readings

Launch for the new edition of Fog & Car

To celebrate the new edition of Fog & Car — now with introduction by Renee Gladman — please join Tan Lin and Eugene Lim
on

THURS July 18th, 2024
6:30pm
at Yu & Me Books
44 Mulberry Street
New York, NY 10013

I’m honored to be talking with the poet and writer Tan Lin. Tan and I both grew up in Ohio (“the heart of it all”), but during different eras (and via different places and ways). I think that’s what we’re going to talk about. It would be very nice if you joined us.

Los Angeles Public Library’s Sci-Fi Short Story Club

Hello science-fiction-inclined dharma friends, AI pessimists and evangelists, philosophers of mind, or/and followers of Korean translation, 

Save the date, THUR AUG 29, for a digital gathering made possible by the LA Public Library. We’ll be reading and discussing a prescient tale by Seonghwan Park [박성환] about an AI in a Buddhist monastery who may or may not have become “enlightened.” What would this mean? What does achieving the Buddhist understanding of non-selfhood mean for the recently become self-aware robot? When it studies the self, does it forget the self?

Park’s 2004 story, “Readymade Boddhisattva” [레디메이드 보살] is also the title story given to this excellent 2019 collection of translated Korean science fiction published by Kaya press: https://kaya.com/books/readymade-bodhisatva-kaya-anthology-south-korean-science-fiction/ 

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>>TH 8/29/24 6pm PST
LAPL’s Sci-Fi Short Story Club
Explore Park Seonghwan’s short story “Readymade Bodhisattva” with sci-fi lovers from across the universe via Zoom, as selected by special guest Eugene Lim, on the occasion of his newly reissued novel Fog & Car. Email mtawin@lapl.org for the event link.

Lisa Hsiao Chen’s ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING out now!

The Artist is often asked how much he suffered to make the piece. He replied that he didn’t suffer. I have pleasure to do the piece. Some who have written about Time Clock Piece point out how exhausted the Artist looks. Yet when Alice looks closely at the Artist’s face — in the film, in the photo stills — she doesn’t see it. What she sees is the will of a man stitching himself into time. Only after the piece was completed was the Artist disconsolate. He felt that way after all his pieces ended, he said, because it meant returning to the life of an ordinary man.

from ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING by Lisa Chen.

“beguiling and brilliant” -Viet Thanh Nguyen

“fiercely honest, and exhilarating” -Claire Messud

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Join us in celebrating this incredible book’s publication next week on April 21 at 7:30PM. IN PERSON! This will be at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn. Info here: https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/lisa-hsiao-chen-eugene-lim
[VIRTUAL] In Conversation: Lisa Hsiao Chen and Anelise Chen
Also, tonight, at 7PM, Lisa will be speaking with Anelise Chen at AAWW. Info here: https://aaww.org/curation/virtual-in-conversation-lisa-hsiao-chen-and-anelise-chen/


in 2018, Lisa Chen, Anelise Chen, and I had the great honor of visiting the maestro refusenik, undocumented but amnestied immigrant, godfather of performance art, and secular saint Tehching Hsieh at his Brooklyn studio. this was for The Believer, and here’s the interview that resulted. Here’s my favorite part:

Tehching Hsieh: In the beginning I couldn’t meet your kind of people. Your kind of people would say, “What is this guy, a stranger, an illegal?” Because your kind of people—this is the first time I’ve been interviewed by your kind of people in 42 years.

BLVR: Really? Wait, what do you mean, us “kind of people”?

TH: Asian American. [Laughter.] You get it! This is the first time. I’m not trying to make it an issue.

BLVR: You say this is the first time Asian Americans are interviewing you, which I find both surprising and not, but, you should know, for us, you are a very important precedent, a groundbreaker.

TH: I just wanted to say that it’s come late. Forty-two years late.

Search History Launch with Gina Apostol

From October 5, 2021. I had the great privilege of launching Search History via AAWW and with the fearless and wonderful Gina Apostol.

>>”This October, we celebrated Eugene Lim‘s highly anticipated new book, Search History. With the use of brilliant prose, this uniquely inventive novel explores American culture, technology, artmaking, and storytelling through the eyes of a grieving narrator. Eugene was joined in conversation by writer Gina Apostol.”

In conversation with Jonathan Lethem

From October 12, 2021. It was a hoot and a joy and a true privilege to split screens with the generous and brilliant Jonathan Lethem.

