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Black Clock 7 Reading At MOCA

August 16th, 2007 | Events

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

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Black Clock 7 Sizzles

June 07th, 2007 | News

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.

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Black Clock 2 & 3 Launch At Dutton’s Beverly Hills Books

January 12th, 2005 | Events

Black Clock 2 & 3 Launch @ Dutton’s Beverly Hills Books
Wednesday, February 2 2005, 7:00 PM

Black Clock celebrates the publication of issues number 2 and 3 with a reading at Dutton’s Brentwood Books, featuring the following authors:

  • MIRANDA JULY
  • RACHEL RESNICK
  • DAVID L. ULIN

Dutton’s Beverly Hills Books = 447 N. Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210, (310) 281-0997

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