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KGB Radio Hour :: January 15, 2008

2008-01-19T16:11:00.000-05:00

Start: Jan 15 2008 - 7:00pm
End: Jan 15 2008 - 9:00pm

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Your host Mark Jacobson welcomes the usual kinky combo of guests. Tonite's line-up includes Bob Geis, former NYPD head of "the gypsy squad", Emanuel Yarbrough, theonly African-American sumo wrestler, Paulie Malinaggi, world's boxing 140 poundchamp, Slava Tsukerman, Russian filmmaker of "Liquid Sky", Anne Mette Lundtotfe,travel writer/explainer of NYC, and Richard Price, great American author of "Clockers", "The Wanderers", etc. Musical guests: the return of Jessie Lyn and aperformance by Tony Sherr and Rob Jost, whose new record Twist in the Wind isavailable everywhere it is available. Others may materialize.

King Kong - A Radio Theater Special

2007-10-27T19:49:00.000-04:00

Yup. It's King Kong, in all its Radio Theater glory. Roar! Eeeek! Blam! All that good stuff.

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KGB Bar Radio Hour with Mark Jacobson

2007-10-13T15:51:00.000-04:00

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Host Mark Jacobson speaks with guests Khalil Islam, who tells his story about how he served 24 years in NY State maximum security prisons after being for the murder of Malcolm X. Also appearing Ira Gitler, the classic jazz critic of Downbeat, etc. who will talk of his 50 years hanging around with Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, etc. Kurt Thometz, owner of the Jumel Terrace Book Shop in Harlem, amost marvelous raconteur of uptown literature. Appearing from the legal sector, Thane Rosenbaum, who will chime in on the matter of law in a lawless society. Also, a surprise musical guest.

KGB Radio Hour: June 2007

2007-06-13T20:27:00.000-04:00

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KGB Radio Hour with Mark Jacobson

Tonight's guests will include Steve Earle, who will talk about his new record, a paean to Greenwich Village when the place actually meant something. Also appearing will be Fab 5 Freddy who actually promises to show up this time to talk about whether or not hiphop is really dead and his new doc about an arcane style of street fighting pioneered in the Harlem projects. Danny Goldberg, record industry major domo will try to delineate whether or not there still is a record industry to domo over. Also on hand will be one Michael Melnitsky, former chief art restorer at Sotheby's and Holocaust survivor who will discuss how someone trying their own case in the legal system can lose 30 out 32 motions and still refuse to fold.

KGB Bar Radio Hour: May 2007

2007-05-09T01:22:00.000-04:00

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A fab evening beaming via the mighty faux-commie signal of east 4th Street. Come hang with Matt Shipp, the world's greatest piano player, Rachel Ann Mason performing her song cycle channeling the world's fascist dictators, the return of 70's porn legend Jamie Gillis, Mordechai Shinefeld, the keeper of hebrew urban legends, The Great Fab Five Freddy, erstwhile Yo MTV Raps star, current all-world whatever, talking about his new fab movie about smacking people around with style and a number of other mis-matched parts meshing haphazardly with your host Mark Jacobson.

KGB Bar Radio Hour April '07

2007-04-07T23:55:00.000-04:00

Recorded Apr 4 2007 - 7:00 PM

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Tonight's guests include: Janine Nichols, singing. Steve Cuiffo, who inhabits Lenny Bruce. Shiya Ribowski, formerly of the NYC medical examiner's office, talking about dead bodies, Will Blythe, our basketball correspondent, Steve Earle, our political correspondent, and Richie Roberts, former Essex County narcotics prosecutor who is the only person in the room who can say Russell Crowe is playing him in a $140 million film (American Gangster, with Denzel Washington). Miki the Milf will be there in her usual capacity as sub-host. Brought to you by our humble sponsors, Broadway Boxing and Zarela's Restaurant.

KGB Radio Hour w/ Mark Jacobson: Epsiode 1

2006-12-21T18:32:00.000-05:00

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When: Nov 16 2006 - 10:00pm
End: Nov 16 2006 - 11:00pm
Time: 57:18

An evening of LUCK, MAGIC, and MUSIC...

First edition of the long-running KGB Radio Broad(pod)casting throughout the Lower East Side and the world with live (pulse taken at the door) audience.

Your host Mark Jacobson, sub-zero commandante, with assistance of sub-basement commandante Miki the Milf, our favorite post-45 lady of the night.

Tonite's guests include: The famous Larry Ratso Sloman and William Kalush, authors of the recent book on Houdini, talking about the Great Hou's life as an American spy. Also: Jamie Gillis, the most famous of all 70's porn stars and now professional poker player, talking about being a very lucky guy. Also: KGB religion correspondent Jeff Sharlet (and editor of Revealer.org) talks about his close encounter with mega-preacher, mega meth-user Ted Haggard. Plus, special guest Steve Earle.

