Novels in Progress @ Worksound | August 30
August 28, 2009 — PDXPIPELINEPosted by Sasha Burchuk
Alright, we live in Portland, a city with a proud literary tradition that has very few writers that it can call its own. Yes. I know Chuck Palahniuk lives here now. What. Still. Good readings in Portland are few and far between, and this is more likely to be on the live-action side of things as it is likely to generate a good dialogue between the audience and the kinkers; and much like the ironically elaborate scenarios that Erik Bader and Matthew Korfhage will construct that could only feasibly happen once, this too is one time only, a novel opportunity.
This Sunday, Matthew Korfhage and Erik Bader invite you to Worksound Gallery to witness Novels In Progress — which just as the title would suggest is an exhibition of the authors' unfinished novels.
"You remember how Prince tried out Purple Rain in front of a Minneapolis crowd, and then used the sounds of the audience in the record? Or, like, when Shakespeare played the ghost during Hamlet's rehearsal? This is a little like that, except it's parts of unfinished novels, read out loud by the authors, and the audience is you…" Quoth the authors.
The last time they read at Worksound, they managed to out-Garden-Stated Garden State with their wry oil and vinegar blend of belletrist grown boys adventures a la Leonard Michaels, entitled Twenty Short Stories About New Jersey.
Erik Bader's characters came across like Jason Schwartzman personas in a Wes Anderson film who have attained an upbeat zenlike clarity through their bitter pursuits of love and folly while Matthew Korfhage constructed these ironic and conscientious tableaus that on occasion achieved that hard-knock-on-the-funny-bone sensation that just kind of makes you go, oh shit! Followed by a satisfying feeling of enlightenment.
Novels In Progess — with Erik Bader and Matthew Korfhage
Sunday August 30, at 730 PM.
Worksound Gallery 810 SE Alder
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Sasha Burchuk has been in Portland for nearly a decade and spends most of her free time reading and writing about Latin American politics. She is also passionate about dancing, theater, music, the arts, trespassing, fireworks, and whiskey.
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