Staccato-Like
Attendees of this coming weekend’s 5th anniversary / 10th issue launch reading can look forward to mixing with a special selection of noir sounds as selected and sequenced by Black Clock editor Steve Erickson. In fact, dig.
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Black Clock 10 | Noir | Reading | Soundtrack | Steve Erickson
Black Clock Celebrates Fifth Anniversary At REDCAT
Black Clock will celebrate its five-year anniversary and the publication of its noir-themed 10th issue with a reading and reception at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater) on Sunday, March 8 at 7 PM.
For the celebration, Editor Steve Erickson and frequent contributor Joanna Scott along with Aimee Bender, Samuel R. Delany and Greil Marcus will read selections from Black Clock’s first five years.
Admission is free, but seating is limited. Guests are encouraged to make reservations. For more information, please visit the REDCAT website.
Now among the nation’s foremost literary magazines, Black Clock has showcased award-winning writing by established and emerging authors, with pieces anthologized in best-of-the-year collections and two excerpted novels going on to win National Book Awards.
Black Clock is published semi-annually by the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) MFA Writing Program.
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Aimee Bender | Black Clock 10 | CalArts | Fifth Anniversary | Greil Marcus | MFA Writing Program | Noir | Reading | REDCAT | Samuel R. Delany | Steve Erickson
David Foster Wallace: 1962 - 2008
I never met David Foster Wallace. My first contact with him was by a postcard from out of the Pomona desert, when he wrote to confess he had attended a reading I gave at the Hammer Museum and then had not introduced himself — all of which seems sadder now, since no such opportunity can present itself again. There are no statistics to prove it, but the anecdotal evidence is that he may have influenced the upcoming generation of writers more than almost anyone else; six or seven years ago, every other piece of fiction that floated through the workshop I taught was distinguished by an ecstasy of footnotes, homages to Wallace’s revolutionary form even if they missed Wallace’s point, which was a larger ecstasy: the cosmos broken down into particles of words that each constituted tiny cosmos unto themselves. In Wallace’s fiction, every shard of existence seemed to be a thing of wonder; but that wonder clearly could not sustain an existence wracked by whatever it was that wracked his. It is the psychosis of writers to be most alive when they’re at work on something that matters to them. Not at work, writers are beset by the lethality of their own lostness; no time is more dangerous for a novelist than that between novels. In the brief correspondence that he and I had, Wallace conveyed the quiet kindness attributed to him by those who knew him much better, and his contribution to this magazine in its very first issue was only one small gesture of a larger generosity that, in the end, he extended to everyone but himself.
Steve Erickson is Editor of Black Clock. He’s the author of eight novels including the recent Zeroville, and last year received a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. His website is www.SteveErickson.org.
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David Foster Wallace | Steve Erickson
Black Clock 9 Reading At The Hammer Museum
Please join Black Clock and The Hammer Museum in celebrating the release of the latest issue of one of America’s leading literary journals.
Sunday, September 7th / 3PM
Gallery 6 - Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310.443.7000
(Map & Directions)
Part of The Hammer 2008 Reading Series
Entry is free of charge
On the eve of the national party conventions, the acclaimed literary journal Black Clock releases its ninth, politically-themed installment. Black Clock 9 includes political allegory, subversive satire, and secret presidential histories. Falling immediately after both conventions, this reading will feature four of its contributors: Seth Greenland, Anthony Miller, David L. Ulin, and Black Clock editor Steve Erickson.
Co-presented with Black Clock, the literary magazine published semi-annually by the CalArts MFA Writing Program.
The reading will be followed by a book signing at the Hammer Bookstore.
Parking is available under the Museum. Rates are $3 for the first three hours with Museum stamp; $1.50 for each additional 20 minutes.
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Anthony Miller | Black Clock 9 | David L. Ulin | Hammer Museum | Politics | Reading | Seth Greenland | Steve Erickson
Black Clock At The Los Angeles Times Festival Of Books (UCLA)
Black Clock @ The Los Angeles Times Festival Of Books (UCLA)
Saturday, April 26 2008 (10 AM to 6 PM) - Sunday, April 27 2008 (10 AM to 5 PM)
Black Clock and CalArts will be among the exhibitors at the 13th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival Of Books. Drop by booth #661 (Zone F - Dickson Court North) to meet our editorial staff, purchase issues of Black Clock, and learn more about The CalArts MFA Writing Program. Additionally, Black Clock Editor Steve Erickson and Senior Editor Bruce Bauman will be participating in the following Festival panels:
- “Fiction: Grace Under Pressure” (11:30 AM Saturday, April 26 2008; Moore 100)
Bruce Bauman / Barbara Isenberg (Moderator) / Gina Nahai / Andrew O’Hagan / Arthur Phillips - “Fiction: Alternative Visions” (1 PM Sunday, April 27 2008; Korn Hall)
Steve Erickson / Shelley Jackson / Zachary Lazar / Nina Revoyr / David L. Ulin (Moderator)
Please consult the Festival website for further information about admission, parking, schedules, etc.
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Bruce Bauman | LA Times Festival Of Books | Steve Erickson
