Entries from February 2009 ↓

Laura reading at 1000 Words Series

Benjamin Parzybok — February 25th, 2009 — Uncategorized

Laura will be reading at the 1,000 Words reading series (hosted by Mel Favara) this very Monday. Here’s the release. The website is here – but it’s not updated yet. If you haven’t been to one – it’s a very fun series.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1,000 WORDS READING: THEFT

7PM sharp, MONDAY, MARCH 2 AT THE MAIDEN, 639 SE MORRISON STREET (503-232-5553)

FREE

ALL-AGES VENUE UNTIL 10; THE READING WILL BE OVER BY 9

PETE KREBS TO FOLLOW

Please join the 1,000 Words Reading Series to witness four great writers—Young Brilliant Upstart Maddie Camp, Bold Fictionista Sara Kolp, impresario, writer, teacher, and all around literary go-to girl Laura Moulton, and stellar Portland poet Wendy Noonan will each read four tiny, 250-word pieces written for the occasion over the past month, based on the theme THEFT and a set of prompts and arbitrary rules provided weekly by series curator Mel Favara. It will be fast and fancy if not furious. Vancouver emo-punk trio We Play Quiet will also play songs based on the writers’ prompts, which is a phenomenon not to be missed, unless you don’t mind missing things that are singularly fantastic.

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Elizabeth Gilbert on the origin of creativity at TED

Benjamin Parzybok — February 23rd, 2009 — Uncategorized

Here’s an incredibly wonderful piece on creativity, the origin of, and more specifically on surviving it, from Elizabeth Gilbert at TED. For those who are not smitten with her by the end, you are stronger than I.

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Couch review in the LA Times

Benjamin Parzybok — February 22nd, 2009 — couch

How exciting is that? Well, I’ll tell you – I’ve been dancing drunk on top of my desk since Friday afternoon when I first saw it, and now I’m not sure how to get off, and I think I’ve done some irreparable damage to my keyboard and stubbed a toe, and no one will hand me any more liquor, but other than that it’s pretty damn cool. Now -hand me that bottle please?

The reviewer, Ed Park (author of Personal Days) talks about Charles Portis and quotes side-by-side from one of his books and Couch, which is fun to see. I was given True Grit by my friend Mel Favara (of 1000 reading series) last year and loved it – I’ll have to pick up the others.

At any rate, here’s the review of Couch in the LA Times.

Thanks, Ed!

(incidentally – here’s Ed Park at length on Charles Portis: Like Cormac McCarthy, But Funny)

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