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“The Body Artist: A Conference in Don DeLillo” — April 28-29, 2017, The New School, NYC

10 Saturday Oct 2020

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Albert Mobilio, Andrea Scrima, Anne Margaret Daniel, Carolyn Kellogg, David Winters, DeLillo Conference, DeLillo conference 2017, DeLillo Conference NYC 2017, Don DeLillo, Ed Park, Fred Gardaphe, Jacqueline Zubek., John Domini, John Keene, Matt Bell, MC Armstrong, Olivia Kate Cerrone, Randy Laist, Scott Cheshire, Sunil Yapa, The Body Artist, Tracy O'Neill, Tyler Malone

Three years in the making. I’m proud to be able to announce officially that “The Body Artist: A Conference in Don DeLillo” will be held at The New School in NYC on the weekend of April 28-29, 2017.

Bringing together artists and scholars from across the US and Europe, the conference “The Body Artist” grew out of the undergraduate seminar of the same name, which I’m teaching for the first time this spring at The New School, in NYC. The conference website is done and linked below. Give it a look and let me know what you think. Our keynote speaker will be the writer and critic Vince Passaro. The list of speakers and their topics are formidable—including a talk on Trump and the new political realities. I’m grateful to all of the presenters for agreeing to share their time and talent with us. Click the website to learn more about the speakers and their talks. They are MC Armstrong, Matt Bell, Olivia Kate Cerrone, Scott Cheshire, Anne Margaret Daniel, John Domini, Fred Gardaphe, John Keene, Carolyn Kellogg, Randy Laist, Tyler Malone, Albert Mobilio, Tracy O’Neill, Ed Park, Andrea Scrima, David Winters, Sunil Yapa, and Jacqueline Zubek.

It will be a memorable event. I hope you can make it.
Let me know if you have any questions.

https://www.delillo-conference-nyc-2017.com/

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TONIGHT! May 13, 2020, I’m reading a new story at Guerrilla Lit, 7:30 PM. See the event listing for details!

13 Wednesday May 2020

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Here’s a story for you. Once upon a time, I would promote on social media my own local NYC readings by addressing my ‘local friends,’ those folks who could jump on a subway or walk to a bookstore or bar to attend a lit reading in the bustling, dense, soul-revivifying metropolis that is New York F*cking City. But what do terms like ‘local’ or ‘far-flung’ even mean anymore? We all live virtually inside a little digital box now. Which scares the hell out of me. In fact, since the pandemic shut down Gotham City, I’ve heard more people say that this whole thing seems like a nightmare. Fear, anxiety, suspicion and doubt pervade. And so, my friends (both local and far-flung), tonight, from inside my tiny digital cell, I will read to you a Tiny Nightmare, which just happens to appear in the soon-to-be-released anthology of horror-inspired flash fiction—TINY NIGHTMARES: VERY SHORT TALES OF HORROR (Catapult, 2020)—featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror, and emerging writers—edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, the twisted minds behind Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder (Black Balloon, 2018). If you want to hear my tale of horror, join me tonight online from where ever you are currently holed up. The reading will be hosted by the august Guerrilla Lit: John Domini, Joseph Salvatore, Suzanne Dottino, which I will link below. And if you’d like to support this dark new anthology, please consider pre-ordering TINY NIGHTMARES: VERY SHORT TALES OF HORROR (Catapult, 2020). Here’s that link (which has Bookshop listed there, my favorite way to buy books these days):

https://books.catapult.co/…/tiny-nightmares-very-short-tale…

Join me tonight, friends from all over. I’ve got something especially nightmarish to read to you. Details about the reading will be in the comments below.

Dixon Place Presents a Virtual Guerrilla Lit Reading Series

We are pleased to announce that the reading scheduled for Wednesday,May 13 features John Domini, Joseph Salvatore, Suzanne Dottino.

This virtual reading will occur on Zoom at 7:30 PM.

THIS EVENT REQUIRES ADVANCE REGISTRATION.

