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SUMMARY:Film Workshop + Festival
DESCRIPTION:this workshop gives participants the chance to script\, shoot\, edit\, and screen their own independent\, original films—all in one week. we’ll make use of Crosstown Arts’ brand-new digital lab to edit\, and then we’ll premiere all films at a mini-film festival on the last Friday of the workshop. led by Crosstown Arts’ professional videographer\, Justin Thompson\, each participant will receive a DVD with all the participants’ films. \n10 participants | for entering and current middle-school students \nContact Nat Akin at nat@crosstownarts.org to sign up!
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/film-workshop-film-festival/
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SUMMARY:Write Lab
DESCRIPTION:WRITE LAB is an opportunity for those who want to begin writing creatively\, or for those who already are\, who would like feedback on their work from peers and from a professional fiction writer\, in a workshop setting. participants will learn how to give and receive constructive criticism on their written work\, an essential and invaluable skill for any serious writer. participants must commit to at least one two-week block of time to participate. a book of all the critiqued and edited stories will be released at the end of the summer. \nMEETS WEDNESDAYS IN JUNE (8\, 15\, 29) AND JULY (6\, 20)\, 1-3 PM \nfor entering and current high school students | open enrollment 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/write-lab/
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SUMMARY:Spoken Word-Shop & Poetry Slam
DESCRIPTION:if you are interested in learning how to better put verses together for poetry or music (or just to express yourself)\, and then how to effectively perform these original pieces onstage\, join us for our first-ever spoken-word workshop. taught by professional actress\, playwright\, and spoken-word artist Jazmin Miller\, the “word-shop” will begin with a workshop in crafting and revising verse/prose poetry\, and then on Friday of this week\, we’ll have a poetry slam event and chapbook signing\, open to the public. each participant will receive a chapbook with the original poems of all the participants. \n15 participants capacity  | for entering and current high-school students \nContact nat@crosstownarts.org to sign up!
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/spoken-word-shop-poetry-slam/
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SUMMARY:Working Writer's Cocktail Hour\, 4th edition
DESCRIPTION:In the interests of further cultivating and connecting the writing community of Memphis\, story booth is hosting the fourth edition of Crosstown Arts‘ Working Writers’ Cocktail Hour\, on Wednesday\, June 8\, from 5:30 to 7 pm\, in conjunction with sponsor Memphis Daily News. \nAll writers who live and work in Memphis–whether writers of poetry\, fiction\, creative nonfiction\, screenwriting\, playwriting\, journalism\, art writing\, music writing—are invited to visit story booth for an hour (or so) to do what it normally takes an expensive conference to make happen during the down-times: bring a group of writers together to mingle\, have a drink\, and make connections with other working writers they may or may not have known before. The founding idea of San Francisco Writers’ Grotto serves as some inspiration here: “Our original hypothesis–that community nurtures productivity–has proven abundantly true.” \nWhether your day-job is writing-related or not–if you work at writing\, this means you. \nThis event is free. story booth’s address is 438 N. Cleveland Ave. \nFor more information on story booth or Crosstown Arts\, call Nat Akin at 901.573.8444\, or visit crosstownarts.org.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/working-writers-cocktail-hour-4th-edition/
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SUMMARY:Woodworking Show
DESCRIPTION:Peruse fine woodworking designed and handcrafted by Caleb Sweazy right here in Memphis\, Tennessee. \nOrganized by Caleb Sweazy 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/woodworking-show/
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SUMMARY:Northwest Prep Residency Book Release: Stereotyped from the Jump
DESCRIPTION:story booth would like to thank the administration and faculty of Northwest Preparatory Academy for working with us to to create our first-ever class residency. \nFor four weeks in March on Tuesday and Thursday mornings\, young writers from Northwest Prep met in story booth for workshop sessions as part of their English class to produce the writing (and the cover art) for each of these original\, limited-edition books. \nSpecific thanks go to Ms. Crystal Johnson-Evans\, teaching artist and Northwest Prep’s English Language Arts Department Chair; and to  Northwest Prep Principal\, Mr. Roger Jones\, for embracing the idea and allowing Northwest Prep students to participate in this literary-arts experience.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/northwest-prep-residency-book-release-stereotyped-from-the-jump/
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SUMMARY:Party with the Pinch
DESCRIPTION:Join the staff of The Pinch Literary Journal in celebration of the official release of their stunning Spring 2016 issue! \nThere will be food and drink\, of course – Pinch Punch! \nYou will be regaled with readings from featured contributors\, including those of award-winning poet\, Madison McCartha and melty-cheese West Coast loving fiction writer\, Kerry Donoghue. \nBack by popular demand is the silent auction with more fabulous literary and wholesome goodies so don’t miss your chance to bid and help raise funds that keep our journal in print. \nWe could be persuaded to dance again… \nJoin us! \nThe Pinch Literary Journal facebook page
