News and Goings On
Tuesday February 19, 2008
Smyles & Fish editor Frederic Tuten will participate in a reading and panel discussion on Realism at The Kitchen in NYC on Monday, March 3rd.
The Kitchen, in collaboration with Open City and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, presents:
READING & TALKING REALISM
An Evening with:
Jenny Davidson
Keith Gessen
Eileen Myles
Frederic Tuten
The night will begin with each author reading a selection from his/her own work. The second segment will feature the writers in a panel discussion on the tradition of realism in literature, how their work engages the topic in its departures from or movements within the mode, and the style's influence on other genres in the past, present, and future.
Reading and Talking Realism will take place at 7:00 P.M. at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street). Tickets are $5.
The panel will be led by Patrick Gallagher, a contributing editor to Open City and former managing editor of Mr. Beller's Neighborhood.
Keith Gessen is a founding editor of the literary magazine n+1. He has written on contemporary Russian and American literature for Dissent, The Nation, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books. Gessen's first novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men, is forthcoming from Viking Press in April 2008.
Jenny Davidson is the author of the novels Heredity, from Soft Skull Press and The Explosionist, forthcoming from HarperCollins Children's Books in July 2008. Davidson is also an Associate Professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Frederic Tuten is the author of the novels The Adventures of Mao on the Long March, Tallien: A Brief Romance, Tintin in the New World, Van Gogh's Bad Café and The Green Hour, in addition to many stories and essays. Tuten is a Professor in the graduate fiction-writing program at the City College of New York and guest lecturer at The New School. Tuten is also executive editor of Smyles & Fish (www.smylesandfish.com). He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Writing and was given the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Eileen Myles is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Irony of the Leash, Sappho's Boat, On My Way, and, in 2007 Sorry, Tree from Wave Books. She is also the author of the short story collection Chelsea Girls and the novel Cool For You. Myles's newest project is The Importance of Being Iceland, her first full collection of art criticism.
About Open City
Open City Magazine & Books are published by Open City, Inc., a nonprofit corporation based in New York City. The editors, Thomas Beller and Joanna Yas, strive to keep the literary journal vital for each new generation by publishing a dynamic array of poetry and prose with a daring, youthful, spirit. The editors aim to add a voice to the culture that values wit, depth, and ingenuity, and, in particular, the exposing and elucidating of the human predicament which is often devalued by commercial publishers. Many writers featured in Open City's pages are being published for the very first time.
The magazine was founded in 1990 by Thomas Beller and Daniel Pinchbeck and the book series was founded in 1999 by Robert Bingham. The magazine comes out three times per year, and at this time Open City Books releases one book per year. The magazine and books are distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West.
www.opencity.org
About Mr. Beller's Neighborhood
Mr. Beller's Neighborhood combines a web magazine with a map of New York City. It uses the external, familiar landscape of New York City as a way of organizing the wildly internal, often unfamiliar emotional landscapes of the city dweller. It is about a specific place - New York - and it is about the many different consciousness that thrive and wilt and rage and reminisce here. The Neighborhood publishes reportage, personal essays, urban sketches-- any piece of writing that might illuminate a corner of life in the city. By and large everything you read on the site is true.
www.mrbellersneighborhood.com
About The Kitchen
The Kitchen has been a powerful force in shaping the cultural landscape of this country for more than three decades. Founded as an art collective in 1971 by Woody and Steina Vasulka and incorporated as a non-profit two years later, in its infancy The Kitchen was a space where video artists and experimental composers and performers could share their ideas with like-minded colleagues. It was among the very first American Institutions to embrace the then emergent fields of video and performance art, while also presenting new visionary work within the fields of dance, music, literature, and film. The resulting combination was an environment uniquely conducive to experimentation and cross disciplinary explorations that helped launch the careers of many artist who have defined the avant-garde, including Vito Acconci, Constance De Jong, Gary Hill, Kiki Smith, Charles Atlas, Lucinda Childs, Elizabeth Streb, Bill T. Jones, and board members Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, and Meredith Monk. Today, The Kitchen is an internationally acclaimed arts institution still widely known for its commitment to experimental work as it continues to provide instrumental support for the early and mid-career development of the current generation of artists.
www.thekitchen.org
Tuesday January 15, 2008
Smyles & Fish patents "Metaphysical Botox."
