1. Rumpus room. Hey NYC! Stephen Elliott is hosting a shindig in Brooklyn for his Kickstarter backers and he really wants you to come. Back his new film, Happy Baby, for as little as a buck and enjoy this evening of literary hijinxs, oddball jams, and Eugene Mirman at his hilarious best. firstpersonsingular: I am humbled to be somehow (impossibly!) sharing the stage this Thursday evening with: Mike Doughty, Starlee Kine, Eugene Mirman, Jami Attenberg, Kflay, Stephen Elliott and Melissa Febos, whom I’ll be interviewing for a live edition of my Rumpus column, “Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me.”  It’s a fundraiser for Stephen Elliott’s indie film endeavor, turning his novel Happy Baby into a movie. Contribute as little as $1 to his Kickstarter, and you can attend! (Although the suggested donation is $20. But no pressure…) It’s at 8 at Public Assembly, in Williamsburg. It’s going to be a great event, and an even greater movie. Please come! And bring friends!

    Rumpus room.

    Hey NYC! Stephen Elliott is hosting a shindig in Brooklyn for his Kickstarter backers and he really wants you to come. Back his new film, Happy Baby, for as little as a buck and enjoy this evening of literary hijinxs, oddball jams, and Eugene Mirman at his hilarious best.

    firstpersonsingular:

    I am humbled to be somehow (impossibly!) sharing the stage this Thursday evening with: Mike Doughty, Starlee Kine, Eugene Mirman, Jami Attenberg, Kflay, Stephen Elliott and Melissa Febos, whom I’ll be interviewing for a live edition of my Rumpus column, “Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me.” 

    It’s a fundraiser for Stephen Elliott’s indie film endeavor, turning his novel Happy Baby into a movie. Contribute as little as $1 to his Kickstarter, and you can attend! (Although the suggested donation is $20. But no pressure…) It’s at 8 at Public Assembly, in Williamsburg.

    It’s going to be a great event, and an even greater movie. Please come! And bring friends!

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  2. Book looks.

    Litographs are unabridged books transformed into new forms.

    Born from a simple love of reading, the creator’s Kickstarter project will convert any texts available in the public domain into photographs or designs of the backer’s choosing. These T-shirts are his first four designs — the fifth design is up to you.

    baseballtimemachine:

    Litographs - entire books printed on shirts

    (via baseballbooksbeer-deactivated20)

  3. Great authors inspire us, but what about the stories that inspire them? Electric Literature’s new digital fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, will tell us. They’ll publish one story each week, chosen by themselves, an established author or an indie publisher. Best of all? It will be completely free. (And if you love what you read, they’ll let you buy it directly from the publisher.) It’s literature everybody can love: writer and reader, alike. We love that! So it’s our Project of the Day. (P.S. Make sure to check out their single sentence animation series. Oh, whimsy!)

    Great authors inspire us, but what about the stories that inspire them? Electric Literature’s new digital fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, will tell us. They’ll publish one story each week, chosen by themselves, an established author or an indie publisher. Best of all? It will be completely free. (And if you love what you read, they’ll let you buy it directly from the publisher.) It’s literature everybody can love: writer and reader, alike. We love that! So it’s our Project of the Day. (P.S. Make sure to check out their single sentence animation series. Oh, whimsy!)