Photo of 703 E. Sixth St. from 2019 by Stacie Joy
Leonard Abrams, the publisher of the East Village Eye, shared this info about a reading on Friday evening...
Leonard Abrams and The Folio Club present selections from "Stories About Love," a new chapbook by Angela Sloan, on Friday from 7 to 9 p.m.
The writers Carl Watson, Jill Rapaport and Katherine Sloan will also read. The event will take place at 703 E. Sixth St. on the 3rd floor (just east of Avenue C).• Leonard Abrams is a writer, an editor and sometimes a filmmaker. He organizes events and people for sport. The Folio Club, after the fictitious organization referenced by Edgar Allen Poe, is the name he uses for literary events.• Angela Sloan lives and writes in New York City. Her previous works have been published by Three Rooms Press, Genre: Urban Arts, East Village Eye, and A Gathering of the Tribes. Her chapbook, "Stories About Love," was published in 2021.• Carl Watson is a writer and occasional folk singer. He lives not far from here. But he’s not always there.• Jill Rapaport’s collection of prose titled "Duchamp et Moi and Other Stories" was published by Fly by Night, the book publishing arm of A Gathering of the Tribes, in 2014. She has been quasi paralyzed by ideas and considerable dread since then, but makes quantities of notes.• Katherine Sloan is a professional blogger who also writes and publishes her own fiction. She has published nonfiction political pieces for Overture Global and has written for Mutual Art and 25A magazines. She lives in New York City.The event will take place at a beautiful loft space above Hugh's motorcycle shop that we have had the good fortune to borrow for the occasion.
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