Doctor administered injections along with over-the-counter Leaches promise to "reduce the appearance of unsightly wrinkles in the brain instantly."
Monday, December 3, 2007
S&F contributor Brendan Lott is in a group show called "SupaStore" at Elizabeth Paige Smith in Venice, CA opening on December 7. And Following that, opening January 19th he will have a solo show called "Memories I'll Never Have" in the same gallery.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Smyles & Fish, in a consortium with BOMB, Open City, Cabinet, Tin House, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, Guernica, KGB Barlit, and New Directions, participated as co-sponsor for the 25th anniversary celebration of the Storefront for Art and Architecture.
Storefront commemorated its anniversary in a 26-day festival of art entitled Performance Z-A from September 21st to October 16th. The events took place under the Ring Dome, a temporary pavilion erected in Petrosino Park at the intersection of Kenmare Street and Lafayette Street in Soho, NYC. The Ring Dome, an edifice constructed from 1,000 hula-hoops, was designed by Korean architect Minsuk Cho especially for Storefront.
On the evening of October 3rd, 2007, novelist and art critic Frederic Tuten hosted three writers who have written about or who themselves make art: Shelley Jackson, the author of Half-Life and The Melancholy of Anatomy; Wayne Koestenbaum, whose most recent book, Hotel Theory, is a hybrid of fiction and nonfiction; and Iris Smyles, a writer, cartoonist, and editor of Smyles & Fish.
Frederic Tuten, author of The Adventures of Mao on the Long March, Van Gogh’s Bad Café, and Tintin in the New World.
View of the Ring Dome.
Under the Ring Dome, a temporary pavilion constructed of 1,000 hula-hoops designed by Korean architect Minsuk Cho for Storefront's Performance Z-A.
Iris Smyles, short story writer, cartoonist, and editor of Smyles & Fish.
Director of Storefront for Art and Architecture, Joseph Grima.
The writers.
Shelley Jackson, author of Half Life and The Melancholy of Anatomy.
Wayne Koestenbaum, poet, critic, and author of Hotel Theory.
Photos by Mike Solomon
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
The 25th Anniversary Festival for theStorefront for Art and Architecture
Performance Z-A, September 21st – October 16th
Wednesday, October 3rd, A literary Evening With:
Frederic Tuten
Shelly Jackson
Wayne Koestenbaum
Iris Smyles
Frederic Tuten will host a reading on October 3rd as part of a 26 day festival celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Storefront for Art and Architecture (www.storefrontnews.org), one of America’s most distinguished powerhouses for the intersection of the arts.
Sponsored by a consortium of art and literary magazines and publishers in support of the Storefront including BOMB, Open City, Smyles & Fish, Cabinet, Tin House, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, Guernica, KGB Barlit, New Directions and others, the evening will feature a reading by four writers who have written about or who themselves make art, and will be held in the Ring Dome (A pavilion built out of 1,000 Hula-Hoops) constructed especially for the Storefront festival.
Frederic Tuten will be joined by Shelley Jackson, the author of Half-Life and The Melancholy of Anatomy, Wayne Koestenbaum, whose most recent book, Hotel Theory is a hybrid of fiction and nonfiction, and Iris Smyles, a writer, cartoonist, and editor of Smyles & Fish.
October 3 in the Ring Dome
(located in Petrosino Park, adjacent to The Storefront)
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
7:00 PM
There is no admission and refreshments will be served.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
"Darryl is fresh out of the joint and looking to stay out of trouble. Leo has double-crossed the wrong Walrus. Cult-movie trappings collide with post-modern absurdism in NATURE OF THE BEAST, an energetic, wildly hilarious short starring Rob Delaney and Andy Samberg of Saturday Night Live (Lazy Sunday / D**k in a Box) fame."
