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An Evening with Slice at KGB Bar

Where will you find love on Valentine’s Day? We suggest skipping dinner and a movie. Instead, celebrate the occasion (a couple of days early) with fellow bookworms at KGB Bar. Hey, you might end up meeting the love of your life. And if that doesn’t happen, you can still kick back with a nice brew and listen to Slice contributors talk about loves won and lost.

Where: KGB Bar

When: February 12, 7pm

Who: Kathleen Alcott, Ian F. King, Sarah Gerard, Lucas Hunt, Sharona Moskowitz, and John Trotta

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NYC Event of the Week

Largehearted Boy's 10th Anniversary at Largehearted Lit

Thursday, January 26th @ 7:00pm

WORD Bookstore
126 Franklin St
Brooklyn, NY

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Press and Reviews

“Beautiful, compelling, irresistible: Slice will knock you right out. In the best way possible.” 
           -- Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Slice is among the golden few of modern literary publications, not only because of its fiction, poetry, interviews, and articles, but because it's simply the one everyone is talking about.”
           -- 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 9
Into the Wild

It’s rare that anyone drifts into the wild. Most people hurtle toward the mysterious territories that lay beyond the borders of their respective norms. Some are driven by curiosity and a sense of adventure, while others are dragged kicking and screaming into the overgrowth. They set out to embrace the unknown or are held captive by it. And that dynamic, between us and the wild, whatever the wild might be, fits the art of writing perfectly. Issue 9 of Slice celebrates writers that have ventured into the wild—some literally and literarily. Each writer in this issue, the bright new stars and the established greats, took a chance, ventured into uncharted spaces (fictive or real), and recorded their journeys on the page. 

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Featured Author
Maurice Sendak

Many of us remember crawling into bed, blankets tucked in firmly, and looking up as someone’s hand slowly turned the pages of a picture book. In that magical moment our bedroom would transform, the images on those pages eclipsing the walls, the floor, the ceiling. Maurice Sendak captured the power of a child’s imagination, to transport them into the wild recesses of dreams, in his most famous book, Where the Wild Things Are. And so he was a natural fit for this issue of Slice.

We had the opportunity to chat on the phone with Maurice, who lives in Connecticut, a week before his eighty-second birthday. He took us back to the wildest place he ever went to, the place that inspired the adventures of his mischievous character named Max. It was his childhood home, located in Brooklyn, the same borough as Slice’s headquarters. So it turns out that the wild can take root in your backyard, or if you don’t have one—as is the case for many city kids—in the nooks and crannies of your apartment.

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Spotlight Author
Jackie Shannon Hollis

From “Her Own Special Touch”

All the towns we lived in were small ones but the one we moved to when I was nine was smaller than any of them. Papa was sticking with small towns because they were the best place to raise a son, even if people tended to snoop into each other’s business. He was sure Springs would have some boys my age to play with even if it was small.

The yard around our new house was just a patchy square of grass. It was springtime and there had been rain, but most of the grass was brown. There were no flowers or shrubs or much of anything in our yard, except for a bendy low-to-the-ground tree in the front corner. 

A few weeks after we moved in, Mama and I were on the porch. We were taking some sun after the rain. The people at Little’s grocery said the rain was good for farmers. Papa said the wheat farmers were the heart of this town. Still, it was good to have some sun, even if the farmers would have problems.

 

 

 

Back Issues
Encounters in a Bookstore

A series by Liz Mathews

#143: The Ability to Read

It’s a rare day when I take recommendations from customers. Maybe that’s pretentious of me, but to be honest, it’s also a rare day when I take recommendations from friends. Just ask how long it’s taking me to watch a friend-lended complete set of The Wire, or how many years I let go by before finally reading one of the best fantasy novels I have ever set eyes on.

Actually, better that you don’t ask.

But that doesn’t mean I don’t listen to customers as they’re recommending something. Thus, the man buying two copies of Pete Hamill’s Forever.

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