{"id":2958,"date":"2011-05-13T00:44:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T07:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/05\/the-opening-of-the-rattling-wall\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T11:49:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T18:49:11","slug":"the-opening-of-the-rattling-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/13\/the-opening-of-the-rattling-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opening Of THE RATTLING WALL"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The opening celebration for ‘The Rattling Wall’<\/h1>\n

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Maybe all readings should let the bar open before getting underway.<\/p>\n

Whether it was helped by the wine and beer or not, Wednesday night’s kickoff of the new literary journal “The Rattling Wall” was a festive celebration. Held at the Hammer Museum, the room was filled to its 250-person capacity, with stylish young literati, well-heeled PEN stalwarts, and the contributors, who fell, demographically, somewhere between the two.<\/p>\n

“The Rattling Wall<\/a>” is a print literary journal published biannually, supported by PEN Center USA West, and edited by PEN’s program director Michelle Meyering. The first issue, which includes a whopping 36 contributors, features fiction by James Frey, Blake Butler and Tod Goldberg; poetry by Tony Hoagland and Matthew Zapruder; and travel essays by Samantha Dunn and Don Winslow.<\/p>\n

Although most of Wednesday night’s readers hail from the West Coast, Meyering hinted at the magazine’s ambitions when she told the audience that she looked forward to “building a national community of readers and writers around the journal.”<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at The LA Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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