January 10, 7:30pm: Felix Bernstein & Cecilia Corrigan

Felix Bernstein debuted on YouTube with his real and satirical Coming Out Video in 2008 and went on to play characters from Amy Winehouse to Lamb Chop to Leopold Brant. His critical and uncritical writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Htmlgiant, GaussPDF, Boston Review, The Believer, Hyperallergic, and Bomb. His first book Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry is forthcoming from Insert Blanc Press. With Gabe Hoot Rubin, he made the films Unchained Melody and Boyland. Together they directed and starred in Red Krayola’s opera Victorine at the 2012 Whitney Biennial, and lead the band Tender Cousins. He’s always on the nose at www.felixbenstein.com.

Cecilia Corrigan is a writer and performer based in New York. Her debut book, Titanic (Northwestern University Press, 2014) was awarded the Madeleine P. Plonsker Prize. Titanic was on Flavorwire’s Top Ten Academic Press books and Flavorwire’s Top Ten Poetry books of 2014. She has previously worked on HBO's Luck for show-runner David Milch, and recently finished her first feature screenplay. She also writes fiction and performs stand up comedy.

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Saturday, January 10, 2015
Doors at 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012