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XØ PROJECTS INC PRESENTS

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A monthly literary series curated by Christine Hanaway

MON 25 FEB 2008 7PM

Archipelago Books presents

DOMINIQUE FABRE | The Waitress Was New

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TUE 25 MAR 2008 7PM

One Story Press presents

MARIBETH BATCH, HANAH TINTI and OSP STAFF | Selected Writings

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FRI 25 APR 2008 7PM

Ugly Duckling Presse presents

Phil Cordelli | Landscapes of Fire and Music

G.L. FORD | Landscapes of Fire and Music

FILIP MARINOVICH | Zero Readership

ELIZABETH REDDIN | The Hot Garment of Love is Insecure

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TUE 20 MAY 2008 7PM

Greywolf Press presents

SALVATORE SCIBONA | The End

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TUE 24 JUN 2008 7PM

Palgrave presents

GERRY BEEGAN  | The Mass Image

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TUE 22 JUL 2008 7PM

Scribner Press presents

RACHEL KUSHNER | Telex from Cuba

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All readings are held in The Munchroom off the Lobby of the main entrance.

Admission is free.

THE OLD AMERICAN CAN FACTORY

232 Third Street at Third Avenue Gowanus Brooklyn   < LOCATION + DIRECTIONS >

  to Carroll St-Smith St      to Fourth Ave-Ninth St

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PROGRAM DETAILS + BIOS

MON 25 FEB 2008 7PM

DOMINIQUE FABRE | THE WAITRESS WAS NEW  (ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS 2008)

Dominique Fabre focuses on the lives of individuals on the margins of society. In his own words, Fabre “believes in the possibility of showing you genuine beauty, genuine dignity and places or people that have been somehow overlooked.  He has produced nine works of fiction over the past decade. His title Fantomes received the Marcel Pagnol prize. The Waitress Was New is his first title to appear in English.

“The strong, intimate voice of this gentle, canny narrator continues to stay with us long after we reach the end of The Waitress Was New—what an engrossing, captivating tale in Jordan Stump’s sensitive translation”   —Lydia Davis

ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS  |  WWW.ARCHIPELAGOBOOKS.ORG

Archipelago Books is a not-for-profit press devoted to publishing excellent translations of classic and contemporary world literature. In its first four years, Archipelago has brought out 35 books from 15 languages. Archipelago works in partnership with like-minded organizations here and abroad, hosting events and readings for our authors and translators.

Artistic exchange between cultures is a crucial component of global understanding. It has never been more important for voices from around the world to be heard in this country—less than one percent of new literature published the United States originates outside its borders. By publishing diverse and innovative literary translations they are doing what they can to change this shameful reality and broaden the American cultural landscape. Archipelago is always striving to find literary voices that simply would never be heard in America without them. 

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TUE 25 MAR 2008 7PM

MARIBETH BATCHA, HANNAH TINTI & ONE STORY STAFF  |  SELECTED WRITING  (ONE STORY 2008) 

Hannah Tinti, One Story's editor, lives in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. Her short story collection, Animal Crackers, has been sold in sixteen countries, and was recently a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award. Her novel, The Good Thief, is forthcoming with the Dial Press in June 2008. She is currently the editor-in-chief of One Story magazine.

Maribeth Batcha, One Story's publisher, has worked in magazine circulation for over 15 years and currently does marketing and development copywriting for not-for-profits, including the 92nd Street Y and the National Academy Foundation. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and is an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College, teaching a revisions tutorial in their MFA Program.

ONE STORY PRESS  |  WWW.ONE-STORY.COM

One Story is a non-profit literary magazine that features one great short story mailed to subscribers every three weeks. The mission is to save the short story by publishing in a friendly format that allows readers to experience each story as a stand-alone work of art and a simple form of entertainment. One Story is designed to fit into your purse or pocket, and into your life.

Because One Story likes a challenge they publish each writer one time only. This prevents them from relying on a stable of writers and helps us find new and exciting voices. Between September and June, all writers can submit their work. In the past five years One Story has grown to have over 3000 subscribers. Many of the stories published have won awards, and many One Story writers have gone on to publish their first (or third, or tenth) books. But what keeps us going is the community we have created.

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FRI 25 APR 2008 7PM

PHIL CORDELLI  |  TITLE  (UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 200x)

G.L. FORD  |  LANDSCAPES OF FIRE AND MUSIC  (UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2003)

G.L. Ford has published poems in various literary journals and is one of the founding editors of Ugly Duckling Presse. He has also been a co-editor of 6x6 poetry magazine since its inception in 2000.

FILIP MARINOVICH  |  ZERO READERSHIP (UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2008)

Filip Marinovich’s first full-length book of poetry will be published this spring by UDP. He has staged several of his own plays in NYC, and has collaborated with Ugly Duckling Presse since 1999.

