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TONIGHT: Launch Part for Anthrax War

Mon, 03 May 2010 19:34:00 GMT

Hey Everyone, Come celebrate the paperback release of Anthrax War: Dead Silence . . . Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail by Bob Coen and Eric Nadler. An in-depth look into the new biological arms race, Dead Silence conveys the inside story of the U.S. anthrax attacks and their connection to the existence of a frightening global germ warfare underworld. Coen and Nadlers investigations take them across four continents and inside classified labs, revealing a web of secrecy, corporate greed, and global manipulation. Author talk, Q&A -- with beer and wine to follow. When: May 3rd at 7 PM Where: The Melville House Bookstore 145 Plymouth Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn (Corner of Plymouth and Pearl). Sorry for the late notice on this one, but we hope some folks can make it out. Soft Skull Press -- To unsubscribe from: Soft Skull Shortwave, just follow this link: <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/</a> Click the link, or copy and paste the address into your browser. Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/</a>

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Vol. 1 Brooklyn Reading Series with Jillian Weise

Mon, 03 May 2010 02:41:00 GMT

Hello all, Please come out this Saturday, May 8, to the Vol. 1 Brooklyn Reading Series, featuring Jillian Weise, author of a new novel, THE COLONY and the "charged and daring" (Publishers Weekly, starred) poetry collection THE AMPUTEE'S GUIDE TO SEX. When: Saturday, May 8 at 7:30pm 9:30pm Where: WORD Bookstore 126 Franklin Street Brooklyn, NY 11222 718-383-0096 <a href="http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/event/vol-1-brooklyn-event">http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/event/vol-1-brooklyn-event</a> More information about THE COLONY below. We hope to see you there! Love, Soft Skull Press In THE COLONY which Publishers Weekly calls "ambitious, provocative, and wildly inventive," Weise mines some of the most polarizing issues of our time: medical ethics, body image, and eugenics. The novel tells the story of Anne Hatley, a sharp-witted and acerbic young teacher who accepts an invitation from leading scientistspioneer James D. Watson among themwho want to research and cure Anne of a rare gene that affects her bone growth (she is missing a leg and walks with a prosthesis). Anne feels fine the way she is and struggles to maintain her resolve under pressure to change. The Colony is the story of one young woman struggling to accept who she is, and who she will become. "SIMPLY PUT, there aren't enough books like Jillian Weise's The Colony. With its casual rejection of genre lines, bracingly contemporary voice, and a premise that's both extended metaphor and compelling narrative in its own right, The Colony is a refreshingly idiosyncratic debut." Portland Mercury "Weise is interested in big ideas: genetic ethics, self-esteem, slippery slopes . . . And she constructs her tale in unusual ways -- some chapters are nothing but lists or quizzes or strings of quotes. She is fond of mixing real characters with fictional ones. . . If that sounds bizarre, it is; but it's also brilliant." Atlanta Journal Constitution "Jillian Weise is a troublemaker. We need more writers like her, more novels like her hilarious, deeply moving, sexy, scary novel The Colony, which is about gene therapy, Watson and Crick, excessive alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking, mortality, finding love, finding a home, finding family, and all the other doomed experiments we conduct in the hope in making a better human." Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England "The Colony is howlingly funny and deeply sad. It is touching and toweringly angry. It is melancholy and lavishly sexual. It is uniquebut it speaks with graceful force to everyone. I read many novels and forget many, but I will never forget what Jillian Weise has so brilliantly set down. Neither will you. Please try it. You will thank me." Fred Chappell, author of Shadow Box and former poet laureate of North Carolina "Part Wellsian dystopia, part medical mystery, part Hawthornian allegory, and part reality show, The Colony is a potent exploration of ethics in the Age of the Genome. But Weise's novel is not merely an exceedingly smart and formally elegant novel of ideasit is also a deeply compelling character-driven drama. Anne Hatley's voice is irresistiblewitty, assured, sexy, righteous, wounded. The Colony is a tremendous success, one of the most exciting first novels in recent memory." Chris Bachelder, author of Bear v. Shark and U.S.! "A debut that should be cause for much rejoicing. Jillian Weises The Colony does everything that fans of the traditional novel look for: its a coming-of-age tale, a razor-sharp comedy of eros, a meditation on 'disability' and the misguided ways in which we purport to 'fix' it, a scorched-earth denunciation of eugenics. And Anne Hatleyvulnerable and strong in equal measure, delightfully cranky, conflictedis one of the most memorable protagonists in recent American fiction. But the novels triumph is that it accomplishes all these things without ever stooping to conventionality. Endlessly inventive, The Colony features tête-à-têtes with Charles Darwin in Applebees, mermaids bred from dugongs and kept in a water tower by one of the co-discoverers of DNA, a woman whose 'fat gene' is being treated in a way that eventually requires her to be tethered to earth. Weises grace, wit, and imaginative fearlessness mark her as a writer to be reckoned with for the long haul. The Colon y is clever and playful, yes, but theres no mistaking this for whimsyWeises is a playfulness backed by steel." Michael Griffith, author of Spikes -- To unsubscribe from: Soft Skull Shortwave, just follow this link: <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/</a> Click the link, or copy and paste the address into your browser. Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/</a>

