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Just received this email message from Jim Othmer...

Good news for those sick of hearing me read the same endless passage from The Futurist.

The New York Public Library has a terrific program called "Periodically Speaking", supporting independent literary publishing and emerging writers. I'm going to be the token fiction writer (and perhaps the oldest emerging writer on record) representing two-time National Magazine Winner, The Virginia Quarterly Review. I'll be reading a short strange piece I did in their Fall '06 Writers on Writers fiction supplement. It starts at 6PM and they do a nice (free) wine and cheesesticks thing at the Library afterwards.

And after that I hope to gather a group to head over to the Gingerman for drinks.

The details from their press release:
The New York Public Library
COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES & PRESSES presents
Periodically Speaking: Literary Magazine Editors Introducing Emerging Writers
November 14th, 6-7:30PM
The Virginia Quarterly Review, Soft Targets & Columbia with Ted Genoways introducing James P. Othmer, Dan Hoy, and Paul Killebrew & Thom Blaylock introducing Meehan Crist
The New York Public Library,
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
5th Avenue @ 42nd Street,
DeWitt Wallace Periodicals Room—1st Floor
Free admission.

Please use the 5th Ave. entrance. Visit clmp.org for more information.

Hope to see you, if only at Gingerman.
Jim

So here it is. This coming Tuesday affords you the opportunity to spend time with the witty and intelligent, James P Othmer. If you forgot how much I enjoyed his novel, The Futurist, please read my review here. You will find it approximately 1/3 of the way down the page. (And while there, please vote in favor of my review. I surely would appreciate your vote!)
-- David M Gordon / The Deipnosophist