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Facebook Your Next Literary Event

Jason Boog — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:23:23 +0000

Are you planning a literary event? Post the details on our Facebook wall so we can help spread the word.

We launched our Facebook page last week and started to build a directory of the best publisher pages on Facebook. Now we want to revive our literary events calendar–using Facebook to keep the calendar straight.

Visit our wall and add your event.

To show you how it’s done, we posted about an upcoming Greenlight Bookstore event–the Blogger/Author Pairing of Marcy Dermansky and Lizzie Skurnick.

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GalleyCat at City Lit

Sarah — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:25:50 +0000

If you’re in the area of the Enoch Pratt Free Library around 12:15 tomorrow afternoon, join Scott MacKenzie, Lizzie Skurnick and yours truly at the 4th annual City Lit Festival in Baltimore for a conversation on blogging on books. With these panelists, the conversation promises to be lively and entertaining (though I can’t really compete with Lizzie on the poetry part – the rhyming instinct went elsewhere in the family…)

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Scene @ Granta Young Novelists Party

Sarah — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:19:32 +0000

Typically, relying on a cameraphone to convey the joie de vivre at Cafe Loup last night after nine of Granta‘s Best Young American Novelists read and spoke about their work at the New School‘s Tishman Auditorium leads to blurry, non-specific photographs like the one to the left. But even if the persons captured are hard to identify (Nell Freudenberger‘s in the center, that’s about all who is recognizable) those who attended both reading and afterparty generally had themselves a good time. I got to the reading on the late side, missing out on readings by Gary Shteyngart (whose oratory skills convinced at least one reader to pick up a copy of ABSURDISTAN), Olga Grushin, Akhil Sharma and Daniel Alarcon – handpicked by Ian Jack and Matt Weiland to read on the alleged grounds that they wrote non-American settings, or were born outside of America, depending on whom was asked (when I asked Jack and Weiland about it, each deferred to the other, which was actually pretty funny.)

The other five – Freudenberger, Jess Row, John Wray, Uzodinma Iweala and Gabe Hudson – didn’t read but took questions from the audience. One that elicited the most amusing answers was the old standby “why do you write?” Because, evidently, that’s all they can do or, as Shteyngart and Wray explained, they had been fired from any other job each tried.

An early beeline to Cafe Loup along with Lizzie Skurnick, Kathy Daneman and Rachel Grady (co-director of JESUS CAMP) meant exchanging greetings with Kate Lee, Elizabeth Spiers and Sloane Crosley, who were having dinner with Whit Stillman. (I also thought I spotted Ian Spiegelman at the far end of the table.)

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Scene @ NBCC Finalists Announcement Party

Sarah — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:59:22 +0000

When I arrived a few minutes early to Housing Works for the National Book Critics Circle‘s annual bash to announce their award finalists, I figured – like most parties – there would be a few stragglers and the food & drink stations wouldn’t even be fully set up yet. Guess again. Already packed, within ten minutes the bookstore was fully SRO, and it was impossible to move a square inch without bumping into one notable critic after another. Amy Bloom (left, pictured with independent publicist Kimberly Burns and PW’s Charlotte Abbott) was on hand to announce the fiction finalists, which was met with the usual mix of positive responses and grumbling undertone. Francine Duplessis Gray, in announcing the memoir/autobiography category, remarked that this category honored those with a penchant for self-indulgence, while Eliot Weinberger cracked that the criticism category was “the most prestigious for the most contentious.” The greatest round of applause was reserved for Alison Bechdel‘s FUN HOME, one of two books (the other Michael Pollan‘s AN OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA) voted onto the shortlist by the membership.

Among the many, many literati making the scene were Lizzie Skurnick (who’s recently been hired on by New York Magazine), the Complete Review‘s Michael Orthofer, Viking publisher Paul Slovak, Soft Skull‘s Richard Nash, Eat the Press’s Rachel Sklar, Emily Gordon, Poets & Writers‘ Doug Diesenhaus, and former Balakian winner Scott McLemee, on hand to announce Steven G. Kellman as the category’s newest honoree.

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