Hi! I'll cut right to the chase. You're welcome.
The How I Learned Series is Insanely Excited to Present:
HOW I LEARNED
IT'S NOT ME, IT'S YOU
(OR MAYBE IT'S ME)
Featuring:
SAM LIPSYTE
(
The Ask; Home Land)
ANDREA ROSEN
(
Stella; Variety Shac)
ELISSA BASSIST
(
The Rumpus; Literary Death Match)
JIM O'GRADY
(
This American Life; The Moth)
Created, Produced + Hosted by
BLAISE ALLYSEN KEARSLEY
Wednesday, April 27th
8pm / Doors open at 7
HAPPY ENDING
302 Broome Street (between Forsyth + Eldridge)
J, M, Z, F to Delancey
B, D to Grand
FREE!
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| Photo: Ceridwen Morris |
SAM LIPSYTE is the author of one story collection and two other novels, including
Home Land, which was a
New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award.
ANDREA ROSEN is a comic, actor, and writer. She is a member of
Variety Shac, a monthly show at UCB NY, and was regular on Comedy Central's
Michael and Michael Have Issues. She has also appeared in
Flight of the Conchords, Rescue Me, The Whitest Kids You Know, and
Stella. She is a regular commentator on VH1, and does lots of commercials. Andrea holds a women's fishing world record, having caught the biggest Permit fish on an 8-pound test line.
ELISSA BASSIST co-edited
Rumpus Women, Volume I, the first and most extraordinary anthology ever published by TheRumpus.net. She edits Funny Women, a humor column on the The Rumpus. Her essay "A Baker's Dozen of My Feelings about
Infinite Jest" appears in
Best of the Web 2010. Her self-help book,
The Power of Negative Thinking, will be written soon. Peruse
elissabassist.com for a lot of literary, feminist, and personal criticism.
JIM O'GRADY has worked as a reporter for
The New York Times, professor of journalism at NYU, and research director at The Center for an Urban Future, a policy think tank. He is now a reporter for WNYC Radio. He has won eight Moth storyslams and a Moth GrandSLAM, and has told a story on
This American Life. He has a message for all you hatahs out there... but forgets what it is.
In related news: This is going to be so good. I. Can't. Wait.
Hope to see youse there!
xoxo Blaise