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Writing on Human Rights: Mother Jones, The Nation, and The Daily Beast

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:33:00 GMT

Mother Jones's Mac McClelland, author of FOR US SURRENDER IS OUT OF THE QUESTION (Soft Skull Press, March 2010) will be participating in a panel at Housing Works entitled "Writing on Human Rights." Join The Daily Beasts Dana Goldstein, the Nation Institute Investigative Funds Gabriel Thompson, and Mother Jones Mac McClelland for Writing on Human Rights, a reading, discussion, and Q&A about the cruciality and challenges of human rights coverage. McClelland, author of For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story from Burmas Never-Ending War, and Thompson, author of Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Wont Do, will also be available to sign books. When: Monday, 15 March at 7 pm Where: The Housing Works Bookstore Café 126 Crosby Street New York, NY 10012 212-334-3324 <a href="http://www.housingworks.org/events/category/bookstore-cafe-events/">http://www.housingworks.org/events/category/bookstore-cafe-events/</a> In FOR US SURRENDER IS OUT OF THE QUESTION, McClelland weaves a narrative that is part investigative journalism, part popular history, and part memoir of a midwestern, twenty-something woman living with refugee activists on the Burma-Thailand border. Driven by the community McClelland is illegally aidinga small group of brave young men and womenFor Us Surrender Is Out of the Question is an urgent and fascinating look at a weary conflict, told by a bright, new voice. "This is a book alternately poignant and raucous, angry and heartbreaking; a reader could not ask for a more vivid introduction to the long-overlooked plight of Burma's Karen people. Mac McClelland's reporting is very much from-the-ground-up, far livelier than we will ever get from the average foreign correspondent." Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves McClelland tells the story of [this] complex political situation so that it is not only understandable, but meaningful. For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question makes a faraway group of refugees feel like close friends. For a book about such a dire situation, it is a surprisingly lighthearted and entertaining read. Ann Friedman, The American Prospect Gritty, informed, passionate . . . McClelland's gonzo sensibility, big heart, and keen eye for weird details bring this tale of inhuman cruelty and human resilience vividly alive. Gary Kamiya, Executive Editor of Salon -- To unsubscribe from: Soft Skull Shortwave, just follow this link: <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/</a> Click the link, or copy and paste the address into your browser. Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/</a>

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Book launch: Jillian Weise's THE COLONY, �part Wellsian dystopia, part medical mystery, part Hawthornian allegory, and part reality show�

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:53:00 GMT

Join us next Friday, March 5th, to celebrate the release of Jillian Weise's THE COLONY, a lovely debut novel in which Weise explores the moral dimensions of both medical research and human emotions. Book Launch: Friday March 5th at 7 pm A Public Space 323 Dean Street Brooklyn, NY t. 718.858.8067 Jillian will also be reading from THE COLONY at KGB BAR on Sunday, March 7th at 7pm. 85 East 4th St New York, NY 10003 212-505-3360 kgbbar.com Check out "Going Cyborg," Jillian's recent essay about getting fitted for a prosthetic leg, in the NYTimes Magazine: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10lives-t.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10lives-t.html</a> THE COLONY, by turns wickedly funny, cranky, vulnerable, and downright beautiful, is the story of Anne Hatley, an English teacher from the South, who takes a break from work and a tedious relationship and accepts an invitation to the nations largest research colony, where scientists (including DNA pioneer James Watson) want to study a rare gene she possesses, which affects her bone growth (she has one real leg and a prosthesis). Anne thinks shes okay as is, but she has to fend off pressure from her peers and doctors when it turns out they want to pioneer an experimental procedure to make her the first patient to generate a new leg. Weises story is (in the words of novelist Chris Bachelder) part Wellsian dystopia, part medical mystery, part Hawthornian allegory, and part reality showbut most of all its a searing indictment of the way our culture treats (and has historically treated) those who dont fit its preconceptions of health, beauty, and vitality. This is a novel that mines some of the most polarizing issues of our timeamong them, medical ethics, body image, and genetic engineering. "As a fictional whole made up of varied textual elements, The Colony succeeds on an ideological level by keeping readers engaged while the author develops her argument. In the best narrative tradition, Weise entertains and involves us right up until her devastating final point is driven home." Karen Laws, The Rumpus Hope to see you there. Soft Skull Press -- To unsubscribe from: Soft Skull Shortwave, just follow this link: <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/</a> Click the link, or copy and paste the address into your browser. Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/</a>

