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Happy Ending Music and Reading Series

Happy Ending Music & Reading Series featuring Amelia Gray, Jessica Anthony, Heidi Julavits & musical guest Kaiser Cartel

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“Wildly popular”
-New York Magazine

“Best crowds…most fun…consistently amazing…”
-NY Press

“Amanda Stern…impresario helping to keep downtown, New York alive.”
-The New York Times Magazine

“…Always excellent.”
-The Village Voice

“I’m always happy to perform at the Happy Ending reading series. I’m happy at the beginning of the show and at the end of the show. Not to mention the middle. All in all, from start to finish, it’s always a great experience!”
-Jonathan Ames 

Come celebrate the fantastical worlds created in the novels of three innovative authors. In her unforgettable debut, The Convalescents, Jessica Anthony writes of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus while also detailing ten thousand years of Hungarian history. Amelia Gray creates bizarre scenarios using luminous prose, luring you into upon her lap. In her first novel, Threats, David thinks his wife is dead and his fear deepens as he finds threats buried around his home: one in the sugar bag, another carved into the side of the television. Heidi Julavits, jumped onto the literary scene in 1996 with her much acclaimed debut, The Mineral Palace. Her star rose with each book that followed. When she’s not writing, she can be found editing the prestigious magazine, The Believer – part of the Dave Eggers McSweeney’s empire. Her new novel, The Vanishers is about the bond between mothers and daughters and the psychic damage they can inflict upon one another.

Rounding the night out is the band, Kaiser Cartel and the acclaimed cartoonist, Michael Arthur.

 

 

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By Lon Gene on Jan 12, 2012 12:58 AM
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By Angie Witte on Jan 10, 2012 6:40 PM
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Did anyone find my happy ending lipstick I lost at Joe's Pub? see you at the show, maybe it's there

By Nobuko Narita on Nov 06, 2011 5:58 PM
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just was wondering if Elizabeth Streb would still be with you on this date.
cobi narita

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Past Shows

  • 7:00 PM - March 07, 2012