Happy Ending Music and Reading Series featuring Stephen Elliott, Tanguy Viel with musical Guest Larkin Grimm

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The consistently sold out, Happy Ending Music and Reading Series, chosen by New York Magazine and NY Press as the best reading series in NYC, and singled out by the New York Times Magazine for helping to "Keep downtown alive," features the most interesting storytellers, writers, musicians, raconteurs and personalities, and requires the readers to take one public risk, while the musicians, who perform two short sets with their original, lyric-driven music, are required to play one cover song and try to get the audience to sing along. Called the “most vital authors’ series in the city,” by Time Out NY, and known for its consistently good taste, Happy Ending has launched careers and proudly, ended none.

Stephen Elliott is the author of 7 books including the brand new true crime memoir The Adderall Diaries. He had written for The New York Times, Esquire, The Believer and others and his work has been anthologized in The Best American Non-Required Reading 2005 & 2007, Best Sex Writing, and Best American Erotica. 

Born in 1973, Tanguy Viel lives in Nantes. He is the author of Black Note, Cinema, and The Absolute perfection of Crime Author Tanguy Viel is too young to have seen the Hollywood crime films of the 1950s when they first appeared, but American film noir, along with the modern, gritty visions of directors such as Martin Scorsese and Abel Ferrara, have shaped both his imagination and literary style. A master of style and suspense, he explores moral dilemmas in poetic language rarely found in a crime novel. This brilliant and promising young French novelist is sure to delight an American audience.
Bibliography
- Le Black Note, Editions de Minuit, 1998
- Cinema, Editions de Minuit, 1999
- L’Absolue perfection du crime, Editions de Minuit, 2001, translated into The Absolute Perfection of Crime, The New Press, 2002
- Insoupçonnable, Editions de Minuit, 2006, translated into Beyond Suspicion, The New Press, 2009
- Paris-Brest, Editions de Minuit, 2009

Larkin Grimm got an elemental voice that comes from somewhere under the earth. She alternately moans like a woman-in-full orgasmic release, wails like a banshee, or coos like a crazed little girl, depending on her mood.  In addition to singing and writing Larkin plays acoustic guitar, banjo, decrepit Casio, Chinese harp, and mountain dulcimer.  Larkin Grimm was born 26 years ago in Memphis TN to hippie devotees of the religious sect The Holy Order Of MANS .When the cult disbanded Larkin was 6, and her nuclear family moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains in Georgia and quickly grew to include 5 siblings. Larkin excelled at school and won a full scholarship to Yale. She spent a while there then freaked out at the elitism of the place, eventually leaving and returning several times.
 
Back at Yale for the last time, she joined up with the Providence RI Noise/Art scene and was active in arranging gigs and festivals there, as well as working on her own music. Larkin soon made 3 self-recorded albums of freeform, improvisational songs (or “acoustic noise” as she calls it), 2 of which were released by Secret Eye (Harpoon, and The Last Tree). Her latest release is Parplar on the Young God label.