“With some arts, particularly dance and music, their ephemerality is more obvious. The sounds and/or movements cease. Text is often imagined as ceaseless, eternal, as though our technologies of reading – the e-reader, the book, the scroll, the tablet – are arbitrary vessels of pure thought. Those devices are our compromise with pure thought; we must bring it down to material form in order to distribute or receive it.” Alexandra Chasin
The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, a literary and arts journal housed at The Johns Hopkins University, M. A. in Writing Program, is pleased to announce our new Rue de Fleurus Salon and Reading Series. Our debut event will be on Thursday, June 27th, 2013 at The Foundry Gallery off Dupont Circle. Our featured reader will be Rick Moody. Free and open to the public.
The Rue de Fleurus Salon and Reading Series with Rick Moody
VENUE CHANGE
The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, a Literary & Arts Journal Housed at The Johns Hopkins University, M. A. in Writing Program
is pleased to announce we will hold our Rue de Fleurus Salon at
Foundry Gallery
1314 18th Street, NW, Washington DC, 20036
(One Minute Walk from the DC Hopkins Campus off Dupont Circle)
Dupont Circle Map, Hopkins Campus, Foundry Gallery, Parking, Hotel, Local Eats
7:30 PM
Free and open to the public, wine and light food will be served
Please RSVP
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