• Featured Issue

  Open City #30

  
  New issue is available now!

  Featuring: Sigrid Nunez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ed Park, C. I. Shelton, Alissa Quart, Ann Packer, Christopher Cheney...

• Featured Book

  There’s a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From

  by Bryan Charles

• Featured Book

  Mother’s Milk

  by Edward St. Aubyn

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  Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work

  by Jason Brown

  Award-winning fiction writer Jason Brown’s Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work is …
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• Featured Book

  The First Hurt

  by Rachel Sherman

  “Rachel Sherman’s stories are real wonders—brave, dangerous fictions full of heart and wit. She gets …
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The long awaited THEY’RE AT IT AGAIN: STORIES FROM TWENTY YEARS OF OPEN CITY is available now.
Click here for more info. …

Open City Anthology Available Now! continued…

Please join Open City’s Board of Directors and the Benefit Committee
for a party to celebrate the publication of
They’re at It Again:
Stories from Twenty Years of Open City
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
7–10 p.m.
The Home of Wendy Flanagan and Chris O’Malley
162 East 92nd …

Open City Benefit Party continued…

Please join us for a special Open City reading at
Pete’s Candy Store featuring
THOMAS BELLER & RACHEL SHERMAN

Thursday, April 28, 7:30 pm
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
(between Frost & Richardson)
Williamsburg
FREE
RSVP on Facebook

Thomas Beller is a co-founder and editor …

Open City Pete’s Candy Store Reading continued…

The Open City March KGB Reading presents:
JASON BROWN
and
SIGRID NUNEZ
Wednesday, March 30, 7PM
KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th Street (btw the Bowery & 2nd Ave.)
FREE
Sigrid Nunez has published six novels: A Feather on the Breath of God, Naked Sleeper, Mitz: The Marmoset …

Open City March KGB Reading continued…

The New York Observer
The Paris Review
Los Angeles Times
The Wall Street Journal
Publisher’s Weekly
Vanity Fair
The Faster Times
New York Magazine
There’s a Road to Everywhere…
National Book Critics Circle blog
The New Yorker

  …

Many mentions in the press of Open City Magazine’s closing continued…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 2, 2011
Open City Magazine is closing after twenty years. Open City Books, a mere tyke at ten years, continues. Starting with its first issue in 1991, Open City has made an important mark on the American …

OPEN CITY MAGAZINE IS CLOSING AFTER 20 YEARS; OPEN CITY BOOKS TO CONTINUE continued…

The Rumpus Review by Shannon Elderon

I Felt a Need to Touch Someone
An aspiring writer’s memoir of September 11 focuses on the strangeness of life in New York City before and after the attack.
Bryan Charles’s memoir, There’s a Road to Everywhere …

Bryan Charles reviews in The Rumpus and Vol. 1 continued…

Two great writers from the new issue, Open City #30, will read their fiction at KGB Bar:

KARAN MAHAJAN
and
EVAN REHILL

Wednesday, February 23, 7pm
KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th Street (btw the Bowery & 2nd Ave.)
FREE

Karan Mahajan was born in 1984 and grew …

Open City reading at KGB on 2/23 continued…

Bryan Charles will read, discuss, and sign his new memoir, There’s a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From
Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 7pm
Diesel Bookstore,
5433 College Ave., Oakland, CA
Read about the book and the author in the East Bay Express, …

Bryan Charles reading in Oakland on 1/19 continued…

From Great Writing You Missed This Year: Reading Suggestions From Chabon, Egan and Others by Steven Kurutz, Wall Street Journal, December 28. 2010
Michael Chabon, author of “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union”: Bryan Charles–whom I met during a residency at the MacDowell …

Bryan Charles Selected by Michael Chabon for WSJ’s End of Year List continued…