along. 7pm.

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And one other thing that's happening tonight that we want to tell you about: ABC No Rio, NYC's open venue for emerging artists, is hosting a huge benefit and auction tonight. The Soft Skull connection? Reverend Jen, the art star elf of the Lower East Side and author of our upcoming book I Did It For Science, will be MCing the event. Tickets are a little pricey since it's a fundraiser and all, but check out their site anyway; it's going to be a good event:

www.abcnorio.org/benefit2008

The gala will include a benefit auction of 60 works by Jacob Hashimoto, Lady Pink, Shirin Neshat, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Otterness, Kembra Pfahler, Andres Serrano, Kiki Smith, Chris Stain, Swoon and many others.

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And now about that Get Your War On event on Sunday (this Sunday, Oct 26): it's at the Bowery Poetry Club at 8pm. David Rees is hilarious. Get Your War on is now available in a third and definitive book edition from Soft Skull Press, and books will be on sale during the event. If you want to laugh, go to 236.com and look for their animated version of the cartoon strip.

Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
Admission: $8.00 but it's worth it

More info: David Rees was working a crummy magazine job when Operation: Enduring Freedom inspired him to make his cartoon "Get Your War On." The satire about the war on terrorism became an internet phenomenon. "Get Your War On" now appears in every issue of Rolling Stone. Sales of the two GYWO books have raised almost $100,000 for land mine removal in western Afghanistan. David's other comics include "My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable" and "My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable."

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And another thing: CAConrad's got a few NYC events lined up in the next few days. CAConrad, the so-called "son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift," is the author of "Deviant Propulsion" (Soft Skull, 2006). We're going to be publishing his incredible ode to Graceland, Advanced ELVIS Course, this spring. Check him out at http://CAConradEVENTS.blogspot.com.

1.
Faux Chaps Party
Fri, Oct 24, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Jimmy's No. 43
43 E. 7th St. - downstairs (b. 2nd & 3rd Ave.) NY
Jimmy's, an informal pub in the heart of the East Village, will host a few short readings. They include: CAConrad, "(SOMA)TIC MIDGE" Alan Davies, "ODES" Brenda Iijima, "SUBSISTENCE EQUIPMENT" Jack Kimball, "PATHOLOGIES" Jeni Olin, "THE PILL BOOK" Stacy Szymaszek, "ORIZABA"

2.
CAConrad Reading at Unnameable Books
Sat, Oct 25, 8pm – 9pm
Unnameable Books 456 Bergen St. (btwn 5th and Flatbush) Brooklyn
Unnameable Books, one of Brooklyn's most prominent and eclectic independent bookstores, will host Laura Jaramillo and CAConrad, both reading in celebration of Laura's chapbook "The Reactionary Poems." For more info, email unnameablebooks@earthlink.net. Chapbooks will be available for purchase at a discount.

3.
Rick Barot and CAConrad at KGB
Mon, Oct 27, 7:30pm
KGB BAR 85 East 4th St., NYC
Free Admission
Rick Barot's first book, "The Darker Fall," won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. His work has also appeared in many anthologies, including The New Young American Poets, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. CAConrad you know about.

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OK, that's the news for now! Looking forward to seeing you at one of these things. We will be there.

Best,
Soft Skull Press

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The Pacific Standard Fiction Series with Paul Beatty and Matthew Sharpe, Cristy Road at Happy Ending, and more

2008-10-17T10:48:27Z

Hi everyone-

First, a reminder. John Giorno is going to be launching his new book Subduing Demons in America TONIGHT at the New Museum. And apologies that we forgot to tell you the time of the event in the last email: this is happening at 7:30pm and is part of a larger exhibit featuring the work of artist Elizabeth Peyton. More info at the New Museum's website: http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/400/live_forever_elizabeth_peyton#related_panel

And now, about two other events coming up next week - featuring Matthew Sharpe, author of The Sleeping Father and Jamestown, Paul Beatty, and Cristy C. Road, author and artist of the new illustrated novel Bad Habits: A Love Story.

Check out the books here:

Bad Habits: http://softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-59376-215-1

Jamestown: http://softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-933368-60-8

The Sleeping Father: http://softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-932360-00-X

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The Pacific Standard Fiction Series Rides Again!
featuring Paul Beatty and Matthew Sharpe

Tuesday, October 21st, 7:00 p.m.
82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York (betw. St. Marks and Bergen)
hosted by Garth Risk Hallberg

Books available on-site!
Drink specials to be chosen by dartboard!
"Best New Literary Event of 2008" (New York Magazine)...now with stylish new curtains!