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/party-with-the-pinch/
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SUMMARY:Hustle: Fine Tuning your Studio Practice
DESCRIPTION:Your studio practice is the front line of your art career. Making your work needs to be the highest item on your priority list\, but how do you get it there and keep it there with all of the other pressures and obligations in your life? Learn some secrets to success for skyrocketing your career while keeping your lifestyle in balance. \nSession hosted by Terry Lynn\, Susan Maakestad\, Lawrence Matthews & Nick Pena \nComplimentary food and drinks\nProgram begins at 6 pm \nHustle: professional development for artists is a free program organized by ArtsMemphis\, UrbanArt Commission\, and Crosstown Arts. The series will provide visual artists with information\, resources\, and opportunities to support them in the development of their professional careers. Workshop topics will range from positive studio practices to pricing work and navigating gallery representation. Questions? Contact Mary Jo Karimnia at maryjo@crosstownarts.org
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/hustle-fine-tuning-your-studio-practice/
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SUMMARY:Impossible Language
DESCRIPTION:Ongoing contemporary poetry series organized by Ashley Roach-Freiman. This installment features readings by Michal Robins\, Adam Clay\, and Ada Limon. \nLearn more \nFacebook event  \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/impossible-language-5/
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SUMMARY:Page to Stage Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm\, begins Feb. 3—lasts 8 weeks \nfree program for middle school students at Humes Preparatory Academy; registration is now closed \nled by professional actress and playwright Jazzy Miller\, and Rhodes College’s theatre class \nThis theatre workshop is a reprise of our very popular “Page to Stage” workshop from the fall\, where young playwrights and actors from Humes Preparatory Academy write their own collaborative script and stage a final performance at Rhodes McCoy Theatre. This spring\, in addition to the original “Page to Stage” workshop\, we’re also doubling in size and adding another session at the same time that will focus on the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1616\, celebrated with several events at Rhodes in April. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/page-to-stage-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Film Production Workshop
DESCRIPTION:free program for high school students—max 10 participants \nled by professional videographer Justin Thompson \nto sign up\, please contact Nat Akin at nat@crosstownarts.org or 901-573-8444 \nThe 2016 Spring Film Production workshop at story booth will offer students an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of documentary film production.  In this hands-on workshop\, the students will be introduced to the history\, aesthetics\, and concepts of documentary film production\, the basics of digital-cinema camera operation\, lighting\, sound recording\, and editing. The students will use the documentary form to tell their own stories and stories about the people and things that shape their world. The workshop will culminate in a special screening of the student films\, as well as an opportunity to submit their work to potentially be shown as part of a youth programming block during the 2016 Indie Memphis Film Festival. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/film-production-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer Chris Offutt
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and the Booksellers at Laurelwood present critically-acclaimed fiction\, nonfiction\, and screen writer Chris Offutt\, as he reads from and signs his new memoir\, My Father\, the Pornographer (Atria Books). \nMemphis writer and publisher Eric Barnes joins in the conversation. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nChris Offutt’s books include the story collections Kentucky Straight and Out of the Woods\, the novel The Good Brother\, and the memoirs The Same River Twice and No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home. His work has also appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Essays. In addition\, he has written extensively for television\, most notably for HBO’s True Blood and Treme and the Showtime series Weeds. His work has received awards from the Lannan Foundation\, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters\,National Endowment for the Arts\, and Whiting Awards for both fiction and nonfiction. He lives near Oxford\, MS\, where he teaches in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nWhen Andrew Offutt died\, his son\, Chris\, inherited a desk\, a rifle\, and eighteen hundred pounds of pornographic fiction. Andrew had been considered the “king of twentieth-century smut\,” with a writing career that began as a strategy to pay for his son’s orthodontic needs and soon took on a life of its own\, peaking during the 1970s when the commercial popularity of the erotic novel reached its height. \nOver the long summer of 2013\, Chris returned to his hometown to help his widowed mother move out of his childhood home. As he began to examine his father’s manuscripts and memorabilia\, journals\, and letters\, he realized he finally had an opportunity to gain insight into the difficult\, mercurial\, sometimes cruel man he’d loved and feared in equal measure. Only in his father’s absence could he truly