Liminal Monsters: A Macabre Salon is a free evening of eerie readings (and a musical performance) at
Black Spring Books (672 Driggs Ave. in Brooklyn, NY) on 10/2/21 at 6:00PM, in association with Sean Gill's NYFA/City Artists Corps Grant.
Featuring readings by:
Lara Elena Donnelly
Sean Gill
Zack Graham
Rajesh Parameswaran
Alexa Punnamkuzhyil
and music by:
baby chemist
Masks and vaccines required.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
baby chemist is an indie rock duo whose eclectic singles have received airplay over 4 continents. Their astral Americana single "I'll Still Be Here" was one of 58 semi-finalists out of 10,000 worldwide entries in the Unsigned Only songwriting contest. Their latest release, a pop-punk cover of 4 Non Blondes' 90s classic "What's Up?" debuted at their Times Square Alliance produced show and listening party.
Lara Elena Donnelly is the Nebula, Lambda, and Locus-nominated author of The Amberlough Dossier, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Masquerade #1, and Base Notes. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, Nightmare, and Uncanny. From 2018 to 2019, Lara was a guest lecturer in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. She has also taught at the Catapult Workshop in New York. A graduate of the Clarion and Alpha workshops, Lara has served as on-site staff at the latter and now serves on the board of directors.
Sean Gill is a writer and filmmaker who won Michigan Quarterly Review's 2020 Lawrence Prize, Pleiades’ 2019 Gail B. Crump Prize, and The Cincinnati Review's 2018 Robert & Adele Schiff Award. He has studied with Werner Herzog, documented public defenders for National Geographic, bounced concerts for Public Enemy and Isaac Hayes, cater-waitered for Mikhail Gorbachev, played a rock star for Martin Scorsese, and edited for Netflix's Queer Eye. Recent work has been published in The Iowa Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, ZYZZYVA, and The Threepenny Review.
Zack Graham’s stories have appeared in or are forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail, BULL, The Cobalt Review, Volume 1 Brooklyn, and Newest York, and his criticism has appeared in The Nation, Rolling Stone, GQ, The Believer, Jewish Currents, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. He was a recipient of a Disquiet International Literary Prize in 2020, and was named an Alan Cheuse Emerging Critics Fellow by the National Book Critics Circle in 2018. He is the editor of a new magazine called Lampblack that publishes Black writers from around the world. He grew up in Chicago and lives in New York City.
Rajesh Parameswaran is the author of I Am an Executioner: Love Stories, which The Washington Post praised as “the advent of a genuinely distinctive voice in American fiction.” Parameswaran’s stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Granta, Zoetrope: All-Story, Five Chapters, and Fiction. “The Strange Career of Dr. Raju Gopalarajan” was one of three stories for which McSweeney’s earned a National Magazine Award in 2007, and it was reprinted in The Best American Magazine Writing.
Alexa Punnamkuzhyil is an artist, academic and poet who writes about exorcism, ecstasy, and obsession. She is a recipient of the Academy of American Poets Stuart Friebert Prize and currently teaches at Hunter College. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center and has recently been published in Juked and Bridge Eight with a forthcoming publication in the D.H. Lawrence Review.
Sean Gill's latest project––a six-part essay series exploring the unusual and complicated psychology of writers portraying on screen characters they originally created in print––has published its second installment online at ZYZZYVA, on Richard Wright's performance in Native Son (1951).
Sean Gill's latest project––a six-part essay series exploring the unusual and complicated psychology of writers portraying on screen characters they originally created in print––has debuted online at ZYZZYVA with its first installment, on Stephen King's performance in Creepshow (1982).
Author Alexa Punnamkuzhyil. (Photo by Rachel Klein)
Author Zack Graham. (Photo by Rachel Klein)
Sean Gill's latest essay––about the gruesome and gritty early works of Louisa May Alcott (with an emphasis on her novel A Long Fatal Love Chase, unpublished until the 1990s)––has been published by Epiphany: A Literary Journal as a part of his "Lurid Esoterica" series.
Sean Gill