This month's stories may or may not include useful information involving pooping in buckets, stripping, fortunetelling, getting stabbed and Oprah. JOIN US!
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The How I Learned Series Presents:
HOW I LEARNED TO SURVIVE
Featuring:
ALEXANDER CHEE
(
Edinburgh;
Granta)
ED GAVAGAN
(The Liar Show; The Story Collider)
MELANIE HAMLETT
(RISK!; The Moth StorySLAM)
JILLIAN LAUREN
(
Pretty;
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem)
JOANNE SOLOMON
(Steamboat Humor Reading Series;
De La Guarda)
Created, Produced + Hosted by
BLAISE ALLYSEN KEARSLEY
Wednesday, September 28th
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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ALEXANDER CHEE is the author of the novels
Edinburgh (Picador, 2002) and
The Queen of the Night, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, an NEA Fellowship in Fiction and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ledig House and Civiella Ranieri. He is a contributing writer at the
Morning News, and has written for
Granta, the
Paris Review Daily and NPR.
For his day job,
ED GAVAGAN designs and builds homes and furniture for fancy people and humble folk all over the world. His work has been featured on the cover of
Elle Décor, in
Architectural Digest, the
New York Times, Architectural Record, Global Architecture and other periodicals and books worldwide. His storytelling has been featured in
The Moth StorySLAM and mainstage events, and
The Moth Story Hour on NPR. He has also been seen on
The Liar Show, The Story Collider, Sideshow Goshko and anything he can do with Adam Wade. He is very happy to tell stories and even happier when people listen.
MELANIE HAMLETT is a writer, a 2-time
Moth StorySLAM Champion and a nomad who divides her time between living in her truck on the road, on friends' couches in New York City, in a trailer with no running water in New Mexico, and out of a back pack in foreign countries. She's told stories in shows all over NYC, including
ASSSCAT 3000 at the Upright Citizens' Brigade Theater, and on the podcasts
Risk! and
Broadcastr. Her next adventures will be in Argentina, where she'll be living for an undetermined period of time come December. Until then, she's happy to be back in New York where she won't have to crap in a bucket.
JILLIAN LAUREN is the author of the
New York Times bestselling memoir,
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, published by Plume in April 2010. It has since been translated into fourteen different languages. Her novel,
Pretty, was released on August 30, 2011. Her writing has appeared in the
Paris Review Daily, the
New York Times, Vanity Fair, Flaunt Magazine, Opium Magazine, Society, Pale House: A Collective and in the anthology
My First Time: A Collection of First Punk Show Stories. She lives in Los Angeles with musician Scott Shriner and their son.
JOANNE SOLOMON is a writer turned aerialist who remains grateful to the New York storytelling and literary communities for giving her a home again after a six year run in
De La Guarda. When Joanne is not teaching ESL at NYU, she's rehearsing for her solo piece, entitled
Matambrito, where she attempts to organically morph her writing and aerial skills into a cohesive bit of theater (without using a flying animal as the main character). Other plans: 1.) Finish her collection of essays entitled
Walking Mr. Lieberman; 2.) Buy that Murphy bed, which she believes will be the answer to all of her problems.
