Kathleen M. Rooney and Abigail Beckel – Rose Metal Press
Aaron Burch and Elizabeth Ellen – Short Flight/Long Drive Books, a division of Hobart
Johannah Rodgers and Eugene Lim – Ellipsis Press
Aaron Petrovich and Alex Rose – Hotel St. George Press
Giancarlo Di Trapano – Tyrant Books
Victoria Blake – Underland Press
Peter Cole – Keyhole Books
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UPCOMING EVENTS
HISTORIC FALCON
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
6:30-9:00 p.m.
Mercury Cafe (upstairs Dance Hall)
2199 California St.
Authors representing Birds, LLC; Brave Men Press; Harp & Altar; Immaculate
Disciples Press; Mississippi Review Poetry Series; and New Issues Press:
Julia Cohen, Brian Foley, Elisa Gabbert, Kate Greenstreet, Dan Magers, Justin Marks, Linnea Ogden, Christopher Salerno, Kim Gek Lin Short, Sam Starkweather, Janaka Stucky, and Chris Tonelli.
Harp & Altar event at AWP 2010 in Denver, CO
HISTORIC FALCON
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
6:30-9:00 p.m.
Mercury Cafe (upstairs Dance Hall)
2199 California St.
Authors representing Birds, LLC; Brave Men Press; Harp & Altar; Immaculate Disciples Press; Mississippi Review Poetry Series; and New Issues Press: Julia Cohen, Brian Foley, Elisa Gabbert, Kate Greenstreet, Dan Magers, Justin Marks, Linnea Ogden, Christopher Salerno, Kim Gek Lin Short, Sam Starkweather, Janaka Stucky, and Chris Tonelli.
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PAST EVENTS
Book party for Shadowplay & The Mothering Coven
Norman Lock, Joanna Ruocco, and Gary Lutz read for Ellipsis Press
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 4-7PM
Readings start at 4PM.
at Barbès | 376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY
Come celebrate the launch of new Ellipsis Press titles by Norman Lock and Joanna Ruocco. A hypnotic tale of artistic obsession, Norman Lock’s SHADOWPLAY tells the story of a Javanese shadow-puppet master. “Wise up and get all you can of Lock,” says Gordon Lish. Joanna Ruocco’s THE MOTHERING COVEN is a “work of wonder” (Carole Maso), a singular act of prose daring. Also reading will be special guest and short story master: Gary Lutz.
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Corey Frost and Joanna Sondheim will be reading
at the Boog City Festival.
Saturday, September 12th and 13th, 2009 | 12-6PM
at Unnameable Books | 600 Vanderbilt Ave. in Brooklyn
Books–including new titles by Joanna Ruocco and Norman Lock–will be on sale.
Corey Frost will be reading at around 1:40PM on Saturday. He is the author of The Worthwhile Flux (conundrum, 2004) and My Own Devices (2006). He has been a featured spoken word performer at festivals and events across Canada and the US, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and his performances have aired on the CBC, the ABC, and local stations around the world. He is currently writing a doctoral dissertation at the CUNY Graduate Center, entitled The Omnidirectional Microphone: Performance Literature as Social Project. His work appears in the forthcoming Harp & Altar Reader (Ellipsis Press).
Joanna Sondheim will be reading at around 12:30PM on Sunday. Her work has appeared in Unsaid, can we have our ball back, sonaweb, Harp & Altar, The Portable Boog Reader 2, and Bird Dog, among others. Her chapbooks, The Fit and Thaumatrope, were published by Sona Books. Her poetry appears in the forthcoming Harp & Altar Reader (Ellipsis Press).
Other Harp & Altar and Ellipsis Press contributors also participating. See full schedule at: http://welcometoboogcity.com/bc59.pdf
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Ellipsis Press will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Sunday, September 13th
We’ll be selling lovely, soft papery wares–including our new fall 2009 titles:
Norman Lock’s Shadowplay and Joanna Ruocco’s The Mothering Coven.
Brooklyn Book Festival Directions
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Eugene Lim & Eugene Marten read at McNally Jackson Bookstore
March 12, 2009 07:00PM
McNally Jackson Bookstore
52 Prince St. (b/t Lafayette & Mulberry)
New York, NY, The United States
http://mcnallyjackson.com
http://ellipsispress.blogspot.com/2009/02/eugene-marten-eugene-lim-read-at.html
McNally Jackson’s Indie Press Series honors the work of small, independent publishers. Brooklyn-based Ellipsis Press was founded in 2007 by author Johannah Rodgers and Harp & Altar fiction editor Eugene Lim. Lim’s Fog & Car begins with the alternating voices of Mr Fog and Ms Car, recently divorced, and becomes an exercise in narrative experimentation and a meditation on loneliness. Gary Lutz calls it “a deep, engulfing novel of breathtaking, even spooking precision—an altogether heady and heart-shaking debut.” Marten’s Waste is told by the night janitor of a high-rise office building; Sam Lipsyte calls it “an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction” and Gordon Lish raves “one for history and a half.
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Ellipsis Press participated on an e-panel with several other new presses–organized by Dan Wickett of DZANC books. Participants included:
Q: Do you see signs that there is some form of an indie movement going on? Why with all the dreaded “publishing is dead” articles and talk do you think so many people are starting up at ground level right now?
A: I’d like to think an indie movement is going on. Twelve years ago there was an issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, titled “The Future of Fiction,” and edited by none other than David Foster Wallace. In it, there’s a hilarious and dead-on piece by Dalkey head John O’Brien, which stated among other things that the “end of literary books in commercial publishing is a historical inevitability.” And so it has come to pass. The bigger houses will cease (have ceased!) to publish literary fiction. It is not profitable for them to market and produce a title that will sell to 5000 people (even if Rick Moody strong-arms a National Book Award for them). S’okay though. The old publishing joke goes, How do you make a small fortune in publishing? Answer: Start with a large one. And then you and your crony get to laugh bitterly together. But it’s the wrong question. A small and lively (and one hopes resurging) group of people care about the novel as art. And with the new methods of production and distribution, it’s getting easier for writers to connect with readers.
Read the complete panel at: http://emergingwriters.typepad.com/emerging_writers_network/2008/09/e-panel-publish.html
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