Oct. 15th: Sloane Crosley, Nathaniel Rich, Sean Wilsey, & The Neverbeens!
October’s Mixer is going to be really good, obviously. The bad news is that it’s the night of the third presidential debate, so we are going to have to start right on time (7pm), and skip the post-reading schmoozefest. I should be able to be home in time if I cab it, and so should you. There’s also tons of bars around that will probably have it on. Maybe that’s delusional; we are talking about Ludlow St., after all. Who knows.
Anyhoo, Cakeshop, 7pm, Wednesday the 15th. See you there.
Sloane Crosley’s essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Observer, NPR, The Village Voice, Teen Vogue, GQ, Playboy, Black Book (where she was a contributing editor) and Maxim (where she wrote the cover story for the worst-selling issue of all time). Her collection of essays, I Was Told There’d Be Cake, was released in the Spring. She currently lives in Manhattan and works as a director of publicity at Vintage Books.
Nathaniel Rich’s novel, The Mayor’s Tongue, was published this spring by Riverhead. He’s also the author of a book of nonfiction, San Francisco Noir: The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present, and an editor at The Paris Review. He can be found on the web at www.nathanielrich.com.
Sean Wilsey is the author of Oh the Glory of It All, a memoir, and the creator, with Tamara Shopsin, of a related Web site, ohtheglory.com. He is also an Editor-at-Large for McSweeney’s, and the co-editor, with Matt Weiland, of The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup.
The Neverbeens, formed in the winter of 2006, when founding members Steve Ferrara and Tali Hersh, two established singer-songwriters, crossed paths at a Brooklyn open mic. Over time, Katie Fuller and the Reverend Crawford Forbes signed on to fill out the band’s unique sound. As a band of multi-instrumentalists, The Neverbeens now take turns playing different instruments, often switching between guitar, piano, mandolin, trumpet, percussion, harmonica, electric bass and drums. A Neverbeens live show will travel from neurotic crashes of rhythm and soul down to a melodic whisper. The band released a self titled EP in February ‘07 and their debut full length album ‘Straight line’ came out in September ‘07.