Tuesday, May 1 - Back Room
Animal Farm

w/ Lee Konstantinou, Iris Smyles, Angela Leroux-Lindsey, Patrick W. Gallagher

Tuesday, May 1
9:00 pm in the Back Room

FREE / 21+

Hey Gang,

May 1 is always a day with rich thematic resonance, but this year in particular. In case you manage to escape without being arrested the crush of marches, pickets, demonstrations, and the grip of that frothy-mouthed wild card that is always the NYPD, by 9 pm, please join us at ANIMAL FARM to have a drink and compare notes.

All four readers on May 1--Lee Konstantinou, Iris Smyles, Angela Leroux-Lindsey, and me, Patrick W. Gallagher--will read from works-in-progress that will, hopefully, never be cut short by extraordinary rendition, home foreclosure, or uninsured hospitalization due to stop-'n'-frisk-related injury.

At the very least, I'm sure that all four of us will at least publish these works pseudonymously, after we have faked our own deaths to escape from debt collectors of various stripes.

Lee Konstantinou wrote the novel Pop Apocalypse and co-edited (with Sam Cohen) The Legacy of David Foster Wallace. His writing has appeared in The Believer, boundary 2, io9, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the English Department at Princeton. In the fall, he will start a job as an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. He's reading from his recently completed manuscript, Hamsterstan.

Iris Smyles’s stories and essays have appeared in Nerve, BOMB, New York Press, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, Guernica, The New Review of Literature, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and various anthologies. She edited and wrote the afterword for The Capricious Critic (Otis Books, 2011), a collection of humor essays commissioned for the magazine, Smyles & Fish. She is a former columnist and frequent contributor to Splice Today.

Angela Leroux-Lindsey is editor of The Adirondack Review and a senior editor with Black Lawrence Press. She writes for A&U Magazine and Kirkus Reviews. She lives in New York.

Patrick W. Gallagher am the Host of Animal Farm (HOAF). My writing has appeared in the New York Times, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, The Adirondack Review, The Battered Suitcase, Wheelhouse, PopMatters, and elsewhere, and I hold a PhD in Comparative Literature from NYU.