Sunday Fiction: Nell Freudenberger, Sam Lipsyte, and Jordi Punti

2006-12-13T01:31:00.000-05:00

Who: Nell Freudenberger, Sam Lipsyte, and Jordi Punti
When: Dec 10 2006 - 7:00pm
Time: 61 minutes

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Nell Freudenberger's collection of stories, Lucky Girls, was a New York Times Notable Book and won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 205 she was the recipient of a Whiting Writes Award. She lives in New York City and she reads from her novel:The Dissident

"Nell Freudenberger is awesomely skilled at making characters, setting scenes, and launching in old-fashioned plot suited to the twenty-first century..." Benjamin Kunkel

Sam Lipsyte is the author of Venus Drive and Homeland. He teaches at Columbia University. He reads from new work.

Jordi Puntí is a regular contributor to El País in Barcelona. He has published short-story collections such as Pell d’armadill and Animals tristos, and his work has been included in several anthologies of new Spanish writers, such as After Hours, Mar y montaña, and Pequeñas resistencias. He has also translated work by Daniel Pennac, Amélie Nothomb, Marie Darrieussecq, and Paul Auster, among others. He reads new work.

Sunday Night Fiction :: Kelly Braffet and David Evanier

2006-12-06T12:44:00.000-05:00

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Date: Dec 3 2006 - 7:00pm
Time: 59:55

Kelly Braffet is the author of Josie and Jack. She reads from her novel: Last Seen Leaving

"A suspenseful, emotionally resonant story...A keen, heartfelt thrill" Kirkus Reviews

David Evanier has written for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, New York Magazine, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The New York Times Book Review, and scores of other publications. His work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, and Many Lights In Many Windows: Twenty Years of Great Fiction and Poetry From The Writers Community. He won the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. He is a former Fiction Editor and Senior Editor of The Paris Review and a former creative writing teacher at UCLA. reads from his novel: The Great Kisser

"The Great Kisser is felt, original, and does what only David can do. So Swift, each line a gem; a real rollercoaster ride of emotions..." Stephen Dixon

Best New American Voices 2006

2006-11-13T20:06:00.000-05:00

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Sunday Night Fiction: Best New American Voices 2006

Date: Nov 5 2006 - 7:00pm
Time: 24:10

Ryan Effgen – “The Inappropriate Behavior of Our Alleged Loved Ones”

Ellen Litmnan – “About Kamyshinskiy”

Sunday Night Fiction :: Harper’s Perennial Girl Tour

2006-10-30T21:49:00.000-05:00

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Date: Oct 29 2006 - 7:00pm

Time: 53:52

Harper’s Perennial Girl Tour

Sarah Hall divides her time between the north of England and North Carolina. She reads from her book: Haweswater.

“A writer of showstopping genius: everyone should buy this novel.” – The Guardian

Heather O’Neill is a contributor to This American Life. She lives in Montreal, Canada. She reads from her novel: Lullabies for Little Criminals.

“This is a beautiful book. There are phrases in here that will make you laugh out loud, and others that will stop your heart. A definite triumph.” -- David Rakoff

Emily Maguire divides her time between teaching English, writing nonfiction pieces, and working on her next novel. She lives in Sydney. She reads from her novel: Taming the Beast.

“Emily Maguire embodies the great romantic myth of the writer who emerges from nowhere, fully formed.” -- Sydney Morning Herald

Monday Night Poetry :: Impetus Press

2006-10-29T21:04:00.000-05:00

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Monday Night Poetry 09.18.06: Impetus Press

7:00 pm

Time: 01:06:05

Impetus Press is a new independent publishing house located in Iowa City, Iowa. Founded on a mountain of contempt for the commercial publishing industry, we are dedicated to publishing and promoting works of serious literary fiction with a pop edge, that fall in-between the genres of the
experimental and the commercial. Most of all, Impetus Press is committed to creating an alternate space for quality fiction, making it possible fornew voices to be heard, read, and appreciated.

Kate Hunter grew up in Thetford, Vermont and Nashville, Tennessee, among other places. She moved to New York City at eighteen to go to school and has been here ever since, except for periods spent traveling in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. She lives in North Brooklyn with her dog, Tuva. Her first novella, The Dream Sequence, is now available from Impetus Press.

Nick Antosca's writing has appeared in The Barcelona Review, Identity Theory, The New York Tyrant, The Antietam Review, Hustler, Opium, elimae, and others. His first novel, Fires, will be published this winter by Impetus Press. He was born in New Orleans and graduated from college in 2005.

Christian TeBordo was born in Albany, New York in 1978. He earned a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Syracuse University where he was a fellow in creative writing. His fiction has appeared in Sleeping Fish, 3rd Bed, LaPetiteZine and 9th Letter among others, and a novel, The Conviction and Subsequent Life of Savior Neck, was published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2005. His second novel, Better Ways of Being Dead, and a novella, We Go Liquid, are forthcoming. We Go Liquid will be published by Impetus Press in spring, 2007. He and his wife Kathryn, a choreographer, live in Philadelphia.

