Singular, idiosyncratic and a little mysterious, Black Clock is one of America's leading literary journals.
when February 13, 2011 @ 5:00pm
where Skylight Books, 1818 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Admission is free.
Come join us as we celebrate Black Clock 13 at Skylight Books with readings by AIMEE BENDER, JANET FITCH, JONATHAN LETHEM, SUSAN STRAIGHT, and LISA TEASLEY with STEVE ERICKSON as emcee.
Buy a copy of 13 at the reading and receive an additional back issue of for FREE!
when December 15, 2010 @ 7:00pm
where 826LA-Venice, 685 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Admission is free.
You’re invited to the Los Angeles Best Music Writing 2010 reading hosted by Guest Editor Ann Powers and featuring 2010 contributors Nikki Darling, Josh Kun, Randall Roberts, Mark Swed, and Michelle Tea.
when December 12, 2010 @ 2:00pm
where apexart, 291 Church Street, New York, NY 10013, 212-431-5270
Admission is free.
Black Clock contributor John Haskell will be reading with Aaron Garretson, Fiona Maazel, Syreeta McFadden, Tao Lin, and Emma Straub at apexart’s third edition of the Almost Famous Reading Series.
Aaron Garretson was shortlisted for the Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, and has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
John Haskell was awarded a 2009 Guggenheim award, and has taught writing and literature at Columbia, Cal Arts, and the University of Leipzig.
Tao Lin is the author of six books of fiction and poetry, the most recent of which is Richard Yates (Melville House, 2010).
Fiona Maazel is the winner of the Bard Prize for Fiction in 2009. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Bomb, and elsewhere.
Syreeta McFadden is the managing editor of Union Station Magazine and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Religion Dispatches, Black Commentator and elsewhere.
Emma Straub‘s writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, 52 Stories, Gargoyle, and elsewhere. Her next short story collection will be published in February 2011.
when November 17, 2010, 10AM until 100 posts
where Thumbscribes.com
In the Exquisite Shorts project, Black Clock contributor Aimee Bender gets the ball rolling with the first line of a story on Thumbscribes.com, then it’s your/our job to complete the narrative in 300 character increments. After it reaches 100 contributions, the final will be available for reading pleasure on Thumbscribes and on Electric Literature’s Outlet Blog. Getting to the requisite number of posts won’t take long, so hustle to get in the game now!
when October 27, 2010 @ 7:30pm
where Skylight Books, 1818 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027 (313) 660-1175
Admission is free.
Black Clock Roving Genius and Editor-At-Large and contributor David L. Ulin will discuss and sign his new book on the importance of reading in a digital culture, The Lost Art of Reading.
From the Skylight Books website: Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In The Lost Art of Reading, David L. Ulin asks a number of timely questions — why is literature important? What does it offer, especially now? Blending commentary with memoir, Ulin addresses the importance of the simple act of reading in an increasingly digital culture. Reading a book, flipping through hard pages, or shuffling them on screen — it doesn’t matter. The key is the act of reading, the seriousness and depth. Ulin emphasizes the importance of reflection and pause allowed by stopping to read a book, and the focus required to let the mind run free in a world that is not one’s own. Far from preaching to the choir, The Lost Art of Reading is a call to arms, or rather, pages.
David L. Ulin was book editor of the Los Angeles Times from 2005–2010. He is the author of The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith (Viking, 2004; Penguin, 2005), selected as a Best Book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. He has edited two anthologies of Southern California literature: Another City: Writing from Los Angeles (City Lights, 2001), a Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 2001; and Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America, 2002), which received a California Book Award from the Commonwealth Club of California, and was selected by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as a Best of the Best for 2002. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, LA Weekly, Los Angeles, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered; his essay “The Half-Birthday of the Apocalypse” was nominated for a 2004 Pushcart Prize. For the 2008–2009 academic year, he was a visiting professor in the MFA in creative writing program at the California Institute of the Arts. Currently, he teaches in USC’s Masters of Professional Writing program, and in the low residency MFA in creative writing program at the University of California, Riverside’s Palm Desert Graduate Center.
