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Dear Mom, I hate camp!
Local writers to do
offbeat reading hosted by teen author Ned Vizzini
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| By:Current
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06/10/2004 |
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 If you hated summer camp, or even if
you loved it, you might enjoy a summer camp-themed reading
involving some young up-and-coming authors.
Hosted by 23-year-old Ned Vizzini, who
wrote the new and critically acclaimed young-adult novel Be
More Chill, the reading will include Hoboken author Jeff
Somers (Lifers, The Freaks are Winning), Hudson Reporter
newspaper editor Caren Lissner (Carrie Pilby, Starting from
Square Two), and young writer and independent publisher Jackie
Corley (www.wordriot.org), who lives in Monmouth
County.
"I'm hoping
it will be fun and kind of funny," Lissner says. "It's a
coincidence that all three of the readers live in New Jersey.
What's also exciting is that Jackie Corley and Ned Vizzini are
two really energetic young authors whose careers will be fun
to watch."
Jeff Somers of Hoboken writes a 'zine called
the Inner Swine (www.innerswine.com) which explores other
people's foibles and his own. His first novel, Lifers, was
published in 1999 and received a positive capsule review in
the New York Times Book Review. The Freaks are Winning is a
published collection of writing from the Inner Swine. Somers
is in his early 30s.
Jackie Corley was born in 1982.
She developed Word Riot (www.wordriot.org), a monthly online
literary magazine dedicated to the forceful voices of
up-and-coming writers and poets, in March 2002 with the help
of Paula Anderson. Word Riot Press, an independent publishing
house, evolved out of the magazine in January 2003. Her
writing has appeared at SerialText and is forthcoming in
Little Engines.
Caren Lissner's humorous novels, Carrie
Pilby (about a confused post-collegiate female genius) and
Starting from Square Two, were published last June and this
past March respectively. She is now working on a third book
that she says is different from the first two. She also edits
the Hudson Reporter family of newspapers, which includes the
one you are reading. You can find out more at
www.carenlissner.com.
Ned Vizzini (www.nedvizzini.com),
is the host of the Barbes reading series. His novel, Be More
Chill, was just released and is being made into a movie by the
American Pie folks. The novel concerns a dorky high school kid
who takes a pill that tells him what to say and how to act so
that he can become "cool." It's being marketed to adults and
teens alike.
All of the books mentioned above can be
found on amazon.com and bn.com.
The free reading will
take place Tuesday, June 15, at 7 p.m. at Barbes in Park
Slope, Brooklyn. The address is 376 Ninth St. (at Sixth
Avenue). Take the F train to Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn and
walk down slope for a block.
For more information,
check out www.nedvizzini.com or e-mail Lissner via her
website.
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