summer 2000
			The Moth in collaboration with invites you to: Writers on the Verge: An Evening of stories on the breaking Point Hear Tales of Breakdown, Breakthrough, & Breakout Stories told by Edie Meidav author of the forthcoming novel The Far Field Daniel Mendelsohn author of The Elusive Embrace Desire and the Riddle of Identity Ernesto Quinonez author of Bodega Dreams Paisley Rekdal author of the forthcoming The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee PLUS Other Writers on the Verge Hosted by Jonathan Ames Curated by Joy Press of the VLS Thusday, June 8, 2000 Galapagos 70 North 6th Street Williamsburg 718-782-5188 8:00pm doors open for conversation 9:00pm Stories start on stage $10 at the door RSVP Required: mothrsvp@echonyc.com or 741-8926 Please remember that rsvps are a commitment to come and limit rsvps to +1 per name Stories at The Moth is an urban storytelling event Moth Executive Producer and Artistic Director: Joey Xanders Producer: Jason Choy
		FEATURES
		Writers on the Verge Eight distinctive voices, eight inventive minds, eight forthcoming books. VLS editors point you toward up-and-coming writers likely to shake up the literary landscape.
		Punching Out Gig collects scores of angry oral histories by employees fed up with the downsized, temp-heavy, image-before-product modern workplace. Susan Faludi charts the plunging morale.
		The Information With his memoir Experience, Martin Amis rehashes well-publicized stories he thought should never have been told in the first place--skirmishes with authors, his illegitimate daughter, the expensive dental work. Daniel Handler explores the contradictions.
		The Sex Files Three new books--A History of Celibacy, The Wages of Sin, and Teaching Sex--delve into the conflicts that course through most studies of sex: dread, desire, and curiosity. Emily Nussbaum seeks out the hot stuff.
		My Own Private Vertigo W.G. Sebald's novel Vertigo finds indelible traces of the dead among the living. Benjamin Kunkel goes to the land of the lost.
		The Age of Acknowledgment Acknowledgments have become sprawling curtain-openers in which authors deflect criticism, confess inadequacies, and plug their favorite antidepressants. Henry Alford tours the trend of thanks gone haywire.
		Boxer Rebellion While Nick Tosches's new bio, The Devil and Sonny Liston, steps into the messy life of a petty thief, drunk, and heavyweight champ, The Nick Tosches Reader stumbles over self-indulgence and bad-boy antics. Jim Lewis referees the battle of the Tosches.
		Poetic License Poets Madeline Gleason and Fanny Howe dwell in the chasm between the world and how we understand it. Ammiel Alcalay listens to their music.
		OPEN BOOK
		Vince Aletti on Fotografía Pública, edited by Horacio Fernández
		Cathy Hong on Curios, by Judith Taylor
		Jesse Berrett on Cute, Quaint, Hungry, and Romantic, by Daniel Harris
		Rachel Mattson on Valencia, by Michelle Tea
		Lenora Todaro on The Art of Whitfield Lovell, edited by Diana Block
		Karen Cook on Stolen Harvest, by Vandana Shiva
		Stephen Burt on Live From the Hong Kong Nile Club, by August Kleinzahler
		REGULARS
		Bestsellers
		Marginalia Comic artist Devin Grayson imagines what superheroes do out of costume, with all the emotional strife and sexual tension of a romance novel. Douglas Wolk gets personal with the crime fighters.
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