Paul Beatty, author of SLUMBERLAND, has been hailed by The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times as one of the best writers of his generation. His previous novels are TUFF ("Unforgettable" - The Boston Globe) and THE WHITE-BOY SHUFFLE ("Laugh-out-loud funny and weep-in-silence sad" - The Nation). A former Grand Poetry Slam Champion of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Beatty is also the author of the poetry collections JOKER, JOKER, DEUCE and BIG BANK TAKE LITTLE BANK, and is the editor of HOKUM, an anthology of African-American humor.

"Furiously written… [SLUMBERLAND] is another bravura performance from the searingly talented Paul Beatty. A no-holds-barred comedic romp that crushes through the Fulda Gap of Black/White, East/West relationships like an M1 tank." -Junot Diaz

Matthew Sharpe's third novel, JAMESTOWN, was one of Publisher's Weekly's Best Books of 2007 - "a work of hectic brilliance and immense sadness," according to Salon.com. His previous novel, THE SLEEPING FATHER, was a Today Show Book Club pick, and has been translated into nine languages. Mr. Sharpe's previous books are the novel NOTHING IS TERRIBLE and the collection STORIES FROM THE TUBE. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper's, McSweeney's, and Bomb, among others.

"[A]n absurd hybrid of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Walt Disney's Pocahontas... JAMESTOWN is an anguished lament for the whole bloody history of Western conquest, the stupidity and cruelty of invaders then and now... Jamestown is packed with marvelous material, moving and funny and deeply provocative." - Washington Post Book World

Host Garth Risk Hallberg is the author of A FIELD GUIDE TO THE NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY and is a 2008 NYFA fellow in fiction. The Pacific Standard Fiction Series aims to showcase the intense and varied literary energies of Brooklyn by pairing writers from the borough and beyond. We offer fine stories and appealing beverages in a civilized setting. For more information, please visit www.pacificstandardbrooklyn.com.

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Happy Ending Reading Series
Featuring Cristy C. Road, author of Bad Habits: A Love Story

Wed, Oct 22, 7pm – 10pm
Happy Ending Bar (map)

Cristy Road, 25-year=old graphic artist and author of Bad Habits: A Love Story (Soft Skull) will be reading with Deb Olin Unferth from McSweeney's.

Michelle Tea calls Cristy's work “A party on the page, or a riot, or a revolution.”

About the Book:
In Bad Habits, Road takes us on an uncensored and largely autobiographical tour of an underground world, one full of wild characters and personal revolutions. We journey through New York City’s dive bars, we share drugs in dark bathrooms, and we spend long nights in strange beds. Road’s street psychopharmacology results in experiences that are both revelatory and tragic. In her circle, drugs are cheap, ubiquitous, and sometimes feel like the only way out. Writing in a tradition of some of the finest transgressive authors, such as Jean Genet, William S. Burroughs, and Kathy Acker, Road takes us deep inside the damaged soul and psyche of her young protagonist with language as violent as the street and sex as raw as the language. Somewhere along this hyperreal tour, our heroine learns to leave her bad habits behind and emerge stronger and more independent, clean and open to love. She’s still punk, but she’s punk by her own rules—and she finds that life can be about much more tha
n mere survival.

About the Event:
Have you ever been to Happy Ending Bar? You should! It's really not hard to get to: HAPPY ENDING BAR 302 Broome St Between Forsyth and Eldridge J,M,Z,F to Delancey B,D to Grand St See? You probably already know where that is. You've probably already even seen the bar, and not noticed it is, in fact, a bar. You probably thought it was some sort of work-out facility, like "CRUNCH!" This is a trick that has been played on you: over the bar's entrance hangs a pink awning with the words "health club" on it. Of course! But now you know! Join the New York Elite of "People In The Know" and show up for Cristy Road's reading!

SHOW STARTS AT 8pm ; DOORS OPEN AT 7pm
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Thanks for reading!

Best,
Soft Skull

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John Giorno Reading at the New Museum

2008-10-15T16:39:00Z

Hi from Soft Skull!

There's a reading this Friday by New York poet John Giorno at the New Museum on the Bowery (address below). He will be reading from his newly published anthology of collected works from his fifty-year career, titled 'Subduing Demons In America: Selected Poems 1962–2007.' There will be a book signing and reception afterwards.

