Events

March - April 2008

Block by Block: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York
Thurs, March 27, 2008 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Strand Book Store, 12th Street and Broadway, NY
Contributors from this collection of essays about Jane Jacobs will share their essays and discuss the contemporary relevance of Jacobs's ideas about large-scale redevelopment, gentrification and activism. Contributors appearing at the Strand include Phillip Lopate, Ben Katchor and others to be announced shortly.

The Deep Tub and Other Stories: Readings with Projections
Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 2pm
South Orange Public Library
65 Scotland Road, South Orange, NJ
Phone: 973- 762- 0230

NYU Creative Writing Program
Reading with projections
and a conversation with Lawrence Weschler
Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 7pm
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
58 West 10th Street, New York, NY 10011
For more information 212-998-8816

Exhibition:The Chronicle of Daily Life
plus Readings and Lecture
Fumetto, International comix-festival
Luzern, Switzerland
Sat. 12th – Sun. 20th April 2008

International Literature Festival
The Word as a Way Out
Panel discussion with Junot Diaz, Julie Phillips and Ben Katchor
Openbare Bibliotheek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 4pm
http://www.literairepodia.nl/

Reading with projections
The John Adams Institute
Jewish Historical Museum - Nieuwe Amstelstraat 1, Amsterdam
http://www.john-adams.nl/home/
Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 3pm

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California St., San Francisco, CA
tel. 415.292.1200
A Conversation with Josh Kornbluth
Monday, May 12, 2008 at 8pm
and
The Rosenbach Company: a pop opera
Text & Drawings by Ben Katchor, Music by Mark Mulcahy
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 8pm