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
Keywords:
Alex Austin | Black Clock 8 | Chris Kraus | Geoff Nicholson | George Melrod | Lisa Teasley | Mady Schutzman | Reading | The Mandrake
Black Clock 7 Reading At MOCA
Black Clock 7 Reading @ MOCA
Sunday, September 23 2007, 3:00 PM
Black Clock celebrates its 7th issue with readings from the following BC7 contributors:
- JANET FITCH is the author of last year’s Paint It Black. Her first novel White Oleander was translated into twenty-four languages and made into a feature film. Currently she’s at work on her third novel and teaches writing at USC.
- SETH GREENLAND’s play Jungle Rot won the American Theater Critics Association Award and Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award. His new novel will be published by Bloomsbury next year.
- TARA ISON’s first novel A Child Out Of Alcatraz was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her new novel is The List.
- GRACE KRILANOVICH recently finished her first novel, The Orange Eats Creeps, of which this issue’s “Warlock” is an excerpt. Her work appeared in the third and fourth issues of Black Clock and she’s a graduate of the CalArts MFA Writing Program.
- GEOFF NICHOLSON is the author of fourteen novels including The Hollywood Dodo and What We Did On Our Holidays, now a feature film to appear at festivals later this year.
- RACHEL RESNICK is the author of Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick, and her new novel, Sway, is excerpted in this issue. Currently she’s at work on a memoir called Love Junkie. She also runs a luxe writing retreat (writersonfire.com).
Admission for this event is free.
MOCA = 250 South Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90012, (213) 621-2766
Keywords:
Black Clock 7 | Geoff Nicholson | Grace Krilanovich | Jnet Fitch | MOCA | Rachel Resnick | Reading | Seth Greenland | Tara Ison
Black Clock 7 Sizzles
The seventh issue of Black Clock is the most provocative issue of the journal yet. It features twenty-five stories, one essay and four poems about sex and the erotic by such writers as Samuel R. Delany, Janet Fitch, Aimee Bender, Lynne Tillman, Geoff Nicholson, Francesca Lia Block, Rachel Resnick, Brian Evenson, Lisa Teasley, Seth Greenland, Tara Ison, John Haskell and others. This current issue will begin heating up newsstands and bookstores in late June.
Published by the California Institute of the Arts (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 7 includes Yxta Maya Murray’s “Girl Called Casanova”, in which the world’s greatest lover takes female form and sets out to seduce Angelina Jolie; Wanda Coleman’s “Howlin’ With the Woofdog”, about a tryst between a well-known radio DJ and a reluctant virgin; Joy Nicholson’s “Manson Girl”, a tale at once sweet, funny and chilling about the sexual dynamics of a murderous cult; and Tom Carson’s “My Mother, Marie Christ, (b. Hope Springs, TN, 1951 d. Memphis, July 4, 1985)”, about a boy named Jesus growing up in Reagan’s America who has a thing for his Mom.
Novelist, critic and CalArts MFA Writing Program faculty member Steve Erickson is the Editor of Black Clock. Dwayne Moser, adjunct faculty and CalArts MFA Writing Program coordinator, and Bruce Bauman, also an adjunct member of the Writing Program faculty, serve as Senior Editors. Gail Swanlund, Graphic Design faculty at CalArts, is the magazine’s art director.
Keywords:
Aimee Bender | Black Clock 7 | Brian Evenson | Bruce Bauman | Dwayne Moser | Francesca Lia Block | Gail Swanlund | Geoff Nicholson | Janet Fitch | John Haskell | Joy Nicholson | Lisa Teasley | Lynne Tillman | Rachel Resnick | Samuel R. Delany | Seth Greenland | Steve Erickson | Tara Ison | Tom Carson | Wanda Coleman | Yxta Maya Murray