Show Do Tell: A Reading Series & Art Review

The second album from Queens, New York songwriter Matt Waters. Originally released November 27th, 2019.

The second album from Queens, New York songwriter Matt Waters. Originally released November 27th, 2019.

The second album from Queens, New York songwriter Matt Waters. Originally released November 27th, 2019.

The second album from Queens, New York songwriter Matt Waters. Originally released November 27th, 2019.

Judith Lee Herbert’s chapbook Songbird, published by Kelsay Books, was a finalist in the Blue Light 2017 Chapbook Competition. Her poems have appeared in Bards Annual, Before the Dawn, NCPLS Review, LIQ, These Fragile Lilacs, First Literary Review East, Mothering in the Middle, and The Ekphrastic Review. Her poems placed 2nd in the Mid-Island Y 2018 Contest and Honorable Mention in the NCPLS 2018...

The September edition of the Show Do Tell Reading Series: Aida Zilelian is a New York writer and English teacher. Her debut novel The Legacy of Lost Things was released in March 2015 (Bleeding Heart Publications) and was the recipient of the 2014 Tololyan Literary Award. She has been featured on NPR, the New York Times, the Huffington Post, Kirkus Reviews, among other radio and print platforms. Mo...

The August edition of the Show Do Tell Reading Series! Featuring: Kay Gram is a writer and editor based in NYC. Her work has been named a 2017 Best of the Net finalist and as a semifinalist for both the Fourth Annual TAR Chapbook Series and the Gazing Grain Press 2018 All-Genre Chapbook Contest. She is currently at work on a memoir about mental and physical illness, family, and the balance between...

The July edition of the Show Do Tell Reading Series!

The June edition of the Show Do Tell Reading Series! Thanks for listening.

Rebekah Bergman's fiction appears or is forthcoming in Joyland, Hobart, DIAGRAM, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Passages North, among other journals. She was a 2018 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference and a 2018 winner of The Masters Review Anthology Prize. She lives in Brooklyn and is at work on a novel. Read more at: rebekahbergman.com Gabriel Don is a multidisciplinary artist w...

The fourth edition of the Show Do Tell Reading Series featuring readings from Julia Lynn Rubin, Amanda Miller and Ron Kolm. Intermission entertainment: William Burroughs.

The third meeting of a new literary series in which writers share and reflect upon their work. Michelle Sierra Laffitte is a Mexican-born writer, journalist and editor based in New York. Her fiction work has appeared in Joyland and Evergreen Review. Her non-fiction work has been published in magazines and outlets including Reuters.com, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, CNN,...

The first edition of the Show Do Tell Reading Series at Otto's Shrunken Head in Alphabet City! The format is designed for writers to not only share their work -- but also their personal insight and philosophies into their fiction, poetry, or essays. Our first readers were Bard Hovenga, Jason Pfister, and Christiana Connett Gonzalez. The intermission programming for volume 1 is William Butler Yeats...

Analyzing the use of music in the novels: American Psycho, Another Country, Jazz Moon, The Dead Do Not Improve, and A Visit from the Goon Squad. I finally recorded a new episode of my podcast 'Strange Currencies!' It has been almost a year. And the Podcasting side of my brain just hasn't been the same since I concussed myself head-banging at a Father John Misty concert. Har har. But seriously! Thi...

All Rights Reserved to Special Rider There's a whole lot of people suffering tonight from the disease of conceit Whole lot of people struggling tonight from the disease of conceit Comes right down the highway straight down the line Rips into your senses through your body and your mind Nothing about it that's sweet The disease of conceit There's a whole lot of hearts breaking tonight from the disea...

Strange Currencies Episode 7 I ruminate on Bruce Springsteen as an artist. How the image from his most commercially successful time-period can become a generalization to those unfamiliar with the depth of his work. Along with my deep admiration for his song 'American Skin.' I discuss his memoir 'Born to Run' and discuss concert experiences in the context of his electrifying performing style.

'Oh Mercy' was praised as a return to form for Bob Dylan at the end of the 80s. He wrote about the process of recording the album in his beguiling memoir 'Chronicles.' I discuss the album using passages from 'Chronicles' as a conduit toward my own fascination with the material. I wonder whether Dylan was articulating his sense of internal and external morality in the same way he captured chaos in...

Brittany Anjou is an accomplished jazz composer who has taught music all over the world. But when I interviewed her for Strange Currencies, we primarily discussed the debut album for her punk rock project 'Bi-Tyrant.' The discussion took place at Two Boots Pizzeria in downtown Manhattan. We talked about the appeal of making punk rock, and the realities of being a professional female musician in th...

In this episode, I delve into the powerful 2016 album by Conor Oberst called 'Ruminations.' A minimalistic effort from the lead singer of 'Bright Eyes,' 'Ruminations' saw Oberst compose an unsparing cycle of music gazing intently at consumerism, depression, love, obsession, and loneliness. It was an album that tilted my axis as a listener -- and although I was outright wrong about a few of thought...

Samantha Echo is a New York City songwriter with a rare skill set: she has an operatic voice, clever songwriting pen, and a fully developed visual aesthetic as both a performer and promoter of her work. Samantha and I talked about her debut EP at Tavern 29 a few blocks from Madison Square Garden. https://samanthaechomusic.com

When I interviewed Zach Henry, the Baltimore songwriter had just finished performing a set at LIC Bar in Queens, New York. I recorded a couple of his songs and then enjoyed a conversation with him and another songwriter named RedHawk. The three of us talked about movies, music, and being artists in the Big Apple. https://zachhenrymusic.bandcamp.com/releases

In the first episode of my podcast, I read from an essay I had published in Guernica called 'A Moment of Honesty,' which ponders the fascinating and terrifying aspects of undertaking live musical performances as a solo songwriter in New York City. In between passages from the essay I reflect on my life, and how I ended up pursuing music in my early 20s after having been only interested in writing...