Bookmark Now: NYC Reading & Release Party
Tuesday, June 7 at 7:00pm
at Galapagos Artspace (70 North 6th Street in Williamsburg)
No cover. Free book give-aways. And yours truly (Robert Lanham) will be reading.
On Tuesday, June 7, editor Kevin Smokler and New York-based contributors to Bookmark Now will read from their contributions to the book, which features young writers on the state of the art—and the art of the hustle—in the age of information overload.
Bookmark Now contains 25 original essays written by authors who came of age professionally in the last decade. Raised by television, video games, and the internet, they still decided to become writers and readers, producers and consumers of literature at the most media-saturated time in history, a time when books have more competition from flashier distractions than ever before. How? Why? What does this say about the place of books in our hypermedia world? BOOKMARK NOW attempts to answer these questions. As book lovers, we are familiar with the gloom and doom attitude of these “Unreaderly Times.” But, there are still smart people everywhere who love books and are excited for the possibilities the future will bring for connecting books and readers. BOOKMARK NOW argues and celebrates that that future is already here.
Smokler will introduce readings by Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Robert Lanham, Benjamin Nugent, and Elizabeth Spiers of Gawker/Media Bistro fame. Sponsored by FreeWilliamsburg.com, the event also features audience giveaways of Bookmark Now and Lanham’s Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees, and Other Creatures Unique to the Republic, both of which will be raffled off in-between readers.
I got an advance copy of that book. There are some good essays. Spiers and Pollack I enjoyed. Dan Kennedy’s meta essay on writing was embarassing. It seemed like Kennedy threw it together in 5 minutes. The McSweeney’s spoof was perceptive and funny. I liked Nicola Griffith’s too. The one thing the book doesn’t discuss — how boring readings are. I’ll stay home and finish reading
galapagos used to be cool. its cheesy now
things used to be cool. now they are different. i think i will not go anywhere because things changed. i think this neighborhood is different now, so it is not cool. i think i will move to the darfur region of sudan and do my art and stuff. then all the other hipsters will catch on and move there too and then i will be like this shit used to be so cool and now it is cheesy. and then i will be killed by crazy ass rebels.
You’re funny “things are different.” “Move to Danfur” – funny shit.
This book looks good. I like the writer list. Tom Bissel especially