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From: Black Clock <info@blackclock.org><br>
Subject: Black Clock 13 Reading at Skylight<br>
To: "gailarose@yahoo.com" <gailarose@yahoo.com><br>
Date: Friday, February 4, 2011, 2:00 AM<o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:0in'><a name=81F426939582A989></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>A
good mix-tape isn’t a collection of greatest hits. Rather it provides the
revelation of familiar work placed in different contexts and thereby
rendered new. Black Clock’s biggest issue yet, lucky number 13 is a
self-portrait, amassing from the previous twelve issues more than thirty
visions and sensibilities representing the magazine’s constant evolution
since its inception in 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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padding:0in;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=200 height=256
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margin-left:0in'><a name=41B96724964A9E63></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-weight:normal'>Aimee Bender<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Aimee
Bender is the author of four books; the most recent is The Particular
Sadness of Lemon Cake, winner of the SCIBA award. Her short fiction has
been published in Granta, Harper's, The Paris Review, Tin House, Black
Clock and more, as well as heard on "This American Life" and
"Selected Shorts.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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alt="Image removed by sender. Aimee Bender"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:0in'><a name=471217C066545794></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-weight:normal'>Janet Fitch<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Janet
Fitch is the author of Paint it Black and White Oleander, an
Oprah's Book Club selection from which a 2002 motion picture was made
starring Michelle Pfeiffer. Her fourth novel will be published next
year. Fitch teaches writing at the University of Southern California.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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margin-left:0in'><a name=0041D8854FD3280F></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-weight:normal'>Jonathan Lethem<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Jonathan
Lethem has written eight novels, including Girl in Landscape and Chronic
City, and four collections of stories and essays, including the
forthcoming The Ecstasy of Influence. His monograph on John
Carpenter's They Live was published in November last year. He's lived
in New York, Vermont, Oakland, Toronto, and now Los Angeles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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margin-left:0in'><a name=354FFDC537A9C07C></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-weight:normal'>Susan Straight<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Susan
Straight’s new novel is Take One Candle Light a Room, named one of the
best novels of 2010 by The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and
Kirkus. Highwire Moon was a Finalist for the 2001 National Book Award,
and A Million Nightingales was a 2006 Finalist for the LATimes Book
Prize. She has published stories and essays in The New York Times, The
Los Angeles Times, Harpers, Salon, Zoetrope, McSweeneys, The Believer,
and Black Clock.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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margin-left:0in'><a name=B57BCE1F7957C305></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-weight:normal'>Lisa Teasley<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Lisa
Teasley is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Heat Signature and
Dive, and the award-winning story collection, Glow in the Dark, all
published by Bloomsbury. Lisa Teasley is writer and presenter of the
BBC television documentary “High School Prom,” and currently teaches
poetry and fiction at UC Riverside.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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