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photo by Kirsty Bennet<\/p><\/div>\n

STORIES, READING, STANDING UP!
\nfeaturing Dan Kennedy, Ophira Eisenberg, Ben Greenman and Christopher Monks<\/em>
\nThe Middle East<\/a> (Upstairs)
\nSaturday, June 8, 2013
\n7pm (6pm doors) | $10 | ::: BUY TICKETS :::<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Boston has an illustrious intellectual and literary tradition. Among those who have lived and written in and around the city are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Cambridge), Anne Bradstreet (Salem, Charlestown, Boston, Cambridge), Sylvia Plath (Boston), e.e. cummings (Cambridge), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Concord), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Salem), Robert Frost (Lawrence), Anne Sexton (Newton, Lowell, Boston, Cambridge), Jack Kerouac (Lowell), Oliver Wendell Holmes (Cambridge), Kahlil Gibran (Boston) and though Baltimore claims Edgar Allan Poe, he was in fact born in Boston. Our city also has a rich rock ‘n’ roll history: Nervous Eaters, Mission of Burma, Pixies, Morphine, Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers, Human Sexual Response, Willie Loco and the Boom Boom Band, Rob Zombie, Tracy Chapman, Dresden Dolls, Aerosmith, The Real Kids, Passion Pit… So it’s strangely appropriate that such a distinguished group of fertile minds would be gathering at one of our skanky rock clubs to read from their works.<\/p>\n

Dan Kennedy<\/h4>\n

The missing link<\/em> between indie rock club and high brow literature might well be New York-based writer Dan Kennedy’s<\/a> 2008 memoir “Rock On”<\/a>, about his marketing job at one of the music industry’s corporate monsters, Atlantic Records. He’s a contributor to GQ<\/a> and McSweeney’s<\/a>, and is host of The Moth<\/a> storytelling podcast. His most recent novel is “American Spirit”<\/a>. :: twit ::<\/a><\/p>\n

Ophira Eisenberg<\/h4>\n

Ophira Eisenberg<\/a> hosts NPR’s rambunctious weekly trivia game show, Ask Me Another<\/a>, is performer and host of The Moth and has performed on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, VH-1, Comedy Central, E! Channel and Oxygen Network. Her writing has been featured in “I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America’s Top Comics,” YourTango.com and US Weekly’s Fashion Police. This year, she released her debut memoir, “Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy”<\/a>. :: twit ::<\/a><\/p>\n

Ben Greenman<\/h4>\n

As an editor of the New Yorker and renowned author, Ben Greenman<\/a> has written essays, music criticism and fiction that has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Paris Review, McSweeneys, Zoetrope: All Story and Opium. His books have included “Superbad”<\/a>, “Superworse”<\/a>, “A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories About Human Love”<\/a> and his rock star novel, “Please Step Back”<\/a>. He also contributes to the audioblog moistworks.com<\/a>. His latest work, recently released, is “The Slippage”<\/a>. :: twit ::<\/a><\/p>\n

Christopher Monks<\/h4>\n

Christopher Monks<\/a> is editor of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency<\/a> and author of “The Ultimate Game Guide To Your Life”<\/a>. His writing has appeared in print and online journals including The Morning News<\/a> and McSweeney’s, and yes of course, he tweets<\/a> as well.<\/p>\nshare this: \"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"tumblr\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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