QUIET LIGHTNING: alley cat books
[ Mon May 7 12 ]
Nicole McFeely + Evan Karp curated and hosted Quiet Lightning @ Alley Cat Books, featuring readings by, in the following order:
- Isak Lindenauer
- Max Tomlinson
- Der Williams
- Katherine Hogan
- Nicole Henares
- Joseph Lease
- Doug Cordell
- Tom Comitta
- Rose Theresa Booker
- Nate Waggoner
- Sandra Wassilie
Above is the entire show, which was surprisingly funny. It’s so amazing to meet new authors every month by seeing them read for the first time; when curating a show, you never know what kind of presence you’re actually going to get in the performance. We did this one without a microphone and I think the atmosphere was pretty perfect; Alley Cat’s back room is a great venue for a reading like this one, and it was full of people there for the first time (probably not an overstatement to say 98% of the people had never been to Alley Cat, and there were maybe 30 folks new to Quiet Lightning). A very successful show!
Click “Play” to watch all, “Next” to skip forward, or the small “Playlist” screen (to the right of the video time) to see thumbnails and watch them directly.
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