Hi from Penny!
I want you to know that Semiotext(e)'s wonderful hardcover book on my work ,BAD REPUTATION Performances, Essays ,Interviews is out now on REALLY GOOD PAPER with great photos and three scripts LA MISERIA , Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore! and Bad Reputation (the title script)
There are three excellent essays. The introductory essay is by Kenneth Bernard, a major poet and playwright (I was in two of his plays with the Playhouse of The Ridiculous in 1968 and 1970 as a teenager) Ken Bernard is a great writer with an incredible eye on the theatre for 50 years (!) as well as a real scholar.. a highly respected theatre academic who has written extensively on experimental theatre for decades ( It is a rip snorter of an opening essay.) The major essay on my work by Professor Stephen Bottoms, who wrote Playing Underground (the book on 1960's NY experimental theatre with a big focus on John Vaccaro's Playhouse of The Ridiculous) so he is a perfect person to write about the work I grew up to write and perform. There is a charming, honest , amusing and informative essay by Steve Zehentner, (my collaborator of 17 years) about the trials and joys of working with me and a wonderful essay by Sarah Schiulman which intros La Miseria , a play that she has always championed when it was very un PC to champion it. There is also an interview with Chris Kraus , one of the editors of Semiotext(e) who actually gave me my first performance of my own work in 1985 at The Poetry Project. The interview is very honest and raw...i wish it had a careerist slant...but it is the usual me..telling my truth about my experience of the art world, making art and biting the hand that..well you know! it will probably make some people pissed off at me..as per usual. There are lots and lots of archival photos, amazing well reproduced, along with a rare Peter Hujar portrait of me at 19. Lots of photos of all the marvelous performers who have graced my work. The book is hardcover and really beautiful.
I will be doing book parties in NY as well as around the country and I will let you know about the NY ones. The second book party is at CITY
LIGHTS in San Francisco Tuesday Nov 17th (I did a small one at Bluestockings with two amazing Semiotext(e) authors last week...also I
would like to champion Eileen Myles new book The Importance of Being Iceland..sheer genius and Bruce Benderson's Pacific Agony, always super brilliant and Abdellah Taia's Salvation Army about coming out in Morrocco ,really special and The Little Black Book of Griselidis Real,
translated by Ariana Reines, a rare whore read. )
If you have friends in SF will you let them know? I am also doing three shows in SF next week at The Marsh..the info follows the Book Party
info.
You can ask for it at ST Marks Bookstore , my favorite bookstore in NY 3rd Ave corner of East 9th St
If you like please write me about book parties...I hope you don't mind me not writing individual emails...but it is hard to do ones own promo!
love
penny arcade
Penny Arcade at City Lights SF Nov 17th and The Marsh Theatre weekend
of November 20-22nd
Book party for my book BAD REPUTATION Tuesday NOVEMBER 17th City
Lights
Penny Arcade
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penny, Unfortunately I have shows both Tuesday and Friday... And then recovering! We would love to come! darn!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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I am sorry! See little video on you tube Penny Arcade's New York Values
would you mind promoting my book to your public (not the book party which is in conflict with your performance)
xoxoxpenny
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will! Did! Done!
Mmmmm... Your book would be a great Xmas present for me! Santa!
Penny, your poster is now up in my studio [behind our house]!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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