A Flurry of Furries
Marianne Shaneen's Film-in-Progress on the Furries Featured on
Boing Boing
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Unnameable Secrets/EOAGH Said
Unnameable Books featured in Time Out
Tim Peterson's literary website featured at Adam's Bookshop on November 18
this just in from Adam Tobin
Dear friends of Unnameable Books:
Don't tell anyone, but the editors of Time Out New York have appointed YOUR FAVORITE BOOKSTORE as one of NYC's 50 Essential Secrets. Unnameable Books also made the list. Page 40 of last week's issue features a large and excellent photograph of our secret back wall, in which you can see, too, if your eyes are keen, our secret collection of old issues of Botteghe Oscure (an important international literary journal of the 1940s and 50s). The caption reads, in part, "With a cluttered, top-shelf inventory that could keep you reading great tomes for the next decade, [Unnameable] is a definite
boon to Brooklyn's literati."
The text of the article can be found online at http://www.timeout.com/newyork/article/features/23933/44.html, but the
photograph looks much better on paper. Please find a copy of the magazine, cut out page 40, and wheatpaste it prominently on your front door, or on the side of any major architectural landmark.
There do exist, however, more and larger, more important secrets in the world.
The most immediate of these, concerning our ongoing Sunday afternoon readingseries, regards one SARAH LANG, who has written a book of poetry. The book is called THE WORK OF DAYS, is published by Coach House, and is just out new
now. Here's what Carole Maso says about the book: "With ferocity and tenderness, with and without hope these staggering poems astonish at every turn. One gets up from them changed." But don't trust Carole Maso: come see the poems for yourself, and hear them read aloud, by their very author, THIS SUNDAY at 5 PM, here at Unnameable Books. That's, like, tomorrow. November 11.
THE VERY NEXT SUNDAY -- to wit, the 18th of November -- Unnameable will host a release party for Issue 4 of the internet's premiere unpronouncable literary journal: EOAGH: A JOURNAL OF THE ARTS, edited by the inestimable Tim Peterson, whom we esteem greatly. Various writers will read from their work. This, too, will occur at 5 PM. Previous issues of EOAGH can be found at http://chax.org/eoagh/ , whereat Issue 4 will appear sometime before the release party...
More authors will appear on Sunday afternoons in December at 5 pm: notably, Shelley Jackson on Dec. 9 and the Harp & Altar special on Dec. 2: Lynn Crawford, Johannah Rodgers, and Corey Frost
Yrs.,
Adam
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Please do consider ordering your Christmas gifts through Unnameable Books: we can order any book in print, and ship anywhere in the world. And we give a 20% discount for most special orders. Amazon, schmamazon! Send us an
email ( unnameablebooks@earthlink.net ), or call us on the telephone (718 789 1534).
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THE UNNAMEABLE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Please mark your calendars with a very special symbol. All events are free of charge, but not wheelchair accessible:
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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 11
5 PM at Unnameable Books
Sarah Lang (THE WORK OF DAYS, Coach House Books)
Sarah Lang was born on a Saturday in the winter of 1980, in Northwestern Canada. In the spring of 2004, she completed her MFA at Brown University. She began work on her PhD in Chicago in the fall of 2005. Her work, which incudes poetry, prose, personal, critical and medical essays, ahs been published in Canada, Great Britain and the United States. She has translated work from Latin, Ancient Greek, French, Ukrainian, Japanese and Mandarin. THE WORK OF DAYS is her first book. She now lives in, and writes about, airports. She intends to orbit the earth before her projected death in 2056. www.arimneste.com / www.theworkofdays.com
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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 18
5 PM at Unnameable Books
A Poetry Reading Celebrating the Launch of EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts Issue 4
456 Bergen Street
Brooklyn, NY
FREE
Featuring:
Gilbert Adair
Cara Benson
Joel Chace
James Cook
Thom Donovan
Joanna Fuhrman
Dan Hoy
Sara Marcus
Stephen Paul Miller
Nick Piombino
Tim Peterson
Evelyn Reilly
Edwin Rodriguez
Shelly Taylor
Adam Tobin (yes, that's me!)
Lynn Xu
EOAGH Issue 4
Edited by Tim Peterson
will be available at
http://chax.org/eoagh
any day now
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SUNDAY DECEMBER 2
5 PM at Unnameable Books
Harp & Altar Presents:
Johannah Rodgers
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Corey Frost
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Lynn Crawford
LYNN CRAWFORD's books include Simply Separate People and Fortification Resort--from Black Square editions--and Solow and Blow--put out by Hard Press. Her work appears in the anthologies, Fetish (Four Walls Eight Windows), and The Oulipo Compendium (Atlas Press, London). She edits the cultural arts journal, published by Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit,
DETROIT:.
JOHANNAH RODGERS is a writer who lives in Brooklyn. Her chapbook Necessary Fictions was published by Sona Books in 2003, and her short stories and essays have appeared in Fiction, CHAIN Arts , The Brooklyn Rail, Pierogi Press, and Fence. Her book sentences, a collection of stories, essays, and artwork, was published this year by Red Dust Press.
COREY FROST's stories have appeared in Matrix , Geist, The Walrus , and other magazines. He was named the Best Spoken Word Artist in 2001 by the Montreal Mirror . He is currently writing a book about spoken word scenes around the world as part of a doctoral dissertation. A CD of his performances, Bits World: Exciting Version, is forthcoming. His books
include The Worthwhile Flux (2004) and My Own Devices: Airport Version (2006), both published by Conundrum Press.
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SUNDAY DECEMBER 9
5 PM at Unnameable Books
SHELLEY JACKSON (author of Half Life, The Melancholy of Anatomy, Skin, Patchwork Girl, etc.)
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Unnameable Books
456 Bergen St.
Brooklyn, NY 11217
unnameablebooks@earthlink.net
(718) 789-1534
www.unnameablebooks.net
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