Wells Tower went home last night with the New York Public Library’s Young Lion Fiction Award.

Presumably because he’s been nominated for several awards and not won, a friend of his whom I spoke to at the event said that he invited her by asking if she’d want to come to an awards ceremony to see him not win. But then we agreed that being selected for The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 list recently was also a good thing, like an award.

The award, founded by Young Lions Co-Chair Ethan Hawke and given annually each spring to a writer 35-and-under for a novel or collection of short stories, was also celebrating its tenth anniversary. Hollywood actors including Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton and Emily Mortimer gave all-star readings to all five finalists—Jedediah Berry, Katie Kitamura, Philipp Meyer, C.E. Morgan, and Wells Tower.

Ethan Hawke, decked in an off-white suit and brown suede Clarks opened by speaking of the meaning of the award: “It’s hard to know why [writing] always matters.” The award is in part “to say it matters and to say we care.” Of the five writers who’d been selected as finalists, Hawke added to further illustrate that care, that having been a finalist means “someone fought [for you] with somebody else who didn’t like your book.” This drew laughter from the audience. He spoke off-the-cuff and said he berated himself in the car-ride over for, yet again, not preparing a speech. Yet he spoke from the heart and made an endearing entreaty for the preservation not only of the library, but of the art of fiction.

After the readings, and before presenting the award, the president of the New York Public Library, Paul LeClerc announced that in November Ethan Hawke would become a Library Lion, the highest honor the library bequeathes. He noted that over the course of the ten years, Hawke had raised roughly $140,000. “You’re the outstanding guy,” he said. LeClerc also gave Hawke a set of each of the books that had won the award in the ten years prior, each signed for him by its author.

LeClerc then proceeded to announce the winner, Wells Tower, and present him with a check for $10,000 (Hear Tower read a story at Paris Review Audio). Each of the finalists received $1000. Preceding the event was a reception with Ferrari Spumante champagne and hors d’oeuvres with many of New York’s publishing community in attendance including David Haglund, Rachel Fershleiser, Georgia Cool and Allison Lorentzen.

To the right is Ethan Hawke’s copy of C.E. Morgan’s book All the Living, which he read from. It has Hawke’s yellow Post-It Note, indicating where he should start reading. It says “Start.”

The full list of finalists for the 2010 Young Lions Fiction Award were:

Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection (The Penguin Press)
Katie Kitamura, The Longshot (Free Press)
Philipp Meyer, American Rust (Spiegel and Grau)
C.E. Morgan, All the Living (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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I had never been to Russian Samovar, which has long been a watering hole for literary lushes and their devotees. Looking around at the low-lit lamps and silver samovars lined along tables and high ledges, I wondered which writers had plied their muses with endless ponies of colorless liquor and how far they had gotten. And how often. No one seemed particularly pie-eyed, though it was early and focus still had to be trained for an hour on our two readers. An introduction was given by a man who said former FSG editor and Paris Review editor Lorin Stein could not be there to give the introduction because he was “busy blogging.” (He was referring to The Paris Review’s new blog The Paris Review Daily). The man laughed.

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Several years ago, around the time Lydia Davis won a MacArthur Fellowship, I had taken a workshop with her in Albany. She was still a Writer-in-Residence at the University at Albany. Twice a week I drove four hours from New York City to the campus with its Soviet-bloc style buildings and standard-issue gray sky. I don’t remember many specific details from the workshop except that the English Department felt old the way few programs feel old, with long glass tables of black-and-white pictures of women in long dresses. The room we took workshop in was carpeted and fitted with heavy wood tables that were gathered in the center to form a square around which we sat. It was the kind of room that you imagined a workshop being held in a hundred years ago.

