----/ The Squid List /-------------------------------------------------- Kitchen Sink host Clear Cut Press
Thursday, June 22 7:30pm Free ----/ Event Description /----------------------------------------------- KITCHEN SINK MAGAZINE presents AN EVENING WITH CLEAR CUT PRESS Clear Cut Press authors Stacey Levine, Robert Gluck, and Matt Briggs kick off a new quarterly reading series in Berkeley hosted by Kitchen Sink magazine and its parent nonprofit, Neighbor Lady Community Arts Project. They will be accompanied by the music of Mount Eerie (formerly The Microphones) and the textural environments of We Two and the Universe (Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans). ABOUT THE READERS MATT BRIGGS is the author of three story collections, The Remains of River Names, Misplaced Alice, and The Moss Gatherers. Sweeping in scope yet unerringly precise in its detail, his most recent novel, Shoot the Buffalo, conjoins the dead-end narrative of American masculinity with its stubborn twin-the Romantic ideal of nature-to suggest an ambivalent way forward, a path out of the woods. STACEY LEVINE is the author of My Horse and Other Stories, which won the PEN/West fiction award in 1994. Her criticism has been published by American Book Review, Rain Taxi, the Seattle Weekly, and The Stranger. Over the past years, she has performed public readings of her work with Karen Finley, Kathleen Hanna, the Black Cat Orchestra, Grace Paley, and Russian novelist Andre Bitov. At once measured and suspenseful, her latest novel, Frances Johnson, is a comedy of manners in the tradition of Jane Bowles. ROBERT GLUCK is the author of the novels Margery Kempe and Jack the Modernist, plus three collections of prose and poetry including his latest, Denny Smith. He lives in San Francisco and teaches at San Francisco State University, where he is an editor of the online journal Narrativity. Through his own writing, and a workshop he taught at San Francisco's Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center in the 1980s, Glück helped shape what became known as "New Narrative," a movement that included his friends and colleagues Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper, Kevin Killian, and Dodie Bellamy. ABOUT CLEAR CUT PRESS Clear Cut Press was founded and is run by Richard Jensen, a former executive at Sub Pop Records (Nirvana, Mudhoney) and cofounder of Up Records (Modest Mouse, Built to Spill), and Matthew Stadler, a novelist (Allan Stein) and literary editor for Nest magazine. As a business and artistic venture, Clear Cut is inspired by early 20th-century subscription presses Hours Press and Contact Editions, and by the midcentury paperbacks of New Directions and City Lights. These historical models seem well-suited to the independent economies that emerge, every generation or so, around the cultural movements and new demands of global youth, whether they be punk, grunge, hip-hop, hippie, beatnik or flapper. The books are printed in Tokyo by TOPPAN in a standard Japanese format with colorful dust jackets and built-in bookmarks. Clear Cut's designer, Tae Won Yu, is known for his playful and delicate album designs for many indie rock and pop groups. Among Clear Cut's authors are Charles D'Ambrosio, Lisa Robertson, Bruce Benderson, Lynne Tillman, Stacey Levine, Robert Glueck, Emily White, Matt Briggs, Diana George, and many others. In traditional "punk rock" custom, the books are produced as a nonexclusive joint venture with the authors, in which any profits are split fifty-fifty. Perhaps in the manner of open-source software development, Clear Cut will not secure prohibitive rights in the 'text.' They feel their job is simply to place the author's work into an efficient and durable format that fits gracefully into the lives of readers (and never needs batteries or a software upgrade). The founders think traditional publishers may have lost sight of who reads and why. ABOUT KITCHEN SINK Kitchen Sink, the magazine for people who think too much, is a nonprofit, quarterly print magazine that explores thought, art, culture, identity and politics. It is the premiere program of the Neighbor Lady Community Arts Project, an Oakland-based arts organization. Founded by a community of writers, artists and editors in 2002, Kitchen Sink is a magazine dedicated to embracing and exploring the contradictions we find in all parts of our lives. Rather than obsess about these contradictions, we're working together to challenge our assumptions about the world, and expand our sense of ourselves, our community, our culture and politics. ----/ Venue Info /------------------------------------------------------ Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley 510-649-1320 Shattuck Ave. @ Durant ----/ Additional Info /------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-649-1320 http://www.kitchensinkmag.com ----/ The Squid List Admin /--------------------------------------------- The Squid List, a tentacle of Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/ subscribe, unsubscribe, change your email address or change your subscription options: http://lists.laughingsquid.org/mailman/listinfo/squidlist/ Frequently Asked Questions & Submission Guidelines Squid List FAQ: http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/faq.html The Squid List Online Calendar: http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/calendar/ The Squid List RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/squidlist ----/ Laughing Squid /-------------------------------------------------- Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.com art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond Laughing Squid Web Hosting http://laughingsquid.net friendly, dependable and secure web hosting services for artists, individuals, bloggers, non-profits and small organizations The Squid List is licensed under a Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