>>Eugene Lim joins us to present his new novel “Search History,” in conversation with Jonathan Lethem. This program took place on Zoom. If you’d like to purchase a copy of the book (and support Community Bookstore), you can do so here: https://www.communitybookstore.net/book/9781566896177

May 22: Event for Emmanuel Bove’s MY FRIENDS

NYRB is reprinting Emmanuel Bove’s beautiful first novel, which has arguably the best title ever: MY FRIENDS.

Revisiting French Classics: Emmanuel Bove’s My Friends. With Donald Breckenridge, Eugene Lim, Jonathon Sturgeon, and John Yau.


https://www.albertine.com/events/revisiting-a-french-classic-emmanuel-boves-my-friends/

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 20196:30 PM

IN ENGLISH. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NO RSVP NECESSARY.ALBERTINE
972 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES

My Friends is Emmanuel Bove’s first and most famous book. Its narrator, Victor Baton, is a classic little man, of no talent or distinction or importance and with no illusions that he has any of those things. All Victor wants is to be loved, all he wants is a friend, and as he strays through the streets of Paris in search of love or friendship or some fleeting connection, we laugh both at Victor’s meekness and at his odd pride, but we feel with him, too.

With Victor, Bove has created a kind of everyman, an archetypal, indomitable knight of human fragility who invests the back streets of the city and the unsorted moments of daily life with a weird and unforgettable clarity.

On Wednesday, May 22 at 6:30pm, join Donald Breckenridge, Eugene Lim, Jonathon Sturgeon, and John Yau as they discuss Emmanuel Bove’s masterpiece.

In English. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary.


https://www.albertine.com/events/revisiting-a-french-classic-emmanuel-boves-my-friends/

May 19: Reading at the Queens Museum with N.K. Jemisin, and Sabrina Vourvoulias, followed by a discussion moderated by scholar Joy Sanchez-Taylor.

https://queensmuseum.org/events/spring-exhibitions-public-programs

I’ll be reading at 5PM on May 19th at the Queens Museum along with writers N.K. Jemisin and Sabrina Vourvoulias, followed by a discussion moderated by scholar Joy Sanchez-Taylor.

Part of a bold and dreamy series of events put on by the Queens Library’s Science Fiction Festival and the Queens Museum’s Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas.

More info here:
https://queensmuseum.org/events/spring-exhibitions-public-programs


MUSIC TO WRITE TO

sometimes one’s white (/brown) noise app gets boring, no? buh-buh-billions of testing hours — some of them sad, most of them sleepy — went into the production of this playlist [spotify, youtube], which is what I’ve been writing to… poetaster tested, scribbler approved.

also: i’m reading this saturday afternoon with Caleb Beckwith and Alan Davies. come by?

https://www.seguefoundation.com/calendar.htm | FB EVENT LINK
APRIL 6

AT THE ZINC BAR
82 WEST 3rd STREET, BETWEEN THOMPSON AND SULLIVAN STS.
NEW YORK CITY
SATURDAYS FROM 4:30 – 6:30 PM

CALEB BECKWITH, EUGENE LIM & ALAN DAVIES

Caleb Beckwith is a writer and editor living in Oakland, CA; work includes Political Subject (ROOF), and Heat Win (Gauss PDF).

Eugene Lim is the author of the novels Fog & Car (Ellipsis Press), The Strangers (Black Square Editions), and Dear Cyborgs (FSG). He works as a high school librarian, runs Ellipsis Press, and lives in Queens, NY. http://www.eugenelim.com.

Alan Davies‘s books include Name/ Signage/ Rave/ Candor/ Raw War / Odes & fragments. In addition to his poetry / Alan is known for his book reviews / critical theory / aphorisms / essays. Long a resident of NYC / Alan can be contacted at idonot@mail.com.

https://www.seguefoundation.com/calendar.htm

 

Two upcoming readings

I’ll be at Naropa on October 4th. I’ll be giving a talk at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University on October 4th at 2:30PM (and I believe the class is open to all). That evening, I’ll participate in a reading with Jeffery Pethybridge, Sara Veglahn & Gabrielle Lessans. Details about the reading here: http://naropa.edu/academics/jks/events/index.php

And I’ll be reading at Wesleyan University on November 30th at 8PM.

I’ll be reading on Thurs, May 5.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1310672165614968/
http://www.threesbrewing.com/eventscalendar/2016/5/5/fiction-stranger-than-fiction

Fiction Stranger Than Fiction: Anelise Chen, Lisa Chen, John Haskell, Eugene Lim, and John Madera

Join us for a reading series spotlighting writers whose work “explodes” language, content, form, and structure. Following the readings, John Madera will lead a conversation with all the readers.