About fifteen writers were in the class. All were from the area. There were two male science fiction writers who sat next to each other—one with a long pony-tail, one woman who had a method of writing where she wrote while falling asleep with the aim, I think, of accessing subconscious material from her partial sleep-state. There was a man in a wheel chair, and there was Shane Jones, the writer to whom I was closest in age and who I reconnected with years later on the internet (his book, Light Boxes, was just reprinted by Penguin). Both of her parents, Lydia Davis told us, had been published in The New Yorker. I can’t remember what their professions were, but the point Lydia Davis was trying to make, I think, was that her parents had an appreciation for literature and supported her. Because neither of my parents had been published in the New Yorker, I felt the sudden and acute sensation that can be described, in short, as the-cards-stacked-against-me. Still, I drove four hours there and four hours back twice weekly.

Lydia Davis was warm and soft-spoken. She often brought books to class of authors who had inspired her like Samuel Beckett and Russell Edson. She talked about how she would write out Beckett’s sentences and study their structure, their peculiar syntax. She urged us to focus like that on the sentences of writers we admired. She asked us each to bring in a copy of a story we liked and each day, one of us would present his or her story and read from it. On my day, I brought in the story “Michigan Death Trip,” from David Means’s collection The Secret Goldfish. The story is a series of vignettes about ways people die in the Midwest. The class discussed guy wires and snowmobile beheadings, kids on speed hitting each other with fluorescent lights, gun-shot adjustments, kids on codeine and wine, kids combining Valium with other substances, stoned kids, stoned kids dying in vans falling into iced lakes and regular car accidents. I think it was the man with the pony tail who said these deaths were nothing unusual and explained from knowledge the extreme boredom that exists in the Midwest from November to March. About “Highway,” Shane Jones said he liked the line “an abundance of fruit and blood and sparks spread out across the dark road.” We all agreed that was a good line.

Walking back to our respective cars that night in the enormous outdoor university parking lot, Shane Jones said the man in the wheelchair really did not like his story, seemed to vehemently hate the story. He thanked me for defending his story in class.* We talked about the spaceships and martians of another other story that was workshopped that day.

At the next visit Lydia Davis brought in David Means’s story “The Secret Goldfish” and called attention to the way the narrative is given in part from the point of view of Fish, a misunderstood goldfish. She talked about Franz Kafka, the cockroach of Metamorphosis, the story as told from the point of view of the cockroach and about Franz Kafka’s low self-esteem.

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Last night, David Means read first, from “The Blade“—a story from his great new collection The Spot. Lydia Davis, however, did not read from The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis. Rather, she read a selection of unpublished writing—”all short things and all new things.” The first stories were based on dreams and waking experiences (that are dream-like), of hers and of her friends. She read one called “The Sentence and the Young Man” about a sentence in a trash can and a guy who walks by and sees it. Next was a two-part piece, “At the Bank,” and “At the Bank II.”

After the dream stories, Lydia Davis read stories that were based on letters that Gustave Flaubert wrote to his lover Louise Colet. She called the pieces “collaborations” but said it was mostly Gustave Flaubert’s material and that she “took liberties” with it. Of those, I liked most “Visit to the Dentist” about a man who passes a guillotine the day after an execution has occurred and sees fresh blood. She also read pieces that were mostly one sentence long, the writing of which, she stated, may have been a reaction to reading Marcel Proust’s long sentences. She wrote the stories while translating Swann’s Way.

She also read from a compilation of writing she calls “Alternative Biographies,” or the ways she’s been “described by mistake.” While each heading had following it a very long list, here are a few excerpts:  My Name included “Clydia,” “Lydia B. Davies” and “Heather”; What I Am included “Postal patron,” “A party of one” and “Half of George’s one o’clock”; What I Have Written included “Samuel Davis is Indignant” and “Samuel Johnson is Indigent”; and Events I’ve Been Invited to included “A small party for insiders.”

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After the reading many people went downstairs. Some left and others kept drinking. Sitting at a small table was Sara Marcus, whose book Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution is in galleys. I looked at a menu to see if I felt hungry and Sara Marcus tried to remember the name of a food that started with a “k” and sounded something like kishkas but was not kishkas. Marco Roth of n+1 talked to someone by the bar. And Lorin Stein showed up in jacket and slacks. When I walked out it was still light. A long line of people had formed beside the floor-to-ceiling windows of a club in front of which two bouncers looked out from behind red ropes.