Check out the book here:
http://softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=978-1-59376-204-9

Giorno is known for his intense performances, having used found materials and montage techniques in the past to augment his explosively experimental work; in 1965 he founded Girono Poetry Systems to explore the use of technology in poetry.

Along with Giorno's work, the exhibit will also feature the fine art collection 'Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton' and a comprehensive catalogue designed by the award-winning Graphic Thought Facility featuring essays by Iwona Blazwick, John Giorno, Laura Hoptman, and a large section of artworks, photographs, and ephemera organized by Peyton.

The reading is free with admission to the art exhibit.

New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
212.219.1222

Hope to see you guys,

Soft Skull Press

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How to Get Your War On and Make the Most of Bad Habits

2008-10-01T17:43:56Z

Greetings, salutations, etc, etc!

We’re moving into October, right now. The thermometer is plunging downward but the coming events will keep you more than warm.

First off, Friday, October 3rd at 7pm Daphne Gottlieb will be at Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington. Daphne, Kate Bornstein, and Carol Queen will be discussing Sabrina Chapadjiev’s “Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction.” It’s a collection of essays, artwork, and prose from women dealing with violence, depression, and madness. You can read up on it here: http://sabrinachap.com/LTT

Also on Friday, Jeff Martin will do a reading at Barnes and Noble, 7:30 – 8:30pm in Greenwich Village, 396 Ave of the Americas and 8th Street. He’ll be reading from his new book, “The Customer is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles,” a collection involving the hilarious and unfortunate indignities of the underpaid and over-worked. Contributors to this anthology include Elaine Vets (Dead-End Job mystery series) and Jim DeRogatis (Let it Blurt).

Next week on Thursday, October 9th at 7pm Cristy C. Road will be at Barnes and Noble, 106 Court St. in Brooklyn. She’ll be promoting Bad Habits, her fictional memoir about lust, drugs, and self-discovery at the beginning of the 21st century. Her book’s a great read if you haven’t already checked it out. The illustrations are sexy and awesomely strange.

The next day, Friday, October 10th, David Rees will be reading from his new novel, “Get Your War On: The Definitive Account 2001-2008” at 7:30 pm at Word Books, 126 Franklin Street. The evening promises to be rife with politics, war, and topical discussions.

Thanks for your support. We couldn’t do this without you.

Soft Skull Press

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Daphne Gottlieb at the New York City slams, Friday through Tuesday

2008-09-23T12:30:22Z

Hello hello hello,

Firecracker and Audre Lorde Award-winning San Francisco performance poet Daphne Gottlieb, author of Soft Skull's new book Kissing Dead Girls and editor of Seal Press's new book Fucking Daphne (a collection of pieces, from difference contributors, about...well....fucking Daphne), will be in New York City this week and next. (She's headed up to Massachusetts after that.)

Sadie Magazine just reviewed Kissing Dead Girls . . . check it out:
http://sadiemagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=226&Itemid=50

Below is Daphne's schedule of events, and a little bit about her new books and the author herself.

1.
Daphne Gottlieb at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Friday, Sept 26, 10:00pm
236 East 3rd Street, New York
Daphne Gottlieb is featured at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe's "Friday Night Slam."
$10
www.nuyorican.org

2.
Daphne Gottlieb at Bluestockings
Sat, Sep 27, 7pm
172 Allen Street, New York
Daphne Gottlieb reads from her anthology "Fucking Daphne" with Diana Cage, Carol Turgeon, and Jamie Berger.
Free
www.bluestockings.com

3.
Daphne Gottlieb at Bar 13
Mon, Sep 29, 7pm
35 East 13th street, New York
Daphne Gottlieb performs at Bar 13's "Louder Arts Slam."
$6 ($5 for students)
www.louderarts.com

4.
Daphne Gottlieb at the Urbana Slam
Tue, Sep 30, 7pm
Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
Daphne Gottlieb at the Urbana Slam, Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery ( Bowery between Houston and Bleeker )
$7
www.bowerypoetry.com

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About the Author
San Francisco-based Performance Poet Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the editor of Fucking Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions and Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader, as well as the author of the poetry books Kissing Dead Girls, Final Girl, Why Things Burn and Pelt. Her graphic novel Jokes and the Unconscious, featuring the artwork of Hothead Paisan's illustrator, Diane DiMassa, was called “brilliant and unsettling” by Publishers Weekly. Final Girl was the winner of the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry for 2003 from Publishing Triangle and was named one of The Village Voice's “Favorite Books of 2003.” Why Things Burn was the winner of a 2001 Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Special Recognition—Spoken Word) and was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for 2001.
Gottlieb currently teaches at New College of California, and has performed and taught creative writing workshops around the country, from high schools and colleges to community centers. She received her MFA from Mills College.

