I took a two week workshop with John Edgar Wideman and in my opinion he pretty much hated computers and didn’t have an email. My dad was similar, so I understood. At least to my knowledge, Wideman used credit cards, which my father never did. In place of such instant gratification, Wideman taught me how [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
The Aliens
April 23, 2010 – 10:51 pm
Despite the darkness surrounding the three main characters of Annie Baker’s newest play, The Aliens, the show sustains a playful levity throughout much of its less than two hour runtime. Under Sam Gold’s direction, The Aliens is most alive when the two leads, a couple of thirty-something male vagabonds, and a seventeen-year-old restaurant employee about [...]
Sherman Alexie in NYC
April 22, 2010 – 9:51 am
As part of the PEN World Voices Festival, recent PEN winner and National Book Award Winner (as well as Dossier contributor) Sherman Alexie is lecturing at Cooper Union on May 2nd about the future of books in the digital age and the many threats the book industry faces. He has chosen not to let his [...]
The Subject Was Roses
April 21, 2010 – 7:31 am
On Sunday, The Pearl Theatre Company unveiled the final show of its 2009-2010 season: Frank D. Gilroy’s deceptively deep The Subject Was Roses, which garnered the Pulitzer Prize in 1965. Wearing the uniform of the classic American family drama, Roses centers around the homecoming of John and Nettie Cleary’s veteran son, Timmy. Yet, the play [...]
Rebecca Keith
April 18, 2010 – 9:35 pm
Rebecca Keith’s poems, essays, and interviews have appeared most recently in Best New Poets, 2009, The Laurel Review, The Rumpus, and The Millions. She was a semi-finalist for the 2010 “Discovery”/Boston Review poetry contest and has received honors from the Atlantic Monthly and Bomb magazine. She holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College [...]
ART/WORK Everything You Need To Know (And Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career
April 17, 2010 – 8:27 am
I’ve often had discussions with people about the difficulty of having a creative career, be it in art, writing or design. There is the belief that no matter what you do, you will be waiting tables and struggling. There is the theory that the cream rises to the top and only if you truly have [...]
Literary Death Match
April 12, 2010 – 10:19 am
Opium’s Literary Death Match (billed as a blend of Def Poetry Jam, American Idol and Double Dare) comes to NYC this week. It’s a mix of emerging and famous authors who perform a piece of writing in under seven minutes before an audience and a panel of judges. This Wednesday, Dossier contributor Emma Straub performs [...]