Date: Thursday, May 5, 2016
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Venue: Threes Brewing
Address: 333 Douglass Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Website: http://www.threesbrewing.com/

Anelise Chen earned her MFA in fiction at NYU. She is currently fiction editor at The Margins, a publication of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Born in Taipei and raised in Los Angeles, she lives in Manhattan’s Chinatown. She teaches at Columbia University. (www.anelisechen.com)

Lisa Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Iowa. She lives in Brooklyn and works as a freelance writer and editor. (www.kaya.com/authors/lisa-chen)

John Haskell is the author of a short-story collection, I Am Not Jackson Pollock (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), and the novelsAmerican Purgatorio (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005) and Out of My Skin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009). His stories and essays have appeared on the radio, in books, and in magazines. He’s taught writing and literature at Columbia University, Cal Arts, and the Leipzig University. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and lives in Brooklyn.(www.johnhaskell.home.mindspring.com/)

Eugene Lim is the author of the novels Fog & Car and The Strangers. His writings have appeared in FenceThe Denver Quarterly,exploring FICTIONSThe Brooklyn RailJacket2The Coming EnvelopeEveryday GeniusDazed DigitalSleepingfishelimaeLittle Star, and elsewhere. He is founder and managing editor of Ellipsis Press, works as a librarian in a high school, and lives in Queens, NY. (https://eugenelim.com)

John Madera holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. His work may be found in Conjunctions, the BelieverSonora Review, the Brooklyn Rail, the Collagist, DIAGRAM, the MillionsReview of Contemporary FictionRain Taxi: Review of Books, theQuarterly Conversation, and many other venues. He edits the forum Big Other. Madera also runs Rhizomatic: Publicity Services for Small Presses with Big Ideas. (www.johnmadera.com / www.rhizomatic.org / www.bigother.com)

I’m reading with Tom Cho at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop on April 17th at 7PM

TWINS AND POP STARS

with Tom Cho, Eugene Lim

Thursday, April 17, 2014 7:00pm
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th Street, 6th floor
New York, NY

Meet a grandma named Bruce, an occasional Godzilla, and Whitney Houston’s bodyguard/lover.  Tom Cho’s Look Who’s Morphing was published to acclaim in Australia and shortlisted for multiple literary awards—including the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book—and has been studied at universities in Canada, Australia, UK, Switzerland and Japan. It is finally being released in the U.S. Eugene Lim will join him on stage to read from his book The Strangers, an experimental novel on twins, relationships, and film, which author Lydia Davis called “so precise and accurate to real life that it is (fantastically) convincing.


Reading 1/22/2014 with Amanda Davidson at Berl’s

berls poetry shop

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 7PM

Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop

126A Front Street
Brooklyn,NY,11201

Please join us for the inaugural reading in our new human brain confetti series, VANJA AND THE PANTHER.

The reading will feature the frabjous AMANDA DAVIDSON & supercallifragilistic EUGENE LIM!

Amanda Davidson writes, teaches, and makes performances. She is the author of Apprenticeship (New Herring Press, 2013), a fiction chapbook. Writing, reviews, and author interviews have appeared in the Encyclopedia Project, eMusic, the City Lights Bookstore Blog, and elsewhere. She is at work on a performance novel about the mystic Swedenborg. Visit www.partedinthemiddle.wordpress.com.

Eugene Lim is founder and managing editor of Ellipsis Press. His fiction has appeared in Fence, The Denver Quarterly, EXPLORINGfictions, The Brooklyn Rail and elsewhere. He is the author of the novels Fog & Car (2008, Ellipsis Press) and The Strangers (brand new, Black Square Editions). He works as a librarian in a high school and lives in Queens, NY. www.eugenelim.com.

Come early! Stay late! Hark to the bridge as it groans its metal music above! Support writers! Fictive movements! Make your life better! Hear everything!

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/379936948808739/

 

Upcoming reading on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 @ 7 pm | Double Take IV

http://apexart.org/events/double-take-4.php

I’ll be reading on Tuesday, March 5th with John Yau, Rick Moody, Tim Davis, Charles Bernstein and Elizabeth Willis. Please come!

