Tom Wolfe, 88

Tom Wolfe, Innovative Nonfiction Writer and Novelist, Dies at 88
Deirdre Carmody and William Grimes, The New York Times, May 15, 2018

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Bob Smith, 59

Bob Smith, Groundbreaking Gay Comedian, Is Dead at 59
by Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times, January 25, 2018

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William P. Kinsella, 81

William P. Kinsella, Author of ‘Shoeless Joe,’ Dies at 81
by Christopher Mele, The New York Times, September 17, 2016

Farley Mowat, 92

Farley Mowat, Canadian Writer and Wildlife Advocate, Dies at 92
by Ian Austen, The New York Times, May 7, 2014

Start the Car: DUMBO series for multimedia storytelling

Start the Car

Multimedia Storytelling Series

presents

Getting Lost

October 10, 2013

 Galapagos Art Space

Getting Lost features storytelling from Zefrey Throwell (Whitney, MoMa), Hollis Witherspoon (Comedy Central, The PIT, WBAI), Elena Megalos (The Moth), Jenny Zhang (LMCC, Rookie Mag), Chris Stackhouse (Poet, Art in America), Benaifer Bhadha (Narativ), and Nathaniel Sullivan (Flux Factory, This Red Door).

Start The Car is a multimedia storytelling series featuring a diverse panel of writer/artist/performers at Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The event brings together artists, writers, and performers that may utilize various creative multimedia to support an "alternative presentation" of a narrative structure. A rotating line-up of storytellers offer up diverse essays, non-fiction and fictionalized stories based around a loose theme and are encouraged to use sound, pictures, written and spoken word, video, music, images, collaboration and any other modes to creatively enhance the narrative.

Tickets are $8 in advance ($12 at the door) and can be purchased at ticketweb.com. Doors open at 7pm, and stories will begin at 8pm. This event is 21 and over; seasonal drink specials will be available for purchase.

Galapagos Art Space

16 Main Street, Brooklyn

(map/directions) 

Lambda Lit announces retreat fellows

Introducing the 2011 LLF Writers Retreat Fellows
Tony Valenzuela, Lambda Literary, June 2011

The hills are alive at Paper Radio

If you're a fan of This American Life or Radio Lab, you should enjoy Paper Radio. It just hails from a different corner of the world and comes in two flavors--AM (non-fiction) and FM (fiction).

Try this: Paper Radio: The Sound of Music

In a surreal pop renovation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical, The Sound Of Music fuses familiar and familial characters as it grapples with who we are, and become, in love.

The Sound of Music is taken from Tom Cho’s book Look Who’s Morphing, published by Giramondo.

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Call for submissions: Yellow Medicine Review

Yellow Medicine Review: A journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought, seeks material "The Ancestors We Were Looking for We Have Become: International Queer Indigenous Voices," edited by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán.

As queer Indigenous writers, and queer artists of color more broadly, we have spent many years looking for our ancestors, looking for those Native and brown people who loved as we did, who moved in the world and created a space for us. Part of our queer genealogy involves not only finding those voices in our lineage, in our Nations, but also recognizing the way we are becoming those we have sought, and the importance of recording our stories for those coming after, and making the journey with, for we are not only descendents but ancestors. 

Kin coming together at the meeting grounds to share sustenance: stories of survival, resistance, and affirmation. May we make good medicine for our peoples and Nations. May our words nurture and move us forward, our visions deeply rooted in the past and the continuance of our presence.

Same-gender-loving, multiple-gender-loving, and transgender Indigenous peoples from around the world are invited to submit their work, words. May they be blessed.

Submission deadline: June 25. For complete information and submission instructions, click here.