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CAConrad Poetry Reading

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:36:00 GMT

Hi Everyone, There's a great reading next week in NYC at Solar Bar. It's part of the St. Mark's Bookshop Poetry Series and will be featuring PhillySound poets, including CAConrad, author of Soft Skull's DEVIANT PROPULSIONS and ADVANCED ELVIS COURSE. Also reading are Ryan Eckes, Ish Klein, and Frank Sherlock. When: Thu, February 25, 7:30pm 9:30pm Where: Solar Bar, 232 E. 9th St (between 2nd and 3rd aves.) <a href="http://PhillySound.blogspot.com">http://PhillySound.blogspot.com</a> "The St. Mark's Bookshop Reading Series at Solas features the same eclectic mix you'll find in the bookshop's stacks. You'll see some of the best poetry, fiction and contemporary thought the East Village has to offer, two Thursdays a month." <a href="http://www.noslander.com/stmarksbookshopreadings.html">http://www.noslander.com/stmarksbookshopreadings.html</a> Praise for DEVIANT PROPULSIONS: "Conrad is the poet who, putting aside the heart cliche, gives you all of his liver--the organ that filters out evils--offering through poems (and want-ads) the pink, frilly, faggy clip to the chin of oppression!" Anselm Berrigan -- To unsubscribe from: Soft Skull Shortwave, just follow this link: <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/</a> Click the link, or copy and paste the address into your browser. Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/</a>

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Sex Worker Literati night with Rev. Jen

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:56:00 GMT

If you haven't had a chance to make it out to Sex Worker Literati night, you're not gonna want to miss it this month. Join David Henry Sterry, editor of the Soft Skull Press book Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys and Audacia Ray this Thursday, February 4th, featuring the infamous art star Reverend Jen. This month, the theme is "Love and Pain" ... naturally! Where:Happy Ending 302 Broome Street (between Forsyth and Eldridge) New York City When:Thursday, February 4. Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10 Stick around after the reading to dance and party with hos, hookers, and neer do wells! 21 and up FREE Sex Worker Literati Hosted by Audacia Ray and David Henry Sterry 1st Thursday of every month at Happy Endings Lounge in NYC Best-selling author David Henry Sterry (Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys) and sexuality rights activist Audacia Ray, both former workers in the sex industry, are proud to announce Sex Worker Literati, a free monthly reading series that features sex workers, former sex workers, and people with stories about the sex industry who will read, monologue, perform, and shimmy their ways into your hearts, minds, and naughty bits. Readings begin at 8 pm on Thursday, at the Lower East Side staple Happy Ending (302 Broome Street), which fittingly enough was once an erotic massage parlor. On the first Thursday of every month, Sterry and Ray will showcase a diverse set of performers who have stories to tell about the business of sex. About Live Nude Elf: Live Nude Elf: The Sexperiments of Reverend Jen chronicles Reverend Jen Millers two-year series of adventures in love and sex in New York City The Reverend is a sort of elvish-speaking, Lower East Side version of Sex and the Citys Carrie Bradshaw. The sexperiments range from harrowing (working as a live nude girl at Wiggles) to embarrassing (attending fellatio school) to transcendent (reaching a mystical state through tantric sex). Along the way there is transvestitism, female ejaculation, opium smoking, and heartbreak. -- To unsubscribe from: Soft Skull Shortwave, just follow this link: <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/</a> Click the link, or copy and paste the address into your browser. Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/</a>

