PEN Center USA proudly presents: FIVE BY FIVE: Los Angeles Writers Read Classic Noir
The Last Bookstore will host the reading, which will be followed by a bar crawl.
/EINPresswire.com/ Los Angeles, CA: PEN Center USA will present FIVE BY FIVE: Los Angeles Writers Read Classic Noir at The Last Bookstore, a reading featuring Los Angeles writers Gary Phillips, Joseph Mattson, Carolyn Kellogg, Martin Pousson, and David Kipen. FIVE BY FIVE will take place on October, 29, 2011, at 6 PM. The reading will be followed by a suggested bar crawl. Maps of the bar crawl route will be made available to the audience the night of the event, which is part of the month-long Night & The City Festival.
Gary Phillips' noir football novel, The Jook, is out again from PM Press, as is The Underbelly, a mystery novel about a homeless Vietnam vet's search for a missing disabled friend. Monkology, fifteen short stories about private eye Ivan Monk, is out soon from Barnacle Books.
Joseph Mattson is the author of the short story collection Eat Hell and Empty The Sun, a novel with soundtrack by Drag City recording artist Six Organs of Admittance. Most recently, he is the editor/introducer of and a contributor to The Speed Chronicles, a collection of fiction about the narcotic speed, featuring William T. Vollmann, Sherman Alexie, Beth Lisick, Jerry Stahl, Megan Abbott, James Greer, James Franco, and more, available now from Akashic Books. Mattson is a contributor to The Rattling Wall and Slake, and he is currently at work on a novel, Hexico, which was awarded a 2011 City of Los Angeles Artist fellowship.
Carolyn Kellogg is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, where she covers books and publishing. A board member of the National Book Critics Circle, Kellogg has appeared on NPR, Australian Broadcasting, and Channel 5. Her work has recently appeared in Poets & Writers, Black Clock, and online at The Paris Review. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and shares her birthday with Raymond Chandler.
Martin Pousson is an associate professor of English at California State University, Northridge, where he teaches in the Creative Writing Program and the Queer Studies Program. He was born in Acadiana, in the bayou land of Louisiana. He received an MFA degree in writing from Columbia University and has taught at Columbia University, Rutgers University, and Loyola University in New Orleans. His first novel, No Place, Louisiana, was published by Riverhead Books and was a finalist for the John Gardner Award in Fiction. His first collection of poetry, Sugar, was published by Suspect Thoughts Press and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His stories and poems have appeared in Epoch, StoryQuarterly, Parnassus, ISLE: Oxford Journals, Icon, Transfer, Cocktail, New Orleans Review, Verse Daily, Intersection, The Louisiana Review, Love, Bourbon Street, Gay City Anthology, and Cimarron Review. He is now at work on a collection of short stories called The Nerves.
David Kipen is the former director of literature at the National Endowment of the Arts, where he spearheaded the Big Read project. Before that, he spent seven years as book editor and critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Lately he's become the book correspondent for The Madeleine Brand Show on KPCC. His first venture into social entrepreneurship is a community lending library and bookshop in Boyle Heights called Libros Schmibros, which landed on the Los Angeles Times front page last November, at the Hammer Museum in August—at least temporarily—and, just last month, on page 85 of LA Weekly's "Best of LA" issue.
PEN Center USA, a literary nonprofit based in Beverly Hills, has a membership of more than 600 professional writers. PEN Center USA strives to protect the rights of writers around the world, to stimulate interest in the written word, and to foster a vital literary community among the diverse writers living in the western United States. PEN Center USA has a long, successful history of planning literary events in and around Los Angeles; special programming has taken place at The Hammer, The Hotel Café, Largo at the Coronet, The Echo, Actor's Gang, The Pacific Design Center, and The Beverly Hills Hotel.
The Last Bookstore is located at 453 S. Spring Street, Ground Floor, Downtown Los Angeles. FIVE BY FIVE is FREE to the public. Featured noir titles will be announced next week and available for purchase at the bookstore throughout the reading.
