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.
On March 28th bring your blue books, but wear your party pants. There may be a pop quiz and also a drinking game. You will be graded on it. All of it.
The How I Learned Series Presents HOW I LEARNED TO MAKE THE GRADE: STORIES ABOUT EDUCATION
Featuring: PETER AGUERO (The BTK Band; The Moth) MICHAEL MALICE (Harvey Pekar's Ego & Hubris; Concierge Confidential) ANNA NORTH (America Pacifica; Jezebel.com) MARK SAM ROSENTHAL (Comedy Central; I Light Up My Life: The Mark Sam Celebrity Autobiography) ROSIE SCHAAP (New York Times Magazine; Drinking with Men)
Created, Produced + Hosted by BLAISE ALLYSEN KEARSLEY Intern: LYRA SMITH
Wednesday, March 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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PETER AGUEROwas born and raised in the wilds of South Jersey. He is a Moth GrandSlam champion, host of Moth StorySlams, and an instructor for the MothShop Community Program. He is also the lead singer of The BTK Band, NYC's hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band.
MICHAEL MALICE is the subject of Harvey Pekar's Ego & Hubris. He is also the co-author of five books, including Concierge Confidential and D.L. Hughley's forthcoming I Want You to Shut the Fuck Up.
ANNA NORTHgraduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 2009. Her fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, and Five Chapters, and is forthcoming from Glimmer Train. She is also a News Editor at Jezebel.com. Her first novel, America Pacifica, was published by Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown in 2011.
MARK SAM ROSENTHAL is a writer/producer at Comedy Central and the writer/performer of the acclaimed solo show, I Light Up My Life: The Mark Sam Celebrity Autobiography, which sold out dates at Ars Nova, Dixon Place, and at the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival. He can also be seen performing improv comedy weekly at The PIT.
ROSIE SCHAAP writes the monthly "Drink" column for The New York Times Magazine. She has also been a bartender, a fortuneteller, a librarian at a paranormal society, an English teacher, an editor, a preacher, and a community organizer. Her work has been broadcast on This American Life, and her memoir, Drinking with Men, is forthcoming from Riverhead.
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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.
