Black Clock 8 Reading @ The Mandrake

Sunday, March 16 2008, 4:00 PM

Join us at the launch party for Black Clock 8 at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 16 at The Mandrake. The party will feature readings by the following BC8 contributors.

• ALEX AUSTIN is the author of several plays including Dupe, which will be staged this summer in Los Angeles. “The Dark Ride” in this issue is excerpted from The Dark Ride of Asbury Park, the sequel to his novel The Perfume Factory.
• CHRIS KRAUS is the author of the novels I Love Dick, Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor and the forthcoming Summer of Hate, and a collection of art essays.
• GEORGE MELROD, a screenwriter and art critic, used to love visiting American historical tourist sites as a kid. He currently is the editor of art ltd. magazine.
• GEOFF NICHOLSON is the author of fourteen novels as well the in-progress 14 Minutes, about an Andy Warhol look-alike, and the forthcoming non-fiction The Lost Art of Walking.
• MADY SCHUTZMAN has written for Theatre Topics, Women and Performance, The Drama Review and American Communication Journal, and is writing a play about Llano del Rio, a California utopian colony. She also is coeditor of two anthologies on the work of theatre director Augusto Boal and teaches writing and performance theory at CalArts.
• LISA TEASLEY is the author of the novels Heat Signature and Dive and the award-winning collection Glow in the Dark. She also wrote and hosted the BBC documentary High School Prom, which was short-listed for the EMMA Award.

The Mandrake serves up an ambient mix of art and social spaces: the ideal venue to showcase the cutting-edge voices of Black Clock.

The Mandrake = 2692 S La Cienega Blvd. (Between Venice Blvd. and Washington Blvd.), Los Angeles, CA 90034, (310) 837-3297

Black Clock 7 Reading @ MOCA

Sunday, September 23 2007, 3:00 PM

Black Clock celebrates its 7th issue with readings from the following BC7 contributors:

• JANET FITCH is the author of last year’s Paint It Black. Her first novel White Oleander was translated into twenty-four languages and made into a feature film. Currently she’s at work on her third novel and teaches writing at USC.
• SETH GREENLAND’s play Jungle Rot won the American Theater Critics Association Award and Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award. His new novel will be published by Bloomsbury next year.
• TARA ISON’s first novel A Child Out Of Alcatraz was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her new novel is The List.
• GRACE KRILANOVICH recently finished her first novel, The Orange Eats Creeps, of which this issue’s “Warlock” is an excerpt. Her work appeared in the third and fourth issues of Black Clock and she’s a graduate of the CalArts MFA Writing Program.
• GEOFF NICHOLSON is the author of fourteen novels including The Hollywood Dodo and What We Did On Our Holidays, now a feature film to appear at festivals later this year.
• RACHEL RESNICK is the author of Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick, and her new novel, Sway, is excerpted in this issue. Currently she’s at work on a memoir called Love Junkie. She also runs a luxe writing retreat (writersonfire.com).

Admission for this event is free.

MOCA = 250 South Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90012, (213) 621-2766

Black Clock Benefit @ Redcat

Thursday, February 15 2007, 7:30 PM

Please join us on the evening of 2.15.07 at REDCAT (631 West Second Street Los Angeles 90012) in celebrating Black Clock, the Los Angeles-based literary magazine. Tickets are issued on a sliding scale: $5, $25, or more if you’re feeling generous.

Appearing at REDCAT will be:

• AIMEE BENDER, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign Of My Own and Willful Creatures
• FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK, author of Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books
• BEN EHRENREICH, author of The Suitors
• YXTA MAYA MURRAY, author of The Conquest, The Queen Jade and the forthcoming The King’s Gold
• SUSAN STRAIGHT, author of A Million Nightingales, Highwire Moon and I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen And Licked Out All the Pots
• LISA TEASLEY, author of Heat Signature, Dive and Glow In The Dark
• DAVID L. ULIN, author of The Myth of Solid Ground and editor of The Los Angeles Times Book Review

and

• STEVE ERICKSON, editor of Black Clock and author of Our Ecstatic Days and the forthcoming Zeroville, in conversation with MICHAEL SILVERBLATT, host of KCRW’s “Bookworm.”

