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Tonight, Tonight, You'll See Gaiman, Wilsey, Ames, &c. Tonight

Filed under: On the Spot Tagged: cartoons, comics, events, fiction, Jonathan Ames, memoir, Sean Wilsey

Take the cultural advice of The New York Times for once and do two New Yorker-y things tonight. From the Times's email newsletter UrbanEye:

Park yourself at 37 Arts, a gleaming new West Side performance complex, for a literary evening tonight. First up: the cartoonist Neal Gaiman, the African children's book author Marguerite Abouet and Sean Wilsey, the author of "Oh the Glory of it All," the poor-little-rich-boy memoir that Michiko Kakatuani called "by turns heartfelt, absurd, self-indulgent, self-abasing, silly and genuinely moving." Then Mr. Gaiman joins Jonathan Ames, Pico Iyer and Edgar Oliver, the Poe of the East Village, to tell tales of home and travel for the Moth storytelling series. Just by staying in your seat you'll seem erudite.

Sean Wilsey talk, 6 p.m, and the Moth readings, 8 p.m., 37 Arts, 450 West 37th Street, Clinton, (212) 560-8912; $15 and $30.

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At first I thought you were talking about Neil Gaiman and got really excited for a moment.

JasminApril 27, 2007

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