All Female, All Fiction Night.
Research Arts students (and recent grads) read Sunday, January 21, at 8 pm, at the Lucky Cat in Williamsburg:

Anna Selver-Kassell
Vivien Drabkin
Tupelo Hassman
Sharon Pacuk

245 Grand Street, between Driggs and Roebling. L train to Bedford Avenue. No cover charge this time. Just buy a beer and enjoy some excellent fiction.

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In this week’s posting, we have read list contributions from Ben Marcus and Darcy Steinke. This is the beginning of what we hope will be an ongoing feature of the RATs website, where authors will submit their suggested reading lists, writing exercises, and anything else that may be of use to those of us in our literary development. If there’s anyone you’d particularly like to see here, please let us know and we will contact them (particularly to all you poets and non-fiction writers).

Darcy and Ben have both supplied suggested reading lists. You will no doubt be surprised and intrigued by their choices, and we hope you’ll go out and track down these books. (In fact we will try to do so for you and provide links. –Ed)

Ben has also given us a series of exercises that he used as a teacher at Brown. If you’re having trouble with your thesis, give one of these a shot. They can be a great way to jolt you out of a rut.

I also want to take this opportunity to encourage people to check out the German Portraits show at the Met titled, “Glitter and Doom“. This is a great exhibit of drawings and paintings from Germany between the wars. The exhibit is dark and grotesque, but the pictures themselves are thrilling.

Good luck. And Happy New Year!
In our next post we will tell you about a short writing contest we will be running on the RATs site.

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