make sense of the man and his legacy. \nWith his dutiful wife serving as typist\, Andrew wrote from their home in the Kentucky hills\, locked away in an office no one dared intrude upon. In this fashion he wrote more than four hundred novels\, including pirate porn\, ghost porn\, zombie porn\, and secret agent porn. The more he wrote\, the more intense his ambition became and the more difficult it was for his children to be part of his world. \nIn My Father\, the Pornographer\, Offutt takes us on the journey with him\, reading his father’s prodigious literary output as both a critic and as a son seeking answers. This is a book about the life of a working writer who supports his family solely by the output of his typewriter; it’s about the awful psychic burdens one generation unthinkingly passes along to the next; and it’s about growing up in the Appalachian hills with a pack of fearless boys riding bicycles through the woods\, happy and free. \nCRITICAL ACCLAIM:\n“My Father\, the Pornographer is contemporary memoir at its best. It achieves the rare miracle of re-creating the human heart on the page.” The Rumpus \n“One of the most sensitive\, nuanced examinations of father and son relationships I’ve read.” The Boston Globe \n“Chris Offutt owns one of the finest\, surest prose styles around\, ready and able to convey the hardest truth without flinching. Now Offutt enters the darkest and most mysterious of places—the cave of a monstrous enigma named Andrew J. Offutt—armed with nothing but his own restless curiosity. Spoiler alert: He makes it out alive\, walking into the daylight to bring us a deeper\, funnier\, more tender and more heartbroken truth—and his masterpiece.” Michael Chabon \n“Everything Chris Offutt writes is beautiful and brilliant\, but My Father\, the Pornographer is an astonishing house of mysteries\, and his most moving book yet. It’s about family and secrets and a literal ton of pornography\, but also\, fascinatingly\, what it means to make a writing life\, whether high art or pulp.” Elizabeth McCracken
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-chris-offutt/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Maps & Legends Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays from 3:45 to 4:45 pm\, begins Feb. 18—lasts 6 weeks \nfree program for middle school students—max 15 participants \nled by critically-acclaimed writer Barry Wolverton\, author of Neversink and The Vanishing Island (Walden Pond Press/Harper Collins) \nto sign up\, please contact Nat Akin at nat@crosstownarts.org or 901-573-8444 \nOur creative-writing workshop for spring will take its inspiration from The Vanishing Island\, Barry’s first book in the series The Chronicles of the Black Tulip. We’ll discuss the importance of maps and mapmaking to imaginative storytelling\, and how maps shaped The Vanishing Island as well as other popular works of fantasy such as Harry Potter\, The Lord of the Rings\, and The Chronicles of Narnia. Participants will create maps to chart their own fantastical worlds and then write the legends to accompany them. This workshop will culminate in a book-release party of all the participants’ stories. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/maps-legends-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Screenprinting Workshop
DESCRIPTION:tuesdays from 3 to 4:45 pm\, begins Feb. 16—lasts 6 weeks \nfree program for high school students—max 15 participants \nled by Memphis College of Arts graduate students Lindsey Mashburn and Kayla Selby \nto sign up\, please contact Nat Akin at nat@crosstownarts.org or 901-573-8444 \nThis workshop will be a once-a-week introduction to screen printing\, open to all levels of students. Screen printing has been used over the decades to create vibrant advertisements\, pop-culture art\, underground propaganda\, and so much more.  We will focus primarily on learning the basic techniques involved; focusing on a more traditional\, hands-on\, reduction approach. The class will show students how to create vibrant\, creative works of art\, and we will draw inspiration from our favorite books\, movies\, and plays.  Screen printing is an incredibly versatile artistic practice\, and over the course of this workshop students will gain the confidence and skills they need to create a wide range of new work.  If our schedule allows us the time\, we will also show the students how to create some fairly simple\, handmade paper books to show off their new prints. Materials will be provided\, come with a can-do attitude and be willing to get a little messy! This workshop will culminate in a public gallery show. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/screenprinting-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Impossible Language
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LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hustle: Tax Issues for the Creative Type
DESCRIPTION:Confused about how tax laws apply to your artistic process?  Not sure what to save or how to organize your paperwork as it relates to sales\, expenses\, and income? Let Debbie Dye\, CPA\, guide you through the unique rules and regulations that apply to artists. \nDoors open at 6 pm; program begins at 6:30 pm\nComplimentary food and drinks  \nHustle: professional development for artists is a free program organized by ArtsMemphis\, UrbanArt Commission\, and Crosstown Arts. The series will provide visual artists with information\, resources\, and opportunities to support them in the development of their professional careers. Workshop topics will range from positive studio practices to pricing work and navigating gallery representation. Questions? Contact Mary Jo Karimnia at maryjo@crosstownarts.org \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/hustle-tax-issues-for-the-creative-type/
