Tag: NYC

I had always wanted to write a piece that was numbered -- a short fiction piece or prose poem. I had read a number of them from many masters -- Charles Simic or Tomas Transtromer -- and even a handful of my contemporaries: Lydia Davis, Amy Hempel, and Harryette Mullen ... Read More

Rae Bryant, the creator of, the Editor-In-Chief of, and the mastermind behind The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review shares the journal's history, what she's looking for in submissions, and how to approach writing like the tip-toeing Elmer Fudd. Q: How did you learn about/become involved with Eckleburg? Rae Bryant: Eckleburg started as Moon ... Read More

Fantastic time had by all at last night's debut of The Rue de Fleurus Salon and Reading Series at The Foundry Gallery in Washington, DC. Thank you to all who came out! This debut salon featured a reading by Rick Moody. Among the stories he read was his popular piece ... Read More

"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 ... Read More

RAE BRYANT | I first met Rick Moody in 2010 at Jimmy’s No. 43, a Sunday Salon reading featuring Moody and a friend I was there to support as he was reading from his newly published epistolary novella. Moody was there to read from his newly released Four Fingers of ... Read More

{About} Sunday Salon is a prose reading series and online magazine. Based in New York City and founded by Nita Noveno in the summer of 2002, Sunday Salon swept through the Midwest to Chicago in 2006. In 2007 Sunday Salon launched an online zine to showcase the prose of its ... Read More

NYC | June 24, 2012: 10 Years in NYC! In June 2002, Sunday Salon kicked off its first reading in a bar on the Upper West Side. Ten years and two bars later, the series has welcomed over 370 marvelous writers and many talented musical guests. We’ll celebrate the series’ ... Read More

Times were tough for Nonsense Singers. It used to be, in the old days, that The Nonsense Singers of the Red Forest sang at every birth, every wedding, every time a house went up, every time a child was declared fully grown.... Rick Moody is the author of nine books. He ... Read More

We've wrangled up some fantastic new editors to join our staff... On behalf of the MMR Crew--Will Grofic (Poetry Editor), Gabriela Romeri (Associate Editor), and myself (Rae, Something like an editor), we want to welcome Micah Dean Hicks and Britt Gambino to our staff. We're so excited to have them ... Read More

Much love to our uber-talented authors and poets---Mike Allen, Randall Brown, Foust, Britt Gambino, Molly Gaudry, and Penelope Mace. Truly, they each read words drug-laced, and if you can't tell by the photos depicting a word-high audience, let me tell you, these readings, each one, were beautifully rendered ... Read More

Issue 5 | Britt Gambino • Nikolai Gogol • Russell Jaffe • Tom Larsen Penelope L. Mace • Rob Pierce Gallery | Neila Mezynski and Flight of the Conchords ... Read More

Molly Gaudry is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati's masters fiction program, and her writing appears or is forthcoming in Serendipity, Titular, UpRightDown, Lamination Colony, Robot Melon, and Wigleaf. She is a cofounding editor of Twelve Stories, the editor of Willows Wept Review, and she blogs at greencitynews.blogspot.com. Read ... Read More