Stephen Elliott, Nick Flynn, and Daniel Nester come to The Spotty Dog for an evening of literary entertainment!
I hope you can come. Elliott is coming in from San Francisco, and Nick Flynn is, well, Nick Flynn. And I am reading, too. Here are the deets:
Saturday, November 14
7pm
The Spotty Dog Books & Ale
With Stephen Elliott and Nick Flynn
440 Warren Street
Hudson, NY
Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books including The Adderall Diaries, which has been described as “genius” by both the San Francisco Chronicle and Vanity Fair. His novel, Happy Baby, was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lion Award as well as a best book of the year in Salon.com, Newsday, Chicago New City, the Journal News, and the Village Voice. In 2004 he wrote Looking Forward To It, about the quest for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
Elliott’s writing has been featured in Esquire, The New York Times, GQ, Best American Non-Required Reading 2005 and 2007, Best American Erotica, and Best Sex Writing 2006. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a member of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto. He is the editor of The Rumpus.
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Nick Flynn‘s Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, was shortlisted for France’s Prix Femina, and has been translated into thirteen languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, Some Ether (Graywolf, 2000), and Blind Huber (Graywolf, 2002), for which he received fellowships from, among other organizations, The Guggenheim Foundation and The Library of Congress.
Some of the venues his poems, essays and non-fiction have appeared in include The New Yorker, the Paris Review, National Public Radio’s This American Life, and The New York Times Book Review. His film credits include “field poet” and artistic collaborator on the film Darwin’s Nightmare, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best feature documentary in 2006. One semester a year he teaches at the University of Houston, and he then spends the rest of the year elsewhere.
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Daniel Nester’s newest book is How to Be Inappropriate (Soft Skull/Counterpoint 2009) a collection of humorous nonfiction. Nester’s first two books, God Save My Queen (Soft Skull Press, 2003) and God Save My Queen II (2004), are collections on his obsession with the rock band Queen. His third, The History of My World Tonight (BlazeVOX, 2006), is a collection of poems.
His work has appeared in Poets & Writers, The Morning News, The Daily Beast, Time Out New York, The Rumpus, Bloomsbury Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Bookslut, and anthologized in Lost and Found, The Best American Poetry 2003, The Best Creative Nonfiction, Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll, Isn’t It Romantic? 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets. He is an assistant professor of English at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, where he teaches creative nonfiction.
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Then later that evening, it’s off to
THE CATSKILL WGXC SOUND-VOICE BENEFIT
Saturday, November 14
7-10 PM $5
The BRIK Gallery
473 Main Street
Catskill, NY 12414
Sound + Voice + Art Performances by Brenda Coultas + Brian Dewan + Charles Stein + Christopher Stackhouse + Coleen Murphy Alexander + Daniel Nester + Frank Cuthbert + George Quasha + Hudson Talbott + Ira Sher + Jared Handelsman + Kim Jaye + Loni Pont + Michael Ruby + Nick Flynn + Paul McMahon + Peter Head + Rachel Levitsky + Sparrow + Stephen Elliott + StudioStu + Susan Sindall + The Unbearables + Timothy Liu + Violet Snow + Garden Goddesses
WGXC volunteers are working hard to launch a 3,300-watt community radio station. More than 78,000 people throughout Greene and Columbia counties will be able to receive the signal on 90.7-FM. WGXC received its license from the FCC and a grant from the US Commerce Dept that will cover 50 percent of our equipment needs. We now need to raise matching funds in order to get on the air. Join us on November 14 and help launch WGXC-FM.
