Friday, March 21st 2008
at THE CRANE ARTS COMMUNITY SPACE

located inside The Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St. (two blocks north of Girard Ave. between 2nd & 3rd streets)

Featuring
DEB OLIN UNFERTH (Fiction Writer; Kansas)
PATTIE MCCARTHY (Poet; Philadelphia) \
DOUG GOODWIN (Media Artist; Boston)

DEB OLIN UNFERTH is the author of the story collection Minor Robberies, which appears as one volume of three from McSweeney's. Her fiction has appeared in Harper's, Conjunctions, NOON, the Pushcart Prize anthologies, and elsewhere. Her first novel, Vacation, is forthcoming from McSweeney's in fall 2008.

PATTIE MCCARTHY is the author of bk of (h)rs and Verso, both from Apogee Press. Poems from her recently completed booklength series, Table Alphabetical of Hard Words, have appeared or are forthcoming in the Colorado Review, DUSIE, Foursquare, and The Poker. She teaches literature and creative writing at Temple University and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

DOUG GOODWIN is an artist currently living in Boston, Massachusetts. His work explores how technology fails to adequately represent the world. He is especially interested in purifying representation by foregrounding media failures and glitches. His current work critiques Artificial Intelligence by showing how little computers understand of literature and communication. Goodwin's work has been shown at MIT, Harvard University, REDCAT, Pacific Film Archive, CalArts, LA's POST Gallery, G825, SIGGRAPH, Eyebeam, Dorkbot, Brandeis University, and Reed College.