CHECK OUT THE TRAILER:
www.myspace.com/natepommer
The most recent film of S&F contributor Nate Pommer will be screened on the following two occasions:
SATURDAY, SEPT 29th, 2PM
THE 2007 CONEY ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL (at Sideshows By The Seashore and The Coney Island Museum @ Coney Island)
www.coneyislandfilmfestival.com
SUNDAY, OCT 7th, 7:30pm
THE 2007 EVIL CITY FILM FEST (at Anthology Film Archives, East Village, 2nd Ave & 2nd Street)
www.evilcityfilmfest.com
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
S&F editors and contributors Iris Smyles and Frederic Tuten will have work featured in an exhibition devoted to visual art by writers called "The Writer's Brush" opening in New York on Thursday September 13th and running through October 27th. The show will contain works by more than 100 writers ranging from the mid-nineteenth-century until the present day.
Opening Reception
Thursday September 13th,
6-8pm
The event is free and refreshments will be served.
Anita Shapolsky Gallery
152 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10021.
Telephone: 212-452-1094
The writers whose work will be included in the exhibition are as follows:
Walter Abish, Rafael Alberti, Roberta Allen, A. R. Ammons, Jean Arp, John Ashbery, Enid Bagnold, Amiri Baraka, Djuna Barnes, Julian Beck, Andrei Bely, Ted Berrigan, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, Joe Brainard, Breyten Breytenbach, Charles Bukowski, Gellett Burgess, David Burliuk, William Burroughs, Josef Capek, R.V. Cassill, Tom Clark, Daniel Clowes, Jean Cocteau, Norma Cole, Douglas Coupland, Morris Cox, Jim Crace, E.E. Cummings, Henry Darger, Annie Dillard, J.P. Donleavy, John Dos Passos, Rikki Ducornet, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Durrell, Russell Edson, Kenward Elmslie, Jules Feiffer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jacopo Fijman, Charles Henri Ford, Gao Xingjian, Federico Garcia Lorca, Kahlil Gibran, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Glück, Guenter Grass, Alasdair Gray, Nikolai Gumilov, Allan Gurganus, Brion Gysin, Hermann Hesse, Jack Hirschman, Susan Howe, Georges Hugnet, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, Tama Janowitz, Ted Joans, Charles Johnson, Donald Justice, Anna Kavan, Weldon Kees, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alfred Kubin, D.H. Lawrence, Jonathan Lethem, Wyndham Lewis, Mina Loy, Lucebert, Jackson Mac Low, Clarence Major, Robert Marshall, Leonard Michaels, Henri Michaux, Henry Miller, Susan Minot, Walter Mosley, Vladimir Nabokov, Victor Nekrasov, Hugh Nissensen, Clifford Odets, Kenneth Patchen, Mervyn Peake, Sylvia Plath, Beatrix Potter, Annie Proulx, James Purdy, Alexei Remizov, Kenneth Rexroth, MacLaren Ross, Peter Sacks, William Saroyan, Mira Schor, Maurice Sendak, Leslie Marmon Silko, Charles Simic, Patti Smith, William Jay Smith, Iris Smyles, Ralph Steadman, Mark Strand, Igor Terentiev, James Thurber, Ruthven Todd, Frederic Tuten, Josef Vachal, Janwillem Vandewetering, Cecilia Vicuna, Kurt Vonnegut, Andrei Voznesensky, Derek Walcott, Keith Waldrop, Rosanna Warren, Lewis Warsh, Denton Welch, Marjorie Welish, Richard Wilbur, Tennesee Williams, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Tom Wolfe, W.B. Yeats, Kirill Zdanevich and Zuern
"This exhibition devoted to visual art by writers is mounted in conjunction with the publication of a new book by Donald Friedman, entitled The Writer's Brush with introductory essays by William Gass and John Updike (Mid-List Publishers, distributed by Random House).
The exhibition is co-curated by Donald Friedman and John Wronoski, of Lame Duck Books and Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, MA. It will move to Pierre Menard Gallery in early winter and will be reprised at Denenberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles in February. A catalogue of the show will be available in October and feature an introductory essay by Joseph McElroy."
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Paris Hilton reneged on her million dollar deal to do first post jail interview with S&F staffer, Rosie O'donnell. Donald Trump called Smyles & Fish fat loser. Everyone fired.
Friday, June 15, 2007
S&F editor Iris Smyles will be reading as part of the Enclave Reading Series on Saturday, June 23rd, from 3:30 to 6:30pm.
