Royal Oak Salon #2 will feature candles, air-conditioning, and three superb writers, at least one of which will play songs afterwards.
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TAO LIN will read poetry.
JED LIPINSKI will read fiction.
EDMUND BERRIGAN will read poetry.
Music by I FEEL TRACTOR.
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The Royal Oak Salon is a reading series in Williamsburg dedicated to the summertime.
Tuesday June 26th, 8pm until 10pm
The Royal Oak
594 Union Avenue, at N. 11th Street
L train to Bedford Avenue, North to N. 11th Street, East to Union Avenue
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royaloaksalon.wordpress.com
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TAO LIN is the author of EEEEE EEE EEEE and BED, a novel and a story-collection published last month by Melville House. He is also the author of a poetry-collection, YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM, published by Action Books. His site is READER OF DEPRESSING BOOKS.
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JED LIPINSKI writes for the New York Press, The Brooklyn Rail, the International Journal of Men's Health, and the International Journal of Neuropsychiatric Medicine, for which he has written such articles as: "Thoughts on the Documentaries of Werner Herzog," "Body Ideals in Young Samoan Men: A Comparison With Men in North America and Europe", and "High Prenatal Homocysteine Levels Found to Pose Risk for Schizophrenia." He graduated from NYU's MFA program in May.
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EDMUND BERRIGAN is the author of Disarming Matter, Your Cheatin' Heart, and Glad Stone Children, forthcoming this spring. Under the guise of I Feel Tractor, he has released a CD, Once I had an Earthquake (Goodbye Better, 2006). He also co-edited The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan.
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Ronnie Yates and Will Hubbard, Curators
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