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Compére Collective, 351 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States, New York
Emerging and established Red Hook writers explore what it means to be "scrappy."
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What does scrappy mean to you?
Five emerging and established Red Hook writers will answer this question at this month’s edition of the Scrappy Reading Series supported by the Red Hook Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library as the official kick-off event of Red Hook Open Studios. Join us at Compère Collective as these writers share how they interpret "scrappy" and how they embody this in their writing lives personal lives love lives and any other type of life they are living.
Guests will also enjoy a visit from House of Speakeasy's Bookmobile distributing free books published by the authors of the evening and more!
Inspired by the master's series course Scrappy: How To Build an Alternative Literary Life (offered by Off Assignment and led by author Chloé Caldwell) Brooklyn writer Farah Faye began this series to bring together published and unpublished writers to explore what it means to be scrappy.
Admission is free scrappiness required. Drinks and snacks will be served!
Space is limited - register to attend!
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DEBORAH COPAKEN is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books including Shutterbabe The Red Book Between Here and April and Ladyparts her most recent memoir of bodily destruction and resurrection during marital rupture (Random House 2021). A contributing writer at The Atlantic she was also a writer on the Emmy/Golden Globe-nominated Netflix hit Emily in Paris a performer (The Moth etc.) and an Emmy Award–winning news producer and photojournalist. Her photographs have been exhibited in France and the U.S. (most recently this past spring at the Basin Gallery here in Red Hook!) and have appeared in Time Newsweek The New York Times and hundreds of other publications worldwide. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker The New York Times The Guardian The Financial Times Observer The Wall Street Journal The Nation Slate O the Oprah Magazine Air Mail and Paris Match among others and her recent Op-Ed in the Daily Beast on the crushing costs of Alzheimer's care won the 2024 Deadline Award for opinion writing. Her column “When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist” was adapted for the Modern Love streaming series. She is the founder writer producer CEO and publisher of the Substack Ladyparts.
LILLY DANCYGER is the author of First Love: Essays on Friendship and Negative Space. She lives in New York City and is a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in nonfiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts. She teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA programs at Columbia University and Randolph College. Find her on Twitter and Instagram at @lillydancyger and on Substack at The Word Cave.
DEAN HASPIEL the Emmy Award-winning cartoonist is best known for creating Billy Dogma and The Red Hook collaborating with Harvey Pekar and Jonathan Ames and illustrating for HBO's "Bored to Death." His published work includes writing and drawing for Marvel DC/Vertigo Archie Image and Webtoon. In addition Haspiel is an accomplished playwright and Yaddo fellow.
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