THE ENCLAVE READING SERIES:
FESTIVAL of the GLOW WORM*
featuring
C.A. Conrad
Iris Smyles
Christen Clifford
Steven Karl
Molly McCloy
Chris Louvet
hosted by
Jason Napoli Brooks and Scott Geiger
Saturday
June 23, 2007
3:30 - 6:30 pm
Kenny's Castaways
157 Bleecker St.
New York
C. A. Conrad lives and writes in Phillidephia with the PhillySound poets. Soft Skull Press published his book Deviant Propulsion in 2006. His book The Frank Poems is forthcoming from CHAX Press in 2008. A small selection of The Frank Poems was translated into German by the Berlin poet Holger, and is now available from YPOLITA Press. He is the author of several other chapbooks, including (end-begin w/chants), a collaboration with Frank Sherlock.
Iris Smyles is a writer and cartoonist whose fiction may currently be seen in BOMB magazine's Spring issue. She was awarded the Doris Lippman Prize for her recently completed novel in 2007, and her acclaimed comic book, The Naked Woman, is available online and in select New York City bookstores. She teaches creative writing and literature at The City College of New York and Marymount Manhattan College. She is the editor of Smyles & Fish magazine (www.SmylesAndFish.com).
Christen Clifford is a writer and performer who has performed her solo work at The Culture Project, The Uno Festival in Victoria, Canada, and at the National Theatre of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She won "Best of Fringe" at the 2006 San Francisco Fringe Festival and The Audience Choice Award at the 2007 Frigid Festival. She's been a mainstage storyteller at The Moth and various other storytelling shows in New York. Her writing has been published in Salon.com, Nerve.com, Blue, and in the anthology Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong (Disinfo). Her work has received support from Time Warner and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council as part of the Hourglass Group Solo Lab. She is a 2007 fellow in Nonfiction Literature from the New York State Foundation for the Arts.
Molly McCloy, a non-fiction writer from Arizona, has been published in nerve.com, slate.com, and mrbellersneighborhood.com. She recently won the Storytelling Slam sponsored by the NYC-based storytelling organization, The Moth.
Steven Karl received his MFA from The New School. His poems and reviews have appeared in Real Poetik and Lit online. He has an article forthcoming in Teachers & Writers Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn.
Christopher Louvet writes code in Miami, FL for computers in Washington, DC. His poetry has appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Tigertail: A South Florida Poetry Annual, and online at McSweeney's Internet Tendency.
* I heard a glow-worm, big as a house, say to me: `I will give you the light you need. Read the inscription. It is not from me that this supreme order comes.' A vast blood-coloured light, at the sight of which my jaws clacked and my nads fell inert, suffused the air as far as the horizon. I learned against a ruined wall, for I was about to fall, and read: `Here lies a youth who died of consumption: you know why. Do not pray for him.'
Wanna know this comes from? Come to The Enclave: Festival of the Glow Worm
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Smyles & Fish squares off against The Tatoosies in annual touch football "Hawaiian Shirts vs. Hawaiian Skins" game.
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Smyles & Fish Publishing Editor and Contributor, Frederic Tuten, has a short story, "Self Portrait with Beach" published in Mona Kuhn's book of nude photographs, Mona Kuhn Evidence.
On Thursday April 5th, from 6-8pm, Signor Tuten and Ms. Kuhn will be at the Charles Cowles Gallery to celebrate the publication of the book and the opening of the exhibition.
Charles Cowles Gallery
537 West 24 Street
New York, NY 10011
212.741.8999
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Smyles & Fish Managing Editor, S.E. Grant, will be performing the role of Aphrodite in 'Mixed Doubles,' by Georges Feydeau.
Couples collide in this comedic one-act when two would-be seducers decide to share a dining room. But are their companions really who they seem? From the mind of Georges Feydeau, an undisputed master of farce and author of the madcap /A Flea In Her Ear/, springs a portrait of a double date gone hilariously awry. Pompe-Nicole and Bordeleau arrive at Chez Dominique, where they encounter an overly-friendly maitre d' and his winsome wife. But madness ensues when their dates turn out not to be the ladies they appear.Everyone is a target and no one escapes unscathed from Feydeau's hilariously biting critique of class and seduction.