For more information on FIVE BY FIVE, please contact Michelle Meyering, Director of Programs and Events at PEN Center USA: michelle@penusa.org.
/EINPresswire.com/ Los Angeles, CA: PEN Center USA will present FIVE BY FIVE: Los Angeles Writers Read Classic Noir at The Last Bookstore, a reading featuring Los Angeles writers Gary Phillips, Joseph Mattson, Carolyn Kellogg, Martin Pousson, and David Kipen. FIVE BY FIVE will take place on October, 29, 2011, at 6 PM. The reading will be followed by a suggested bar crawl. Maps of the bar crawl route will be made available to the audience the night of the event, which is part of the month-long Night & The City Festival.
Gary Phillips' noir football novel, The Jook, is out again from PM Press, as is The Underbelly, a mystery novel about a homeless Vietnam vet's search for a missing disabled friend. Monkology, fifteen short stories about private eye Ivan Monk, is out soon from Barnacle Books.
Joseph Mattson is the author of the short story collection Eat Hell and Empty The Sun, a novel with soundtrack by Drag City recording artist Six Organs of Admittance. Most recently, he is the editor/introducer of and a contributor to The Speed Chronicles, a collection of fiction about the narcotic speed, featuring William T. Vollmann, Sherman Alexie, Beth Lisick, Jerry Stahl, Megan Abbott, James Greer, James Franco, and more, available now from Akashic Books. Mattson is a contributor to The Rattling Wall and Slake, and he is currently at work on a novel, Hexico, which was awarded a 2011 City of Los Angeles Artist fellowship.
Carolyn Kellogg is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, where she covers books and publishing. A board member of the National Book Critics Circle, Kellogg has appeared on NPR, Australian Broadcasting, and Channel 5. Her work has recently appeared in Poets & Writers, Black Clock, and online at The Paris Review. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and shares her birthday with Raymond Chandler.
Martin Pousson is an associate professor of English at California State University, Northridge, where he teaches in the Creative Writing Program and the Queer Studies Program. He was born in Acadiana, in the bayou land of Louisiana. He received an MFA degree in writing from Columbia University and has taught at Columbia University, Rutgers University, and Loyola University in New Orleans. His first novel, No Place, Louisiana, was published by Riverhead Books and was a finalist for the John Gardner Award in Fiction. His first collection of poetry, Sugar, was published by Suspect Thoughts Press and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His stories and poems have appeared in Epoch, StoryQuarterly, Parnassus, ISLE: Oxford Journals, Icon, Transfer, Cocktail, New Orleans Review, Verse Daily, Intersection, The Louisiana Review, Love, Bourbon Street, Gay City Anthology, and Cimarron Review. He is now at work on a collection of short stories called The Nerves.
David Kipen is the former director of literature at the National Endowment of the Arts, where he spearheaded the Big Read project. Before that, he spent seven years as book editor and critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Lately he's become the book correspondent for The Madeleine Brand Show on KPCC. His first venture into social entrepreneurship is a community lending library and bookshop in Boyle Heights called Libros Schmibros, which landed on the Los Angeles Times front page last November, at the Hammer Museum in August—at least temporarily—and, just last month, on page 85 of LA Weekly's "Best of LA" issue.
PEN Center USA, a literary nonprofit based in Beverly Hills, has a membership of more than 600 professional writers. PEN Center USA strives to protect the rights of writers around the world, to stimulate interest in the written word, and to foster a vital literary community among the diverse writers living in the western United States. PEN Center USA has a long, successful history of planning literary events in and around Los Angeles; special programming has taken place at The Hammer, The Hotel Café, Largo at the Coronet, The Echo, Actor's Gang, The Pacific Design Center, and The Beverly Hills Hotel.
The Last Bookstore is located at 453 S. Spring Street, Ground Floor, Downtown Los Angeles. FIVE BY FIVE is FREE to the public. Featured noir titles will be announced next week and available for purchase at the bookstore throughout the reading.
For more information on FIVE BY FIVE, please contact Michelle Meyering, Director of Programs and Events at PEN Center USA: michelle@penusa.org.
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