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Workshop with Yvonne Bynoe

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:51:00 GMT

Yvonne Bynoe, author of the Soft Skull anthology Who's Your Mama?: The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers will be hosting a workshop in NYC on Saturday, February 20and we wanted to let you know about it. This will be a small, gathering for working mothers (married, single, divorced) hosted by Yvonne Bynoe, founder of Sophisticated Woman and Mama.com. Yvonne is a life coach, motivational speaker and author of two books. She is the also editor of the motherhood anthology, Whos Your Mama? The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers. The purpose of the event is to give working mothers tools to reduce stress and mommy guilt as they try and meet their family and work demands. Additionally participants will walk away with strategies for improving their health and their families finances. Very often working mothers, place their needs last---behind their kids, behind their partner/spouse, behind their jobs. The result is a woman whos stressed out, suffering from fatigue and who may be angry about the burdens she carries. This womans exhaustion, resentment and malaise then impacts how she relates to her children, her partner and her work. Working mothers who improve the quality of their lives, also strengthen their relationships and improve their income potential. Taking time to improve your well-being is not a luxury. When a woman is sick (tired, worried, demoralized) so too is her family and her wider community. You may have heard the expression, When Mama aint happy, nobody aint happy. A happier and healthier woman results in her having more loving and supportive relationships and most likely more money. The Sophisticated Woman and Mama salon will be an intimate forum to discuss: -Identifying Your Core Values to make better decisions -Creating Strong Boundaries to avoid resentment and anger -Developing a Personal Support System for emotional and practical help -The Importance of Self-Care -The Steps to Creating Financial Stability When: Saturday, February 20th from 12-3 pm There is no onsite registration. The event location will be given upon registration. Again, space is EXTREMELY limited. Click on this link to see more details about this Sophisticated Woman and Mama salon and learn how to register. *PLEASE LOG ON TO <a href="http://sophisticatedwomanandmama.com/sophisticatedwoman-and-mama-salons/">http://sophisticatedwomanandmama.com/sophisticatedwoman-and-mama-salons/</a> AND REGISTER FOR THE EVENT. -- To unsubscribe from: Soft Skull Shortwave, just follow this link: <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/</a> Click the link, or copy and paste the address into your browser. Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/</a>

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Animal Farm reading series featuring CAConrad and Tao Lin; Literary Deathmatch coming up

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:27:00 GMT

Hello folks, Check out the Animal Farm reading series at Happy Endings Lounge this Thursday, January 14, 8pm. It should be a good one. CAConrad, author of THE BOOK OF FRANK, ADVANCED ELVIS COURSE, and DEVIANT PROPULSION, will be reading alongside Tao Lin, Patrick W. Gallagher, Joe Veix, and Shannon Gallagher. Thursday, January 14th 8pm Happy Ending 302 Broome St. (btw Forsyth & Eldridge) NYC Also, a heads up: leave your calendar open on January 21st for the next Literary Deathmatch, this one featuring Daniel Nester, whose book HOW TO BE INAPPROPRIATE just came out in the fall. More info: ------------------ Literary Death Match NYC kicks off in grandiose fashion for Ep. 22, with the first-ever all-damsel judging trio which features Paris Review managing editor Caitlin Roper, musicianess extraordinaire Emily Zuzik, and stellar scribe Jess Grose. The brilliant three will oversee a fearsome foursome of literary talent, including Nelly Reifler (author of See Through, representing Sweet at Cocoa Bar), Christopher Kennedy (Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death, representing New York Tyrant), Daniel Nester (How to Be Inappropriate, representing Soft Skull Press) and Michael Atkinson (Hemingway Deadlights, representing The Believer). Hosted by Opium's Todd Zuniga. When: Doors at 7, show at 8:05 (sharp), afterparty: 10 p.m. at Drop Off Services. Where: Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (map) Cost: $10 at the door; $5 pre-order. Free with annual Literary Death Match pass ($55). --------------- Best wishes for the new year Soft Skull Press -- To unsubscribe from: Soft Skull Shortwave, just follow this link: <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/</a> Click the link, or copy and paste the address into your browser. Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/</a>

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Hookers, Printmakers, and New Wavers storm NYC this weekend

