Black Clock 8 Reading At The Mandrake
Black Clock 8 Reading @ The Mandrake
Sunday, March 16 2008, 4:00 PM
Join us at the launch party for Black Clock 8 at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 16 at The Mandrake. The party will feature readings by the following BC8 contributors.
- ALEX AUSTIN is the author of several plays including Dupe, which will be staged this summer in Los Angeles. “The Dark Ride” in this issue is excerpted from The Dark Ride of Asbury Park, the sequel to his novel The Perfume Factory.
- CHRIS KRAUS is the author of the novels I Love Dick, Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor and the forthcoming Summer of Hate, and a collection of art essays.
- GEORGE MELROD, a screenwriter and art critic, used to love visiting American historical tourist sites as a kid. He currently is the editor of art ltd. magazine.
- GEOFF NICHOLSON is the author of fourteen novels as well the in-progress 14 Minutes, about an Andy Warhol look-alike, and the forthcoming non-fiction The Lost Art of Walking.
- MADY SCHUTZMAN has written for Theatre Topics, Women and Performance, The Drama Review and American Communication Journal, and is writing a play about Llano del Rio, a California utopian colony. She also is coeditor of two anthologies on the work of theatre director Augusto Boal and teaches writing and performance theory at CalArts.
- LISA TEASLEY is the author of the novels Heat Signature and Dive and the award-winning collection Glow in the Dark. She also wrote and hosted the BBC documentary High School Prom, which was short-listed for the EMMA Award.
The Mandrake serves up an ambient mix of art and social spaces: the ideal venue to showcase the cutting-edge voices of Black Clock.
The Mandrake = 2692 S La Cienega Blvd. (Between Venice Blvd. and Washington Blvd.), Los Angeles, CA 90034, (310) 837-3297
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Alex Austin | Black Clock 8 | Chris Kraus | Geoff Nicholson | George Melrod | Lisa Teasley | Mady Schutzman | Reading | The Mandrake
Black Clock 8 Embarks On Outer And Inner Journeys
The eighth issue of Black Clock arrives on newsstands and in bookstores in early January 2008. The stories and poetry in the newest issue of California Institute of the Arts’ (CalArts) literary journal are “loosely linked by the idea of physical and emotional nomadism,” said editor Steve Erickson. “These are travels and sojourns of the outward and inward sort, guided by such writers as Geoffrey O’Brien, Susan Straight, Tom Carson, Lisa Teasley, Yxta Maya Murray, Chris Kraus, Michael Ventura and others.”
From the cover image of a tunnel leading deep into the magazine’s pages, Black Clock 8 speaks to our wanderlust even if, as in the case of Geoff Nicholson’s “A Walk Around the World,” the central character decides to walk a distance circling the globe all within his own backyard. In “The Sting of Irrelevancy” author Joanna Scott is stranded in Rome and finds herself contemplating Jorge Luis Borges’ wandering dreamers, while in Lewis Shiner’s “Wonderland” the protagonist’s journey takes him only a few blocks from where he lives and works into 1960’s Harlem–which might as well be another planet.
Published by CalArts in association with the MFA Writing Program, Black Clock features work by prominent national writers, talented regional authors and the very best emerging writers.
Black Clock’s staff includes Erikson, a novelist, critic and CalArts MFA Writing Program faculty member in addition to being the magazine’s Editor, Senior Editor and adjunct member of CalArts Writing Program faculty Bruce Bauman, Editor-at-Large Dwayne Moser, Managing Editor Michaele Simmering and Art Director Ophelia Chong.
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Black Clock 8 | Bruce Bauman | Chris Kraus | Dwayne Moser | Geoffrey O'Brien | Joanna Scott | Lewis Shiner | Lisa Teasley | Michael Ventura | Michaele Simmering | Ophelia Chong | Steve Erickson | Susan Straight | Tom Carson | Yxta Maya Murray