• The author of Here They Come; Signed, Mata Hari; and other books reads from her most recent novel.
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Yannick Murphy, The Call (14:40) • The author of Here They Come; Signed, Mata Hari; and other books reads from her most recent novel. |
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Peter Gizzi, “Vincent, Homesick for the Land of Pictures” and other poems (16:03) • The author of Some Values of Landscape and Weather, The Outernationale, and Threshold Songs reads work including his poem in Conjunctions:47. |
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Edie Meidav, From “Dogs of Cuba: The Buddha of the Vedado” (8:41) and Lola, California (18:29) • The author of Crawl Space and The Far Field reads from her story in Conjunctions:59, Colloquy and from her third novel. |
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Martine Bellen reads cat poems (15:24) • The author of Further Adventures of the Monkey God, Tales of Murasaki and Other Poems (winner of the National Poetry Series Award), and other works reads from poems including those in Conjunctions:58, Riveted. |
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Christopher Sorrentino, “The Cursed” (9:30) • The author of Sound on Sound, Trance, and other works reads from his story in Conjunctions:58, Riveted. |
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Melissa Pritchard, “Ecorché: Flayed Man” (29:05) • The author of Spirit Seizures and other works reads from her fiction collection The Odditorium. |
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James Morrow, From Galapagos Regained [working title] (32:05) • The two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award and the author of the Godhead Trilogy and Shambling Towards Hiroshima reads from his novel in progress. |
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Tom McCarthy, From Remainder (29:44), and “On Dodgem Jockeys” (8:09) • The author of Remainder, C, Men In Space, and Tintin and the Secret of Literature reads from his work. |
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Rick Moody, From Rapid Transit (17:40) • The author of The Black Veil, Purple America, The Ice Storm, Garden State, and other celebrated novels reads from his story in Conjunctions:57, Kin, live at BookCourt in Brooklyn, NY, December 9, 2011. |
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Noy Holland, From Swim for the Little One First (10:12) • The author of Spectacle of the Body and What Begins with Bird reads from her story in Conjunctions:57, Kin, live at BookCourt in Brooklyn, NY, December 9, 2011. |
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Eliot Weinberger reads Octavio Paz (9:57) • The National Book Critics Circle award winner reads new translations of poetry and prose by Octavio Paz, including the first English translation of Paz’s “Interrupted Elegy” (published in Conjunctions:57, Kin), live at BookCourt in Brooklyn, NY, December 9, 2011. |
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Joyce Carol Oates, On Inspiration (42:22) • The National Book Award-winning author of Sourland and A Widow’s Story speaks at Bard College, October 3, 2011. |
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Benjamin Hale, From The Minus World (7:39) • The author of The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore reads from his story in Conjunctions:56, Terra Incognita. |
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Tim Horvath, Altered Native (8:12) • The author of Circulation reads his story in Conjunctions:56, Terra Incognita, live at BookCourt in Brooklyn, NY, May 20, 2011. |
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Peter Straub, From The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine (14:00), Lost Boy Lost Girl (5:08), Introduction to Conjunctions:39 (4:02), and “Little Red’s Tango” (7:11) • The legendary horror writer and winner of the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award reads from his work, including his story in Conjunctions:56, Terra Incognita and his editor’s note and contribution to our New Wave Fabulists issue. |
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Howard Norman, From What Is Left the Daughter (3:05) • The author of The Bird Artist and The Museum Guard reads an excerpt from his 2010 novel. |
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Robert Olen Butler, From Hell (3:48) • The author of Tabloid Dreams and Good Scent from a Strange Mountain reads an excerpt from his 2009 novel. |
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On December 3, 2010, Brooklyn’s BookCourt hosted a reading celebrating the release of Conjunctions:55, Urban Arias (Fall 2010). Emceed by Brian Evenson, the packed event featured Stephen O’Connor, John Madera, Karen Russell, and Paul La Farge reading from their stories in the issue. Click here to find out more about the readers and venue, or listen to mp3s of the readings, at right. |
PAUL LA FARGE, “The Count of Monte Cristo’s Daughter” JOHN MADERA, “Some Varieties of Being and Other Non Sequiturs” STEPHEN O’CONNOR, “Til There Was You” KAREN RUSSELL, “The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis” |
