The Club Wit's End, the signature cocktail for this evening's opening of Club Wit's End was designed by Jeremy. Should you venture to Marion's to-night, the cocktail will be available throughout the evening.
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"Rimbaud is there with his well-known tirade: 'I used to love idiotic paintings, overdoor pictures, stage decors, carnival tumblers' backdrops, signboards, popular prints, old-fashioned literature, pornographic books with bad spelling, novels of our grandmothers' day, fairy tales, tiny books for tiny tots, old operas, silly refrains, naive rhythms.' So much the worse for those who do not confess to a taste like that; so much the worse for those who turn their backs on the fantastic..."
-Albert Valentin on Eugene Atget, 1928
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Jeremy has a piece in the recently released Portable Boog Reader, available for download here. In commemoration of its launch, there will be a reading this Thursday at the Sidewalk Cafe. Details are below.
Boog City Presents: Portable Boog Reader 3 Launch & Urban Folk Relaunch | Thursday, Feb. 12, 7:30 p.m. | Sidewalk Café, 94 Ave. A (at E. 6th St.) New York | $5 suggested donation with a two-drink minimum | With readings from Portable Boog Reader 3 Contributers: Shafer Hall, Adeena Karasick, Jeff Laughlin, Amy Lawless, Geoffrey Olsen, Jeremy James Thompson
Musical performances by urban folk acts Justin Remer, Joe Crow Ryan, Brian Speaker | Hosted and curated by Urban Folk editor Jonathan Berger and Boog City editor and publisher David Kirschenbaum | For further information: 212-842-BOOG (2664), editor@boogcity.com | PBR3 (BC53) features the work of 72 New York City poets. The online pdf is available at: welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc53.pbr3.pdf.
"Boog City is a New York City-based small press now in its 18th year and East Village community newspaper of the same name. It has also published 35 volumes of poetry and various magazines, featuring work by Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti among others, and theme issues on baseball, women’s writing, and Louisville, Ky. It hosts and curates two regular performance series—d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press, where each month a non-NYC small press and its writers and a musical act of their choosing is hosted at Chelsea’s ACA Galleries; and Classic Albums Live, where up to 13 local musical acts perform a classic album live at venues including The Bowery Poetry Club, Cake Shop, CBGB’s, and The Knitting Factory. Past albums have included Elvis Costello, My Aim is True; Nirvana, Nevermind; and Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville."
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