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SUMMARY:Hustle: Writing about your Art Practice
DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM SUMMARY\nMost artists want their artwork to speak for itself but fans\, patrons\, grant and residency panels\, advanced degree programs\, gallery directors\, museums\, and the press often ask for words to go along with the work. Joel Parsons will guide us through the pitfalls and pleasures of writing about our work. Come prepared to do a writing exercise or two and to help others explore their writing process. \n\nRESOURCES\nHandout \n\nHustle: professional development for artists is a free program organized by ArtsMemphis\, UrbanArt Commission\, and Crosstown Arts. The series will provide visual artists with information\, resources and opportunities to support them in the development of their professional careers. Workshop topics will range from positive studio practices to pricing work and navigating gallery representation. Questions? Contact Mary Jo Karimnia at maryjo@crosstownarts.org
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/hustle-writing-about-your-art-practice/
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SUMMARY:Impossible Language
DESCRIPTION:New from the Impossible Language reading series\, this feature will allow Memphis-based poets to share writing that they have recently finished or\, even more frightening\, are currently working on. For the kick off of the spring season and this feature\, IL welcomes Aaron Brame\, Matthew Hellams\, Kat Moore\, and Tara Mae Mulroy.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/impossible-language-3/
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SUMMARY:Working Writer's Cocktail Hour
DESCRIPTION:In the interests of further cultivating and connecting the literary community of Memphis\, story booth is hosting the third edition of Crosstown Arts‘ Working Writers’ Cocktail Hour. \nCollege and MFA students to early/mid-career/accomplished (meaning published and not-yet-published) writers who live and work in Memphis are welcome. Whether writers of poetry\, fiction\, creative nonfiction\, screenwriting\, playwriting\, journalism\, art writing\, music writing—all are invited to visit story booth for an hour (or so) to do what it normally takes an expensive retreat to make happen: bring a group of writers together to stand around\, have a drink\, and make connections with other working writers they may or may not have known before. \nWhether the day-job is writing-related or not–if you’re a working writer\, this means you. \nFor more info contact Nat Akin at nat@crosstownarts.org
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/working-writers-cocktail-hour-2/
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SUMMARY:Memphis: Art & Place - Art & Community Place-based Session
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Memphis Center at Rhodes College\nFebruary 18\, 19\, and 20\, 2016  \nRegistration Page \nFull conference information \nThe arts are central to Memphis’ identity—innovations in music\, dance\, performance\, and the visual arts continue to define and shape our sense of this place. Increasingly\, the arts are understood as having a key role in social change\, community building\, and urban development. Mel Chin will be the conference’s keynote speaker as part of the Communities in Conversation series. The Memphis Center at Rhodes College will partner with local leaders\, artists\, and stakeholders to host conversations about the role of the arts in Memphis\, with sessions held at Rhodes College and in three Memphis neighborhoods: Crosstown\, the Edge District\, and Orange Mound. The conference is free to attend ($5 ballet performance optional) with registration. \nPlease sign up at our Registration Page and keep updated via our Facebook event page. \n  \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/memphis-art-place-art-community-session/
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer Ed Tarkington
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and the Booksellers at Laurelwood present Visiting Writer Ed Tarkington\n“Love can make people do terrible things.” \nWelcome to Spencerville\, Virginia\, 1977. Eight-year-old Rocky worships his older brother\, Paul. Sixteen and full of rebel cool\, Paul spends his days cruising in his Chevy Nova blasting Neil Young\, cigarette dangling from his lips\, arm slung around his beautiful\, troubled girlfriend. Paul is happy to have his younger brother as his sidekick. Then one day\, in an act of vengeance against their father\, Paul picks up Rocky from school and nearly abandons him in the woods. Afterward\, Paul disappears. \nSeven years later\, Rocky is a teenager himself. He hasn’t forgotten being abandoned by his boyhood hero\, but he’s getting over it\, with the help of the wealthy neighbors’ daughter\, ten years his senior\, who has taken him as her lover. Unbeknownst to both of them\, their affair will set in motion a course of events that rains catastrophe on both their families. After a mysterious double murder brings terror and suspicion to their small town\, Rocky and his family must reckon with the past and find out how much forgiveness their hearts can hold. \n\n\n\nPraise For Only Love Can Break Your Heart:\n“A lush mystery-within-a-coming-of-age-tale-within-a-Southern-Gothic. If a book could have an Instagram filter\, Tarkington’s would be set on something called ‘Nostalgic’ . . . interesting\, readable and beautifully written.”—NPR Books \n“A clear winner—a taut\, engrossing\, crisply written tale of loss and abiding love.”