Eric Nelson, Katelan V. Foisy, Michael Lala
Drusilla Osborne & Eric Nelson
Drusilla Osborne & Michael Lala
Packed House & sold out of books for the event ROCK!
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Eric Nelson, Katelan V. Foisy, Michael Lala
Drusilla Osborne & Eric Nelson
Drusilla Osborne & Michael Lala
Packed House & sold out of books for the event ROCK!
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]]>March 27th he will be reading at Cyberpunk Apocalypse, a writer's cooperative work and
event space out of Pittsburgh, PA 6pm. The house is notable for being raided during the G20 Convention and mentioned in the NY Times.
website: http://cyberpunkapocalypse.blogspot.com/
Book Release Party for "THE SILK CITY SERIES" + Open Mic!
Sunday March 7 from 7-10
Barramundi, 67 Clinton Street @ Rivington St. L.E.S. NYC
Drink specials! Snacks! Debauchery!
Reading with the Numu Arts Collective, a Brooklyn-based grassroots
organization for artists, featuring North Brooklyn's finest emerging
writers.
Wednesday March 31 8pm
Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen Street @ Stanton St. L.E.S. NYC
Friday April 16 8pm
Symposia Community Bookstore
510 Washington Street
Hoboken, NJ
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OUT FEBRUARY 2010
THE SILK CITY SERIES is a short story collection by Eric Nelson.
THE SILK CITY SERIES pulls readers into the everyday lives of working-class residents of Paterson, New Jersey. Originally published serially in Nelson’s acclaimed zine—Silk City Series—this collection presents a diverse cross-section of characters based on the author’s own childhood neighbors. The stories capture a post-industrial city in a state usually not known for its beauty. In the heart of a city, where wealth lies in the surrounding suburbs, neighbors live on top of each other. Families struggle to stick together. Most find solace in each other. And the city, a character in itself, changes all who reside in its boundaries.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Knickerbocker Circus Publishing
Pub Date: February 2010
Price: $10.00
ISBN: 978-1-61658-930-1
Eric Nelson is a true native son of New Jersey, having grown up in both the northern and southern parts of the state. He attained a B.A. in Literature from Ramapo College of New Jersey and has lived in Boston, Brooklyn and Queens, where he currently resides. A prolific writer, he is active in the zine subculture, continuing to produce self-published works such as the “The Cup and Saucer Chronicles” and “Wait, Where Are You Going?” which contains interviews with Henry Rollins, Ayun Halliday, and Joe Biel. He is currently at work on his debut novel.
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My favorite page in the zine is about perfectionism. I know that all too well.
]]>About the Author:
Eric Nelson, 25, was born and raised in a blue-collar suburb of northern New Jersey, the son of a nurse and machinist. In his teenage years, he found solace in the punk rock subculture and became involved in radical politics, the art of zine making, and a strong local music scene that often extended to New York City. He began writing fiction while an undergraduate at Ramapo College of New Jersey, a public college tucked away in the Ramapo Mountains. Upon graduating college, he moved to Boston in search of a job in non-profit fundraising and began working for a domestic violence non-profit organization. After a short period of time spent there, he moved to Brooklyn, where he began to seriously write short fiction and continue to work for non-profits. In May of 2009, he published his first zine in years as a series of short stories known as “The Silk City Series.”
He also became involved in the art scenes of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, Brooklyn as a volunteer zine librarian at the art/activist space ABC No Rio, as well as an arts administrator at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, a non-profit gallery. What began as a way to grieve over the death of a parent turned into something bigger.
Individual stories have been distributed to passers-by at coffee houses, and art spaces, such as the 3rd Ward Artist Co-op in Brooklyn; and have also been sold at various festivals, through the website etsy.com and in bookstores such as Bluestockings Radical Bookstore and Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia. In addition to The Silk City Series, he has written numerous essays and articles published in several magazines including upcoming issues of “Constellation” as well as the self-published “Cup and Saucer Chronicles” zine, which was favorably reviewed in the October 2009 issue of Maximum Rocknroll magazine.
You can find Eric here
We are looking for zines of all kind to include in our trades. So far we will be working with such places as Corndog Zine Distro UK, Some Secret Place UK, and a few others.