WHAT: Mixed Doubles - A classic one-act farce from Georges Feydeau
WHERE: Times Square Arts Center - The Payan Theatre - 300 W. 43rd St., 5th Floor
WHEN: Friday, March 9th - Saturday, March 10th at 8:00pm
ADMISSION: $10 - Call Smarttix at 212-868-4444 or go online at www.smarttix.com
TRANSPORTATION: A, C, E, N, Q, R, W, S, 1, 2, 3, 7 trains to 42nd St. Times Square
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Smyles & Fish reinvents the wheel. Results not much different this time.
Monday, January 29th, 2007
On Tuesday January 30th and Wednesday January 31st, S&F friends Jonathan Ames and Patrick Bucklew, aka, "the Mangina" will be performing live in "The Jonathan Ames Show" at Mo Pitkins, 34 Avenue A (between 2nd and 3rd), at 11 pm.
For tickets go to www.ticketweb.com and search "Jonathan Ames" or you can buy tickets the night of the show. For more details about Mo's go to www.mopitkins.com.
This edition of "The Jonathan Ames Show" will feature: Zero Boy, Alien Comic, Jessica Delfino, Ula The Painproof Rubber Girl, and Miss Saturn, with a likely guest appearance by Moby.
Mr. Ames will tell a story, interview audience members, have a pillow-fight with audience members (pillows and swimming goggles provided), and will gently paddle audience members. All participating audience members will, naturally, be willing volunteers.
Patrick ("the Mangina") Bucklew will wrestle Michelle ("the blind woman") Leona on Tuesday night and a sighted woman the second night. He lost to Michelle back in November and is really hoping to win this time.
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Smyles & Fish contributor George Spielvogel will be playing the role of Gary Busey in the second season run of Point Break Live! opening this Thursday, January 25th, at La Tea Theatre, 107 Suffolk Street, NYC, and running through February 24th.
For Tickets and information visit:
http://www.theatermania.com/ticketing/index.cfm/show/128881
or call: 212.228.1096
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
S&F contributor Matt Nichols will be performing classical guitar live this Saturday, January 20th at 8:00 PM at The Monkey, 37 W 26th Street, NYC.
Monday, January 15th, 2007
S&F contributor Nick Weber will be performing live with his band The Trousers this Tuesday, January 16th at 8:00 PM at the Mercury Lounge, 215 E Houston Street, NYC.
The Trousers features: Tom O'Brien, Jared Eglowsky, Nick Weber, Brennan Gildersleeve & Tika Sumpter.
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
Smyles & Fish embraces the metric system, distributes chamometer tea to Break Rooms A and B.
Thursday, December 28th, 2006
Smyles & Fish harkens back tu a tyme befour standerdyzed spelling.
Sunday, December 24th, 2006
Smyles & Fish Community Outreach Department fires Ghost of Christmas Past to hire Ghost of 'Holiday' Past in preparation for upcoming polyfaith celebration scheduled after erection ceremony of the festive new S&F Obelisk, to stand at intersection of Building One and Building Three.
Saturday, December 16th, 2006
Smyles & Fish announces the construction of an ark. Will choose one male and one female from every department to participate in upcoming seafaring expedition planned in direct response to flood alerts received recently by unnamed source. Applications available in West Lobby.
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Smyles & Fish co-founder Sharon Fishfeld will be reading at the next installment of EARSHOT at The Lucky Cat, located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!
Friday, December 1st, 2006 at 8 PM, hosted by Nicole Steinberg co-sponsored by Book Court
Featuring:
Carolyn Turgeon (author of Rain Village ), Erica Kaufman (poet and host of the belladonna reading series), Liesel Tarquini, Sharon Fishfeld, Jared Bezzant
Admission is a mere $5 plus one free drink (beer, wine or well drinks only)!
The Lucky Cat is located at 245 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Driggs and Roebling. Visit their website for directions: http://www.theluckycat.com.
Monday, November 27th, 2006
JOB'S PASSION, a play by Hanoch Levin and translated from the Hebrew by Smyles & Fish contributor Shay Azoulay, is being performed at The Theater for the New City, Thursday, November 30 - Sunday, December 2.