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:27:00 GMT

An excellent line-up of events this weekend, including: -New Wave Theatre/Peter Ivers party -Art show and book release party for Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking, by Josh McPhee, of justseeds.org -Hookers at the KGB Bar Details below. ----------------- New Wave Theatre Party Friday, December 18 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street 8:00pm Doors, 9:00pm Show Price: $12.00 Join Josh Frank, author of the forthcoming Soft Skull paperback IN HEAVEN EVERYTHING IS FINE: THE UNSOLVED LIFE OF PETER IVERS AND THE LOST HISTORY OF NEW WAVE THEATRE The New Wave Theatre/Peter Ivers Party in the Mainstage for an evening of outré retro '80s ephemera that includes: SCREENING of an hour-long program of highlights from David Jove's visionary and uncompromising early 1980s cable TV series New Wave Theatre featuring exciting and outrageous punk rock performances / interviews from the likes of Black Flag, Suburban Lawns, Angry Samoans, Fear, Geza X, Nervous Gender, Peter Ivers' Vitamin Pink Revue and many more! Featuring unseen rare footage never before shown on the big screen! And... A Q&A following the screening with Night Flight-creator Stuart Shapiro and filmmakers Ian Marshall & Josh Frank, who will discuss the upcoming documentary Terminal Love about the life and mysterious murder of New Wave Theatre host Peter Ivers. And... A LIVE PERFORMANCE featuring the Pink Gherkins, an all-star "super group" tribute band with SURPRISE SPECIAL GUESTS (to be announced), performing a set of songs made "famous" by Peter Ivers and/or artists who appeared on New Wave Theatre! And... DJs throughout the night: Brian Turner (WFMU) and his krazy co-horts (TBA) will spin deranged art-wave and yoga-core classics from the 1970s and 80s! ----------------- Art Show and book launch: Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Friday Dec 18 8-11pm Where: Book Thug Nation 100 N.3rd St. (between Berry St. & Wythe Ave.) Brooklyn, NY Justseeds.org bookthugnation.com Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is having an art show and book release party for Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today - featuring political prints by over 200 international artists, edited by artist/activist Josh MacPheeauthor of Soft Skull Press' Reproduce and Revolt, and Stencil Pirates. There will be new work by the Justseeds artists on display and for sale, free snacks and drinks. ----------------- Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex A reading/signing featuring the book's editor David Henry Sterry, along with other writers who contributed to the book Sunday, Dec 20 7-9 pm Where: KGB Bar 85 East 4th St / New York, NY 10003 212-505-3360 KGBbar.com Hos, Hookers, Call-Girls and Rent Boys - Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex was born in a writing workshop of the basement of a San Francisco nonprofit dedicated to helping people who have worked in the sex business. Inspired by the wealth of talent and strength they witnessed in the workshop, David Henry Sterry initiated an even broader search for writing by sex workers and work streamed in (according to Sterry) "from street hustlers to Ph.D.'s. From some people who wanted to be anonymous. From some people who wanted their names to be public for all to see." Hos, Hookers, Call-Girls and Rent Boys is compiled from this overwhelming response and work produced at the writers' workshop. "The collection is a wonderful reminder that good writing is not about knowing words, grammar or Faulkner, but having that rare ability to tell the truth, an ability that education and sophistication often serve to conceal." New York Times Book Review, Page 1 ------------- Thanks for reading. Soft Skull Press -- To unsubscribe from: Soft Skull Shortwave, just follow this link: <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/</a> Click the link, or copy and paste the address into your browser. Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/</a>

