Wow, A 3D animated Best Music Writing 2006 in living stereo for one night only!

Please come out to the BWM06 reading at Housing Works on Wednesday, October 25th, and (as per below) bring a book or two to donate to the venue. You could even bring a book of bad music writing so you have a spot for the BMW06 on your shelf. Trade up!

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006
Housing Works Bookstore Café
Wednesday, October 25, 7PM

“One of the hottest literary hubs in New York:
the bookstore salon that the city has been missing.”
- New York Times

Admission is free, but donated books are welcome and encouraged.

PRESS QUERIES ONLY CONTACT: Chaya Thanhauser, Special Events and Marketing, Housing Works Bookstore Café: 212-966-0466, X1104 or Thanhauser@housingworks.org

Housing Works is proud to present an evening with the editors and contributors of DA CAPO BEST MUSIC WRITING 2006 on Wednesday, October 25 at 7:00 pm. The Year’s Best Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More! Jam packed with some of today’s hottest music writers reading from their work, the event will be kicked off with an introduction by Mary Gaitskill and moderated by Daphne Carr. There will be two rounds of readings followed by question and answer sessions and a book signing at the end.

Praise for the DA CAPO BEST MUSIC WRITING Series:

“Each page makes me want to either dance or visit a rock star’s grave.”—USA Today

“A diverse time capsule that grapples with pop music’s most engaging issues.”—Blender

About the Contributors who will be reading:

Guest Editor Mary Gaitskill is a National Book Award finalist for her novel Veronica, which was also named one of the New York Times’ top five novels of the year. Her book Because They Wanted To was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998 and her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and teaches creative writing at Syracuse University. She lives in New York.

Andrew Hultkrans is the author of Forever Changes (Continuum, 2003), one of the inaugural six volumes in the 33 1/3 series on celebrated rock albums. From 1998 through 2003, he was editor-in-chief of Bookforum magazine. Over the years, his journalism and criticism have appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Wired, Salon, 21C, Filmmaker, Tin House, Cabinet, and the pioneering cyberculture magazine Mondo 2000, where he was managing editor and columnist for three years in the early '90s. He is at work on a book about surveillance in America.

Nick Weidenfeld was born in Washington, D.C. He worked with Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky at the Department of Defense before becoming co-owner and editor of While You Were Sleeping magazine. He is currently the head of Program Development for [adult swim] on the Cartoon Network and is working on his own series, "That Crook'd 'Sip" inspired by William Faulkner's "The Sound and Fury" and David Banner's first record, Missisippi: The Album. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Robert Christgau began writing rock criticism for Esquire in 1967 and since 1974 has been a full-time employee of The Village Voice, where the masthead now lists him as "gray eminence." He has published three books based on his Consumer Guide columns and two other collections, Any Old Way You Choose It (1973) and Grown Up All Wrong (1998). "The First Lady of Song" was his first contribution to The Nation.

Dave Tompkins has written about hip hop since 1992. His first book, I Have No Vocoder And I Must Scream, begins with a man yelling at an air conditioner. Participants include: Ray Bradbury, Rammellzzee, Can, a 16-foot hexagon called The OVC, a 96 year-old WWII speech splitter named Ralph, Miami, Stanislaw Lem, a Bavarian mental institution, Dr. Phibes and weird little kids and frogs. He lives in Brooklyn and writes for The Wire and Wax Poetics.

Elizabeth Mendez Berry's writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Village Voice, Time, and Vibe, among other publications. She is from Toronto.

In 2001, Anne Midgette became the first woman to regularly review classical music for The New York Times. Her reviews and feature articles on music, theater, art, dance and film have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Opera News, ArtNews, Town and Country, and many other publications; she has also written in German for Die Welt and Opern Welt. With Herbert Breslin, she co-authored The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame. She is currently working on a novel.

Jon Caramanica is Music Editor of Vibe Magazine. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vice, New York, Spin, and the Village Voice. He is at work on a social history of rap music.

Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. His first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, is forthcoming from Farrar, Strauss & Giroux.

Will Hermes writes for The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and many other publications; he also contributes to National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered" and "All Songs Considered." He is co-editor, with Sia Michel, of SPIN: 20 Years of Alternative Music (Three Rivers Press), and author of the semi-fictional MP3 blog Loose Strife.

J. Edward Keyes has been writing about music since 1997, and has contributed to Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice, The Chicago Reader, Philadelphia Weekly, MAGNET and various other publications. For two years he was a member of a one-man industrial band, about which the less said the better. He lives with his fiancée in Astoria, New York.

OW TO FIND US:
Housing Works Bookstore Café
126 Crosby Street (one block east of Broadway between Houston and Prince)
Subway: W, R to Prince; B, D, F, V to Broadway/Lafayette; 6 to Bleecker
General Information: (212) 334-3324
www.housingworksbookstore.org

Housing Works Bookstore Café Fighting AIDS One Book At A Time

Housing Works Bookstore Café is an independent cultural center that offers patrons a unique opportunity to join the fight against AIDS and homelessness. Arts-based philanthropy in practice, we allow visitors to make a difference simply by buying or donating books; eating at our cafe; coming to concerts, readings, and special events; or volunteering for our staff.

We are a non-profit organization that relies entirely on donations to stock our store and volunteers to run it. All proceeds directly benefit our parent organization, Housing Works, Inc., the nation’s largest minority-controlled AIDS service provider. Housing Works provides housing, healthcare, job training, and advocacy for New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS. As an activist organization, we are committed to implementing the systemic changes necessary to ensure that AIDS and public health policies are sound in concept and equitable in administration.