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William Kennedy, From Ironweed • The renowned novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and author of the Albany Trilogy reads from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book. |
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On August 28, 2010, the Montauk Bookshop hosted a reading for Conjunctions:54, Shadow Selves (Spring 2010). This special event celebrated the creative process that takes between writer and editor, and drew attention to the curatorial space of the journal, as Conjunctions contributing editor Martine Bellen read from Rae Armantrout’s poems in Shadow Selves, and managing editor Micaela Morrissette read from Julia Elliott’s story “Freak Magnet.&rdquo Contributing editor and Shadow Selves contributor Frederic Tuten read a doppelgänger to his “Self-Portrait with Sicily” in Shadow Selves, the story “Self-Portrait with Circus,” from his just-released collection Self Portraits: Fictions (W. W. Norton, 2010). Click here for a transcript of Frederic Tuten’s introductory remarks. |
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Manno Charlemagne, Lamayot and Mon frère Conjunctions is proud to celebrate the irrepressible culture of Haiti by featuring our 1996 recordings of former Port-au-Prince mayor Manno Charlemagne! • Two songs composed and recorded by Manno Charlemagne, former mayor of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A complete translation of the lyrics is published in Conjunctions:27, The Archipelago. |
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Ben Marcus, From Notable American Women • The pioneer of contemporary American experimentalism and the author of The Age of Wire and String reads from his work. |
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Jedediah Berry, From Ourselves, Multiplied • The winner of the Crawford Award and the author of The Manual of Detection reads from his contribution to Conjunctions:52, Betwixt the Between. |
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Jayne Anne Phillips, From Leavitt’s Dream (8:27) • The author of Lark and Termite reads from her piece in Conjunctions:51, The Death Issue. |
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Karen Russell, From Children’s Reminiscences of the Westward Migration (4:38) • The author of St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves reads from her piece in Conjunctions:45, The Secret Lives of Children. |
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Carole Maso, From The Names (5:31), from The Passion of Anne Frank (4:43), and from Mother and Child (7:02) • The author of Ava and Defiance reads from her contributions to Conjunctions:34, American Fiction: States of the Art, Conjunctions:41, Two Kingdoms, and Conjunctions:50. |
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Peter Carey, From The True History of the Kelly Gang (6:45) • The two-time winner of the Booker Prize reads from his work. |
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Elizabeth Hand, From Hungerford Bridge • The Nebula- and World Fantasy Award-winning author of Generation Loss reads from her story in Conjunctions:52, Betwixt the Between. |
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David Shields, From Remote • The author of The Thing about Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, Enough about You: Adventures in Autobiography, and other books reads from his work. |
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Joanna Scott, From In a Glance (4:04) • The author of Everybody Loves Somebody, The Mannikin, and Arrogance reads her essay from Conjunctions:46, Selected Subversions. |
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Brian Evenson, From Desire with Disgressions (5:37) • The author of Last Days, The Open Curtain, and Altmann's Tongue reads his story from Conjunctions:48, Faces of Desire. |
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Jonathan Lethem, Tribute to William Gaddis (2:20) • The author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude reads his tribute to William Gaddis from Conjunctions:41, Two Kingdoms. |
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Steve Erickson, From The Sea Came in at Midnight (5:52) • The editor of Black Clock and the author of Our Ecstatic Days and other novels reads from his work. |
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Robert Coover, From Stepmother (5:19) • The author of The Public Burning, John’s Wife, The Origin of the Brunists, Ghost Town, and other postmodern wonders reads from his work. |
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Mayra Montero, From Captain of the Sleepers (12:30) • The author of In the Palm of Darkness and Dancing to Almendra reads from her work. |
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Peter Orner, From Birding with Lanioturdus (4:37) • The author of The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo reads from his contribution to Conjunctions:49, A Writer's Aviary. |
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John Barth, From I’ve Been Told: A Story’s Story (4:37) • The author of Where Three Roads Meet and Lost in the Funhouse reads from his contribution to Conjunctions:44, The Anatomy of Roads. |
