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Dire Literary Series
The Dire Literary series will feature readings from Josh Cook, a writer and bookseller, and Caitlin Avery, a writer and actress. Their readings will be followed by an open mic. Readings start at 7PM but the open-mic sign up sheet starts at 6PM. Click here for more info.
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The Dire Literary Series is pleased to welcome writers, Margaret Malone, author of PEOPLE LIKE US, Jane Liddle, author of MURDER, and Sandra Story, author of EVERY STATE HAS ITS OWN LIGHT for an evening of poetry and prose. After these featured authors, host Timothy Gager will open the mic to audience members. Featured writers read at 7PM. Open-mic sign-ups begin at 6PM. Margaret Malone is the author of the story collection PEOPLE LIKE YOU from Atelier26. Her writing has appeared in The Missouri…
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The Dire Literary Series is pleased to welcome writers and performers, John Domini, Teisha Dawn Twomey, and Izihjotane. John Domini has won awards in all genres, with fiction in Paris Review and non-fiction in The New York Times. The Times praised his work as "dreamlike... grabs hold of both reader and character," and Alan Cheuse, of NPR's "All Things Considered," described it as "witty and biting." John's has been awarded the NEA Fellowship and an Iowa Major Artist Award. He has taught at…
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The Dire Literary Series is pleased to welcome Kirstin Allio, author of Clothed, Female Figure, J. Mae Barizo, author of The Cumulus Effect, and Maya Pindyck, author of Emoticoncert for a reading from their works. About the authors: Kirstin Allio's novel, Garner, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She is a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award, a PEN/O. Henry prize, and other honors for her short stories and essays. She has been…
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The Dire Literary Series hosts Kathleen Spivack, Lawrence Kessenich, and Zvi Sesling. Kathleen Spivack's most recent novel is UNSPEAKABLE THINGS (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016), which centers on European refugees in New York City struggling to survive during the last year of the second World War. She is also the author of WITH ROBERT LOWELL AND HIS CIRCLE (University Press of New England, 2012), a touching and deeply revealing look into the lives and thoughts of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, including…
Find out more »TIMOTHY GAGER’s Dire Literary Reading Series
TIMOTHY GAGER's Dire Literary series -- now in it's 16th year -- is pleased to host local writers, LOUISE MILLER, WENDY MNOOKIN, and LOUIE CRONIN for a reading from their latest works. As always, the 7PM reading will be followed by an open mic. There are four open mic slots, with the sign up sheet starting at 6PM. About the authors: LOUISE MILLER is a pastry chef, author, and graduate of GrubStreet's Novel Incubator Program. Her acclaimed debut novel, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living…
Find out more »Dire Literary Series with ELIZABETH SEARLE, VI KHI NAO, and ADAM SCHEFFLER
TIMOTHY GAGER’s Dire Literary series — now in it’s 16th year — is pleased to host local writers, ELIZABETH SEARLE, VI KHI NAO, and ADAM SCHEFFLER for a reading from their latest works. As always, the 7PM reading will be followed by an open mic. There are four open mic slots, with the sign up sheet starting at 6PM. About the authors: ELIZABETH SEARLE is the author of five books of fiction, with a new novel WE GOT HIM, and the librettist of TONYA &…
Find out more »Dire Literary Series with Alden Jones, Louie Cronin and Georgia Park
Alden Jones is the author of The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler’s Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia, which was named a Top Ten Travel Book by Publishers Weekly and the Huffington Post, won the Independent Publishers Book Award in Travel Essays and the Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year in Travel Essays, and was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award. Her story collection, Unaccompanied Minors, won the New American Fiction Prize, the Lascaux Book Prize, and an Independent Publisher Book Award…
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The Dire Literary Series, hosted by Timothy Gager, is pleased to welcome Christine Reilly, Olivia Cerrone, and Ray K. Anderson. Christine Reilly has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the Dalton School, City and Country School, and Collegiate School. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University and her Master’s degree in writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Sunday's on the Phone to Monday is her debut novel. Christine lives in New York City. Olivia Kate Cerrone’s Pushcart Prize-nominated fiction won the…
Find out more »Dire Literary Series: RACHEL KADISH, JAY SHEETS and LAUREN HILGER
The Dire Literary Series is pleased to host RACHEL KADISH, JAY SHEETS and LAUREN HILGER. Rachel Kadish is the award-winning author of the novels From a Sealed Room and Tolstoy Lied: a Love Story, as well as the novella I Was Here. Her work has appeared on NPR and in the New York Times, Ploughshares, and Tin House, and has been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and elsewhere. She has been a fiction fellow of the National Endowment for the…
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Now in it's 16th year, the Dire Literary Series, curated by TIMOTHY GAGER, brings together local and traveling writers for an evening of poetry and prose at the Out of the Blue Art Gallery. This round, GAGER welcomes MEIA GEDDES, JACK MARONEY, KATHLEEN MORTON, and DR. DIREDA to the stage. Kathleen Willis Morton holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of New Orleans. A practicing Buddhist since age seventeen, she lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with her family. Dr. DiReda holds a dual…
Find out more »Dire Literary Series with HIMES, SALISBURY and PAGE
Don't miss another edition of the Dire Literary Series, now in its 16th year, at the Out of the Blue Gallery Too. JULIE LEKSTROM HIMES’ short fiction has been published in Shenandoah, The Florida Review (Editor’s Choice Award 2008), Fourteen Hills (nominated for Best American Mysteries 2011), 42 Opus (story South Million Writers Notable Story 2008), The Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Confrontation, Camera Obscura and elsewhere. Like Bulgakov, she is a physician as well as a writer. LUKE SALISBURY is…
Find out more »200th Dire Literary Series with TILLMAN, HUDON and PAIGE
The Dire Literary Series is back with his 200th event, as always at the Out of the Blue Too Gallery, featuring TILLMAN, HUDON AND PAIGE. AARON TILLMAN is a fiction writer, Associate Professor of English at Newbury College, and Director of Newbury's Honors Program. His short story collection, Every Single Bone in My Brain, was published by Braddock Avenue Books in July of 2017. Aaron received a Short Story Award for New Writers from Glimmer Train Stories and won First…
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.