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Double Take 18: Where the Hell’s Reality?

dt18Organized by Albert Mobilio, Double Take is a unique reading series that asks award winning and emerging poets, novelists, editors, and artists to trade takes on shared experiences.

Featuring:
Where the Hell’s Reality? Sharon Mesmer and Stephen O’Connor steal from each other to find out.

Lisa Cohen and Matthew Sharpe have an epistolary conversation on and with constraints.

Saul Anton and David Levine will ask if there’s anything redemptive in the current wave of nostalgia on TV.

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Saul Anton is the author of the extended essay Lee Friedlander’s: The Little Screens (2015), the critical fiction Warhol’s Dream (2007), and many articles on art, literature and critical theory. He is currently senior editor of BOMB and teaches at the Pratt Institute.

Lisa Cohen is the author of All We Know: Three Lives (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. Her writing has also appeared in BOMB, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The New Yorker.com, Vogue, Women in Clothes, Queer 13, Bookforum, Ploughshares, Boog City, and Five Fingers Review, among other journals and anthologies. She teaches at Wesleyan University.

David Levine is an artist and (occasional) writer and (occasional) director whose work has been commissioned by Creative Time, REDCAT, MASS MoCA and BRIC Arts Media. His writing has appeared in Triple Canopy, Cabinet, Parkett, and Theater. He is a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award recipient, and is Professor of the Practice of Performance, Theater, and Media at Harvard University.

Sharon Mesmer is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. Her newest poetry collection is Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place (Bloof Books, 2015). Previous collections include Annoying Diabetic Bitch and The Virgin Formica. Her two short fiction books, In Ordinary Time and The Empty Quarter, both from Hanging Loose Press, were published together as Ma Vie á Yonago by Hachette in French translation. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. She is the recipient of two NYFA fellowships in poetry. She teaches at NYU and the New School.

Stephen O’Connor is the author of the novel Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings; two collections of short fiction, Here Comes Another Lesson and Rescue; and of two works of nonfiction, Will My Name Be Shouted Out?, a memoir, and Orphan Trains, biography/history. His fiction and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, One Story, The Missouri Review, Poetry Magazine, among many other places. His essays and journalism have been published in The New York Times, The Nation, Agni, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The New Labor Forum, and elsewhere.

Matthew Sharpe is the author of the novels You Were Wrong, Jamestown, The Sleeping Father, and Nothing Is Terrible, and the short-story collection Stories from the Tube. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, The Los Angeles Times, Zoetrope, and other publications. He has received fellowships in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Albert Mobilio is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and the National Book Critics Circle award for reviewing. His work has appeared in Harper’s, Black Clock, BOMB, Cabinet, Open City, and Tin House. Books of poetry include Bendable Siege, The Geographics, Me with Animal Towering, and Touch Wood. Games and Stunts, a book of short fictions, is forthcoming. He is an assistant professor of literary studies at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and an editor at Hyperallergic Weekend and contributing editor at Bookforum.











When: Wed., Oct. 5, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: apexart
291 Church St.
212-431-5270
Price: Free
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dt18Organized by Albert Mobilio, Double Take is a unique reading series that asks award winning and emerging poets, novelists, editors, and artists to trade takes on shared experiences.

Featuring:
Where the Hell’s Reality? Sharon Mesmer and Stephen O’Connor steal from each other to find out.

Lisa Cohen and Matthew Sharpe have an epistolary conversation on and with constraints.

Saul Anton and David Levine will ask if there’s anything redemptive in the current wave of nostalgia on TV.

———-
Saul Anton is the author of the extended essay Lee Friedlander’s: The Little Screens (2015), the critical fiction Warhol’s Dream (2007), and many articles on art, literature and critical theory. He is currently senior editor of BOMB and teaches at the Pratt Institute.

Lisa Cohen is the author of All We Know: Three Lives (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. Her writing has also appeared in BOMB, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The New Yorker.com, Vogue, Women in Clothes, Queer 13, Bookforum, Ploughshares, Boog City, and Five Fingers Review, among other journals and anthologies. She teaches at Wesleyan University.

David Levine is an artist and (occasional) writer and (occasional) director whose work has been commissioned by Creative Time, REDCAT, MASS MoCA and BRIC Arts Media. His writing has appeared in Triple Canopy, Cabinet, Parkett, and Theater. He is a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award recipient, and is Professor of the Practice of Performance, Theater, and Media at Harvard University.

Sharon Mesmer is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. Her newest poetry collection is Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place (Bloof Books, 2015). Previous collections include Annoying Diabetic Bitch and The Virgin Formica. Her two short fiction books, In Ordinary Time and The Empty Quarter, both from Hanging Loose Press, were published together as Ma Vie á Yonago by Hachette in French translation. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. She is the recipient of two NYFA fellowships in poetry. She teaches at NYU and the New School.

Stephen O’Connor is the author of the novel Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings; two collections of short fiction, Here Comes Another Lesson and Rescue; and of two works of nonfiction, Will My Name Be Shouted Out?, a memoir, and Orphan Trains, biography/history. His fiction and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, One Story, The Missouri Review, Poetry Magazine, among many other places. His essays and journalism have been published in The New York Times, The Nation, Agni, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The New Labor Forum, and elsewhere.

Matthew Sharpe is the author of the novels You Were Wrong, Jamestown, The Sleeping Father, and Nothing Is Terrible, and the short-story collection Stories from the Tube. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, The Los Angeles Times, Zoetrope, and other publications. He has received fellowships in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Albert Mobilio is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and the National Book Critics Circle award for reviewing. His work has appeared in Harper’s, Black Clock, BOMB, Cabinet, Open City, and Tin House. Books of poetry include Bendable Siege, The Geographics, Me with Animal Towering, and Touch Wood. Games and Stunts, a book of short fictions, is forthcoming. He is an assistant professor of literary studies at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and an editor at Hyperallergic Weekend and contributing editor at Bookforum.

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