—Charlotte Observer \n“Tarkington’s writing is talky\, devoid of flash\, and calls to mind a young Pat Conroy . . . propulsion is its primary attribute. Not mere plot propulsion—though there’s plenty of that\, especially after the corpses turn up—but emotional propulsion: Tarkington’s fidelity to period and place is matched by his fidelity to human contradictions\, to the gray area between heroism and villainy in which most of us reside. The gothic elements add spice\, but the protein in this assured debut—the part that sticks to your ribs—is the beautiful but ever-threatened connection between Rocky and Paul. Only Love Can Break Your Heart is a novel about brotherhood\, most of all\, about the delicate fortress of that bond.” —Garden & Gun \n“This heartbreakingly effective coming-of-age story about the importance of love in one’s life is replete with moments of harsh cruelty and tender love. Beautifully written….Readers will stop and reread paragraphs\, not because of confusion but for the pure joy of the language . . . Fans of Kathryn Stockett’s The Help will embrace debut author Tarkington’s depiction of Southern life at a time of changing social mores. Most of all\, readers who can’t get enough of Wiley Cash\, Ron Rash\, and Brian Panowich will delight in discovering this fine new writer.” —Library Journal\, starred review \n“A coming-of-age story that evolves into a whodunit with tangled roots in three families whose lives collide in 1977… [a] well-plotted\, generous inquiry into the intricacies of the human heart — especially the broken variety … Secrets abound\, imaginations run wild …”—Atlanta Journal Constitution \n“This is a wonderful novel about a small Southern town and love within\, and outside of\, families. It is not a typical coming-of-age story.”—Daily American (Somerset\, PA) \n“A rich\, moody\, moving novel about growing up and growing old before your time. Tarkington’s people are rakes\, rascals\, irascible losers\, femme fatales\, rich buffoons\, dunderheads\, beautiful loons\, and one very cool dude\, all balanced by the voice of a narrator you come to love as much as he loves his doomed older brother. On top of all that\, it’s a very fun\, deeply satisfying\, page-turner of a book.” —Brad Watson\, author of The Heaven of Mercury and Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives \n“Well-written and observed  . . . Tarkington carefully lays out his elaborate storyline and sensitively depicts his troubled characters.” —Kirkus Reviews \n“Welcome to small town\, late 1970s\, old money Virginia where teenagers can still roam wild and free. Ed Tarkington’s Only Love Can Break Your Heart brilliantly explores the winding roads and cul-de-sacs of love\, especially the troubled and troubling bond between two step-brothers\, Paul and Rocky Askew. Narrated by Rocky\, the younger of the two\, in a voice that is beguiling and wise\, this addictive tale of abandonment and forgiveness will haunt you long after you’ve turned the last page.”—Elizabeth Stuckey-French\, author of The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady \n“A wonderful\, beauty-haunted piece of work.  Tarkington’s voice in his hard-to-put-down debut novel has a timeless feel to its cadences\, the same bittersweet music we hear in the storytelling of the best of our Southern writers who remind us how hard the world can be for dreamers.”—Bob Shacochis\, author of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul \n“A reader need not be a disciple of rock legend Neil Young to find that Only Love Can Break Your Heart strikes a nostalgic chord. But for those of us who appreciate Young’s immense musical gifts\, Ed Tarkington’s debut novel will likely prove twice as harmonious. In many ways a classic coming-of-age story\, the novel also digs deep into the loamy depths of the modern Southern Gothic genre\, circa 1970s . . . Tarkington’s impressive first novel achieves every author’s goal: Once you start reading\, you can’t stop. And as an added bonus for Neil Young fans\, Tarkington’s riveting tale provides plenty of classic rock riffs\, too.”—BookPage  \n“Ed Tarkington kicks off his first novel\, Only Love Can Break Your Heart\, with a ghost\, a gun and an abandoned\, white-pillared Southern mansion called Twin Oaks. He wraps it up with a grisly double murder in the same place. In between\, his story touches on nearly every benchmark of good Southern Gothic literature: violence\, sex\, money\, sibling rivalry\, antipsychotic drugs\, incest\, abortion\, religious fanaticism and plenty of alcohol . . . he tells his story with the confident ease of Dickens in Great Expectations . . . an accomplished\, confident coming-of-age story in the Southern Gothic tradition”—Shelf Awareness for Readers \n“Well-written and observed  . . . Tarkington carefully lays out his elaborate storyline and sensitively depicts his troubled characters.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“A grisly and suspenseful debut novel.”—Nashville Lifestyles \n“I’m speechless.  I don’t remember the last debut novel that kept me turning pages enthralled.  Only Love Can Break Your Heart is part The Graduate\, part southern gothic dysfunctional family\, part Edisto\, part The Moviegoer.  It’s all Ed Tarkington\, though.  Funny\, desperate\, sad\, tender\, suspenseful\, intelligent\, insightful\, and full of nothing but heart\, heart\, heart.” – George Singleton\, author of Between Wrecks and The Half-Mammals of Dixie \n “Ed Tarkington’s first novel manages an expert narrative feat—it is somehow both ruminative and remarkably suspenseful. A novel of family and love and class\, of beautiful youth and terrible consequences. And of heartbreak\, of course\, as the title makes plain and life makes inescapable. Readers will be born along on the strength and clarity of Tarkington’s prose\, the twists and pivots of his plot. Only Love Can Break the Heart is a truly auspicious debut.”