Read the review in the New York Times here.
The Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue (btw 9th and 10th streets)
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sunday matinee at 3pm
All Seats: $20/TDF Vouchers Accepted
For tickets call (212) 254-1109 or go online at http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net
Saturday, November 18th, 2006
On November 13th the Smyles & Fish launch party was held at Strand Bookstore, NYC. Despite rain and stormy skies people came out for the celebration filling every seat and aisle of Strand.
Authors Ron Hogan, Paul LaFarge, Frederic Tuten, Theo Gangi, and Mike Otterman mixed with the audience as well as Fiction magazine founder and novelist Mark Mirsky, poet Thomas Hummel, painter Nick Weber, and Shredded Poets bassist Jonathan Kemp who all donned their best threads for the affair.
Smith editor Larry Smith, playwright Steve Danziger, acclaimed translator Shay Azoulay, comedian George Spielvogel, filmmaker Nick Regalbuto, Z100's Whitney Leipzig, and author and critic Harold Veeser were on hand for the festivities.
Fractious Press founder Veronica Liu, Sic Magazine editor Michael Troncale, DownTown columnist David Crohn, Poet and The One Three Eight editor Gregory Crosby, photographer Chris Stein, The Literary Review editor and poet Mariya Gusev, and Strand owner Nancy Bass raised a glass with us to celebrate the launch of our first Pocket Edition.
See more photos here.
Co-founders Iris Smyles and Sharon Fishfeld sigh.
S&F Web Engineer Mark Angelillo, Iris Smyles, Sharon Fishfeld and S&F Graphic Designer Mike Solomon have an alibi.
Iris Smyles introduces authors and artists Jonathan Ames, Neil Swaab, Mike Topp, and Arthur Nersesian.
The Strand - home to 18 miles of people! (Tear gas is released into the crowd.)
Jonathan Ames reads "I Shit My Pants in the South of France."
Neil Swaab, who later read a monologue adapted from his comic Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles, shows his teeth.
Nate Pommer addresses an audience member after screening his new film The Nature of the Beast starring actors Rob Delaney of I Heart Huckabees and Andy Samburg of Saturday Night Live to a delighted crowd.
Mike Topp reviews his electricity bill and also reads poetry from his book, Happy Ending.
Arthur Nersesian photographs two people fingering each other in the stacks, before discussing his collection of plays, East Village Tetralogy.
Novelist Frederic Tuten and The One Three Eight Editor Gregory Crosby speak in hushed tones.
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Issues of the very first Smyles & Fish Pocket Edition went on sale.
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Monday, November 7th, 2006
Overheard in the Smyles & Fish Pocket Edition Copyediting Office:
"You only put that comma there because I slept with your brother."
Saturday, November 5th, 2006
Reminder: On November 13th, The Strand hosts the launch of the highly anticipated Smyles & Fish Pocket Edition, with special performances by Jonathan Ames, Arthur Nersesian, Neil Swaab, and Mike Topp, as well as multi-media presentations from the Smyles & Fish web world with a reception to follow. Copies of the first Smyles & Fish Pocket Edition will be available.
Event is FREE. Black-tie (Optional).
Time 6:45-8:30pm
The Strand bookstore is located at 828 Broadway (at 12th Street) in New York City.
Monday, October 23rd, 2006
On Weds, November 1st, the novelists Paul La Farge and Frederic Tuten (a Smyles & Fish Pocket Edition contributor) will have a discussion and reading centering around Herge's wonderful creation Tintin in celebration of the 100th Anniversary. La Farge's essay--introduction to the reprint edition of Tuten's novel "Tintin In the New World" was published in The Believer and may be found here.
Weds, November 1st
Barnes and Noble
4 Astor Place
N Y NY 10003
2nd Floor
7pm
Sunday, October 8th, 2006
Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Smyles & Fish Department of Research & Development invents Tickle Resistant Dryer Sheets. All ticklish employees are invited to report to the laundry facility in Building G for test tickles.
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
Due to increased interest in the Thursday Afternoon West Fountain Bathing Club the West Fountain will be furnished with fluffy towels. Please return all used fluffy towels to the Reception Desk by Friday morning, 11AM.
