We’re gonna flap our downhearted blues away on Wednesday, January 4, 2017 from 7 – 9 PM at Brooklyn’s Pacific Standard as we celebrate the flight of our 12th issue with our 12th reading!
starring:
ANTHONY CAPPO
LELAND CHEUK
DEIRDRE COYLE
ALIBI JONES
RON KOLM
FRANCINE WITTE
& the late LEONARD COHEN
A million creepy-crawly thank-yous to everyone who helped make our first-ever Halloween reading such a graveyard smash: Cooper, Michael, Shawn, Joanna, Darley, and Stephen for performing your spookily flappy lits; the late Rod Serling for guest-hosting; Alibi for your sinister singing & stellar photography; Pacific Standard for their always-gracious hospitality; and all you beautiful freaks who came out to enjoy the show. We hope y’all have a Happy Halloween, and we’ll be back for reading #12 early next year…
(photos by Alibi Jones, except where noted)
Alibi Jones prepares for a herky-jerky performance of “People Are Strange”
(photo by Rebecca Robison)
Cooper Wilhelm terrifies us with a transcript of true-life horror
Michael Seymour Blake reads “Mediocre Company,” his haunted-house tale from FLAPPERHOUSE #11 Continue reading FLAPPERHOUSE Halloween Reading, In Pictures
Halloween isn’t just our favorite holiday here at FLAPPERHOUSE, it’s also our birthday! So we’re gonna celebrate & conjure the spirit of the season at our 11th reading on 10/26 at Brooklyn’s Pacific Standard by sharing some spooky & supernatural lit…
Starring MICHAEL SEYMOUR BLAKE, SHAWN FRAZIER, ALIBI JONES, STEPHEN LANGLOIS, DARLEY STEWART, JOANNA C. VALENTE, COOPER WILHELM and
the late ROD SERLING.
A thousand gabba-gabba-heys to everyone who helped make Reading #10 bop like a rock n’ roll high school: Cooper, Nancy, Adam, Ilana, Emily, Armando, Monica, and Stu for performing your flappy lits; Alibi for your stellar singing & striking photography; Pacific Standard for being as cool a venue as CBGB (but much cleaner, of course); and all you punk rockers who came out to be part of our happy family; we’ll do this again on October 26 with our 1st-ever Halloween-time scary story celebration…
(photos by Alibi Jones)
Cooper Wilhelm takes us into the dark with some brand-new poetry
Nancy Hightower reads “Charlotte,” her twisted take on Charlotte’s Web from FLAPPERHOUSE #11 Continue reading FLAPPERHOUSE Reading #10, in Pictures
An endless universe of thank-yous to everyone who helped make Reading #9 such a gone gas: Abigail, Billy, Ron, Jack, Leland, and Jessie for performing your flappy lits; Alibi for your groovy singing & luscious photography; Pacific Standard for being such gracious hosts as always; and all you bang-tail cats who came out to watch. Let’s do this again on September 21…
(photos by Alibi Jones)
(we also streamed portions of last nite’s reading on Facebook Live!)
Abigail Welhouse performs some poetry from her collection Too Many Humans of New York
Billy Robison shares some of the highly unusual emails from his father
Ron Kolm reads his raunchy James Joyce riff “Finnegan Joyce”
The late Jack Kerouac offers a taste of his novel-in-progress On The Go.
Leland Cheuk reads an excerpt from his novel The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong
All the way from West Virginia, Jessie Janeshek recites a few of her flappiest poems
Times are bum, and getting bummer– still we got fun, and we’re gonna have loads of it at our 9th Reading on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3rd from 7 – 9 PM at Brooklyn’s Pacific Standard! Starring LELAND CHEUK, JESSIE JANESHEK, ALIBI JONES, RON KOLM, BILLY ROBISON, ABIGAIL WELHOUSE, the late JACK KEROUAC, & maybe more to come…
Admission is 100% FREE, and you can buy print copies of FLAPPERHOUSE X there for the special price of just $5, or our YEAR TWO anthology for just $10.
Our most effervescent gratitude to everyone who helped make Reading #8 such a non-stop highlight reel: Deirdre, Monica, Armando, Devin, Oscar, Bill, Jeanann, and Dolan for performing your flappy lits; Alibi for your glamorous voice & exquisite photography; special guest Joseph SW Hasan for your wonderful music; Pacific Standard for continuing to be the best place to read in NYC; and of course, everyone who came out to be part of our gorgeous & enthusiastic audience! Let’s do this again on August 3rd…
photography by Alibi Jones
Deirdre Coyle kicks off the readings with a tale of sex demons & burn scars
Monica Lewis reads “Letter to Your Chromosomes,” one of her prose poems forthcoming in our Fall issue Continue reading FLAPPERHOUSE Reading #8, In Pictures
This WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 from 7 – 9 PM at Brooklyn’s Pacific Standard, we’re gonna get weird like a libertine’s fever dream as we celebrate the flight of our 10th issue, FLAPPERHOUSE X, with our 8th reading.
Starring:
DEIRDRE COYLE
ARMANDO JARAMILLO GARCIA
ALIBI JONES
DEVIN KELLY
WILLIAM LESSARD
MONICA LEWIS
DOLAN MORGAN
JEANANN VERLEE
& the late OSCAR WILDE.
Admission is 100% FREE, and you can buy print copies of FLAPPERHOUSE X there for the special Flight Party price of just $5.
We’d like to stir a big bubbling cauldron of gratitude for everyone who helped make Reading #7 such a bewitching evening: Kailey, Mary, Shawn, Darley, Dorothy, Ilana, Ron and Luis for performing your flappy lits; Pacific Standard for continuing to be the best bar in all of New York to host a reading; Alibi Jones for your scintillating singing & lovely photography; and all you gorgeous cats & kittens who came down to get spellbound. Let’s do this again, say, around the next Solstice…
(photos by Alibi Jones)
Kailey Tedesco reads some of her magical poetry, including “How Often We Confuse Ovens for Rabbit Holes”
Mary Breaden keeps the witchy vibe alive with some spooky short fiction
Shawn Frazier gets surreal performing a dreamy new tale Continue reading FLAPPERHOUSE Reading #7, In Pictures
We’re gonna dance like centipedes on tumbleweeds as we celebrate the flight of our YEAR TWO print anthology with our 7th reading on Wednesday, May 25th from 7 – 9 PM at Pacific Standard (82 Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn).
Starring MARY BREADEN, SHAWN FRAZIER, LUIS GALINDO, ALIBI JONES, RON KOLM, ILANA MASAD, DARLEY STEWART, KAILEY TEDESCO, and the late DOROTHY PARKER.
(Here’s the facebook event page.)
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