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The Philadelphia 215 Festival presents a Soft Skull Press Indie Showcase
The participants: Daniel Nester is a poet, editor, and teacher who lives in Brooklyn, NY. His work has appeared in Open City, Nerve, Black Book, Barrow Street, Best American Poetry 2003, and others. He is editor-in-chief of the online literary journal Unpleasant Event Schedule. His latest Soft Skull book is God Save My Queen II: The Show Must Go On and he is a contributor to the Soft Skull anthology Gamers: Writers, Artists, and Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels, edited by Shanna Compton.
Maggie Dubris is the author of three books including WillieWorld (CuzEditions 1998) and Weep Not, My Wanton (Black Sparrow Press 2002). She has played, sand and written lyrics for several bands, including Kill All Your Darlings, Lulu Revue, and Homer Erotic. A former NYC 911 paramedic working at St. Clare’s Hospital, Maggie Dubris is now employed as a professional hypnotist. Her new Soft Skull novel, Skels, is based on her experience as an NYC paramedic.
Lydia Millet wrote her new novel Everyone’s Pretty (Soft Skull, 2005) after a stint as the copyeditor of Hustler magazine in Beverly Hills, CA in the 1990s. She is the author of three previous novels, My Happy Life (Henry Holt, 2002), which won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction, the political comedy George Bush, Dark Prince of Love (Scribner, 2000), and Omnivores (Algonquin, 1996). She is an essayist and screenwriter as well as a novelist and lives outside Tucson, Arizona, with her husband, conservationist Kieran Suckling, and their daughter Nola.
One Ring Zero is Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp. Based in New York City, they perform regularly at venues around the city including The Knitting Factory, Galapagos, and Tonic. They recently performed at the Whitney Museum of Art, at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park, and at the Central Park Summer Stage with George Plimpton and Paul Auster. One Ring Zero has shared billings with Cibo Matto, Medeski Martin and Wood, Thurston Moore, The Magnetic Fields, and The Roots among others. One Ring Zero has received grants from The Virginia Commission For the Arts and The National Endowment For The Arts. Their music has been featured in dance concerts, films and animations, fashion shows, BBC Radio Four, and NPR programming including This American Life and The Next Big Thing.
Myla Goldberg is the author of the critically acclaimed first novel Bee Season (Anchor, 2001). She also penned the lyrics for a song in One Ring Zero’s latest book/CD As Smart As We Are (Soft Skull, 2004).
About the 215 Festival The 215 Festival gets the word off the page and onto the stage all year long with readings, shows and cross-pollinated performances held citywide in auditoriums, bars, museums and theaters.
The 215 gets down with established and emerging writers and musicians, and brings together the best of both Philadelphia and national talent.
The Festival is a showcase for writers that are as fun to watch as a band and music that is as smartly engaging as a book.
For more information about the festival, and an updated schedule of events, please visit www.215festival.com.