Jennifer Banash was born and raised in New York City. She graduated with a B.A. in Fine Art from Arizona State University and has worked as a copywriter, editor, waitress, television news writer, party promoter, and exotic dancer. She lives, works and writes in Iowa City, Iowa, and is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Iowa. In August 2005, she co-founded Impetus Press with her partner, Willy Blackmore. Her poetry has been published in Black Spring Review, Poetry Motel, and The Colorado Review. Her first novel, Hollywoodland: An American Fairy Tale, is published by Impetus Press.

Dave Housley is a writer and web geek who lives outside Washington, DC. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Backwards City Review, Ballyhoo Stories, Hobart, Nerve, Potomac Review, Yankee Pot Roast, and some other places. He's one of the founders and fiction editors and all around do-stuff grunt workers at Barrelhouse magazine. He has a M.S. in professional writing from Towson State University and is currently finishing an M.A. in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University. He has webmastered for the environment, human rights, the government, and for money. His first collection of stories Ryan Seacrest is Famous: Stories by Dave Housley, will be published Fall 2007 by Impetus Press.

Sunday Fiction: George Rabasa, Gonzalo Barr, Ryan Boudinot

2006-10-25T03:21:00.001-04:00

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Time: 01:19:00

Start: Oct 22 2006 - 7:00pm
End: Oct 22 2006 - 9:00pm
George Rabasa's short fiction has appeared in Story Quarterly, Glimmer Train, The MacGuffin, South Carolina Quarterly and in several fiction anthologies. He reads from his book: The Cleansing.

“A complex triangular relationship is painstakingly probed in Rabasa’s thoughtful second novel . . . Its three principles emerge as complicated and seductive characters.” Kirkus Reviews

Gonzalo Barr is the winner of the 2005 Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize for fiction, selected by Francine Prose and awarded by Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He lives in Coral Gables Florida. He reads from his collection: The Last Flight Of Jose Luis Balboa.

"Engaging, funny, highly enjoyable . . .With their deceptively modest authority and just as deceptively easy charm, these stories draw you in." Francine Prose

Ryan Boudinot’s work has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 and 2005, Nerve, McSweeney’s and Black Book. He lives in Seattle, Washington. He reads from his collection: The Littlest Hitler.

“Ryan Boudinot has a hell of an ear: for dialogue, for the right adverb in the perfect spot, for the joy of weird slang, and for the rumbling underbelly of corporate culture. This is a scary, fresh, funny, eye-opening debut.”
Aimee Bender

Sunday Night Fiction :: Katherine Min and Calvin Baker

2006-10-23T15:00:00.000-04:00

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Time: 49:27

Oct 15 2006 - 9:00pm
Katherine Min was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and graduated from Amherst College and the Columbia School of Journalism. She currently teaches at Plymouth State University and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. Katherine Min’s short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, and Prairie Schooner, and have been widely anthologized, most recently in The Pushcart Book of Stories: The Best Short Stories from a Quarter-Century of The Pushcart Prize. “Eyelids” was listed as one of 100 distinguished stories in The Best American Short Stories of 1997. “The Brick” was read on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts program in 1999. “Courting a Monk” won a Pushcart Prize. She reads from her novel: Secondhand World.

“[A] haunting debut … Swirling, textured, beautifully detailed … Min’s rendering of an outsider family’s tight-knit alienation is spot-on.” — Publishers Weekly

Calvin Baker was born in Chicago and graduated from Amherst College. He is the author of Naming the New World and Once Two Heroes. He lives in New York City and he reads from his novel: Dominion.

“Dominion leads us through yet another hidden door in the haunted mansion of our country’s history. This incantatory, petic, staring, thoughtful novel is a heroic act of exploration, feeling, and imagination.” – Francisco Goldman

Sunday Night Fiction :: Rachel Sherman and Karen Russell

2006-09-19T16:34:00.000-04:00

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Title: Sunday Night Fiction
Date: 09/17/06
Duration (min:sec): 47:01
File size: 15 MB

Rachel Sherman holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney's, n+1, Open City, Post Road and Story Quarterly, among other publications. Her book of short stories, The First Hurt, has been short-listed for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Book Award.

“Rachel Sherman writes stories like splinters: they get under your skin and stay with you long after you’ve closed the book. These haunting stories are both wonderfully, deeply weird and unsettlingly familiar.”—Judy Budnitz

Karen Russell, a native of Miami, has been featured in both The New Yorker’s debut fiction issue and in New York magazine as one of the twenty-five people to watch under the age of twenty-five. She is a graduate of the Columbia MFA program and is the 2005 recipient of the Transatlantic Review/Henfield Foundation Award, and her fiction recently appeared in Conjunctions and Granta. She currently lives in New York City. She is twenty-four years old. She reads from her collection: St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves.

“This book is a miracle. Karen Russell is a literary mystic, channeling spectral tales that surge with feeling. A devastatingly beautiful debut by a powerful new writer.” –Ben Marcus

09.10.06 Sunday Night Fiction w. Elisa Albert & Binnie Kirschenbaum

2006-09-16T16:59:00.000-04:00

KGB Bar's Sunday night fiction series returned from summer hiatus this week with readings from Elisa Albert and Binnie Kirschenbaum.

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Time (min:sec): 33:49
Date: Sunday, September 10, 2006