—Michael Knight\, author ofThe Typist \n“Tarkington’s childhood was accompanied by the sounds of classic rock . . . and now it’s at the heart of his debut novel\, Only Love Can Break Your Heart\, a story of love\, loyalty\, murder and vinyl.”—The Tennessean (Nashville) \n“Ed Tarkington’s Only Love Can Break Your Heart harkens back to predecessors such as Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter\, Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina\, and Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees . . . At the core of this small-town Southern story there are universal truths that transcend regionalism. If not for the crackling emotion powering this traditional bildungsroman—the loss of love to death and time\, the struggle to find and keep a home\, the confusion and despair of growing up—its straightforward prose might fall flat. From the opening page of Only Love Can Break Your Heart to the wrenching last\, human relationships remain the narrative’s most compelling force  . . .Yes\, this is a novel about love\, but not just the romantic kind. It’s an ode to love in all of its complicated forms: between estranged brothers\, between fathers and prodigal sons\, between a boy and his hometown.” Amy Greene\, New York Times bestselling author ofBloodroot \, for Chapter16.org (Nashville) \n“Tarkington’s debut novel is an elegant bildungsroman that lays open the strange and dangerous world of old-money and new-money Virginians\, and those who exist between these worlds and who are often trapped between them.  The depiction of these people\, places\, and culture is spot-on and Tarkington’s love for the greatest state in the union warms this tale.  Humming in the background is a soundtrack for the glory days of rock and roll\, as young Rocky drops the needle on another Neil Young album\, creating a tender paean for the romantic and doomed nostalgics from a previous generation who carry this music into the present and future. The plot turns along family strife\, naked desire\, and sometimes violent treachery\, but at its core Only Love Can Break Your Heartis a love story that just might break your heart\, too.”—Matt Bondurant\, author of The Night Swimmer and The Wettest County in the World \n“Tarkington’s prose is effortlessly smooth\, almost disappearing into itself\, making an engrossing and surprisingly comfortable read. Rocky’s voice becomes our own\, his confusion ours\, and his yearning to love and be loved an echo of what it means to be young. Tarkington succeeds in a difficult dance\, creating a story that is at once bizarre and utterly familiar. He asks us to remember that we are all trying desperately to be loved\, often failing\, but trying.” – Erika Swyler\, Washington Independent Review of Books \n“Only Love Can Break Your Heart is the 195th book I’ve read this year. Out of those 195\, I’ve only handed out a handful of 5 Star ratings. I don’t know what it was about this novel that sucked me in\, but boy did it and I couldn’t put it down … Hot damn but the fella can write!” – 52 Book Minimum Blog \n“From beginning to end\, the plotline is intense\, never flagging. From the bleeding heart Tarkington stitches on Rocky’s sleeve there arises both scandal and rivalry\, along with a touch of the paranormal and religious faith.” –Booklist \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-ed-tarkington/
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SUMMARY:Snowden Middle & Humes Prep Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:From story booth‘s fall in-school writing workshops\, we have published anthologies featuring original work of 62 young writers at Snowden and 18 young writers from Humes Prep. This will be the first time the writers have the books revealed to them\, and they’ll be able to participate in binding their own copies of the book to take home. Food and drinks available; free and open to the public.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/snowden-middle-humes-prep-book-release-party/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer Stewart O'Nan
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and the Booksellers at Laurelwood present visiting writer Stewart O’Nan\, reading and signing from “West of Sunset.” \nAmazon’s Best Books of the Month for January 2015 \nAn Indie Next Pick for January 2015 \nA “rich\, sometimes heartbreaking” (Dennis Lehane) novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last years in Hollywood \nIn 1937\, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled\, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health\, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins\, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. By December 1940\, he would be dead of a heart  attack. \nThose last three years of Fitzgerald’s life\, often obscured by the legend of his earlier Jazz Age glamour\, are the focus of Stewart O’Nan’s gorgeously and gracefully written novel. With flashbacks to key moments from Fitzgerald’s past\, the story follows him as he arrives on the MGM lot\, falls in love with brassy gossip columnist Sheilah Graham\, begins work on The Last Tycoon\, and tries to maintain a semblance of family life with the absent Zelda and daughter\, Scottie. \nFitzgerald’s orbit of literary fame and the Golden Age of Hollywood is brought vividly to life through the novel’s romantic cast of characters\, from Dorothy Parker and Ernest Hemingway to Humphrey Bogart. A sympathetic and deeply personal portrait of a flawed man who never gave up in the end\, even as his every wish and hope seemed thwarted\, West of Sunset confirms O’Nan as “possibly our best working novelist” (Salon). \n Praise for West of Sunset \n“The Fitzgerald O’Nan gives us feels like the Fitzgerald of my dreams; in this way the book rises up to enfold the reader\, it enfolded this reader naturally and exquisitely.”