This event is co-hosted by the CalArts MFA Writing Program and the School of Critical Studies. For ticket information please call REDCAT at (213) 237-2800 or visit www.redcat.org.

Black Clock 6 Launch @ Beyond Baroque

Sunday, December 10 2006, 2:00 PM

Black Clock, the literary journal edited by Steve Erickson and published by California Institute of the Arts, will be having a reading to launch its sixth issue. It will be held at 2 PM on Sunday, December 10th at Beyond Baroque (681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, 310-822-3006). FREE.

Featured Readers:

• ROBERT EISELE
• ELOISE KLEIN HEALY
• KAREN HOLDEN
• BRIGHDE MULLINS
• MAGGIE NELSON
• JANET STERNBURG
• STEPHANIE RIOUX

Black Clock 5 Reading @ Dutton’s Brentwood Books

Sunday, September 17 2006, 2:00 P.M.

Black Clock celebrates its 5th issue with readings from the following BC5 contributors:

• AJ ALBANY
• HANNAH BLEIER
• JENNY BURMAN
• DAVID MARTINO
• LOU MATHEWS
• JOY NICHOLSON
• MARY YUKARI WATERS

Dutton’s Brentwood Books = 11975 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049, (310) 476-6263

Black Clock 5 Launch @ Skylight Books

Thursday, June 22 2006, 7:30 P.M.

Black Clock celebrates its 5th issue with readings from the following BC5 contributors:

• FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK is the author of 15 books including Weetzie Bat, Goat Girls, and Beautiful Boys.
• SUSAN STRAIGHT is the author of six books including Highwire Moon, finalist for the National Book Award in 2001, and the new A Million Nightingales.
• LISA TEASLEY’s second novel, Heat Signature, will be published by Bloomsbury this summer, along with paperbacks of her first, Dive, and the collection Glow In The Dark, which won the Gold Pen and Pacificus Literary Foundation awards.
• ALAN RIFKIN has written for The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Premiere, Details and The L.A. Weekly. His first book, Signal Hill, was a finalist for the 2004 Southern California Booksellers Award in fiction, and he was also a finalist for the 2003 PEN Award in journalism.
• YXTA MAYA MURRAY is a professor at Loyola Law School and the author of Locas, What It Takes To Get To Vegas, The Conquest, The Queen Jade, and the forthcoming The King’s Gold.

Skylight Books = 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027, (323) 660-1175

Black Clock 4 Launch @ Skylight Books

Wednesday, November 9 2005, 7:30 PM

Black Clock celebrates the publication of issue number 4 with a reading at Skylight Books, featuring the following authors:

• SAMANTHA DUNN is the author of Faith In Carlos Gomez, as well as the memoir Not By Accident: Reconstructing a Careless Life and the novel Falling Paris, and editor of the anthology, Women on the Edge.
• GLEN DAVID GOLD is the author of Carter Beats the Devil and has written for The New York Times Magazine, Playboy and McSweeney’s.
• ANTHONY MILLER has written for Bookforum, the Chicago weekly New City, Los Angeles CityBeat and The LA Weekly.
• HOWARD RODMAN is the author of the novel Destiny Express and the screenplay for the 2000 film Joe Gould’s Secret.

Skylight Books = 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027, (323) 660-1175

Black Clock 2 & 3 Launch @ Dutton’s Beverly Hills Books

Wednesday, February 2 2005, 7:00 PM

Black Clock celebrates the publication of issues number 2 and 3 with a reading at Dutton’s Brentwood Books, featuring the following authors:

• MIRANDA JULY
• RACHEL RESNICK
• DAVID L. ULIN

Dutton’s Beverly Hills Books = 447 N. Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210, (310) 281-0997