Novelist, playwright, screenwriter and Black Clock contributor (issues 7 and 9) Seth Greenland will don the team colors (but not, one presumes, the tools of ignorance) this Thursday, October 14th, at The Mountain Bar (473 Gin Ling Way, Los Angeles, 90012) for Opium Magazine‘s touring Literary Death Match, LDM100. Seth will be starting for Black Clock; his competitors will be fire-baller D.R. Haney (Banned for Life), enforcer Jennine Capó Crucet (author of How to Leave Hialeah) and rebound specialist, actor and playwright Sasha Higgins.
Doors open at 7:30 pm, show starts at 9:15 (sharp). Tickets are $7 if ordered in advance, $5 for students with a valid student ID, and $10 at the door. Cheering is optional, but it is highly recommended that you wear gear to protect your hands, face, elbows, knees and shins. All proceeds are being directed to a good cause: the publication of the anthology Opium100: A Century of Literary Humor.
For more information about this event, and the LDM phenomenon in general, please visit: http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/.
when October 6, 2010 @ 6:00pm
where The Center for Fiction, 17 E 47th Street, NY, NY 10017, 212-755-6710
Admission is free.
Black Clock authors John Haskell and Ben Marcus will be reading fiction with Gary Lutz at The Center for Fiction’s gorgeous Mercantile Library in New York City.
when September 26, 2010 @ 8:00pm
where The Mountain Bar, 475 Gin Ling Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027 (313) 660-1175
Admission is free.
Black Clock 4 and 7 contributor Grace Krilanovich reads with Steve De Jarnat, Joshua Mohr, and Matt Stewart at the next Vermin on the Mount reading.
when September 26, 2010 @ 10:00am-6:00pm
where West Hollywood Park, 647 N. San Vicente Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90069
Admission is free.
A slew of Black Clock contributors including Aimee Bender, Francesca Lia Block, Rachel Resnick, and Rob Roberge will be presenting at the 9th Annual …
when September 19, 2010 @ 5:00pm
where Skylight Books, 1818 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027 (313) 660-1175
Admission is free.
Come join us as we celebrate Black Clock 12 with contributors Monica Carter, Paul Cullum, Samantha Dunn, Tod Goldberg, Richard Rayner, and Nina Revoyr at Skylight Books!
Black Clock 12 takes you out to the ball game, where obsessions abound inside and outside the white lines. In these stories, essays and poems, the demarcation between winning and losing, humor and sadness is blurred; in sports, whether participating, watching or …rejecting, you discover who you are and who you’re not. As the writers in Black Clock know, the game may be played under bright lights but it’s in the crevices of darkness where the true game is found, because sports lie beyond the pleasure principle.
MONICA CARTER, a 2010 PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellow and 2010 Lambda Emerging LGBT Voices Fellow, has also been published in Pale Fire. She is working on her novel, Eating the Apple, set in 1930s Manhattan, which tells the story of an aging, alcoholic lesbian writer caught in a love triangle.
PAUL CULLUM is a freelance writer living in the Silver Lake region of Los Angeles. He has written extensively for the L.A. Weekly, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, Stop Smiling, Arthur, and hundreds of tiny magazines that pay comically little. His Los Angeles Times West Magazine story on the Mexican Midget Rodeo was anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing 2007, published by Houghton Mifflin. His essay “Why I Hate Sports” is his first for Black Clock.
SAMANTHA DUNN is the author of several books, including the novel Failing Paris and the memoir Not By Accident: Reconstructing a Careless Life. She teaches in the UCLA Writers Program.
TOD GOLDBERG is the author of seven books of fiction, including the novels Living Dead Girl, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Fake Liar Cheat, and the popular Burn Notice series, as well as
the short story collections Simplify and, most recently, Other Resort Cities. He lives in La Quinta, CA, where he directs UC-Riverside’s low residency MFA program in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts.
RICHARD RAYNER, born in England, now lives in Los Angeles. His books include the nonfiction book A Bright and Guilty Place, the memoir The Blue Suit and the novels The Cloud Sketcher, L.A. Without a Map, and Murder Book. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and many other publications.
NINA REVOYR is the author of three novels, including Southland, a Los Angeles Times “Best Book of 2003,” and The Age of Dreaming, a finalist for the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her new novel, Wingshooters, will be published in 2011.
More information at www.blackclock.org and at www.skylightbooks.com/event
