Fiction's Winter Reading
On Saturday, January 31st, 2015, Fiction and the Fiction Club of CCNY held a reading at Bunga's Den in Manhattan. Featuring American author Joseph McElroy along with CCNY readers Lissa Weinstein, James White, and Coryn Brown, the reading was lots of fun and enabled the Fiction community to hear from four different and inspiring voices.
“Money seen anew, sometimes green, spent grassroots to elect a weathered judge who would find not for the plaintiff but for the river itself, it was said, not for a real person blabbing in court but a gulf into which had spilled oil not really anyone’s property or right or wrong but strangely fostering billions of ancient bacteria which in a century or two would clean the sea as it was when darkness was on the face of the deep, whose speech in turn must be covered by the First Amendment…”
--American author Joseph McElroy reads “Court of Last Opinion,” published in Fiction Number 61.
Lissa Weinstein, a professor at City College and the Assistant Editor of Fiction, reads from a moving new piece.
Mark Mirsky, Editor-in-Chief of Fiction, makes introductions.
"I look back at him. But to look back is a dangerous thing. There’s the risk of being turned into a pillar of salt, this possibility of being destroyed."
--MFA student Coryn Brown reading her short story "Show Me Your Neck"
"I walked home from school in a daze. I was thinking about the fathers, how they were all so nice and how each one shook my hand and smiled and told me it was nice to meet me and how much they all liked their kids."
--James White, an MFA student at CCNY, reads an excerpt from his work.