We’re very happy to be a TimeOutNY “Critics’ Pick” for this Monday’s reading. Join us at Shrine this September 10, 7pm to hear Paul La Farge, Lynne Tillman, and art duo LoVid read and perform new work. If you’re not already familiar with their innovative work, you might want to browse the following links. You can find Paul La Farge’s Luminous Airplanes here. It’s a rich, funny, and searching hypertext (and print book!) about the disconnect between human knowledge and human action, and it’s a pleasure to explore online. Lynne Tillman’s work is being published and reprinted by the exciting new press Red Lemonade. You can view her catalogue and a fabulous cache of her short prose here. LoVid recently led a walking tour in Harlem involving dancers, local history, video, and iPhones; you can see more of that project here and the extraordinary breadth of their work here.
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Paul La Farge’s Luminous Airplanes in the NYTimes
Along with Lynne Tillman and LoVid, Paul La Farge will be reading in the first FPP Harlem reading of the season on September 10th. His latest novel, Luminous Airplanes, will be coming out in paperback on October 2nd! In a New York Times review of the hardcover edition, Kathryn Schultz writes, “Luminous Airplanes isn’t about disconnection and meaninglessness. It is about connection and significance — about the way the past becomes the future, the contingent the inevitable, the spandrel the success, the success the tragedy. It is, in other words, about the ramifying, mysterious ways we human beings affect each other, from parent to child, invention to invention, generation to generation: If, if then, then.” We couldn’t agree more. You can read the rest of the review on the New York Times website.