Black Clock 11 Reading At MOCA
Black Clock 11 Release Reading
Sunday December 6, 2009
4 PM
Ahmanson Auditorium, MOCA Grand Avenue
Forsaken cities and blasted landscapes, characters in exile, mysteries unwinding: Black Clock 11 features Richard Powers, Greil Marcus, Susan Straight, Chris Abani and Joanna Scott among others.
Come celebrate Black Clock’s newest issue and listen to the literary stylings of some of its most prominent contributors: Rob Roberge, Chris Abani, Veronica Gonzalez, and Michaele Simmering. (Reception to follow.)
More information available from education@moca.org
213/621-1745
Entry is free of charge
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Black Clock 11 Makes Mysterious Connections
Forsaken cities and blasted landscapes, characters in exile from their own times, mysterious connections in the air just beyond the grasp of those who barely understand them: Black Clock 11, California Institute of the Arts’ (CalArts) acclaimed literary journal, is slated to arrive on the stands mid-November. This issue features work by such prominent authors as Joanna Scott, Chris Abani and Susan Straight, and introduces the usual selection of dazzling new voices.
In Richard Powers’ “Over the Limit,” freely adapted from his just published novel, a young African woman genetically predisposed to happiness stands at the nexus of a brilliant, narcissistic scientist and the discontented moderator of a TV news magazine. In Rob Roberge’s “Stooge” and Lou Mathews’ “Hollywoodski,” Vegas drug deals go bad and drunken Tinseltown conversations run wild, and in Antonia Crane’s “Rosebud,” a self-designated “sexual outlaw” and stripper looking to retire gets caught up in the intrigues of an aging decadent Hollywood couple. In “This Is How the Past Turns Up”, Greil Marcus charts one of his patently revelatory longitudes between Barack Obama’s election-night victory speech, the fiction of Philip Roth, and Sam Cooke’s perennial contender for the greatest record of all time, “A Change Is Gonna Come.”
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