Les Figues is an independent, nonprofit literary press that strives to create aesthetic conversations between readers, writers and artists.
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- [Short (Story)]: Writing Short...
West Hollywood Park
04 October at 12:00 - Give A Fig Benefit Auction
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
12 September at 19:00 - Les Figues Reader's Survey
Les Figues Press
29 July at 15:45 - re: rummage
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- Two Cities, Two Readings, Two Presses 06 November 17:54
- Wangechi Mutu 02 November 16:26
- Mrs. Porter: Constrained (Part I) 13 October 21:28
Sidebrow & Les Figues invite you to a two-part, two-city reading tour celebrating writers from two innovative West Coast presses.FIRST LEG: SAN FRANCISCOFeatured at the San Francisco half of the series will be Paul Hoover, Vanessa Place, & Teresa Carmody, on behalf of Les Figues, and James Wagner &...
Les Figues Press Two Presses: Two Cities: Two Readings!
Location:The Green Arcade, 1680 Market St. (@ Gough), San Francisco
Time:Saturday, 14 November 2009 19:30
There was an article in the NY Times today about the Performa art festival and I noticed a stunning image credited to an artist I hadn't heard about before: Wangechi Mutu. The Saatchi Gallery has a great selection of her work on view in a hi-res online gallery...
I have long been a participant in Les Figues Press’ Mrs. Porter Salon, where I have presented, over the years, my research on Mrs. Porter, a figure in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land based upon a notorious brothel owner in Cairo during World War I. Tw...
Come out this Sunday, October 4th, for the West Hollywood Book Fair...
Les Figues Press
Short! Fictions! Exposed!
Join us at The Fact, Fiction, and Future Pavilion at the West Hollywood Book Fair for short, excellent readings and a beneath-the-surface, this-just-in kind-of-unusual discussion about Short! Fictions! Story! Optional!
SARAH SHUN-LIEN BYNUM
AMINA CAIN
JENNINE CAPO CRUCET
JANET SARBANES
Moderated by
TERESA CARMODY
http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org/
A Panel and Reading
Time:Sunday, 04 October 2009 12:00
Location:West Hollywood Park
This Friday: Small Press TrafficAnne Tardos and Amina Cain on the Inverted I and narrativity.Friday September 25Timken Hall, CCA SF1111 8th StreetSan Francisco, CAevent begins at 7:30pmMore Info Here
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2009 Feminaissance Book Launch UNNAMEABLE BOOKS600 Vanderbilt Ave., Brooklyn, NY 7:30pm – 10:00pm READINGS by BHANU KAPILRACHEL LEVITSKYMONICA DE LA TORREANNA MOSCHOVAKISCHRISTINE WERTHEIMKIM ROSENFIELDand VANESSA PLACE Numbers? ...
Nice to see this article about independent bookstore Spoonbill & Sugartown. They recently featured Dies: A Sentence at the Brooklyn Bookfair. And look at the excellent photos!
What book, chapbook, performance, or poem by a woman poet published/presented in the last year or two has left you speechless?How might that speechlessness manifest itself visually, sonically, or through another nonverbal medium?O SAY CAN YOU SEENonverbal Reviews and Adaptations of Women's...
Vanessa Place, on editing, Les Figues, aesthetics and ethics.
When I was in Marshall, NC in July I bought The Book of Practical Pussies with drawings by Michelle Rollman. The night was warm and wet with rain, and the river that runs next to the Lapland Bookshop mysterious and dark. Light from the window I looked out of was in the water...
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Emcees: Matias Viegener and Anna Joy Springer Performances: Bhanu Kapil, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Christine Wertheim & Laura Steenberge
Emcees: Matias Viegener and Anna Joy SpringerPerformances by Bhanu Kapil, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Christine Wertheim, and Laura Steenberge! Food by Carnival! Drinks! Delicious Cupcakes! Other Treats...
The Poetic Research Bureau presents...Amarnath Ravva & Amina CainSunday, August 23 2009 at 4:00pm@ The Poetic Research Bureau3702 San Fernando BlvdGlendale, CA 91206Doors open at 4:00pmReading starts at 4:30pm$5 donation requestedAmarnath Ravva has performed (as part of the ambient improvisational...
