Starcherone at AWP-NYC

[photo: Aimee Parkison & I in NYC a coupla years back]

Starcherone Books's appearance at this year's Associated Writing Programs conference and book fair, Jan.31-Feb.2, will be the largest gathering of its authors in one place ever. We don't ever all get to see each other -- but folks are coming in from Denver, California, North Carolina, and Wisconsin; I'm driving down from Buffalo with fellow Starcheree, Doug Manson; and then we've got more folks who are already in the NY-metro area. In all, 10 Starcherone book authors may well be in one place at one time -- I think the most we ever had before was 4 -- and that's in addition to our staff and all the writers who graced our PP/FF anthology a couple years back. I am tingling.

While some conference events are limited to registered participants (costly, and they sold out anyway!), the Book Fair is open to the public on Saturday, Feb. 2. If you are in New York, I urge you to check it out -- this is the largest small press book festival in the world, and everyone sells at discount, especially late in the day Saturday. It will be taking place at the New York Hilton, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, in Midtown, and it's free to get in (that day).

Starcherone authors signings will be taking place at our book table #94 all three days -

Thursday, 1/31: 11 am - Sara Greenslit, The Blue of Her Body
2 pm - Joshua Cohen, A Heaven of Others

Friday, 2/1: 11 am - Aimee Parkison, Woman with Dark Horses
1 pm - Nina Shope, Hangings: Three Novellas

Saturday, 2/2: 12 noon - Zachary Mason, The Lost Books of the Odyssey
2 pm - Joshua Harmon, Quinnehtukqut

The grand culmination of it all will be a celebration reading Saturday night in the East Village with all six of these authors (Greenslit, Cohen, Parkison, Shope, Harmon, & Mason) reading from their work at KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St., 7-9 pm, hosted by yours truly. More info can be seenat the KGB site.


If you are registered for AWP, you are also invited to come check out a panel I'm on with authors R.M. Berry, Michael Martone, and Noy Holland from FC2: "Fraud! The Debunking of Experimental Fiction." Should be fun -- and good for you!

Hope to see you all there, one way or another! Please come by and say hello or introduce yourself.

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PS - A new interview with Joshua Cohen on the eve of the release of A Heaven of Others appears in the Jan. 16 Jewish Forward.