Date: Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 7 pm
Location: Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, New York, Ring Dome in Petrosino Park, adjacent to The Storefront
FREE. Refreshments will be served.

Frederic Tuten will host a literary evening as part of Z-A, a 26-day festival celebrating the 25th anniversary of theStorefront for Art and Architecture.

Sponsored by a consortium of art and literary magazines in support of the Storefront, includingCabinet,BOMB,Open City,Smyles & Fish,Tin House,Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood,Guernica, KGB Barlit, and others, the evening will feature a reading by four writers who have written about or who themselves make art, and will be held in a pavilion (a giant dome built out of 1,000 Hula-Hoops) constructed especially for the Storefront festival.

Tuten, the author ofvan Gogh’s Bad Café and will be joined byShelley Jackson, the author ofHalf-Life andThe Melancholy of Anatomy;Wayne Koestenbaum, whose most recent book,Hotel Theoryis a hybrid of fiction and nonfiction; andIris Smyles, a writer and cartoonist and editor ofSmyles & Fish.