"WordTheatre is a great, freewheeling, passionately engaged interpreter of contemporary short fiction. Whereas other such enterprises are content to cherry pick a few classics in a predictable setting, WordTheatre finds work that can bring about great performances in its constituency of first-rate performers, always in search of the ineffable and the uncanny that are at the heart of the very best in world literature. Their ambition is for the new, the challenging, and the emotionally rich. In my own case, I have never heard such wonderful and illuminated performances of my own work." - Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm
Our Supporters
Brunch with Writers Aimee Bender, Aram Saroyan & Thomas Steinbeck
June 1, 2003 @ Canal Club
Program:
- Sarah Clarke read Jinx by Aimee Bender, winner of the 2003 Pushcart Prize, edited by Bill Henderson.
- Joanna Gleason read Cordials by David Kranes, winner of the 1976 Pushcart Prize and published in The Pushcart Prize of Short Stories: The Best From a Quarter Century of Winning Stories (Pushcart Press 2002).
- Howard Hesseman read Bicoastal by Aram Saroyan from his collection Artists in Trouble: New Stories (Black Sparrow Press 2001).
- Noah Watts read Pretend Dinners by W.P. Kinsella, winner of the 1980 Pushcart Prize and published in The Pushcart Prize of Short Stories: The Best From a Quarter Century of Winning Stories (Pushcart Press 2002).
- Xander Berkeley read The Night Guide by Thomas Steinbeck from his collection of stories Down to a Soundless Sea (Ballantine 2002).
Produced and directed by Cedering Fox