Monday, October 2nd, 2006
Smyles & Fish notices a hint of lemon.
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
S&F unveils new line of staplers as part of Fall Fashion Week.
Stapling Department in West Annex, Floor 7 revolts; holds coffee machine and staple removers hostage.
Monday, September 25th, 2006
Smyles & Fish stumbles upon a Nether-Internet, the so-called "World Wide Web of Lies".
Friday, September 22nd, 2006
Suicide Attempt at S & F Salad Bar (South Cafeteria, Building 7)
Bryan Dewitt (3rd Floor, Sales) was found just in time yesterday after having eaten a potentially lethal dose of spinach in the S&F South Cafeteria. Apparently, after losing his balance on a spill of Dijon, he hit his head on the sneeze guard, the blow rendering him unconscious long enough for a crowd to gather. Gil Svenson (7th Floor, Marketing) was the first to arrive on the scene and found a note Dewitt left next to the shredded carrots--what appears to be a suicide letter:
Why I ate Spinach to Die:
By Bryan Dewitt
-Sally (12th Floor, Filing) left me.
-Tax refund $200 less than expected.
-I simply can't get the eggs to wrap completely around the filling. It always breaks halfway through.
-Ever since McPiggles left...
-Shower never hot enough in morning.
-I can't afford sleeping pills on my shitty health plan. Thanks again, Smyles & Fish!
-Postage stamp price hike... Again!
-Can't take Bono anymore. It's Zoo TV or me!
-Remember our song, Sally. Sing it when I'm gone: "I just died in your arms tonight. Must have been something I *ate*."
-Can't find 11 3/4" attachment to socket wrench set anywhere.
-Collecting on that dare is gonna be so sweet! (Seeing Gil's face when I...)
-Spinach is all-you-can-eat in S&F cafeteria, and with my paltry wages, it was the only way to do it.
-S&F bigwigs won't advertise on my blog.
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Smyles & Fish Air Gondola temporarily inoperable. Please use Smyles & Fish Zip Line for rapid transit between North and South Towers.
Monday, September 18th, 2006
Interdepartment Swirley Competition Rule Correction: 12 points for someone from Marketing and 7 points for a janitor, not vice versa.
Friday, September 15th, 2006
Reminder: Employees are required to carry their teddy bear hall passes at all times.
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
Smyles & Fish hosts fundraiser. Hotcakes sell poorly.
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Smyles & Fish Department of Greeting Cards and Lucrative Feelings to hold Editorial Staff Meeting in Conference Room B at 18:30 today. Among the topics to be discussed:
"Should 'many happy returns', be changed to 'many happy gift receipts'?"
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006
Smyles & Fish builds an entire meal around needing to use that leftover onion. Results include a surplus of carrots.
Thursday, August 31th, 2006
The Smyles & Fish Football Team Mascot, Mr. McPiggles, has escaped from his pen. He was last seen at a Denny's on the outskirts of S&F City. Any information about his whereabouts should be forwarded to wheresmcpiggles@smylesandfish.com.
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
Top top top Executives hold Power Debate in Yellow Bubble Cafeteria (West): "Comma vs. Question Mark". Results available at Yellow Bubble Cafeteria (East) Condiment Stand.
Monday, August 28th, 2006
Perseus rents 'Half Baked'. Again.
Saturday, August 26th, 2006
Smyles & Fish Department of Research and Development unveils mirror shield that shows you as you would look if you were eating Dunkin' Donuts.
Friday, August 25th, 2006
Medusa stoned at Tuesday's Mythological Creatures High Reunion.
Thursday, August 24th, 2006
Board of Directors holds conference in Health Club: "Is Pan-Theology Anything Like Pan Pizza?"
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Scientists observe "Pan-Theology Day." S&F physicists publicly rebuke statement "God is Great." Suggest: "God is good."
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
Bear tired of carrying Smyles & Fish annex office.
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Smyles & Fish caned in Parking Lot A this afternoon in delayed response to Sunday's Wave Pool incident. Medical reports suggest minimal physical injury, though psychological repercussions are yet to be determined.
Monday, August 7th, 2006
CEO Smyles loses to CEO Fish in close primary bid for a seat in the West Pool Lifeguard Chair.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Smyles & Fish suffers back stroke in community swimming pool.
