52nd City

Young Fiction at Washington Post

Has anyone been to the Washington Post yet? Apparently it's a new coffeeshop downtown. I like the name, and I suspect I would probably prefer the coffeeshop to the newspaper (ah, I'm a New York Times gal, I admit it). For those who have not been there (like me): the address is 1312 Washington.

This Friday from 7-9pm, they are hosting a young fiction writers reading, including Colleen McKee, Allison Creighton, Andrea Jackson, Emily Lowery, Jim Mense and Seema Mukhi. I've heard Colleen and Emily read, and they're quite good (Colleen's reading for Art Outside, and I saw her read at the KDHX Midwest Mayhem poetry stage in May. Her poems are humorous, and she has amazing Louise Brooks hair).

If you know you can't make it down to the Washington Post to hear young fiction writers, then I recommend this little audio bit at the Washington Post (Newspaper) website, featuring an old, dead writer: Eudora Welty. "Why I Live at the P.O." is an example to young fictionists everywhere, i.e., "this is how it's done."