Black Clock

when September 1, 2010 @ 7:30PM
where Skylight Books, 1818 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027 (313) 660-1175

Admission is free.

Rick Moody–Black Clock contributor (Issues 1, 2, 4, and 9) and award-winning author of Black Veil, Demonology, The Diviners, Garden State, The Ice Storm, Purple …

Brian Evenson is owed some karmic rewards.  The publication of his first novel, Altmann’s Tongue, generated enough controversy to oust him from his teaching position at Brigham Young University, rattle his faith, and sever close personal relationships.  Asked to stop publishing or risk censure from the Mormon community, Evenson opted to keep writing, leaving his position and his family behind.

Since that decision, however, Evenson has garnered a wealth of awards and critical …

This is the third in the “The Real Economics of the Purely Imaginary” series, which circles some very large, very unwieldy, and–for precisely these reasons–very tantalizing questions about knowledge, creativity, teaching, writing, and the university.

I was in the bookstore last night.  Not the indie bookstore that also sells used records–the chain bookstore that also sells lattes.  I should have known better.  Of …

Black Clock 12 contributor, muay thai warrior and self-described “disgruntled storyteller, professional lyricist, and literary guerrilla eco-thug” Dante Zúñiga-West will be performing as a member of Resident Anti-Hero at this year’s Pronoia Festival in Arkansas, July 30 – August 1.

Pronoia (being both the cosmological and moral opposite of paranoia) is “a litter-free …

The task of providing some introductory overview of author Lewis Shiner’s life and career is, while not quite Herculean, certainly daunting.  Shiner might be characterized as primarily a pop artist-cum-magical realist, or a sympathetic but sharp-eyed chronicler of American subcultures, or even a futurist (if a futurist of a somewhat grim outlook.)  His fiction, both in its form and content, is entangled in complicated relationships to music as well as comic books and graphic storytelling.  And Shiner has been cast in various roles throughout his writing career: early on, as one of the “founders” …

when July 21, 2010 @ 7:00pm
where Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Admission is free.

Black Clock 12 author Monica Carter reads with fellow PEN Emerging Voices fellowship recipients Natashia Deon, Lorene Garrett, Simone Kang, and Bev …

when July 17, 2010 @ 8:00pm
where 820 Industrial Street, Los Angeles, CA 90021

Black Clock 12 author Katy Petty is reading/performing this dog of a Saturday with The Shone, Senia Moon, Ani Raya-Flores, Jared Woodland, Stephen van Dyck, Captain Alex Machiavelli, “a special guest…and you.” …

millerwalks.com

Cool in general and of particular interest to Henry Miller fans, this site uses Google Maps to chart out Henry Miller’s adventures, from his ramblings in Clichy to Paris to New York, and everywhere in between. Google’s street-view feature allows you to zoom in and take a contemporary stroll through Miller’s old stomping grounds. The site is also updated with academic tidbits, essays, and archival marginalia about Miller and his …

Media assassin and cultural glass blower Betty Nguyen makes death-of-print doomsayers eat their words. As a part of the Levi’s Workshop 2010 summer series, Nguyen—whose traditional titles include curator, art director, and founder and editor of First Person Magazine—has created a contemporary library that offers the public “a diverse sampling of anything artists are noting, coming across, doodling, making right now and flipping upside down into your own message… In a backlash to the world of internet, $60,000 Italian art catalogs, or life commitments, it is just to give people the …

This is the first in a series of literary meditations on that rare urban pastime of exploring Los Angeles on foot.

L.A. has a reputation as a driver’s city.  I know this, because I’ve read it described elsewhere, endlessly, in peoples’ reflections on the place; and also, because of my first experience of L.A., which came through an old girlfriend who once laughed in my face when I asked her if there were any cool bars or coffee shops within ‘walking distance’ …

when- July 8, 2010 @ 7:00pm
where Studio 333, 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, CA 94965, p 415-331-8272

$5 donation at the door.

Black Clock 4 author Glen David Gold, will be reading with Joshua Mohr, Anne Raeff, Jason Roberts, and Tatjana Soli at the next Why There Are Words, a literary …

when -July 6, 2010 @ 6:30pm
where Annenberg Community Beach House, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA, tel (310) 458 2257

Admission is free. Reservations are recommended.

Red Hen Press takes reading on the beach to a new level of awesome. Their upcoming …

Poems-For-All is a fantastic literary project founded by Richard Hansen. Hansen prints poems in miniature-sized books and urges readers to spread them around. A full description of the project’s manifesto fills the backs of the little books. It reads:

“They’re scattered around town—on buses, trains, cabs, in restrooms, bars, left along with the tip; stuffed into a stranger’s back pocket. Whatever. Wherever. Small poems in small booklets half the size of a business card. A project of the 24^th street irregular …