Left to right: Alain Benatar, Sally Shore, me, Lynne Oropeza and Matthew Thomas Lange.
Alain Benatar reads “Are You Okay?” (published in Tin House).
Sally Shore reads “Mind Your Questions” (unpublished).
Lynne Oropeza reads “Three” (published in Wigleaf).
It was a great night. The actors were fantastic and many wonderful friends and supporters showed up.
Thanks to all who came. And a special thanks to Sally Shore for making it all happen.
Here are the details once again. Promise this is the last time I’ll blog about this…
What: New Short Fiction Series presents Andy Roe’s What I’m About to Do Now and Other Stories
When: Friday, October 9 @ 8 p.m. (box office opens at 7:30)
Where: Beverly Hills Public Library, 44 Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills
Map/directions: Here
Cost: 10 bucks (I promise to buy you a drink at some point in your lifetime if you come)
More info can also be found on the New Short Fiction Series website.
I have a little something up at Laura Ellen Scott’s VIPs on vsf blog.
It talks about how I used to write poetry and the connection between poetry and very short fiction.
Rocktober is already off to a great start.
I have two new stories out there:
The first one is kind of light. The second one is kind of not so light.
Saw this at the New Pages blog this morning…
A story in Science Daily reports that reading Kafka or watching a David Lynch film can make you smarter:
“According to research by psychologists at UC Santa Barbara and the University of British Columbia, exposure to the surrealism in, say, Kafka’s ‘The Country Doctor’ or Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’ enhances the cognitive mechanisms that oversee implicit learning functions.”
And here’s a quote from one of the researchers:
“The idea is that when you’re exposed to a meaning threat –– something that fundamentally does not make sense –– your brain is going to respond by looking for some other kind of structure within your environment. And, it turns out, that structure can be completely unrelated to the meaning threat.”
“Meaning threat.” I like that.