ELIZABETH REDDIN  | THE HOT GARMENT OF LOVE IS INSECURE (UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2007)

Elizabeth Reddin is a poet, musician, and performer living in Brooklyn. She plays music with Legends. Elizbeth's label, Deerhead Records, produces CD recordings of long poem readings in collaboration with Ugly Duckling Presse.

UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE  |  WWW.UGLYDUCKLINGPRESSE.ORG

Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit art & publishing collective producing small to mid-size editions of new poetry, translations, lost works, and artist's books. The Presse favors emerging, international, and "forgotten" writers with well-defined formal or conceptual projects that are difficult to place at other presses. Its full-length books, chapbooks, artist’s books, broadsides, magazine and newspaper all contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking.

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TUE 20 MAY 2008 7PM

SALVATORE SCIBONA  |  THE END  (GREYWOLF PRESS 2008)

An Italian immigrant enclave in Ohio is home for Rocco LaGrassa. He is the town baker and despite many years of dogged labor, paternal devotion and steadfast Christian faith his world is coming to a crashing end. He is the first of many exquisitely drawn characters we meet on August 15, 1953. The End follows a drapery seamstress, a sullen teenage boy and a jeweler into the heart of a crime that will twist all their lives. An amazing debut of a singular new American novelist. 

A masterful novel set amid racial upheaval in the 1950's America during the flight of second-generation immigrants from their once-necessary ghettos. Full of wisdom, consequence, and grace, Salvatore Scibona's radiant debut brims with the promise of a remarkable literary career, of which "The End" is only the beginning. --- Annie Dillard

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TUE 24 JUN 2008 7PM

GERRY BEEGAN   |  THE MASS IMAGE  (PALGRAVE 2008)

A Social History of Photomechanical Reproduction in Victorian London

Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936) identified the cultural shift that occurred at the end of the nineteenth century, when photomechanical techniques destabilized existing visual hierarchies and helped initiate the modern media. The Mass Image provides the first substantial account of the emergence of the photographically reproduced image as it traces the expansion of imagery that transformed the artistic and cultural landscape of the 1890s.This book looks in detail at the illustrators, photographers, editors, publishers, wood engravers, and reproduction firms who commissioned, originated, and produced images in popular illustrated magazines. The book demonstrates that photomechanical reproduction was central to an explosion of hybrid hand drawn and photographic imagery. These visual fragments provided readers with a meaningful picture of the surfaces of everyday modernity.

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TUE 22 JUL 2008 7PM

RACHEL KUSHNER   |  TELEX FROM CUBA  (SCRIBNER 2008)

An Italian immigrant enclave in Ohio is home for Rocco LaGrassa. He is the town baker and despite many years of dogged labor, paternal devotion and steadfast Christian faith his world is coming to a crashing end. He is the first of many exquisitely drawn characters we meet on August 15, 1953. The End follows a drapery seamstress, a sullen teenage boy and a jeweler into the heart of a crime that will twist all their lives. An amazing debut of a singular new American novelist.

"TELEX FROM CUBA exerts the mysterious pull of a super-saturated postcard from a distant land, sent to you by a stranger. Kushner brilliantly transforms her family history—and history—into a page-turning, elegantly intelligent, and politically enlightening novel that rings as true as anything. Hers is an epic achievement."  — Heidi Julavits, author of The Uses of Enchantment

"Imagination and intelligence luxuriate in Rachel Kushner's fascinating first novel. I marvel at how Kushner blends psychological and political realities, corporate America and insurgent Cuba, into a vivid diptych of the days before Castro's revolution. Rich in compelling characters and historical events, TELEX FROM CUBA is a revelatory, tenderhearted, and powerful work."  — Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, A Comedy

"TELEX FROM CUBA is a prodigious work, sparking into life throughout its pages, beautifully balanced in its views of plantation society and the revolutionary force that ultimately overthrows it, written without bombast or self-referring language, as if the writer is so intent on the people she portrays, she writes of them with a kind of rare innocence, the innocence of the true observer who submits to the power of the tale she tells."  — Paula Fox, author of The Coldest Winter

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CHRISTINE HANAWAY

Christine Hanaway is a painter. She works as the buyer and author events curator at 192 Books in Manhattan. She lives in Brooklyn and paints at The (OA) Can Factory.

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THE OLD AMERICAN CAN FACTORY  |  WWW.XOPROJECTS.COM

The (OA) Can Factory is an historic, industrial complex of six buildings totaling 130,000 sf at the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. It is a haven to a curated community of more than 200 people working in a broad range of art and design disciplines who conceive, manufacture and distribute ideas, experiences, products and structures in the creative industries. The (OA) Can Factory has been developed and is operated by XØ Projects Inc.

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