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NYC Event of the Week

Lit Crawl NYC: Brooklyn

Saturday, May 19th, starting @ 6:00pm

Various locations in Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill/Brooklyn Heights

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           -- Simon Van Booy, winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and author of The Secret Lives of People in Love

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Issue 10
Growing Up

Our baby is all grown up—or at least, that’s how it feels. Five years ago, we were eagerly waiting for Slice’s first issue to arrive from the printer. We didn’t know what to expect. We’d been researching, planning, and plotting Slice for more than a year, and we’d finally reached our goal of starting our own little literary magazine.

Issue 10 celebrates growth, but, as we’ve discovered with Slice, growth is rarely what we expect. In this issue, you’ll encounter characters mired in their struggles. Not all of them will grow up by the last page. But, stepping back as readers, we can see the possibility of growth beyond the story’s end. And, as you’ll learn through interviews with some of today’s literary greats, growing up is more about hope than reaching a fixed point.

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Featured Author
Julia Alvarez

photo by Bill Eichner

An Interview by Beth Blachman

Julia Alvarez’s first novel, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, is in some ways a classic coming-of-age novel—but Alvarez structures the tale chronologically backwards, so the four García girls begin as adults and grow younger throughout the work. When time works in reverse, the moments of childhood, its small sins and strange discoveries, feel like the climax of who we will become. As Alvarez’s characters trace their way back through the episodes that crafted their identities, it becomes clear that children are creatures of the moment. Growing up is for adults. It is the story we tell ourselves about who we are.

We asked the novelist and poet about growing up under a dictatorship in the Dominican Republic, her work with the sustainable farm and literacy center that she and her husband started there, and how memories become the stuff of stories.

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Spotlight Author
Rachel Maizes

 

 

 

 

 

photo by Hamidah Glasgow

From “Mama's Boy”

As soon as Mrs. Cossgrove turned off the dormitory lights, and the slap of her oxfords against the flagstone path receded, Lila hopped on Reese’s cot. She kneaded Reese’s chest, her claws pricking his pajamas, her long, grey fur tickling his wrists. Reese closed his eyes and breathed in the cat’s smell—a mix of cold, tree bark, leaves all but melted into the earth, and also a raw scent, of mice perhaps. Petting her, his breathing slowed like it did when he solved equations, everything balancing out in large, white letters on the chalkboard.

Around him, boys argued about who was the greatest, Babe Ruth or Ty Cobb. The 1960 season had just begun.

Reese massaged the top of Lila’s head.

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Back Issues
Encounters in a Bookstore

A series by Liz Mathews

#402: So Many Shades

You might have heard of a little book called Fifty Shades of Grey. And, if you’ve heard of that, you’ve maybe also heard of Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. If you are a woman in the United States of America, you might have read the trilogy already. If you are a man, you might also be considering reading these books, if only to understand what’s got the ladies so hot and bothered at the moment. Or maybe to make your lady a little bothered, too.

At the bookstore where I work, Fifty Shades of Grey, or the other two in the trilogy, plays a role in every other transaction that passes through any given cash register. At the information desk, if someone has failed to see the trilogy on one of numerous displays throughout the store, its whereabouts is one of the most popular customer questions. By the time you read this article, we will have sold at least 1500 copies of Grey.

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