Register for this meeting here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsfu-opzsqGdH_UVBMaMepPnip9a7zzgkr

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

About the Readers

John Domini’s latest book is The Color Inside a Melon. Blurbs came from Salman Rushdie and Marlon James, and the Washington Post praised it as it “sage,” “spry,” and “especially well-turned.” He has three earlier novels and three story collections; The Millions called his work “a new shriek for a new century.” Other books include selections of criticism and poetry. He’s published fiction in Paris Review and Ploughshares, non-fiction in GQ and the New York Times, and won a poetry prize from Meridian. Grants include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Domini has taught at Harvard and elsewhere and makes his home in Des Moines.

Joseph Salvatore is the author of the story collection To Assume A Pleasing Shape, published by BOA Editions, and the co-author of the college textbook Understanding English Grammar. A Spanish translation of his story collection, Presentarse En Forma Grata, was published in 2018 by Editorial Dos Bigotes. He is Books Editor at The Brooklyn Rail and a frequent contributor to The New York Times Sunday Book Review. His fiction has appeared in, among other places, The Collagist, Dossier, Epiphany, New York Tyrant, Open City, Post Road, Salt Hill, Sleeping Fish, and Willow Springs. His criticism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Rain Taxi, the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture, Angels of the Americlypse: an Anthology of New Latin@ Writing, the Believer Logger and elsewhere. He is an associate professor of writing at The New School in New York City, where he received the University Distinguished Teaching Award, and was the founding editor of the literary journal LIT. He lives in Queens.

Suzanne Dottino is a writer of fiction and plays. Her latest story “Angel of Mercy,” appears in the current Issue of The Bellevue Literary Review and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She teaches literature at BMCC. She is the editor of the online literary journal KGB Bar Lit.

Dixon Place Literary Programs are generously supported by the Axe Houghton Foundation and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

We’d be so grateful if you considered making a donation to keep the literary fires burning at Dixon Place. If you can, please donate here:

https://shop.vendini.com/dixonplace/product-details/donation/054d4ca95ace388c1932e38137522652

Featured in The New York Times Style Magazine of Spain

14 Wednesday Mar 2018

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My huge thanks to The New York Times Style Magazine of Spain, T Magazine España, for a full-page feature on the new Spanish translation of my story collection, PRESENTARSE EN FORMA GRATA, which they included in their latest issue’s book recommendations:

“These eleven stories by Joseph Salvatore portray the problems we have of being able to identify for ourselves the very fears and anxieties that cripple us in today’s society.”

I couldn’t be more grateful to Teresa Lanero for her fine translation, nor more grateful to Editorial Dos Bigotes for bringing my book to Spanish readers.

Thank you! xoxo

My latest assignment for the New York Times Book Review, June 5, 2016

10 Friday Jun 2016

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actor-novelist, Book Review, Boston Red Sox, Bucky Dent, Bucky F*cking Dent, Bucky_____Dent, David Duchovny, New York Times Book Review, New York Yankees, NYTBR, Red Sox vs Yankees 1978, The X Files

 

Growing up in the Boston area in the 1970s, I was a faithful Red Sox fan during a time when it was a genuine hazard to one’s psychic well-being to do so. One of my great regrets is that my father, a life-long New Englander and a Sox fan himself who died in 2001, never got to see what I saw in 2004, watching it, as I did, in my new home of NYC. Actor David Duchovny’s new novel is about fathers and sons and the things they wish they could have said to each other; it’s about love and death, and it’s about the Red Sox and the Yankees. So grateful to my editor at the New York Times Book Review for this summer reading assignment. See what I had to say.

BOOK REVIEW | FICTION

BUCKY ____ DENT
By David Duchovny
296 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26.05Salvatore-blog427

Two readings: The Center for Fiction & Epiphany Magazine, Tuesday, Dec. 2nd; and Pratt Institute Writers’ Forum, Wednesday, Dec. 3rd

01 Monday Dec 2014

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I’m honored and grateful to announce two public readings I’ll be giving this week. Tomorrow night, Dec. 2nd, I’ll be reading at 6:30 PM at The Center for Fiction, a national treasure for writers and readers alike. The event celebrates the release of the newest issue of Epiphany Magazine, in which a new short story of mine appears. And on Wednesday, Dec. 3rd, I’ll be reading at Pratt Institute Writers’ Forum, as part of a reading series that includes some of my favorite authors: Lev Grossman, Tea Obreht, Jenny Offill, and Patricia Smith. That event takes place at 12:30 PM in Engineering 307. A warm thanks to Gina Zucker at Pratt for the invitation and the support.

