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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/
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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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URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/impossible-language-4/
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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/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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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/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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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
DTSTAMP:20260424T061505
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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
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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/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151104T093000
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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
CATEGORIES:Programs
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Memphis Noir
DESCRIPTION:Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies\, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. \nFeaturing brand-new stories by: Richard J. Alley\, David Wesley Williams\, Dwight Fryer\, Jamey Hatley\, Adam Shaw\, Penny Register-Shaw\, Kaye George\, Arthur Flowers\, Suzanne Berube Rorhus\, Ehi Ike\, Lee Martin\, Stephen Clements\, Cary Holladay\, John Bensko\, Sheree Renée Thomas\, and Troy L. Wiggins. \nFrom the introduction by Laureen P. Cantwell & Leonard Gill: \n“A city equal parts darkness and hope. A scarred city. An often violent one. But a resilient city too. \nThat’s our Memphis. \nLike many cities\, we have a namesake—in Egypt\, Men-nefer became Menfe became Memphis\, enduring and beautiful\, on the banks of the Nile. Centuries later\, another continent\, another people\, another river: Memphis\, Tennessee\, the soul of the Mississippi Delta\, was formed. We are a place born of history\, inhabited as much by memory as by the living—the past and present inextricably and inescapably linked . . . . Memphis is marvels and misfits—two-faced and unabashedly so.   \nWe are Memphis\, and this is our noir.”
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-memphis-noir/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151019T113000
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SUMMARY:3/2/1 film workshop
DESCRIPTION:for high school students / mondays\, 3 – 4:30 pm / 6-week program \nmax 14 participants—email Nat at nat@crosstownarts.org to reserve a spot\, or to help out. \njoin Crosstown Arts’ videographer Justin Thompson to learn how to script\, shoot\, and edit your own original short film. we’ll follow a 3\, 2\, 1 format (3 pages of script\, 2 actors\, 1 location) and work in teams of two. at the end of the six weeks\, the films will be screened at a premiere\, and each participant will receive a DVD of all films from the workshop.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/321-film-workshop/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Pinch Journal Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Join the staff of The Pinch Literary Journal for revelry\, merriment\, and general hooligantry as we officially release to you our latest issue. \nFeaturing two authors from the journal: cat-wrangling best-american poet diva Emma Bolden and friend-to-bats\, hardcore coffee-drinking fiction guy Nickalus Rupert. \nPlus a mixtape highlighting the best of Prince and the Revolution. \nAlso\, a silent auction with some of the best things we’ve ever brought to a Pinch party. We will have a hard time not fighting for these baskets ourselves\, so come make a bid and help raise funds to keep our journal in print. \nLast\, but never least\, Hot Mess Burritos will be parked out front\, we’ll have Wiseacre beer on tap\, and\, as usual\, a healthy offering of Pinch punch. \nJoin us!\nhttp://www.pinchjournal.com/\nhttp://emmabolden.com/\n@nlrupert\n@HotMessMemphis\n@pinchjournal
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/pinch-journal-party-1015/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer Tom Piazza
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our latest collaboration with The Booksellers at Laurelwood as we welcome Tom Piazza to Memphis to read from and sign his new novel\, A FREE STATE. Tom Piazza is the author of ten books\, including the novel City Of Refuge\, which won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction\, and the post-Katrina classic Why New Orleans Matters. Other works include Devil Sent The Rain\, a collection of his essays and journalism\, the Faulkner Society Award-winning novel My Cold War\, and the short-story collection Blues and Trouble\, which won the James Michener Award for Fiction. Tom also wrote for the HBO drama series Treme. \nNo less a literary critic than Bob Dylan has said\, “Tom Piazza’s writing pulsates with nervous electrical tension – reveals the emotions that we can’t define.” A well known writer on American music as well\, Tom won a Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey and is a three-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Music Writing. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Bookforum\, The Oxford American\, Columbia Journalism Review\, and many other periodicals. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he lives in New Orleans.