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* Shane still talks about how the man in the wheelchair hated his story.

Picture: Photograph from ACTIVATE, a German Magazine.

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It’s “Terry Southern Month” at The Paris Review Daily—the quarterly’s online “culture gazette,” the goal of which is to stay in touch with The Paris Review’s audience between print issues. Today, read an interview with Terry Southern from Issue 138.

Terry Southern is a good thematic choice being that he was one of the forces behind the birth of The Paris Review though maybe lesser known than its glorified founders George Plimpton, Harold L. Humes and Peter Matthiessen. And as Southern was a provocative aesthete he cut a smart fit with the post-war Paris literary crowd along with Plimpton, Susan Sontag, Henry Miller and Allen Ginsberg.

Among his many accomplishments the comic genius counted numerous screenplays—Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, The Cincinnati Kid; novels—The Magic Christian, Blue Movie and maybe most famously Candy, an erotic novel in the picaresque tradition of a young lady’s travels, which Playboy listed among its “25 Sexiest Novels Ever Written”; and writing for Saturday Night Live.

So what can we expect from the Southern oeuvre in the days to come at The Paris Review Daily? Well, thus far, there’s been an excerpt of an interview with Southern (Issue 138) from his time in Paris in the 50s, and today, the interview in full including a discussion of making Easy Rider with Dennis Hopper. And we hear they’ll be publishing “Worm-Ball Man,” which gets editor Lorin Stein‘s vote for “funniest pitch-letter ever.” Well, in the words of Guy Grand, eccentric billionaire protagonist of The Magic Christian, That’ll make it hot for them.

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At 3×3‘s annual awards contest for contemporary illustration, The Professional Show (ProShow), André was also awarded a Bronze Medal for his illustrations for the graphic collectible card set “Biographies of Famous Americans” included in Gigantic Issue 2. Click through for a gallery of André’s awarded work along with other work we were honored to have André create for The Rumpus:

NOTABLE NEW YORK ILLUSTRATIONS

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TUESDAY 6/1: Isabella Rossellini talks with Leonard Lopate. 92Y. 8:15pm.

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. This documentary, which recently screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, was called by Roger Ebert, “One of the most truthful documentaries about show business I’ve seen. Also maybe the funniest.” 92Y Tribeca. 7:30pm.

WEDNESDAY 6/2: Bill Gates: A Conversation with My Father. Bill Gates will talk with his father about parenting, philanthropy, commerce and citizenship. Gates Senior is the author of Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 92Y. 8:00pm.

Crispin Hellion Glover at IFC Center. Crispin Glover presents both his “Big Slide Show,” screens the film he produced and directed It is Fine! Everything is Fine! and also gives a very thoughtful talk afterward. I saw this Monday night, and it was one of the most thought-provoking filmic experiences I’ve had in a while.

THURSDAY 6/3:

Cinema 16. Cinema 16 rehabilitates the tradition of pairing silent films with live scores. This month, three avant-garde shorts are scored by improvisational trio Lemonade.

Crispin Hellion Glover. What Is It? With Big Slide Show presentation and Q&A. 7:30pm.

FRIDAY 6/4: Christopher Hitchens talks about his memoir Hitch-22 with Paul Holdengraber at NYPL LIVE.

Fiction Magazine, Dogzplot and Sententia present: Fiction and Poetry Slam. Robert Lopez, Elizabeth Ellen, Ken Sparling, Kim Chinquee and Shya Scanlon are just a few of the great readers presented. KGB Bar. 7-9pm.

SATURDAY 6/5: Edward Koren: The Capricious Line. Columbia University’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery is presenting Edward Koren: The Capricious Line, a major survey of the work of the artist best known for his cartoons and cover illustrations for The New Yorker magazine. Through June 12. An exhibition and tour by the curators will be held at the Wallach Art Gallery at 3:30pm.

