Readings and Performance and 'News"

My recording of a monologue from Eric Bogosian's play "Notes From Underground" will be rebroadcast on The Next Big Thing this weekend. (I appeared in "Notes" this past May at Performance Space 122). Here are the New York radio stations where you can hear the piece:

Saturday at 2pm on WNYC AM 820 (I will be on sometime between two and three p.m.)

And Sunday at 11am on WNYC 93.9 FM. (I will be on sometime between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m.)

The Nex Big Thing is also on about 90 stations across the U.S., a complete list is at: http://www.nextbigthing.org/stations/tnbt.html

See the entry below for information on written pieces I have and will have on Mr. Beller's Neighborhood and McSweeney's, as well as information about the unraveling of the Henry James Testicle Injury Mystery that will take place on this website.

- posted by Jonathan @ 2:31 PM

 
Readings and Performances and Other 'News'

I have a piece, what I call a memNoir, on mrbellersneighborhood.com. It's called: Loose Tiles, and to find it, click here.

And next week (November 17- 21), my diary of my time at Club Med will run every day as a serial of sorts on mcsweeneys.net. That piece is called: Club Existential Dread.

And, a first for me, I will be publishing someone else's work: On this site I will soon be posting a young writer/scholar's fascinating expose about the mystery of Henry James's testicles. This issue of what exactly happened to the great writer's testicles has long been a sore spot for James scholars, as well as for James.

I alluded to this mystery in my novel, The Extra Man, and in my memoir, What's Not to Love?, and a reader of these works, the young scholar/writer in question, has gone to great lengths to clear up this testicular mystery, and soon on this website you will see the results of his labor. As a tease to keep you interested, the young scholar has unearthered evidence that Hemingway may have somewhat based his neutered hero of The Sun Also Rises on James.

I should mention that the rumor I heard long ago, and which I referenced in my books, is that James burned his testicles and that this accounted for the style of his prose, which nonetheless took a lot of balls to produce. So please check this site periodically, Jonathanames.com, for this shocking bit of literary history and mystery, which I hope to publish imminently. Thank you.

Thursday, November 13, 7:00 p.m.: I will be at Housing Works doing a monologue on my fear of paper-cuts and other paper-related issues. Also speaking on paper will be the writers Shelly Jackson and Frances Richard. This evening of talks on paper is put together by Cabinet Magazine. See www.cabinetmagazine.org for more details. Housing Works is located on Crosby Street, just south of Houston Street, right near the Broadway-Lafayette subway stop.

- posted by Jonathan @ 1:36 PM

 
Readings and Performances

Tuesday, November 11, 7:00 p.m.: I'll be reading at CBGB gallery with Dan Kennedy, Mark Spitz and Randy Stulberg; there will also be some music. There is a five dollar cover-charge. CBGB's is located on Bowery, across from where Bleecker terminates.

Thursday, November 13, 7:00 p.m.: I will be at Housing Works doing a monologue on my fear of paper-cuts and other paper-related issues. Also speaking on paper will be the writers Shelly Jackson and Frances Richard. This evening of talks on paper is put together by Cabinet Magazine. See www.cabinetmagazine.org for more details. Housing Works is located on Crosby Street, just south of Houston Street, right near the Broadway-Lafayette subway stop.
- posted by Jonathan @ 5:45 PM