SMITH Magazine celebrates the release of "THE MOMENT: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous & Obscure" with our first book reading @McNally Jackson Books in NYC on January 9. You'll hear some talented authors from the MOMENT book share their MOMENTS with us. At the end, anyone from the audience is invited to share a "first line" from a Moment in his or her life.
Can't make it on the 9th? We're having another reading at Greenlight Books in Brooklyn on January 26. For more info, visit that event page:
http://on.fb.me/GreenlightMoment
ABOUT "THE MOMENT"
Many of us think our lives follow a fated path, or one that comes from a route we engaged on and then strive to follow. But in fact so much of our existence—where we find ourselves in life, love, work, and at home, and where we might end up later—results from a single moment or decision that was made on a whim, even randomly. The stories in THE MOMENT take all shapes and sizes— from written narratives ranging from six to a thousand words, to photographs,
comics, illustrations, handwritten letters, tweets, and more.
COME SEE! >>>
A.J. JACOBS is the bestselling author of "The Year of Living Biblically"
and "My Life as An Experiment."
PIPER KERMAN is the author of a memoir, "Orange is the New Black: My Year Inside a Women’s Prison."
GILLIAN LAUB is the author of "Testimony," a book of portraits and
journals from Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinians and the
second Intifada. Her photographs have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Time, and she exhibits her work internationally.
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir "When Skateboards Will Be Free", and a 2010 recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award. His short stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Granta, and the New York Times.
ALAN RABINOWITZ is a zoologist, conservationist, and field
biologist, and the president and Preisdent of Panthera (panthera.org), a nonprofit conservation organization devoted to protecting the world’s 37 wildcat species. Time magazine has called him the “Indiana Jones of Wildlife Protection.”
MIRA PTACIN is a creative nonfiction and children’s book author and founder and executive director of Freerange Nonfiction, a New York City reading series and storytelling collective.
MATT DOJNY is a writer and artist who lives in Brooklyn. His debut novel will be published by Dzanc Books in April 2012.
SUMMER PIERRE is the author of "The Artist in the Office: How to Creatively Survive" and "Thrive Seven Days a Week." She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her family.
KAROL NIELSEN is an adjunct professor in the department of writing and speech at New York University and author of the memoir "Black Elephants."
JERRY MA is a graphic designer, illustrator, founder of Epic Proportions Art & Design, and art director of the groundbreaking Asian-American superhero comic anthology "Secret Identities."
MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS s a writer at Salon.com and author of the memoir "Gimme Shelter."
MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART is a photojournalist in upstate New York.
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READ more about The Moment on SMITH Magazine::
http://smithmag.net/themoment
HEAR about The Moment on NPR's "Talk of the Nation":
http://n.pr/momentNPR