\n—Elizabeth Strout \n“West of Sunset is a rich\, sometimes heartbreaking journey through the disintegration of an American legend. O’Nan captures the fire and frailty of F. Scott Fitzgerald with an understated grace that would have made Fitzgerald himself stand up and applaud.”\n—Dennis Lehane \n“An achingly nuanced love story and one of the best biographical novels to come along in years.  O’Nan’s great achievement here is in so convincingly inhabiting the character of Scott Fitzgerald and of the people surrounding him during his descent into the clarifying depths of 1930s Hollywood.”\n—T.C. Boyle \n“O’Nan is an incredibly versatile and charming writer. This novel\, which imagines F. Scott Fitzgerald’s troubled time in Hollywood (with cameos by Dorothy Parker\, Bogie\, and Hemingway)\, takes up (like much of O’Nan’s work) that essential conundrum of grace struggling with paucity. One brilliant American writer meditating on another–what’s not to love?”\n—George Saunders \n“I’ll direct my enthusiasm for West of Sunset to writers who revere Fitzgerald’s short story ‘Babylon Revisited.’ Stewart O’Nan captures Fitzgerald’s mood of spiritual reflection\, without trying to imitate Fitzgerald’s voice. This book is an inoculation against self-pity. It’s not a mock Fitzgerald novel\, but an original portrait of a writer struggling to keep his dignity while trying to make a living. It’s one of the best books I’ve read in years and it deserves a cheering crowd.”\n—Michael Tolkin \nReviews \nPaste Magazine\nThe Buffalo News\nEntertainment Weekly\nAmazon.com\nNewsday\nThe Washington Post\nTweed’s\nHuffPo Books\nChicago Tribune\nThe Boston Globe\nPittsburgh Post-Gazette\nUSA Today\nLA Weekly\nThe Seattle Times\nThe Stranger\nWashington Times\nOregonLive\nCincinnati CityBeat\nTuscaloosa News\nThe Christian Science Monitor\nThe New Yorker
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-stewart-onan/
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SUMMARY:Memphis Ephemera
DESCRIPTION:Doors Open 6:30 pm\, Films Start 7:00 pm \nA short film showcase featuring unusual\, rarely seen\, strange and undiscovered film & video made in and about Memphis\, Tennessee. \nProgrammed by Edward Valibus\, Ben Rednour and Crosstown Arts \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/memphis-ephemera/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:430,Programs
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151203T153000
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SUMMARY:The Winds that Scatter
DESCRIPTION:Screening presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts \n6:30 pm Doors ; 7 pm Screening; Skype Q&A with director Christopher Jason Bell to follow screening \nWritten\, directed\, produced\, and edited by Christopher Jason Bell \nAhmad is a refugee from Syria\, holding wishes of starting his own taxi service. When he loses his menial employment at a gas station\, he attempts to navigate through the current American economy with optimism. Soon\, reality settles in as consistent work is scarce. An impression of hopelessness slowly begins to take a toll on his relationships\, faith\, and sense of self\, with his dream slipping quickly from his grasp. \nWINNER: KOREA INDIE AND EXPAT FILM FESTIVAL \nBEST INTERNATIONAL NO BUDGET FEATURE FILM \n“Baring more in common with the films of the great Abbas Kiarostami than say your average Brooklyn-based filmmaker…” – Filmmaker Magazine \n“A skillfully maneuvered\, minimalist meditation…” – Hammer To Nail \n“Rich and complex” – Screen Slate \n“”The cinematic equivalent of walking a mile in another man’s shoes\, The Winds That Scatter is\, unfortunately in this day and age\, a necessity.” – Film Pulse \nEDITOR/PRODUCER/WRITER/DIRECTOR: Christopher Jason Bell \nCINEMATOGRAPHY: Paul Taylor \nCO-PRODUCERS: Mohammad Dagman\, Ernie Hiyane \nfacebook.com/TheWindsThatScatter \nfacebook.com/FuzzyHeritage \ncontact: christopherjasonbell@gmail.com
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-winds-that-scatter/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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SUMMARY:Visting Writer Leonard Pitts\, Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Booksellers at Laurelwood and Crosstown Arts present Visiting Writer Leonard Pitts\, Jr. \nPlease join us for a reading and signing of his most recent book\, Grant Park\, and a conversation with the author and Dr. Terrence Tucker (Assistant Professor and Coordinator of African Literature\, University of Memphis) and Dr. Charles McKinney (Associate Professor and Director of the Africana Studies Program\, Rhodes College). \n“A novel as significant as it is engrossing.” —Booklist\, starred review \nGrant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America\, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative that showcases Pitts’s gift for telling emotionally wrenching stories. \nGrant Park begins in 1968\, with Martin Luther King’s final days in Memphis. The story then moves to the eve of the 2008 election\, and cuts between the two eras. Disillusioned columnist Malcolm Toussaint\, fueled by yet another report of unarmed black men killed by police\, hacks into his newspaper’s server to post an incendiary column that had been rejected by his editors. Toussaint then disappears\, and his longtime editor\, Bob Carson\, is summarily fired within hours of the column’s publication. \nWhile a furious Carson tries to find Toussaint—while simultaneously dealing with the reappearance of a lost love from his days as a 60s activist—Toussaint is abducted by two white supremacists plotting to explode a bomb at Barack Obama’s planned rally in Chicago’s Grant Park. Toussaint and Carson are forced to remember the choices they made as young men\, when both their lives were changed profoundly by their work in the civil rights movement. \nIn a career spanning more than 35 years\, Leonard Pitts\, Jr. has been a columnist\, a college professor\, a radio producer and a lecturer. But if you ask him to define himself\, he will invariably choose one word.  