Klein Conference Room, Room A510, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
Room 510, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011
More information here. This event is free.
Mitch Sisskind, is a Los Angeles-based poet and fiction writer and a renowned wit and savvy commentator on the shifting mores of American life. He is the author of Do Not Be a Gentleman When You Say Goodnight (The Song Cave, 2016) as well as two collections of short fiction: Visitations (1984) and Dog Man Stories (1993). His poems were included in the Best American Poetry anthologies for 2009 and 2013. Moderated by David Lehman, Poetry Chair and Professor, Creative Writing Program.
"Donald Barthelme told me, early on, that Mitch Sisskind is the funniest living writer in America—and when I read "A Mean Teacher," I was convinced. This collection renders me helpless with laughter and admiration. Man, is he oblique or what?" —Michael Silverblatt, Host, Bookworm (KCRW)
"Mitch Sisskind’s collection of poems and stories, Do Not Be a Gentleman When You Say Goodnight, is a retrospective of a near fifty-year career of provocative, unnerving, absurd, but most of all, searingly funny comic writing. Relying on irony, paradox, and the unexpected to evoke emotion, Sisskind’s comic talent lies in his ability to be at once humorous and moving, reassuring and unsettling." Thomas Moody
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