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The Educational Alliance is pleased to announce that Caleb Crain, Melissa Plaut, and Brandon Stosuy will be appearing on Tuesday, October 17 at 7:00 pm as part of our series, Writers at the Alliance. The Educational Alliance is located at 197 East Broadway (F train to East Broadway, walk two blocks to Jefferson). Readings take place in the Mazer Theater. This is a free event. For further information, contact Liz Brown at readings@killfee.net or call the Educational Alliance at (212) 780-2300, ext. 378.
In his foreword to Here
is New York, written in 1948, E.B. White asserted
that it is the reader's, not the author's, duty to bring New York down to date.
The Alliance has enlisted three very different writers with that task,
beginning with Caleb Crain who chronicles the extravagances and vanities of New
York's upper class in the nineteenth century. Next, Brandon Stosuy
delves into the downtown music scene of the 1970s and continues through to
2006, noting outerborough shifts along the way.
Finally, Melissa Plaut, a blogging cab driver, keeps
us down to date with her present-day account of life behind the wheel in New
York City.
CALEB CRAIN has written essays and criticism for The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. He is the
author of American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation
(Yale, 2001), and is at work on a history of the divorce of the
nineteenth-century theatrical couple Edwin and Catharine Forrest.
MELISSA PLAUT was born in 1975 and grew up in
the suburbs of New York City. After college, she held a series of office jobs
until, at the age of 29, she began driving a yellow cab. A year later she
started writing New York Hack, a blog about her experiences behind the wheel. Within a few
months, the blog was receiving several thousand hits
a day. She is currently working on a book based on New York Hack to be published in 2007 by Villard.
BRANDON STOSUY, a staff writer and columnist
at Pitchfork, contributes regularly to The Believer and The Village Voice and
has written for Arthur, BlackBook, Bookforum, LA Weekly,
Seattle Weekly, and Slate, among
other publications. His Danzig-heavy meditation on
Sue de Beer appears in her EMERGE monograph (Downtown Arts Projects, 2005) and
an essay he co-authored with Lawrence Brose is collected in Enter at Your Own Risk: The Dangerous Art of
Dennis Cooper (FDU Press, 2006). He's currently curating The Believer's 2007 Music Issue Compilation CD
while finishing a discussion with Matthew Barney and essays on Wayne Koestenbaum and Gordon Lish, also
for The Believer. Up Is Up, But So Is Down, his anthology of Downtown New York
literature, will be published in October by NYU Press.
UPCOMING:
Writers, Guerillas and Bears
Tuesday, November 28
7:00pm
Three novelists read about homegrown radicals, underground moms, and
fugitive bears. Featuring: Clifford Chase, author of Winkie;
Christopher Sorrentino, author of Trance; and Dana Spiotta, author of Eat the Document.
Writers at the Alliance, the Educational Alliance's reading series, brings
together established and emerging novelists, poets and essayists whose work, in
both form and content, reflects the energy, diversity, and history of dissent which
have always characterized the Lower East Side.
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