Hope some of you can attend.

Click either event for more info:

The Center for Fiction, Tuesday, Dec. 2nd, at 6:30 PM

Pratt Institute Writers’ Forum, Wednesday, Dec. 3rd, at 12:30 PM

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Surprise guest attends my panel at the NCTE/CCCC March 2014

27 Thursday Mar 2014

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CCCC 2014, grammar, Indianapolis, NCTE/CCCC, Peter Elbow, Punctuation, Usage, Writing Pedagogy

Not sure how to explain what happened last week at the NCTE/CCCC panel I chaired on “Progressive Approaches to Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage.” Not only was it a well-attended, lively session, but a superstar, nay, a ROCK star in the field of writing pedagogy attended and participated in my workshop. He was sitting in the back of the room. I had seen him come in and quietly take a seat (and fairly freaked out), but no one else knew he was there until I had them introduce themselves. And he said, “My name is Peter Elbow and I’ve been teaching writing for over 30 years, have written a few books on the subject; and I am quite interested in progressive approaches to grammar.” The entire room turned around, and I kid you not, audible gasps and whispers and even some exclamations erupted. An awesome Writing Center Administrator, a young professor named Tom, stood up and said, “No way!” But by the end of the workshop, Elbow had become just one of the group, albeit a very wise and experienced and generous member, but a member nonetheless. Some folks asked if they could take an “Oscar selfie” with him. He graciously agreed. One of those students sent me this photo. I can’t adequately describe what an experience it was to share my insights about language and writing with a group that included Peter Elbow. One of the true highlights of my teaching career.

http://center.uoregon.edu/NCTE/2014CCCC/program/speaker_info.php?speakerid=1748803Elbow

The Brooklyn Rail’s interview with Ayana Mathis, April 2013

04 Thursday Apr 2013

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So pleased to publish this interview with writer Ayana Mathis, author of THE TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE, in the April issue of The Brooklyn Rail. “I … write from character and from story … But one of the things very present in my mind—once I realized I had a book—is class. It’s as important to this book as is the Great Migration, this notion of the way, in a pre-civil rights world, where no one had any money, how we decided on class. Which had everything to do with what neighborhood you lived in, or how light or dark you were, and your diction—all these kinds of things.” –Ayana Mathis, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2013.

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2013/04/books/ayana-mathis-with-jenine-holmes

AWP 2013: Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA, Thursday, March 7th, 8 PM

22 Friday Feb 2013

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Dear ol’ Boston friends: on Thursday, March 7th, 8 PM, I’ll be reading alongside some great writers in Faneuil Hall, at Bell In Hand Tavern. Please come by, have some drinks, give me a hug hello, and hear some wonderful writing. Hope you can make it.

East / West Reading

Location: Bell In Hand Tavern, 45-55 Union Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Cost: Free

East Coast writers match off against West Coast: Pam Houston, Deb Olin Unferth, Joseph Salvatore, Matthew Vollmer, Scott Cheshire, Christopher Kennedy, David Hollander, Kim Chinquee, Sam Ligon, Lily Hoang, Carmen Gimenez-Smith, Robert Lopez, Aurelie Sheehan.

 

Reading at Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA, March 8th, 2012, at 11:00 AM

08 Thursday Mar 2012

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Reading at Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA, March 8th, 2012, at 11:00 AM.  Click here to watch.

“Postcard,” read at the Sunday Salon, NYC, Sept. 11th, 2011.

11 Sunday Sep 2011

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A little snippet of my 9/11 story “Postcard.”  Reading at the Sunday Salon, NYC, Sept. 11th, 2011.  Click here to watch.

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