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Four Stories!
Mark your calendars. The next Four Stories is happening. Readers are: Christopher Boucher, Chip Cheek, Alison Murphy, Laura van den Berg. The reading begins at 6:30 PM. Doors open at 6 PM. About the series: Like a 19th-Century salon, only 150 years later―same socializing, same witty banter, corsets optional. Founded by writer Tracy Slater (www.tracyslater.com) About the writers: Christopher Boucher is the author of the novels Golden Delicious and How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, both from Melville House, and he’s also the managing editor…
Find out more »National touring Spoken Word & Acoustic Show
The Middle East is pleased to welcome JIM TRAINER, EDDY DYER, DUNCAN WILDER JOHNSON, KEVIN P. O'BRIEN and JIM HEALY for a night of spoken word. Jim is a poet visiting from Austin Texas and will performing spoken word and music. Eddy Dyer hails from northern Massachusetts and will be playing original music. KEVIN O'BRIEN will be reading from his poetry and prose. Tickets are $5 in advance and $8 on the night of the show.
Find out more »The Dire Series at the Middle East
It's another edition of TIMOTHY GIGER's Dire Literary Series, now at a new location and time! About the readers: JENNIE WOOD is the creator and writer of the critically acclaimed, award-winning Flutter, a graphic novel series published by 215 Ink. Flutter is currently being developed for television by Dark Horse Entertainment and Universal Cable Productions. Featured in The New York Times, Boston Globe, and on Law & Order: SVU, Flutter is one of the best LGBT graphic novels of 2013…
Find out more »Dire Series with LAURA VAN DEN BERG, MARK SABA and MEG SMITH
The Dire Literary Series is back with another powerful line up at the Middle East in Cambridge. LAURA VAN DEN BERG was raised in Florida. Her first collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her second collection of stories, The Isle of Youth (FSG Originals, 2013), received the Rosenthal Award for…
Find out more »Dire Literary Series
The Dire Literary Series is back with DAVE KEIFABER, CAITLIN MCGILL and ANNA ROSS. DAVE KEIFABER is a Baltimore-based writer whose work, largely essays and speculative fiction, has been published in Front Porch Journal, Battered Suitcase, ULA Redux, The Light Ekphrastic, LOOP, Artichoke Haircut, Welter, and Cobalt, among other places. He is also a regular contributor to Adfreak, Adweek Magazine's blog, and has contributed to The Lit Pub and jmww. He self-publishes his more experimental work, including three 'zines and a collection…
Find out more »Dire Literary Series with Yarbrough, Cherches and Pleasants
BIOS Steve Yarbrough is the author of eleven books, most recently the novel The Unmade World, due out in January 2018. His other books are the nonfiction title Bookmarked: Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show, the novels The Realm of Last Chances, Safe from the Neighbors, The End of California, Prisoners of War, Visible Spirits and The Oxygen Man, and the short story collections Veneer, Mississippi History and Family Men. His work has been published in several foreign languages, including…
Find out more »Dire Literary Series with Castrodale, Cherches, Saba, Varon, Carlson
Beth Castrodale started out as a newspaper reporter and then transitioned to book publishing, serving for many years as an editor for an academic press. Her novel Marion Hatley (Garland Press, 2017) was a finalist for a Nilsen Prize for a First Novel from Southeast Missouri State University Press, and an excerpt from her latest novel, In This Ground, was a shortlist finalist for a William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Award. (In This Ground will be published by…
Find out more »Dire Literary Series: with PAUL BECKMAN, TONY MCMILLEN and Izikhotane
The Dire Literary Series is back with PAUL BECKMAN and TONY MCMILLEN, and the musical troupe, Izikhotane, PAUL BECKMAN lives in a small shoreline town in Connecticut with his wife Sandra. Their blended family of five children has to date produced ten grandchildren. In 1999, Paul received his MFA from Bennington College while working full time in the real estate business from which he now retired. His recently had a collection of Flash and Micro Fiction published in print and online "Maybe I Ought…
Find out more »Dire Literary Series with Stephanie Laterza, Paul Beckman, and Simeon Berry
FREE Stephanie Laterza is the recipient of a SU-CASA 2018 artist-in-residence award from the Brooklyn Arts Council. Her poetry has been featured in L'Éphémère Review, Ovunque Siamo, A Gathering of the Tribes, Newtown Literary, Literary Mama, San Francisco Peace and Hope, Meniscus Magazine, and is forthcoming in First Literary Review-East. Her short fiction has been published in The Nottingham Review, Writing Raw, Akashic Books, Literary Mama, and Obra/Artifact. She holds a B.A. in English from Fordham College at Lincoln Center…
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.