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People with Problems: Stories from The Paris Review
Wednesday, October 5 @ 7:30 pm
 Attend this special Chicago Public Radio Stories on Stage evening. Accomplished author Philip Gourevitch, the new editor of The Paris Review, hosts an evening of stories from the brand new anthology The Paris Review Book of People with Problems (Picador) and the most recent issue of the journal. Judy O’Malley directs three Chicago actors reading exciting new work. Q & A with Philip Gourevitch following the performance.
People with Problems: Stories from The Paris Review
Wednesday, October 5 @ 7:30 pm
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago
Tickets are $15 for Chicago Public Radio and MCA members, $18 for non-members, and $16 for students and seniors. Contact the MCA for tickets at 312.397.4010.
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“The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick”
by Elizabeth Gilbert
read by Bradley Mott
Follow the the eccentric family saga of Richard Hoffman, Hungarian entrepreneur; Ace Douglas, accomplished magician; Esther Hoffman, daughter, niece, amateur magician, savior; and Bonnie, the white rabbit.
Elizabeth Gilbert, a staff writer for GQ magazine, is the author of a novel, a collection of short stories, and, most recently, a National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated biography. |
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“Birthmark”
by Miranda July
read by Martha Lavey
A woman born with a birthmark realizes what’s missing in her life after she has cosmetic surgery.
Miranda July is a filmmaker, performance artist, NPR contributor, and author of short stories. Her debut feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know received a special prize for originality of vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and the Camera D’Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
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“Stump Louie”
by Lisa Halliday
read by Bill Brown
Little Luigi Palmieri, stricken by shyness and a speech impediment, shows the world he has something to say through his unparalleled musical memory.
This is the first story published by Lisa Halliday, and it appears in the new Summer 2005 issue of The Paris Review. |
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The Paris Review was founded in 1953 by H.L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton, friends and dilettantes on the expatriate Paris literary scene. Plimpton remained editor-in-chief until his death in September of 2003. In just over half a century of publication, The Paris Review has introduced some of post-war America’s most influential poets and authors, including Adrienne Rich, Jack Kerouac, Philip Roth, V.S. Naipaul, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Mona Simpson, Edward P. Jones, and Rick Moody, and groundbreaking work now widely recognized, such as Jim Carroll’s Basketball Diaries, Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides, and Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections.
Philip Gourevitch, a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1997, is a member of the board of directors of the writers’ organization PEN. As a reporter, he has published magazine and journal articles on topics ranging from the civil war in Congo to the current situation in North Korea. His first book, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, received widespread critical acclaim and numerous awards, including a National Book Critics Circle Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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