\n \n\nA FREE STATE \nThe year is 1855. Blackface minstrelsy is the most popular form of entertainment in a nation about to be torn apart by the battle over slavery. Henry Sims\, a fugitive slave and a brilliant musician\, has escaped to Philadelphia\, where he earns money living by his wits and performing on the street. He is befriended by James Douglass\, leader of a popular minstrel troupe struggling to compete with dozens of similar ensembles\, who imagines that Henry’s skill and magnetism might restore his troupe’s sagging fortunes. \nThe problem is that black and white performers are not allowed to appear together onstage. Together\, the two concoct a masquerade to protect Henry’s identity\, and Henry creates a sensation in his first appearances with the troupe. Yet even as their plan begins to reverse the troupe’s decline\, a brutal slave hunter named Tull Burton has been employed by Henry’s former master to track down the runaway and retrieve him\, by any means necessary. \nBursting with narrative tension and unforgettable characters\, shot through with unexpected turns and insight\, A FREE STATE is a thrilling reimagining of the American story by a novelist at the height of his powers. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-tom-piazza/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151008T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151008T120000
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SUMMARY:chapbook workshop
DESCRIPTION:for middle school students\nthursdays\, 4 – 5 pm / 4-week program \nmax 15 participants—email Nat at nat@crosstownarts.org to reserve a spot\, or to help out. \na chapbook was an early type of popular literature because it was cheap to produce. still very popular today\, the name commonly refers to small\, paper-covered booklets\, usually printed on a single sheet folded into books of 8\, 12\, 16\, or 24 pages. participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to write poetry\, short fiction\, essays\, and create visual art for their own original chapbooks. we’ll learn elements of layout and page design\, cover design (using artist-designed woodcut blocks)\, and create contents pages and author bio pages to make the chapbooks as professional as possible. at the end of the workshop\, each participant will leave with 5 copies of their original chapbook and one from each of the other participants. \nwe’ll celebrate with a chapbook release party in the Cleveland Street Flea Market on Friday\, October 9.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/chapbook-workshop/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150914T140000
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SUMMARY:story booth volunteer interest / training session
DESCRIPTION:if you’re interested in becoming involved with story booth as a teaching artist\, writing mentor\, or volunteer of any kind\, this session will help introduce you to the opportunities story booth has for the upcoming school year\, and will also serve as the “refresher” for current volunteers to get up to speed on exciting new additions to story booth’s programming. we’d love to have you help out over here\, and by the end of this session\, you’ll know everything you need to do just that. \nemail Nat at nat@crosstownarts.org to RSVP or call at 901.573.8444.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/sbvols-fall2015/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150910T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150910T140000
DTSTAMP:20260424T061505
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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 second edition of Crosstown Arts’ Working Writers’ Cocktail Hour to help usher in the second-annual Mid-South Book Festival. \npresenting authors in town for the festival are welcome\, college and MFA students to early/mid-career/accomplished (meaning published and not-yet-published) writers who live and work in Memphis are welcome too. 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 or not your day-job is writing makes no difference — if you’re a working writer\, you’re invited. \n \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/working-writers-cocktail-0915/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150826T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150826T143000
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SUMMARY:Spark: The Child Romantic
DESCRIPTION:Ballet Memphis is hosting a free community conversation about arts education. Spark: The Child Romantic will focus on utilizing the arts to encourage healthy relationships among Memphis youth. Hear about arts programs that are impacting the lives of Memphis’s young people\, from dance and music to literature and visual art. Then join in an open dialogue on improving and growing arts education\, learn creative-thinking and problem-solving techniques for your student at home\, and hear from education and government policymakers on how to advocate for arts-centered learning. \nDon’t have a babysitter? Ballet Memphis will have an arts specialist directing an art-making activity of epic proportion for kids ages 4-14. Refreshments provided. \nThis event is part of Ballet Memphis’ ongoing spark! programming.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/spark-the-child-romantic/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150724T130000
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SUMMARY:zine fest
DESCRIPTION:all-ages event showcasing underground zines created by local & inter/national artists.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/zine-fest-2015/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150719
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150725
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SUMMARY:summer workshop: zine & bookmaking
DESCRIPTION:2 – 4:30 pm // ages 10 – 14 \nthis workshop gives participants the chance to write and self-publish an original “zine\,” and then also to collaborate on an original story to be professionally published into a finished book. both of these projects allow participants to develop their creative writing and understand the elements of DIY and professional publishing\, and each participant will leave with a finished zine and book in hand.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/story-booth-summer-workshop-bookmaking/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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