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William H. Gass, O brood O muse &hellip (2:35), A Fugue (4:09), and an excerpt from A Little History of Modern Music (4:13) • The author of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country reads two excerpts from his monumental classic The Tunnel, originally published in Conjunctions:4; as well as a selection from his contribution to Conjunctions:47, 25th Anniversary Issue. |
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Emily Barton, From Brookland (3:03) • The author of The Testament of Yves Gundrun reads from her second novel. |
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Edmund White, From Fanny: A Fiction (1:40) • The author of A Boy’s Own Story reads from the opening pages of his novel. |
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Eliot Weinberger, Lacandons (2:33) • New work by Eliot Weinberger, author of Karmic Traces and the translator of Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, and Bei Dao. |
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Gahan Wilson, From Campfire Story (5:58) • The acclaimed cartoonist, illustrator, and writer reads from his fiction. |
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Frederic Tuten, From Voyagers (2:52) • The author of Tintin in America and Van Gogh’s Bad Cafe reads from his work. |
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Paul Auster, From The Book of Illusions (3:49) • Paul Auster, author of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan, and other novels reads from his work. |
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Russell Banks, From The Sweet Hereafter (3:56) • Russell Banks, author of Cloudsplitter, Affliction, The Darling, and other works reads an excerpt from one of his most acclaimed novels. |
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Kelly Link, From The Hortlak (6:09) • Kelly Link reads from work published in The Dark: New Ghost Stories. |
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John Crowley, From The Translator (5:02) • The World Fantasy Award winner and author of novels including Little, Big and Ægypt reads from his work. |
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Howard Norman, View of My Employer’s Wife (4:27) • The author of The Bird Artist and The Museum Guard reads an excerpt from his novel The Haunting of L. |
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Laird Hunt, From The Dark and Lovely Portions of the Night (5:18) • The author of The Impossibly reads from his work. |
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Gilbert Sorrentino, The Very Picture of Loneliness (3:42) and Four Soldiers (5:42) • The author of Red the Fiend and Mulligan Stew reads two selections from Little Casino. |
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Valerie Martin, From His Blue Period (5:18) • The author of Mary Reilly and Salvation: Scenes from the Life of Saint Francis reads an excerpt from her contribution to Conjunctions:36, Dark Laughter. |
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Sheila Kohler, From Africans (5:02) • The author of Children of Pithiviers (an excerpt of which appears on Web Conjunctions) and Cracks reads a selection from her 1999 Best American Short Stories prizewinner. |
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Arnold Schoenberg, Excerpts from Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21 • Lucy Shelton, soprano. Da Capo Players: Joel Lester, violin; Andre Emelianoff, cello; Patricia Spencer, flute; Laura Flax, clarinet; Sarah Rothenberg, piano. Courtesy Bridge Records. ©1992. Part I.1, “Mondestrucken” (1:37) Part I.2, “Colombine” (1:37) Part I.3, “Der Dandy” (1:30) Part I.4, “Eine blasse Wäscherin” (1:15) |
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William T. Vollmann, Funeral Sermon for a Fly (2:29) • The author of You Bright and Risen Angels and Whores for Gloria reads a selection from The Royal Family. |
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Robert Olen Butler, I Am Whiplash Willy Jones (2:52) and I Am (4:40) • The author of Tabloid Dreams and Good Scent from a Strange Mountain reads two selections from Mr. Spaceman. |
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Philip Roth, From I Married a Communist (6:05) • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author reads from his work. ©1998 Houghton Mifflin, all rights reserved. |
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Rikki Ducornet, From The Many Tenses of Desire (6:01) and from The Fan-Maker’s Inquisition (4:30) • The author of Entering Fire, The Jade Cabinet, and The Word “Desire” reads from her work. |
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Mary Caponegro, From The Further Complexities of Intimacy (6:22) and Tombole (4:49) • Mary Caponegro, author of The Star Cafe, Tales from the Next Village, and Five Doubts reads from her contributions to Conjunctions:21, The Credos Issue and Conjunctions:24, Critical Mass. |