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Kissing Dead Girls
Kissing Dead Girls is a kisstorical romangling that investigates myth, history, gender and states of being. Beginning with the province of legend, Kissing Dead Girls uses poetic inappropriacies to touch historical paragons and examine what touches us in them in vignettes casting the narrator as the lover of Josephine Baker, Amelia Earhart, Anne Frank, Frida Kahlo, Jonbenet Ramsey, Sharon Tate and Karen Carpenter. The "real" world fuses with the mundane as a liver is received in the mail by an unexpecting recipient; a woman replaces the moon with her heart; and a man finds himself a woman too dead to love. Gertrude Stein's work is co-opted and re-seen in an attempt to unpack the relationship between love and war; Walt Whitman makes a command performance in dismembered bits of forced formal verse; and "The Exorcist" and "The Devil in Miss Jones" are sutured together in an attempt to locate the true horror of desire. Fusing together pornography and postfeminist theory, transcrip
t and tell-all, these poems and stories reach off the page in search of what it is to be known, both to the masses and to the Other, even just one.

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Fucking Daphne
When Daphne Gottlieb first found herself the character in someone else's story she was intrigued; over time, as she appeared in more and more stories, she started to wonder about the implications of what was real and what wasn't. Did it matter that there were published stories of her having sex in bathrooms, vacant parking lots, on the balcony at a party in an old bordello? Did it matter whether or not they were true?
This question sparked the idea for Fucking Daphne, a collection that blurs the lines between reality and fiction and begs the question “who is the real Daphne?” A pill-popping wild child? A soft place to fall with a broken heart? A dreadlocked vixen?
Contributors include Hanne Blank, Stephen Elliot, Sarah Katherine Lewis, and Ariel Gore, who describe, watch, and engage with a character that is not Daphne Gottlieb; Daphne is a projection, a fantasy, a zeitgeist. We are all a multitude of people in bed. We are all Daphne.
Harnessing the playfulness of the hoax, the seductiveness of literature, and the edginess of the avant-garde, Fucking Daphne is unique in a culture hungry for sex, information, and most of all, understanding.

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New York at the New Museum: Past, Present, and Possible Future

2008-09-18T13:28:57Z

Dear Soft Skull Friends:

Ever wanted to learn more about what Manhattan was like before John Smith and Pocahontas, how it's transformed since the Industrial Revolution, and what the sprawling metropolis that we live in could become??

Come to the New Museum on the Bowery on Saturday and discuss.

Saturday Sept 20
3-5:30pm
New Museum
235 Bowery, New York

A panel of four at the New Museum, featuring two of Soft Skull's own writers: Matthew Sharpe, author of The Sleeping Father and Jamestown, and Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, A Comedy, will begin to abate your curiosity. This panel will engage New York’s landscape at three distinct moments in history. Eric W. Sanderson, leader of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Mannahatta Project, will discuss Manhattan island in 1609; Matthew Coolidge, of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), will speak about “Up River: Points of Interest from The Battery to Troy,” CLUI’s study of the “sculpted landscape” of today’s Hudson River; with special guest Lynne Tillman, Matthew Sharpe will read from his novel Jamestown, which is partially set in an imaginary future Manhattan.

Moderated by Brian Sholis, editor of Artforum.com.

$6 members, $8 general public

235 Bowery, at Prince St., New York, NY

Further details at http://www.newmuseum.org/events/232

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And a reminder about the street art opening at Exit Art this Saturday, as well:

SIGNS OF CHANGE: SOCIAL MOVEMENT CULTURES 1960s TO NOW
at Exit Art, 475 10th Ave, NY, NY, September 20 - December 6, 2008

Opening: Saturday September 20, 7-10pm

The opening will include live screen printing and a visit by the Tactical Ice Cream Unit.

In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice. Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee as part of Exit Art's Curatorial Incubator, this important and timely exhibition surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements.

Organized thematically, the exhibition presents the creative outpourings of social movements, such as those for Civil Rights and Black Power in the United States; democracy in China; anti-apartheid in Africa; squatting in Europe; environmental activism and women's rights internationally; and the global AIDS crisis, as well as uprisings and protests, such as those for indigenous control of lands; against airport construction in Japan; and student and worker revolution in France. The exhibition also explores the development of powerful counter-cultures that evolve beyond traditional politics and create distinct aesthetics, life-styles, and social organization.

