Events during Small Press Month National Small Press Month Reading Marathon Friday, March 16, 2007 Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction: 34 Avenue A, NYC 10009. 212.777.5660. 6-11 p.m. $5. A March Reading Marathon: 31 Writers for 31 Days. Celebrate Extraordinary Writers and the Presses Who Publish Them Nahid Rachlin (City Lights); Felicia Luna Lemus (Akashic Books); T. Cooper (Akashic Books); Lauren Sanders (Akashic Books); Lynne Tillman (Soft Skull Press); Matthew Sharpe (Soft Skull Press); David Silverman (Soft Skull Press); Tim Brown (Bronx River Press); Rachel Sherman (Open City Books); Sam Brumbaugh (Open City Books); Paul Foster Johnson (Apostrophe Press); Martha Oatis (Portable Press Yo-Yo Labs); Stacy Szymaszek (Litmus Press); Jennifer Hayashida (Litmus Press); Brenda Iijima (Litmus Press); Tracy Grinnell (O Books); Rachel Levitsky (Belladonna Books); Lila Zemborain (Belladonna Books); Marcella Durand (Belladonna Books); Erica Kaufman (Belladonna Books); Jen Benka (Soft Skull Press); David Cameron (Ugly Duckling Presse); Dan Machlin (Ugly Duckling Presse); Prageeta Sharma (Fence Books); Kevin Bartelme (Cool Grove); Ihsan Bracy (Cool Grove); Tisa Bryant (Leon Works); Deepa Fernandez (Seven Stories Press); Akilah Oliver (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs) For more information contact the Small Press Center: 212.764.7021. Mobile Libris will be selling authors’ books. For more information on Mobile Libris visit www.mobilelibris.com. For more information on participating presses: City Lights: www.citylights.com Akashic Books: www.akashicbooks.com Soft Skull Press: www.softskull.com Bronx River Press: www.bronxriverpress.com Open City Books: www.opencity.org Apostrophe Books: www.apostrophebooks.org/ Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs: www.openmouth.org/YoYoLabs/ Litmus Press: www.litmuspress.org O Books: www.obooks.com Belladonna Books: www.belladonnabooks.blogspot.com Ugly Duckling Presse: www.uglyducklingpresse.org Fence Books: www.fencebooks.com Cool Grove: www.coolgrove.com Encyclopedia: www.encyclopediaproject.org/home.php Seven Stories Press: www.sevenstories.com Futurepoem Books: www.futurepoem.com Smoke Proof Press: www.smokeproofpress.com An Interview with André Schiffrin, esteemed publisher of The New Press, and author of A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York. The Interviewer will be John Leonard. Thursday, March 15 at 7:00 PM. FREE Small Press Center 20 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036 www.smallpress.org André Schiffrin was born the son of one of France’s most esteemed publishers, in a world peopled by some of the day’s leading writers and intellectuals, such as André Gide and Jean-Paul Sartre. But this world was torn apart when the Nazis marched into Paris on young André’s fifth birthday. Beginning with the family’s dramatic escape to Casablanca and eventually New York, A Political Education recounts the surprising twists and turns of a life that saw Schiffrin become, himself, one of the world’s most respected publishers. Appointed by Random House chief Bennet Cerf Schiffrin led the very imprint co-founded by his father—Pantheon. There, he would discover and publish some of the world’s leading writers, including Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, Art Spiegelman, and Marguerite Duras. Schiffrin would ultimately rebel at corporate ownership and form his own publishing house, The New Press, where he would go on to set a new standard for independent publishing. www.thenewpress.com John Leonard is one of the most prolific cultural critics, whose movie, book and television reviews appear in New York Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review and The Nation. Leonard is the author of four novels and seven works of non-fiction. Matthew Sharpe reads from Jamestown Thursday, March 1st, 2007 Three Lives & Co.: 154 West 10th Street, NYC 10014. 212.741.2069 7:00 p.m., Free Thursday, March 8th, 2007 National Arts Club: 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC 10003. 212.475.3424 7:00 p.m. Matthew Sharpe reads from his much-anticipated new novel Jamestown (Soft Skull Press). He has written two other novels, The Sleeping Father (Soft Skull Press, 2003) and Nothing is Terrible (Villard, 2000), as well as a short story collection Stories from the Tube (Villard, 1998). For more information contact Richard Nash at 718.643.1599 For more information on Soft Skull Press: www.softskull.com Mankh Reads Friday, March 2nd, 2007 Panera Bread 5180 Sunrise Highway, Bohemia, NY 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Performance Poets Association, Allbook Books publisher and writer Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) will read his poetry. The evening will feature another reader and an open-mic segment as well. A Panel Discussion on: Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals In The Cuban Revolution, published by Pathfinder Press. Thursday, March 8, 6:00 – 8:00 PM, NYU Asian/Pacific/American Studies Institute and Department of Social and Cultural Analysis 41-51 E. 11th street, 7th floor gallery www.apa.nyu.edu Susan Howe and Richard Sieburth March 15, NYU www.nyu.edu Susan Howe and Richard Sieburth will appear on a panel at the Society for Textual Scholarship's biennial conference at NYU. Howe's paper, "Charles Sanders Pierce: Symbolic Logic and Poetry," is connected to Pierce-Arrow, one of her five books of poetry available from New Directions. Forthcoming in November from ND are Howe's My Emily Dickinson and her new collection, Souls of the Labadie Tract. Sieburth's paper is entitled "Tempus loquendi, tempus tacendi: On Late Pound." Sieburth is the editor of A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the Troubadours, published by New Directions, and he recently provided the introduction for the new edition of Pound's The Spirit of Romance, published by ND in 2005. The complete conference schedule can be found on the STS's website.

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