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Like Poe? Like NPR’s Selected Shorts? Then check out the doings a’transpiring tonight at the Harry Ransom Center.
The Ransom Center’s sponsored Big Read events include a performance tonight hosted by Isaiah Sheffer of “Selected Shorts,” heard on public radio stations across America; a Poe film series featuring “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1928), “The Raven” (1963) and “The Pit and Pendulum” (1961); and a performance of “The Tell-Tale Heart” and other Poe works.
With its unprecedented gathering of 25 brief essays by experts in the field, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction is a concise yet creative exploration of the re-emerging genre popularly known as flash fiction. Each essay is accompanied by original exercises or prompts and example stories chosen by the essayist. Join short short writers and editors Elizabeth Crane, Elizabeth Harris, Kathleen Rooney and Robert Shapard as they read and discuss the short short.
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Friday, September 11, 2009
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7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Book Woman
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5501 N. Lamar Blvd. #A-105
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Austin, TX
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Our first anniversary show was the perfect way to celebrate a year of Five Things. Great music, great words, and a fantastic crowd lit up the U.S. Art Authority. Big thanks to our readers, bands, audience, and volunteers. As we slurred at the end of the night: you guys are the reason. You’re the reason.
We’re nursing our hangovers and rinsing off our silk sashes, but soon we’ll get pictures online. Hop on our RSS Feed and get the scoop as soon as we scoop it, or find us on Facebook and tag to your heart’s content.
See you soon! We’re planning something fun to celebrate the Texas Book Festival at the end of October. And as always, watch this spot for fun lit events around town.
Five Things is so proud to be listed among the best of the best in Austin, according to The Austin Chronicle:
Literary Salon 2.0: Five Things Austin
Forget the wine-and-cheese reading series of yore: Amelia Gray and Stacy Muszynski’s Five Things Austin is the hip kid in town, a scrappy, freewheeling multimedia show that pairs Austin’s leading lights in literature, music, and photography with a new generation of young pups just starting to feel the Beat – and all for a buck. Snaps.
Thanks, Austin!
If you’re new to Five Things, come see us at the show Friday, September 4. Scroll down for more details.
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