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FLAPPERHOUSE Reading #6, In Pictures
A galaxy of gracious thank-yous to everyone who helped make Reading #6 such a trip: William, Stephen, Christina, Leona, Mazzara, Joanna, and Anthony for performing your flappy lits; Pacific Standard for your warm & welcoming hospitality; Alibi Jones for your sparkly singing & fine photography; and all you beautiful star-children who came to watch us boogie. Let’s do this again, say, sometime before Memorial Day…?
(photos by Alibi Jones)
William Lessard reads from his space-agey story “Transmission”
Stephen Langlois reads his unsettling short story “Redfield” from FLAPPERHOUSE #9
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FLAPPERHOUSE Reading #6 / Issue 9 Flight Party / VOYAGER RECORD Pre-Launch Countdown
We’re gonna sparkle & boogie as we celebrate the flight of our 9th issue with our 6th reading on Wednesday, March 23rd from 7 – 9 PM at Pacific Standard (82 Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn).
Starring FLAPPERHOUSE #9 contributors LEONA GODIN, STEPHEN LANGLOIS, WILLIAM LESSARD , and CHRISTINA M. RAU ; our fiction editor T. MAZZARA will read from his novel-in-progress; featured poet of FLAPPERHOUSE #8 & Reading #5 JOANNA C. VALENTE returns; as always, chanteuse extraordinaire ALIBI JONES will treat us to a song or two; and all the way from Tel Aviv, ANTHONY MICHAEL MORENA will read from his forthcoming book THE VOYAGER RECORD (Rose Metal Press, May 2016)– featuring a special appearance by the late CARL SAGAN!
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FLAPPERHOUSE Reading #5 in Pictures
A jillion juicy thank-yous to everyone who helped make Reading #5 such a joy: Bud, Joanna, Jon, Shawn, Franz, J.E., & Ron for reading your flappy lits; Alibi for your scintillating singing & lovely photography; Pacific Standard for your warm hospitality; and all you sweet sexy people who came out on a Winter Wednesday night to watch us. How ’bout we do this again on, say, March 23rd?
photos by Alibi Jones
Bud Smith reads his flash fiction “Tiger Blood,” originally published at Hobart
Joanna C. Valente reads “Chapel of Sacred Mirrors,” one of five powerful poems she contributed to FLAPPERHOUSE #8 Continue reading FLAPPERHOUSE Reading #5 in Pictures
FLAPPERHOUSE Reading #5 / Issue #8 Flight Party
Come experience a post-Solstice epiphany & join us as we celebrate the flight of our 8th issue with our 5th reading on 3 Kings’ day– that’s WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6 from 7 to 9 PM at Pacific Standard, 82 Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn.
Starring B. DIEHL, SHAWN FRAZIER, ALIBI JONES, RON KOLM, J.E. REICH, JON SAVAGE, BUD SMITH, JOANNA C. VALENTE, and the late FRANZ KAFKA.
FLAPPERHOUSE Reading #4, In Pictures
A million butternut squash-flavored thank yous to everyone who helped make Reading #4 such a blast: Bud, Shannon, David, Scott, Anna, T, & Michael for performing your flappy lits; Pacific Standard for your warm & welcoming hospitality; Alibi Jones for your superb singing & splendid photography; and to all you scintillating individuals who attended and gave us our biggest crowd yet.
See y’all again this Winter…
Photos by Alibi Jones
FLAPPERHOUSE Reading #4 / Issue #7 Flight Party
Flap into Fall like a skull-faced pixie on a rocket-powered vacuum, and join us as we celebrate the flight of our 7th issue with our 4th reading on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 from 7 to 9 PM at Pacific Standard, 82 Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn.
Starring MICHAEL DÍAZ FEITO, B. DIEHL, ALIBI JONES, ANNA MEISTER, SHANNON MOORE SHEPHERD, BUD SMITH, DAVID X. WIGGIN, and the late F. SCOTT FITZGERALD.
FLAPPERHOUSE Reading #3 in Pictures
A thousand sultry thank yous to everyone who helped make last night so memorable: Jeff, Bud, Ned, Kailey, Stephen, and Leona for performing your flappy lits; Alibi Jones for your exquisite singing; Pacific Standard for providing the space & sustenance; and of course all you beautiful people who attended. Let’s do this again in the Fall…
photos by Alibi Jones
FLAPPERHOUSE Reading #3
Thursday, June 25, we return to Brooklyn’s Pacific Standard to celebrate the flight of our Summer 2015 issue with our 3rd reading. It’s gonna flap your face back to the Stone Age, and then to the Jazz Age, before finally dropping you into the Space Age so you can sleep it off at some dingy interplanetary motel.
Performers include Dr. M Leona Godin, Jeff Laughlin, Bud Smith, Kailey Tedesco, & Ned Thimmayya.
FLAPPERHOUSE Reading #2, In Pictures
A thousand salty, squishy thank-yous to all who helped make Reading #2 such a smash: Pacific Standard for offering their super-cool space; Bud, Jasper, Eric, Lauren, & Diana for reading their flappy lits; Alibi for the gorgeous singing & photography; and of course, all you sexy people who came to listen & buy paperbacks.
What do you say we do it again this summer?…
all photos by Alibi Jones
Bud Smith slays the crowd with poems about cheeseburgers & his car.
Jasper Lo shares some dark yet beautiful poems inspired by his time in the military.
Eric Siegelstein tells us what it’s like to talk to the dead in “Ghost-Sick Jarvis,” an excerpt from his novel-in-progress.
Lauren recites her unique style of sultry, sensual poetry.
Diana Clarke reads “Blood Ties,” her tale of menstrual anxiety from FLAPPERHOUSE #3.
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