Tonight, our pals at Underwater New York take over the Folk Art Museum tonight for a night of shipwreck-themed original songs and fiction: Readings by Sara Weiss, Claire Shefchik, and David Hollander Music by Lindsay Sullivan and the Sailors and Richard McGraw A performance by Aaron Diskin (Golem / Lycaon Pictus) and Annette Kogan (Golem) of an original musical fragment by Ben Greenman (Editor at The New Yorker, author of several books of fiction including the novel Please Step Back). […]
Dusting Off: “Squandering the Blue” by Kate Braverman
By Claire Shefchik It’s hard now to figure out how my tenth-grade English teacher Mr. Martin became trapped working in a high school in suburban Minnesota; he was full of resentment for what he called “sleepy little Stillwater,” actually assigning his classes to make the trek into the city each semester to hang out at poetry readings and art-house movie theaters, in hopes that something hip would rub off. He was one of the first to give us “adult” short […]