 

Double Take IV

Tuesday, March 5: 7 pm

Three pairs of authors write original pieces about shared experiences.

organized by
Albert Mobilio

Featuring:
Rick Moody & Tim Davis on the dinner where they met.
John Yau & Eugene Lim on remembering the Robert Creeley memorial.
Charles Bernstein & Elizabeth Willis on the obvious.


Watch videos from the previous Double Take program.

Charles Bernstein‘s new collection of poems, Recalculating, will be out this Spring from the University of Chicago Press, which also published hisAttack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions. He teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tim Davis is an artist, writer, and musician. His photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan, Whitney, Guggenheim, Walker, Hirshhorn, Brooklyn, Baltimore, and many other museums. He is the author of My Life in Policits (Aperture), and The New Antiquity (Damiani). Having written song lyrics for years for the band Cuddle Magic, he is currently at work on his first album of original songs, which will be accompanied by a set of music videos entitled “It’s OK to Hate Yourself.” He teaches Photography at Bard College.

Eugene Lim is an editor at small for Harp & Altar and is founder and managing editor of Ellipsis Press. His fiction has appeared in FenceThe Denver QuarterlyEXPLORINGFictionsThe Brooklyn RailsleepingfishNo Colony and elsewhere. His first novel, Fog & Car, was named a finalist in Blatt Magazine’s 2007 Novel of Novels competition. His second novel The Strangers is forthcoming from Black Square Editions. He works as a librarian in a high school and lives in Queens, NY.

Rick Moody is the author of five novels–including The Ice Story and, most recently, The Four Fingers of Death—three collections of stories, a memoir entitled The Black Veil, and, most recently, a collection of essays On Celestial Music. He is a music columnist at The Rumpus, and he also plays in and writes songs for The Wingdale Community Singers. He teaches at NYU and Yale.

John Yau is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published over 50 books of poetry, artists’ books, fiction, and art criticism. Yau has received awards and grants from Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, the Academy of American Poets (Lavan Award), The American Poetry Review (Jerome Shestack Award), the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the General Electric Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Elizabeth Willis‘s most recent book, Address (Wesleyan, 2011), won the PEN New England Prize for Poetry and is just out in paperback. Her other books of poetry include Meteoric FlowersTurneresque, and The Human Abstract. She is a 2012-13 Guggenheim fellow. She teaches at Wesleyan University.

Albert Mobilio is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and the National Book Critics Circle award for reviewing. His work has appeared in Harper’s,Black ClockBombCabinetOpen City, and Tin House. Books of poetry include Bendable SiegeThe GeographicsMe with Animal Towering, andTouch Wood. He is an assistant professor of literary studies at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and is an editor of Bookforum.

Please join us.
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Two upcoming readings

Bad Shadow Affair Reading series
at Lost Lake Lounge | 3602 East Colfax | Denver, Colorado

Saturday, May 7th, 7:30pm

Laird Hunt,

Tina Brown Celona,

Keith Newton &

Eugene Lim

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Queens Poet Lore Presents QPLo @ QL:

A Reading with
Paolo Javier,
Eugene Lim,
Christine Hou

Thursday, May 19
6:30 p.m.
Flushing branch of the Queens Library

Rooms A&B, Lower Level
41-17 Main Street
718-661-1200
Join us and celebrate Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with a reading featuring Queens Poet Laureate Paolo Javier, novelist Eugene Lim, and poet/art critic Christine Hou. A short open mic will precede the reading, with sign-up at 6:00 p.m.  Books will be available for sale and signing.

i’ll be reading with eugene marten this thursday 3/12 at mcnally jackson books

March 12, 2009 7PM

McNally Jackson Bookstore

52 Prince St. (b/t Lafayette & Mulberry)

New York, NY

http://mcnallyjackson.com/index.php/component/option,com_events/Itemid,30/agid,233/day,12/month,03/task,view_detail/year,2009/

McNally Jackson’s Indie Press Series honors the work of small, independent publishers. Brooklyn-based Ellipsis Press was founded in 2007 by author Johannah Rodgers and Harp & Altar fiction editor Eugene Lim. Lim’s Fog & Car begins with the alternating voices of Mr Fog and Ms Car, recently divorced, and becomes an exercise in narrative experimentation and a meditation on loneliness. Gary Lutz calls it “a deep, engulfing novel of breathtaking, even spooking precision—an altogether heady and heart-shaking debut.” Marten’s Waste is told by the night janitor of a high-rise office building; Sam Lipsyte calls it “an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction” and Gordon Lish raves “one for history and a half.

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