Although histories of political groups and counter-cultures have been written, and political and activist shows have been held, this exhibition is a groundbreaking attempt to chronicle the artistic and cultural production of these movements. Signs of Change offers a chance to see relatively unknown or rarely seen works, and is intended to not only provide a historical framework for contemporary activism, but also to serve as an inspiration for the present and the future.

During the exhibition, there will be ongoing screenprinting workshops with guest artists and activists in collaboration with the Lower East Side Printshop as well as the following programs and events.

Exit Art is located at 475 Tenth Avenue, corner of 36th Street. Exit Art is open each Tuesday through Thursday, 10 am – 6 pm; Friday, 10 am – 8 pm; Saturday, noon – 8 pm. Closed Sunday and Monday. There is a suggested donation of $5.
For more information please call 212-966-7745 or check out http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/signs_of_change/index.html
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More next week...

Thanks for reading!

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2008-09-12T15:50:07Z

Hi all,

Our beloved Josh MacPhee, author Stencil Pirates (http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-932360-15-8) and co-author of Reproduce and Revolt (http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-933368-25-X) has an exhibit coming up at Exit Art (475 Tenth Ave., NYC) from September 20th (opening night: 7 – 10 PM) to November 22nd called Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, an installation chronicling 50 years of the cultural productions of social movements from around the world. and Dara Greenwald have curated over 600 posters, prints, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and other ephemera from more than 30 countries. Come see groundbreaking visual documents from the American Indian Movement, Women's Liberation, the South African Anti-Apartheid struggle, Portugal's Revolution of the Carnations, and South Korea's Kwang Ju uprising—and get an idea for what people around the planet have been doing to change their world and their lives.

There’s going to be several events related to the exhibit—check them out too!

September 20: Opening Night Party: Live Screen Printing, Ice Cream from the Tactical Ice Cream Unit

September 25: Symposium—Presentations and Discussions with Social Movement Cultural Producers and Theorists Including Yustoni Volunteero/Taring Padi Collective (Indonesia), Ill Commonz (Japan), Favianna Rodriguez/Tumis Design (Oakland, CA) and Sandy Kaltenborn/Image-Shift (Germany) and others TBA.

October 11-13: Social Movement Film/Video Festival and Discussion (in collaboration with 16beaver Group)—Featuring a rare US screening of Narita: Peasants of the Second Fortress by the Japanese film collective Ogawa Productions, as well as Finally Got the News (The League of Revolutionary Black Workers) and films by the Big Noise Films, Chiapas Media Project, Diva TV, Newsreel and many more!

October 24: Premier screening of short films and footage of the 1960's Dutch Provo movement, and Book Release of Richard Kempton's Provo: Amsterdam's Anarchist Revolt (in collaboration with Autonomedia Press).

If you want to learn more and find times for weekly screenings and screen printing check out Exit Art’s website (exitart.org) and socialmovementcultures.org.

Also, don’t you dare forget to come to the Brooklyn Book Festival (http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/) this Sunday from 10 – 6 for tons of readings, panel discussions, and other events from top-notch authors from Brooklyn and elsewhere. Soft Skull will be sharing a table with Milkweed Editions where we’ll be selling books, so stop by and say hello.

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Come visit us at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday!

2008-09-09T18:00:59Z

It would be wonderful if folks came out to visit us at the festival this Sunday (Sept 14, 10am-6pm)! It's an outdoor thing at Borough Hall in Brooklyn, and lots of fun, and books will be on sale - not just Soft Skull books but books from many, many Brooklyn and general New York City indie publishers. We're looking forward to it.

Here's the link, so you can get an idea of what events are lined up and what publishers are participating.

http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/

Here is one event at the festival that will be featuring our brilliant Latina punk novelist/graphic artist Cristy Road (her brand new book is called Bad Habits: A Love Story http://softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=978-1-59376-215-5):

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12:00 p.m. Brooklyn Rises Above.
The American Association of Publishers presents readings from publishers awarded the AAP Miriam Bass Award – all located in Brooklyn. Peter Wortsman (translator; Archipelago Books), Ross Benjamin (translator; Melville House), Arthur Nersesian (Akashic) and Cristy C. Road (Soft Skull). Hosted by Tina Jordan, Association of American Publishers.
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But we will have an outside table set up all day, so come on out!

Best,
Soft Skull Press

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