New York’s KGB Bar is putting on an Offbeat night tomorrow entitled The In Sound From Way Out:
3 of NYC’s leading underground authors come together for one night only to read selections from their work. Feted by the likes of Dennis Cooper, Miranda July and Dan Fante, Donari Braxton (pictured), Tao Lin and Tony O’Neill are sure to provide fireworks, electrifying readings and maybe some broken teeth.
Donari Braxton is the author of numerous works of fiction, poetry, and hybrid worksof drama, prose, and poetry. His fiction and essays have been widely anthologized in the UK and in the US, and his first collection of short-stories, I, will be succeeded in 2008 by a second collection titled Book of Second Childhoods. Presently he is preparing a novel and continues to contribute to various art, fashion and design publications based in LA and in New York City, where he currently lives.
Tao Lin is the author of a novel, Eeeee Eee Eee (Melville house, May 2007), a story-collection, Bed (Melville House, May 2007), and a poetry collection, You Are A Little Bit Happier Than I Am (Action Books, November 2006). He lives in Brooklyn.
Tony O’Neill is the author of Digging the Vein (Contemporary Press), Seizure Wetdreams (Social Disease) and Songs from the Shooting Gallery (Burning Shore Press). His work has appeared in The Guardian, 3:AM Magazine, Dogmatika and Savage Kick. He lives in Queens.
In related news, Tao Lin appears in the latest issue of Esquire and Tony O’Neill has just written a blog entry on Clarence Cooper Jr. for the Guardian.
First posted: Friday, September 14th, 2007.
