Friday, August 14th, 2009
Dear Friends, Fans and Supporters of How I Learned,
I'll be representing the How I Learned Reading Series in a comedy-heavy episode of Opium Magazine's wacky Literary Death Match on August 20th. Yow!
If you come and cheer real loud I'll feel like a gold medal winner no matter how hard I fucking bite it in the end. I'm doing it for How I Learned. And for you. Everything I do, I do it for you.
Info below. And, of course, don't forget August 26th's big night of embarrassment at How I Learned. Yay!
Literary Death Match
NYC Ep. 17
Judges: four-time Emmy winner Scott Jacobson (The Daily Show), Tony Arcabascio (Alife founder) and Ethan Nosowsky (Graywolf Press)
Readers: Elisa Albert (The Book of Dahlia), Janice Erlbaum (GIRLBOMB), Elna Baker (writer of the forthcoming The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance) and Blaise Allysen Kearsley (How I Learned reading series)
Hosted and produced by Todd Zuniga & Erin Hosier
When: Thursday, August 20; Doors at 7:30, show at 8:05 p.m. (sharp)
Where: Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, (212) 614-0505
Cost: $10
Since 2009, How I Learned has featured some of the best live storytelling, comedy, and readings in New York City. It all happens a couple of times a year, and sometimes more than that, which basically means you'll have the best night of you life on those nights, repeatedly.
YOUR HOST:
Blaise Allysen Kearsley is a Brooklyn-based writer and the creator, producer, and host of How I Learned, which has been a thing for a super long time. She has performed at The Moth, RISK!, Mortified, Literary Death Match, and many other shows. Her writing has appeared in Longreads, Midnight Breakfast, VICE, The Weeklings, The Nervous Breakdown, two anthologies, and in several other places a long time ago that don't even exist anymore, and are perhaps not worth mentioning by name. She also teaches creative nonfiction to other so-called grownups. Learn how to pronounce all three of her names at blaiseallysenkearsley.com.