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    Wednesday, October 27 at 7 pm Hammer Readings

    Where: Hammer Museum
    10899 Wilshire Blvd.
    Los Angeles, CA 90024-4343

    Slake LA: Iconoclasts

    The evening will celebrate Slake’s second issue with Q&As, readings, and performances by Slake contributors, including screenwriter and novelist Jerry Stahl, of Leaves author Mark Z. Danielewski, comic actress and writer Lauren Weedman (The Daily Show, Date Night, Hung), cult film queen Mary Waronov, plus jazz ensemble the Max Wrightson Trio.

    Organized by Benjamin Weissman.

    Mark Z. Danielewski's piece The Promise of Meaning appears in Slake No. 1. He recently announced that he’s begun work on a 27-volume series of novels titled The , about a 12-year-old girl who finds a kitten (among, we’d expect, other things). The LA-based writer has gained a cult following with his experimental novels of Leaves and . A few days after the Hammer event, Danielewski will give a theatrical presentation of his ghost story The Fifty Year Sword at REDCAT on Halloween.

    Can we expect another Parable from Mark? Who knows? Hopefully somebody will be able to go and record it (audio and/or video)!

  • #2
    Originally posted by DownwardSpiral
    Wednesday, October 27 at 7 pm Hammer Readings

    Can we expect another Parable from Mark? Who knows? Hopefully somebody will be able to go and record it (audio and/or video)!
    I'll be there for the REDCAT performance but not for the Slake readings. I'm kind of hoping Mark just reads The Promise of Meaning again, so I don't feel like I really missed out by not being there.

    I'd love to be able to audio/video record the REDCAT performance but don't know if that will be allowed.

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    • #3
      Hi JT, I talked to Mark in Cologne and asked if the REDCAT performance will be recorded/filmed and he said it sure has to be. So maybe just go ahead! Please!If possible a video and audio tape! Keep us Europeans posted.

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      • #4
        We just got word that recording will be no problem.

        Also: Three signed copies of The Fifty Year Sword will be given away at REDCAT.

        Further discussion here:
        http://www.ofleaves.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6353

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Hazel
          We just got word that recording will be no problem.
          Awesome, thanks for letting us know! Now the hard part, finding a worthy video camera...

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Hazel
            We just got word that recording will be no problem.

            Also: Three signed copies of The Fifty Year Sword will be given away at REDCAT.

            Further discussion here:
            http://www.ofleaves.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6353
            Thanks for the confirmation, Hazel!

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            • #7
              You're welcome! Here's the latest news . . .

              Acclaimed shadowcaster Christine Marie on board for Halloween's unabridged reading of The Fifty Year Sword at REDCAT:

              http://www.cimimarie.com/

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              • #8
                We're also giving away a copy of T50YS online:
                http://www.ofleaves.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6420

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                • #9
                  Did anyone make it to the Slake event? Hopefully someone did, so we'll know whether Mark presented another parable.

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                  • #10
                    Update on REDCAT event:

                    First Halloween performance of The Fifty Year Sword is sold out! Second show added at 9 p.m. Please spread the word!

                    http://www.redcat.org/event/mark-danielewski

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by DownwardSpiral
                      Did anyone make it to the Slake event? Hopefully someone did, so we'll know whether Mark presented another parable.
                      Twitter to save the day again...

                      @slakemedia
                      TONIGHT: readings and convo about L.A., live jazz, beverages @hammer_museum—and it's free! http://bit.ly/cfRqUH #LosAngeles

                      A followup tweet says that pics are coming soon. Their Facebook page says that Slake is now available at City Lights in San Francisco.


                      @RachelResnick
                      "What bores an angel more? Violence or beauty?"~Mark Danielewski (at Slake & Hammer Museum "Iconoclasts" event)

                      @RachelResnick

                      "It cost so much and yet it's so cheap," says Mark Danielewski, and Stahl asks; "What DOES it cost?" Slake & Hammer Museum "Iconoclasts"

                      @RachelResnick
                      Mark Danielewski, on L.A.'s place in literary sphere: "I love Los Angeles. This is where it's all happening." Bravo! Less censorship here...

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                      • #12
                        Pix by the Hammer Museum

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by MicheleVR5
                          Is that a fancy cat riding an old-timey bicycle? If nothing else happens from this book, I hope he puts out a line of bedazzled cat t-shirts.

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                          • #14
                            The adage is as true as it ever was - when all else fails, start wearing a hat.

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