SUNDAY 6/6: Greater New York at MOMA PS1.

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Original Notable New York Illustration © André da Loba.

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Photo: Brian Branch Price

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MONDAY 5/24: The Art of the Novella. Lore Segal reads from Lucinella, her savvy take on the New York literary scene. Greenlight Books. 686 Fulton St. 7:30pm.

Out of Our Minds: Melissa Auf der Maur, former bassist for Hole and Smashing Pumpkins presents her latest multimedia project with music, film and comics. Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. 7pm.

TUESDAY 5/25: As part of New York Book Week, a new series at BookExpo America, Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) discusses the cocktail hour, that most civilized ritual, and offers up “cocktail therapy” and literary suggestions in honor of the reprint of the classic ode to drinking properly, The Hour. Word. 7pm.

Poets Timothy Donnelly, Matthew Rohrer, Rachel Zucker and Geoffrey Nutter read. ACA Galleries. 6:00pm.

WEDNESDAY 5/26: BEA 2010 Tweet-Up. Meet your book and publishing friends that you’ve previously only known with an “@” sign in front of them, and let your hair down in the spacious, relaxed atmosphere at the BEA 2010 Tweet Up! There will be Drinks, Food and DJs Dana Trombley (aka DJ danaSkully) + Russ Marshalek (aka DJ RussComm ) playing the fun party jams of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Powerhouse Books. 7:00-10:00pm.

Why Documentaries Matter. A conversation with DA Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, Al Maysles, Rosie O’Donnell and more modereated by Sheila Nevins, President of HBO Documentary Films. 92Y. 8:15.

Two Men Laughing: Edward Koren and Jules Feiffer Discuss the Art of Humor. In conjunction with Ed Koren’s (Cartoonist for The New Yorker) exhibit The Capricious Line at Wallach Art Gallery he will hold a panel discussion with Feiffer. Wallach Art Gallery. 6:30pm.

THURSDAY 5/27: Jonathan Franzen and David Means read at the Brooklyn Public Library. Prospect Heights. 7:00pm.

Goodreads Literary Pub Crawl with Colson Whitehead, Emily St. John Mandel and Amy King. Channel John Cheever and Dorothy Parker with a night of fun in SoHo, Nolita and the East Village. Starts at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe with a drink on them. 7:00pm.

FRIDAY 5/28: Take in one, two or three installments of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle, which is being offered in full and continues its run at the IFC Center.

SUNDAY 5/30: Julie Orringer reads from her new novel The Invisible Bridge. McNally Jackson. 7:00pm.

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TUESDAY 5/18: Jewcy Magazine presents The Yiderati, this week’s installment of the series that presents emerging Jewish writers includes Jami Attenberg, Sam Apple and Rachel Shukert. The Strand. 7pm.

WEDNESDAY 5/19: Public Image Ltd. with frontman John Lydon (formerly frontman for the Sex Pistols) perform at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. This is a special performance that will be filmed for a documentary on PiL by filmmaker Alex Mar.

THURSDAY 5/20: The First Annual Moby Awards: The Best and the Worst of Book Trailers. Book trailers both big-budget and small, with author appearances and celebrity cameos. Come see for yourself and prepare yourself by seeing the full line-up of finalists. Will it be Gordon Lish’s Collected Fictions or Gail Carriger’s Blameless? The Griffin. 7pm.

FRIDAY 5/21: Paper Monument Number Three Reception. Paper Monument, the Brooklyn-based journal of contemporary art published in association with n+1. The Drawing Center. 6:30-8:30.

In My Parents’ Basement. Hiding Gallery invites you to harken back to the liberation and impulse to create in the show’s namesake. With artwork by Tao Lin, Two Tears and Nina Palucci and performance by Garden and Electric Flower. Hiding Gallery. 9pm.