Friday, July 21st, 2006
Everyone is welcome to gather in Lounge 8, North Corridor at 6 P.M. for Stevey from marketing's Welcome Back from the Dead Party. Bring your appetite and your delicious brains!
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
Smyles & Fish decrees that the wheels on the bus do not go 'round and 'round.
Monday, July 17th, 2006
Stretch McTone pulls ligament in elbow practicing for the Paper Plate Toss- an unlisted event he's been campaigning to be included in this Saturday's First Annual Summer Olympiad.
Monday, July 10th, 2006
Friday, July 7th, 2006
Smyles & Fish takes a good hard look in the mirror.
Tuesday, July 4rd, 2006
Stevey from marketing slain in duel.
Monday, July 3rd, 2006
Smyles & Fish prepares for duel at sunrise back of West Building 4.
Friday, June 30th, 2006
Smyles & Fish invents fireworks; demonstration scheduled in Madison Lounge next Tuesday, 3pm.
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Smyles & Fish officially renames 'The Dog Days of Summer' to 'The Dog Days of Fish'. Updated dictionaries distributed to all employees in North, South, East, and West Towers.
Monday, June 26th, 2006
Smyles & Fish falls asleep for seven years and awakens to find the most incredible beard adorning its face, only to then realize it was all a dream.
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Company softball game cancelled on account of sunshine. Please meet at 4PM in the West Auditorium for company musical theater auditions. Bring those spare gloves, sport!
Friday, June 16th, 2006
Bovine Break Room on floor 11 reported to improve company stomach per capita rating.
Thursday, June 15th, 2006
Smyles & Fish institutes 'Take your Cantaloupe to Work Day' in an effort to control scurvy outbreak.
Thursday, June 8th, 2006
Look for Smyles & Fish this Sunday at CLMP's Seventh Annual Literary Magazine Fair
Housing Works Used Book Café, 126 Crosby Street in Soho
Sunday, June 11th from 12-5 PM
More information can be found here.
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
Iris Smyles will be reading this Wednesday evening (June 7th) in the season's first of the Park Lit. Series to be held in Riverside Park. If you hate going to readings, or you just hate Iris Smyles, come anyway for the other authors, the free food and refreshments, and what looks to be a pleasant balmy evening by the water.
More information here
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Legal team representing Count Rockula undergoing restructuring, following allegations from the Secretarial Investigation Committee (SIC) implicating Frank Splick, Count Rockula's lead lawyer, in an affair with his client. The charges are confounded by additional allegations suggesting that Splick is the son of Rockula. An investigation is pending.
Saurday, May 20th, 2006
Smyles & Fish offends Kosher guest with own S&F Lobster wine at extravagant Smyles & Fish Day celebration in Sterling Ballroom, Building 9.
Friday, May 19th, 2006
Smyles & Fish declares Smyles & Fish Day; throws extravagant party in Sterling Ballroom, Building 9.
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
Sign up to join the Membership Club. (Applications in Horizon Kitchen.)
Sunday, May 14th, 2006
There was no news on Saturday, May 13th.
Friday, May 12th, 2006
Alessandro in Legal trying to grow his hair long enough to put in a ponytail.
Thursday, May 11th, 2006
Another Subway Coupon Unhelpful, Late
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
Franklin Burntight stuck in West Elevator in Smyles & Fish Building Seven for 19 hours straight with little more than a granola bar and apron.
Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
Monday, May 8th, 2006
Mark from Buildings and Grounds was killed today by Mike (Marketing) following his alleged attempt to steal Mike's extensive collection of Late 17th Century Dutch Landscape Artists. When asked 'Why?', Mike commented that 'It was a perfect accident.'
Friday, May 5th, 2006
Dan Churpus banned from Smyles & Fish Website.
Friday, April 28th, 2006
Soho20 Gallery Chelsea, New York City, 6:30-7:45 PM
An Evening with Smyles & Fish (Black-Tie Optional)
Videos from the event:
39 Cell Phones Ringing Inside an Art Gallery:
The final nail-biting moments of the raffle:
Photos from the event:
Thursday, April 27th, 2006
News section added to website.