LA-Lit: Two Days, Two Interviews
Demosthenes Agrafiotis & Masha Tupitsyn
Thursday, October 18 & Friday, October 19 at 8pm
At Betalevel

We’d like to invite you to enjoy Two Interviews in Two Days with LA-Lit. Come down for live radio, readings & conversation this coming Thursday, October 18 & Friday, October 19 at 8pm at Betalevel in Chinatown. Demosthenes Agrafiotis will be the featured writer on Thursday & Masha Tupitsyn will be the featured writer on Friday. LA-Lit, co-curated by Mathew Timmons & Stephanie Rioux, lasts a little over an hour and will be about 30 minutes of reading & about 30 minutes of questions & answers/further questions—alternating between the two modes in hopes of creating a space for dynamic conversation.

LA-Lit interviews Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Thursday, October 18 at 8pm
Demosthenes Agrafiotis is an artist, poet, photographer, editor and sociologist based in Athens, Greece. Agrafiotis is the author of over 13 books of poetry, including a collaboration with Jerome Rothenberg, An Oracle for Delphi (Membrane Press, 1995). Between 1980 and 1990 he edited the Athens-based art & literary journal Clinamen, which featured translations of several influential American poets into Greek for the first time. His first book to appear in English, Chinese Notebook, is currently being translated by John and Angelos Sakkis.

LA-Lit interviews Masha Tupitsyn
Friday, October 19 at 8pm
Masha Tupitsyn is a fiction writer and feminist critic who lives in New York City. She received her MA in Literature and Cultural Theory from the University of Sussex in England. In 2004, she worked as the Assistant Literary Editor at BOMB Magazine. She was a 2005 finalist for the Panliterary Award for Fiction, sponsored by Drunken Boat. Her fiction and criticism has been published or is forthcoming in the anthology Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century, Make/Shift, Bookforum, Fence , Five Fingers Review, NYFA Current, Unpleasant Event Schedule, How2, and Nth Position. She is the author of Beauty Talk & Monsters, a collection of film-based stories (Semiotext(e) Press, 2007). She is currently working on a new book, Star Notes.