MR BELLER'S NEIGHBORHOOD READING SERIES

 

Writers from the critically acclaimed, Webby Award-nominated website Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood are reading every month
Author and Open City Founding Editor Thomas Beller founded mrbellersneighborhood.com in 2000. The site publishes stories about New York City life that follow in the tradition of Joseph Mitchell and E.B. White—slices of life, portraits of memorable characters, scandalous encounters with public decadence and heartwarming displays of civil courage. Contributors are either famous, work in a variety of jobs and write out of a passion to express themselves, or both.

Oct 14th

For the last year, writers from the critically acclaimed, Webby Award-nominated website Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood have read every month at Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction. The next event is Sunday, October 14—and, with the impending closure of Mo’s, this is to be the series’ last event (at least until we find a new place, of course).

The final reading in the series will have a special theme. All four contributors will read chapters-in-progress from a new literary anthology, title TBA, which pays qualified tribute to public spaces, buildings, and utilities of NYC’s past and present.

Readers are Emily Meg Weinstein, J.B. McGeever, Saki Knafo, and Patrick Gallagher. The reading begins at 8:00 pm.

Patrick Gallagher is a doctoral student in the department of Comparative Literature at NYU and a former Managing Editor of Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. His essays and stories have appeared in Wheelhouse, the New York Times, Modern Mask, and Elsewhere.

Saki Knafo was born and raised in Brooklyn and is a staff writer for the New York Times City Section. He is working on a book about a flophouse in the near vicinity of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

JB McGeever’s work has appeared in Proteus, Confrontation, The New York Times, Family Circle Magazine, City Limits Magazine, and elsewhere.

Emily Meg Weinstein writes the web site superlefty.com. Her work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Identity Theory, The Brooklyn Rail, VenusZine, and The Huffington Post.

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