Name: Les Figues Reading
Start: 2013-09-28T14:00:00-0600
End: 2013-09-28T16:00:00-0600

Welcome! Follow us on Twitter @AndNowFestival &NOW 2013 is still on, flood or shine! On-site registration will be held on the 2nd floor of the University Memorial Center (1669 Euclid Ave.) in the Aspen Rooms (UMC 285-287) from 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM Thursday and Friday, and 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM on Saturday. Three-day pass: $100 One-day pass: $35

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All panels scheduled for UMC 325 on Thursday have been moved to the UMC Gallery (2nd Floor).

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Les Figues Reading

Readings by Les Figues Press authors, featuring: Dodie Bellamy, Melissa Buzzeo, Jennifer Calkins, Michael du Plessis, Jen Hofer, Frances Richard, Matias Viegener, and Christine Wertheim. Hosted by Les Figues Press co-director Teresa Carmody.

Moderators

Teresa Carmody

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

Speakers

Dodie Bellamy

California College of the Arts

Dodie Bellamy’s latest book is Cunt Norton, from Les Figues Press. Her chapbook Barf Manifesto was named best book of 2009 under 30 pages by Time Out New York. Other books include the buddhist, Academonia, Pink Steam, The Letters of Mina Harker, and Cunt-Ups, which won the 2002... Read More →

Melissa Buzzeo

Melissa Buzzeo is the author of a forthcoming book from Nightboat in 2014—a seawreck-in-language which investigates impoverished speech and the concept of debris: a waste economy, changing. She is also the author of For Want and Sound (Les Figues, 2013), Face (Bookthug... Read More →

Jennifer Calkins

Jennifer Calkins, Ph. D., M.F. A. is a writer, evolutionary biologist and all around interdisciplinarian. She is the author of A Story of Witchery (Les Figues Press, 2006) and Devil Card (Beard of Bees Press, 2004). Jennifer’s recent work can be found in Dirty (Jaded Ibis... Read More →

Lily Hoang

Lily Hoang is the author of five books, including A Bestiary (PEN USA Award Finalist and winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction Contest) and Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award). She teaches in the MFA program at UC San Diego.

Jen Hofer

Antena

Jen Hofer is a Los Angeles-based poet, translator, social justice interpreter, teacher, knitter, book-maker, public letter-writer, urban cyclist, and co-founder of the language justice and literary activism collaborative Antena. Her latest translations include the chapbook En las... Read More →

Michael du Plessis

Michael du Plessis teaches Comparative Literature at USC and is the author of Songs Dead Soldiers Sing (Transparent Tiger, 2007) and The Memoirs of JonBenet by Kathy Acker (Les Figues, 2012), as well as essays and reviews on topics such as Goth culture, French literature... Read More →

Frances Richard

Frances Richard is the author of Anarch. (Futurepoem, 2013), The Phonemes (Les Figues Press, 2012), and See Through (Four Way Books, 2003), as well as the chapbooks Shaved Code (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008) and Anarch. (Woodland Editions, 2008). The Anarch. Film ... Read More →

Matias Viegener

MFA Writing Program, CalArts

Matias Viegener is a writer, artist and critic who works solo and collaboratively in the fields of writing, visual art, and social practice. His new book, 2500 Random Things About Me Too, is published by Les Figues Press, and he’s the editor of I'm Very Into You, the corresp... Read More →

Christine Wertheim

California Institute of the Arts

Christine Wertheim is author of mUtter-bAbel (Countertpath Press) and +|'me'S-pace (Les Figues), editor of the anthology Feminaissance, and with Matias Viegener co-editor of Séance and The n/Oulipean Analects. She organized the conferences, Séance (2004), Noulipo (2005), Impunities... Read More →

Saturday September 28, 2013 2:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
UMC 425 University Memorial Center, 1669 Euclid Avenue (corner Broadway & Euclid Ave)

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