Five Points Reading Series Presents:

Travis Diehl
Alex Kitnick
Rachel Kushner

6:30 pm on Sunday, November 13th, 2011

Travis Diehl is an artist and writer born in Greensboro, North Carolina. His videos and prints have been shown at such venues as the Hysterically Real Theater, Curtat Tunnel, and The Centre Pompidou. His art writing has appeared most recently at Cirrus Gallery, Anthony Greaney Gallery, and Art Műr, and is forthcoming in Artforum, X-Tra, and P.&Co. He edits the Los Angeles-based magazine Prism of Reality.

Alex Kitnick has written for October and May, and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

Rachel Kushner is the author of Telex from Cuba, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction in 2008, a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and winner of the California Book Award. Kushner’s writing has appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, The New York Times, Fence, Bomb, The Believer, Cabinet and Grand Street. She is co-editor of Soft Targets Journal and lives in Los Angeles, where she is at work on her second novel.

Five Points Reading Series Presents:

Tundra

With readings by:
Ken Ehrlich
Grace Krilanovich
Karen Tongson

5 pm on Sunday, October 16th, 2011

Five Points Reading Series Presents:

Little Earthquakes

With readings by:
Aimee Bender
Allison Carter
Samantha Cohen

Sunday, June 5th, 2011

Join us early to celebrate the closing of The Elephant, works by Betsy Lin Seder.

Gallery opens at 3 pm
Reading starts at 7 pm

Five Points Reading Series: May Day

Aaron Kunin
Emily Lacy
Claire Phillips

At the Art Sale
May 1st, 2011
6 pm

Five Points Reading Series Presents:

MEXICO NOW

Veronica Gonzalez
Daniel Hernandez
Chris Kraus

Sunday, March 13th
6PM
Workspace
2601 Pasadena Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90031

The Five Points Reading Series is a semi-frequent event hosted by Workspace. Five Points is a showcase for all literary forms and beyond. The series is organized by Kate Wolf and Nikki Darling.

Tyler Coburn
Mariah Garnett
Jonesy
& others TBA

Sunday February 13th, 7:30PM

workspace, 2601 Pasadena Ave. 90031

Dance Party After the Reading

Five Points Presents:

Word for Word

Ali Liebegott
Catherine Taft
Michelle Tea
David Ulin

Organized by Nikki Darling and Kate Wolf

Sunday November 21st, 7pm

Ali Liebegott has been writing stories and poems since she was a teenager. Her works has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including: I Do/I Don’t (Suspect Thoughts Press); Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache (Alyson Press); Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard (Painted Leaf Press); Between the Cracks (Daedelus); Virgin Territory II (Masquerade Press); Blythe House Quarterly; The Brooklyn Review and others. In 2005 her book-length poem The Beautifully Worthless was published by Suspect Thoughts Press. It was recently awarded a Lambda Literary Award in the category of Best Lesbian Debut Fiction. Her novel The IHOP Papers was published in 2007 from Carroll & Grad. She has performed her work throughout the country many times, including two tours with Sister Spit. In 1999 she was a recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Currently she is finishing an illustrated novel called The Crumb People about a post-September 11th obsessive duck feeder.

Catherine Taft is a Los Angeles based critic and curator. She is a regular contributor to Artforum International and has also written for journals including Modern Painters, ArtReview, Metropolis-M, Kaleidoscope and exhibition catalogs in the U.S. and abroad. Additionally, Taft is a Curatorial Associate in the department of Architecture and Contemporary Art the Getty Research Institute, where she helped organize the exhibition California Video (2008) and is currently working on a large scale research initiative and exhibition Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1945-1980 (Fall 2011).

Michelle Tea is the author of four memoirs, a collection of poetry, and the novel Rose of No Man’s Land. She’s edited anthologies on first-person narratives, class, fashion, and queer fiction. Her journalism has been selected for the Best American Non-Required Reading and Best Music Writing series. Michelle is the founder of RADAR Productions, the San Francisco-based literary organization that hosts monthly reading series, the international Sister Spit tours, an annual retreat, a poetry contest, and way more excellent events for writers and readers. She is currently teaching a novel workshop at CalArts.

David L. Ulin is book critic of the Los Angeles Times. From 2005-2010, he was the paper’s book editor. His new book is The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time. He is the author of The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith, and the editor of Another City: Writing from Los Angeles and Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, which won a 2002 California Book Award. His essays and criticism had appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Columbia Journalism Review, and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

Five Points Readings: Notes on Film
Organized by Nikki Darling and Kate Wolf

Michael Ned Holte
George Porcari
Mary Woronov

@ workspace
2601 Pasadena Ave. 90031
www.workspace2601.com

Sunday October 17th, 7 pm

Michael Ned Holte is a writer and independent curator based in Los Angeles. He contributes regularly to Artforum International and his writing has also appeared in print periodicals such as Afterall, Domus, Frieze, Interview, Pin-Up, and X-Tra. He has provided texts for numerous monographs and exhibition catalogues including Richard Hawkins—Third Mind (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale), Steve Roden: when words become forms (Pomona College Museum of Art), Roy McMakin: When is a Chair Not a Chair (Skira/Rizzoli), and Ricky Swallow: The Bricoleur (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia). He has curated exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and Torino, Italy, most recently organizing the exhibition “Support Group” for Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home, Los Angeles. Currently, he is faculty at the California Institute of the Arts.

George Porcari is a writer, filmmaker and photographer who moved to LA from Peru in 1963. He has also worked as the acquisitions librarian at Art Center College for more than 20 years and taught film history there for 10. Porcari’s photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently with a solo show at China Art Objects in March 2010 and his writing has appeared in such places as Cine Action, NY Arts, Rain Taxi and Inflatable Magazine. In 2012, Semiotext(e) will publish a collection of his essays on photography.

Mary Woronov is the author of numerous books of fiction as well as the memoir Swimming Underground, which chronicles her time with Andy Warhol at the Factory. Her other books include the novels, Snake and Niagara as well as a short story collection, Blind Love, all published by Serpent Tail and the book Wake for the Angels that combines stories with her painting. She is also a frequent contributor to the magazine Artillery. Woronov has appeared in many films including Warhol’s Chelsea Girls, Rock ‘N’ Roll High School and Eating Raoul. A documentary about her, based on her book, Confessions of a Cult Queen, is soon to be released from Minx films.