LITTORAL: Jared Hohl + Shelley Jackson

Jared Hohl reads from his recently completed manuscript The Invaders’ Retreat, a novel set in the modern dystopias of Iowa, Ireland, and Corsica, where crop dusters, terrorists, substance abusers, and an elderly purveyor of psychedelics are bound together by exclusion and the chemistries that dictate their livelihoods. Featuring a theatrical interlude written by Charlotte Courtois and Keith Custer, the novel’s young protagonists.

Jared Hohl received his MFA from The New School where he was the recipient of the National Arts Club scholarship for fiction writing. His short stories have appeared in Washington Square, Agriculture Reader, Torpedo Magazine, and the anthology The Apocalypse Reader.

Shelley Jackson is the author of the story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy, the novel Half Life, hypertexts includingPatchwork Girl, and several children’s books, including the recent Mimi’s Dada Catifesto. Her stories and essays have appeared in many journals including McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, The Paris Review, The Believer, and Cabinet Magazine. In 2004 she launched her project SKIN, a story published in tattoos on 2,095 volunteers. The recipient of a Howard Foundation grant, a Pushcart Prize, and the 2006 James Tiptree Jr Award, she is the co-founder with artist Christine Hill of the Interstitial Library and headmistress of the Shelley Jackson Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children, a work in progress.

Aug 04, 2010 | Categories: discussion, events, literary, upcoming events | Tags: author, literature, manuscript, reading | Comments Off