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Lydia Davis, New Year’s Resolution (2:20) and The Old Dictionary (5:17) • Lydia Davis, author of Break It Down, The End of the Story, and Almost No Memory reads two short stories. |
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Beth Nugent, From Absence (6:09) • Beth Nugent, the author of City of Boys and Live Girls, reads from her work. |
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Diane Williams, My Female Honor Is of a Type and There Should Be Nothing Remarkable [two stories from Williams's first collection, This Is about the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate] (6:17), and Showing an Episode (3:12) • The editor of NOON and the author of Excitability reads from her work. |
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Mary Gaitskill, From Tiny Smiling Daddy (6:14) • The acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin reads from the opening story in her collection Because They Wanted To. |
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Leslie Scalapino, From Friendship (2:47) • The celebrated poet reads from her work. |
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Lynne Tillman, From No Lease on Life (4:02) • The author of Cast in Doubt, Haunted Houses, and Motion Sickness reads from her work. |
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Norman Manea, From Lunar Nights (Nopti Cu Luna), in English (3:55) and Romanian (3:40) • The author of Compulsory Happiness reads a poem first published in Conjunctions:26. |
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William Weaver reads Italo Calvino, “Cities, Memory, 1” and “Cities of the Dead, 2” (4:36); and a selection from the untitled conclusion of Invisible Cities (2:34) • Calvino's preeminent English translator reads two excerpts from Invisible Cities. |
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Robert Kelly, The Berlin Sonnets: Sections 2–6 (4:21) and 7–11 (4:26) • Celebrated writer Robert Kelly reads from his sonnet cycle, published in Conjunctions:28. |
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Patrick McGrath, From Aslyum (3:06) • The British author and new gothicist Patrick McGrath reads from his highly acclaimed novel. |
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Chinua Achebe, We Laughed at Him (3:18) and Ì Okigbo (2:52) • The renowned Nigerian writer—author of Things Fall Apart, Girls at War, A Man of the People, and Hopes and Impediments—reads one poem written in English, as well a dirge poem written in Igbo about the death of poet Christopher Okigbo, who lost his life in the Biafran conflict. The second recording includes an introduction in English. |
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Rick Moody, From Purple America (4:01) • The outstanding American novelist reads from his work. |
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Antonin Artaud, From Texte d'ouverture (written and performed by Artaud) and from Danse du tutuguri (written by Artaud and performed by Maria Casares) • Two excerpts from Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu (To Have Done with the Judgment of God). From the 1947 radiodiffusion française recording, available through sub rosa records. Used by permission. |
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John Moran, Everyday Newt Berman (3:45) • Vocals: John Moran, Fred Tietz, James Godwin, Keathe Fine, Julia Stiles. Performance of this work is a Conjunctions exclusive. Select passages appear in Conjunctions:28: Secular Psalms. |
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Robert Ashley, Foreign Experiences (4:30) • Vocals: Robert Ashley, Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacquline Humbert, Joan La Barbara, Amy X. Neuburg. Performance of this work is a Conjunctions exclusive. The score and excerpted lyrics appear in Conjunctions:28: Secular Psalms. |
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Ann T. Greene and LeRoy Jenkins, The Negros Burial Ground (3:00) • Opera Ebony vocals (direction by Wayne Sanders): Romulus Murrell, Angela Simpson, Danrell Williams, Linda Hardwick, Gordon Easley, Roberta Laws, Everett Suttle, Andrea Bradford, Anna Dembska. Piano: Joan Harkness. Percussion: Wilson Moorman. Vibraphone: Thurman Barker. Produced at the Kitchen, May 16–19 and 23–26, 1996. Directed by Dominic Taylor. Additional funding from the Rockefeller Multi-arts Production Fund and the Mary Flager Cary Charitable Trust. Performance of this work is a Conjunctions exclusive. The score and excerpted lyrics appear in Conjunctions:28: Secular Psalms. |
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Fred Ho, Uproar in Heaven (2:34) • Music composed by Fred Ho. Lyrics by Cindy Zuoxin Wang. Soprano: Cindy Zuoxin Wang. Sona: Peisheng Shen. Erhu: Youqun Fu. Pipa: Tin Yi Lin. Chromodalophone: Hafez Modirzaden. Alto Sax/Flute: Jim Norton. Tenor Sax/Flute: David Murotake. Trombone: Martin Wehner. Bass: John Shifflett. Drums/Chinese Percussion: Royal Harrington. Publisher: Transformation Art Publisher, ASCAP. The performance excerpt here is a Conjunctions exclusive. An English translation of Cindy Zuoxin Wang’s libretto, is available on Web Conjunctions. |
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