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Daniel Nester Reading

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:47:00 GMT

Here's Daniel Nester discussing different methods of mooning, with the Phillyist: <a href="http://phillyist.com/2009/12/03/phillyist_interviews_author_daniel.php">http://phillyist.com/2009/12/03/phillyist_interviews_author_daniel.php</a> If you'd like to learn more, please come out and meet Dan at one of his two events this week in the New York area. He'll be reading from his new book, HOW TO BE INAPPROPRIATE...and with any luck he'll bring along his talk box guitar and play a solo. When: Saturday, December 5th at 3pm Where: Marlton Barnes & Noble 200 West Route 70 Marlton, NJ 08053 856-596-7058 If you can't make it to that one, he'll also be in NYC on December 10th. When: Thursday, December 10th at 8pm Where: Happy Ending 302 Broome St. (between Forsyth and Eldridge) New York, NY 212-334-9676 This is part of the Animal Farm reading series. Also reading at the event are Jessica Anthony and Rachel Sherman More on HOW TO BE INAPPROPRIATE: Dry, offbeat, and mostly profane, How to Be Inappropriate glorifies all things TMI. Arguments, lists, barstool rants, queries, pedantic footnotes, play scripts, commonplace miscellany, profiles, and overly revealing memoir-ettes, How to Be Inappropriate adds up to the portrait of a 20-something-become-30-something, bachelor-become-husband, boy-man-about-town who bumbles through life obsessed with one thing: extreme impropriety. In How to Be Inappropriate, Daniel Nester determines the boundary of acceptable behaviormostly by disregarding it. As a here-to-cut-a-hipster-swathe-through-the-city man he looks for love with a Williamsburg abstract painter who has had her feet licked for money. As a teacher, he tries out curse words with Chinese students in ESL classes. Along the way, Nester provides a short cultural history on mooning and attempts to cast a spell on a neighbor who fails to curb his dog. He fields middle fingers from bratty NYU film students, explores the world of Christian parody bands, befriends exiled video game king Todd Rogers, re-imagines a conversation with NPRs Terry Gross, and invents a robot version of Kiss bassist Gene Simmons. "Daniel Nester is a stone-cold genius. Clever, lyrical, inappropriate in all the right waysI'd rather read him than just about anyone right now." Darin Strauss, author of More Than It Hurts You "Daniel Nester's essays are haunted by a Victorian perversity. His writing exhibits a kind of Tourrette syndrome in which the author continuously abases himself and revels in his own shortcomings. It's a painful kind of comedy leavened by gentle good humor and wonder." Thomas Beller, author of The Sleep-Over Artist and How To Be a Man If there was Nobel Prize for Achievement in Inappropriateness, Daniel Nester would be Laureate of the Universe. Until then, he'll have to settle for having written this shockingly innovative stunner of a book. Nester brings his irreverent, elegiac sensibility to subjects from ranging from the essence of literary truth to the enduring mystery of flatulence, managing in the bargain to highlight the bleak hilarity of human existencewhich, when you think about it, is the most inappropriate thing of all. Rachel Shukert, Have You No Shame? Daniel Nester is funny as hell. Stephen Elliott About Daniel Nester: Daniel Nester's writing has appeared in The Best Creative Nonfiction, Open City, Nerve, The Daily Beast, The Best American Poetry, Time Out New York, The Morning News, The Bloomsbury Review, Poets & Writers, and Bookslut. He is the former Sestinas editor for McSweeneys and teaches at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. He lives in Upstate New York with his wife and daughter. -- To unsubscribe from: Soft Skull Shortwave, just follow this link: <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/</a> Click the link, or copy and paste the address into your browser. Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/</a>

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Model Life Book Launch: Graphic Novel by Petite Model Isobella Jade

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:51:00 GMT

Book Launch Party! Join petite model Isobella Jade and artist Jazmin Ruotolo in Soho for the launch of their new graphic novel MODEL LIFE: THE JOURNEY OF A PINT-SIZED FASHION WARRIOR. MODEL LIFE is a celebration of the self-discovery that comes with being self-made and the triumph of beating the odds in modeling, and is based on the real adventures of petite model Isobella Jade. With a live photo shoot, this is not going to be your typical book signing. Whatever your height, if you appreciate graphic novels, art, models, fashion, and illustration, this event will be a memorable experience. When: Thursday, November 12th at 7 - 9 pm Where: Merc Bar 151 Mercer St New York, NY (212) 966-2727 More Info: mercbar.com isobelladreams.com "A shade under 5-feet-4, Isobella Jade has been building a brand herself for the petite model."- NY Daily News "wizard of self promotion"- Advertising Age "People have long cataloged the bizarre writing habits of authors, from P.G. Wodehouse pinning pages on his wall to Dan Brown timing his push-up and sit-up breaks with an hourglass. Now we can add the name Isobella Jade to that collection." New York Post "As for Ms. Jade, whose modeling career is advancing, she has yet to buy a computer from the Apple store. But she is still welcome to check her e-mail and stay as long as she likes." - The New York Times "Isobella Jade would probably hold the record for being Apple's most famous freeloader." - Sydney Morning Herald "Somewhere, someplace Isobella Jade is standing at an iMac in an Apple Store, probably thinking, (or saying or typing)," This place is like a dream to me." - Mac Life Magazine "Yet behind Jade's small frame is an iron will bolstered with rock-hard determination."- Mac Directory Magazine "...a master of freebies" - LA Times "...whose command of Web 2.0 helped her start modeling, publish and market a memoir"- Wall Street Journal -- To unsubscribe from: Soft Skull Shortwave, just follow this link: <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Soft_Skull_Shortwave/</a> Click the link, or copy and paste the address into your browser. Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail <a href="http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/">http://www.softskull.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/</a>

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