He is a writer\, period\, author of one of the most popular newspaper columns in the country and of a series of critically-acclaimed books\, including his latest\, a novel called Freeman.  And his lifelong devotion to the art and craft of words has yielded stellar results\, chief among them the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.\nLearn more \nAdvance Praise for Leonard Pitts\, Jr.’s novel GRANT PARK: \n“The state of US race relations in 1968 and 2008 is seen through the eyes of two veteran Chicago newsmen\, one black and one white\, in this opportune novel. . . . Pitts adroitly blends history with fiction and actual figures (King\, Obama) with characters in a plot that builds suspense around the supremacists’ plans as anger between the races gives way to understanding.A novel as significant as it is engrossing.” —Booklist\, starred review \n“In the aftermath of this summer’s racially motivated mass murder in Charleston\, South Carolina\, by an avowed white supremacist\, there’s near-eerie prescience in Pitts’ historical novel. . .[Grant Park]\, with urgency and passion\, makes readers aware that the mistakes of the past are neglected at the future’s peril.” —Kirkus Reviews \n“[A] high-stakes\, hard-charging political thriller. . . . The sharply etched characters\, careful attention to detail\, and rich newspaper lore propel Pitts’s socially relevant novel.” —Publishers Weekly
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visting-writer-leonard-pitts-jr/
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SUMMARY:Artist Survey Share-Out 
DESCRIPTION:Join ArtsMemphis\, UrbanArt Commission and Crosstown Arts to explore the responses to the visual artists’ survey\, give your feedback\, and learn more about a new monthly professional development series (created especially for artists) planned for 2016. \nDrinks and food will be served.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/artist-survey-share-out/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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SUMMARY:Spark
DESCRIPTION:Artists will explore the nature\, power and positive impact of imagination on their work as they lead guests on a journey through their ah-ha moments and discuss their process for thinking big. This is a FREE COMMUNITY EVENT held in conjunction with our partners at Crosstown Arts. \nDrinks and food will be provided at this casual Spark session. \nOur Imagineers: Willy Bearden (film)\, LaShonte Anderson (Dance\, music)\, Johanna Ewards (literature).
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/spark/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Impossible Language
DESCRIPTION:Poetry reading series organized by Ashley Roach-Freiman \nELIJAH BURRELL is the author of one collection of poems\, titled The Skin of the River (Aldrich Press\, 2014). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Agni\, Birmingham Poetry Review\, Iron Horse Literary Review\, Measure\, Sugar House Review\, Structo\, and many others. He received the 2009 Cecil A. Blue Award in Poetry and the 2010 Jane Kenyon Scholarship at Bennington College. His poem “Bones” was recently featured in audio form on Sugar House Review’s podcast. Not long ago\, two of his poems were featured on The Missouri Review’s audio podcast. He resides in Jefferson City\, Missouri\, with his wife and two daughters\, and teaches creative writing and literature at Lincoln University.\n\nRICHARD BOADA is the author of The Error of Nostalgia (Texas Review Press) and the chapbook Archipelago Sinking (Finishing Line Press)\, both nominated for Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Awards. He is a graduate of the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi\, and won the University of Louisville’s Sara-Jean McDowell Award for Creative Writing. Recent work appears in The North American Review\, RHINO\, Crab Orchard Review\, Yalobusha Review\, Jabberwock Review\, and The Louisville Review among others. He teaches creative writing at the University of Memphis. \nAMIE IRWIN lives with her two daughters\, Maggie and Jane\, in Oxford\, MS where she is a John and Rene Grisham fellow in poetry at the University of Mississippi. She has been published by Prairie Schooner.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/impossible-language-2/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:page to stage theatre workshop
DESCRIPTION:for middle school students\nwednesdays\, 1:30 – 3:30 pm / 9-week program \nworkshop capacity has been reached. \nJazmin Miller\, teaching artist from Rhodes College\,  leads students in an exploration of the various parts of theatre\, helping them collaborate with one another to write\, design and perform their own original play. \non Sunday\, November 8\, students will perform their creation before a live audience of family\, friends and supporters in the McCoy Theatre at Rhodes College.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/page-to-stage-2015/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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