One Story Literary Debutante Ball: A Celebration of Emerging Writers. The Ball will celebrate One Story’s debut and emerging authors, with artists, musicians, fashion designers and filmmakers. The highlight of the ball will be the formal “presentation” of writers who have made their debuts in One Story. Each writer will be “escorted” by an established author who has been a mentor or friend. The Old American Can Factory. 7pm-11pm.

The NYC Spelling Bee. Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. 6:30pm. Free, but $5 to compete.

SATURDAY 5/22: Ben Marcus and Deb Olin Unferth read at Bowery Poetry Club. 2pm.

3rd Ward’s Annual BBQ. With live music from Pink Noise, Stumblebum Brass Band and Hank & Cupcakes. With edible treats and free tune-ups for your bikes. 3rd Ward.

SUNDAY 5/23: Marc Ribot provides live musical accompaniment to Charlie Chaplin’s film The Kid. (Le) Poisson Rouge. 10pm.

[ART?] Mr. Brainwash at a warehouse in the meatpacking district. Whether he’s a fiction created by Banksy or an actor hired by Banksy, the “art” of Mr. Brainwash is worth peeking into, if only to be in on the joke. The too-self-consciously French, too-celebrity-conscious “artist” is the subject of Exit Through the Gift Shop a fun documentary/mockumentary allegedly by the artist Banksy. The film, about the origins of street art and its foremost players, is definitely worth a screening. It stars Shepard Fairey and a man in shade purportedly Banksy documenting the rise of the Frankenstein they created, Mr. Brainwash. Here’s a clip from a noteworthy interview by Vulture of MRB:

Vulture: Look, if you’re playing a joke on the art market, it’s a pretty fun joke.
Mr. Brainwash: Playing a joke on the art market? But the art market, is it a joke? When you think of white on a white canvas and sell it for millions of dollars, is it a joke? Is it a joke that some people are going to spend millions on this?

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Original Notable New York Illustration by Andre da Loba.

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While New York Gallery Week was last weekend, which for the most part means that galleries were open on Sunday, the galleries in Chelsea, SoHo and the meatpacking district have some new shows worth checking out. Here’s a cheat sheet of some of the more interesting work I’ve seen. CHELSEA GALLERIES At David Zwirner: Jockum Nordstrom and Mamma Andersson (Mamma Andersson, About a Girl, 2005) (Jockum Nordstrom, Meaningless Strength, 2009) With references to outsider art, one can definitely draw parallels between the surrealist collage and paintings of Nordstrom and that of Henry Darger or Marcel Dzama (who is also represented by David Zwirner gallery). The familiar and mysterious landscapes and interiors of Andersson’s canvasses are suitably peculiar next to the work of husband Jockum. While hers are more lush and his more naive, the influence that one has on the other is evident.

AT SIKKEMA JENKINS & CO.: Amy Sillman (Amy Sillman, The Plumbing, 2006) AT MATTHEW MARKS: Darren Almond (Darren Almond, From Sometimes Still, a six-channel high definition video projection) AT PACE GALLERY: Joel Shapiro Joel Shapiro Kiki Smith is also in exhibition at PACE. And her show LODESTAR is definitely worth a visit. In her first major New York gallery exhibition in eight years, which complements her show SOJOURN at the Brooklyn Musuem of Art, she presents stained-glass panels of mouth-blown glass depicting a woman’s life in cycles. I could not find pictures of the LODESTAR exhibit–more incentive to go out and see it! And while in Chelsea why not walk over to the High Line for a stroll and check out Richard Galpin’s installation VIEWING STATION, and the installment by Spencer Finch that will close in June after a yearlong run. (Galpin’s rendering of Viewing Station.) MEATPACKING DISTRICT ABANDONED WAREHOUSE: Mr. Brainwash The artist Mr. Brainwash, who’s worked with Banksy, has converted a warehouse in the meatpacking district to exhibit several new works of art. This show follows his massively hyped show in February that had everyone wondering, art or hoax? The show, which opened on Mother’s Day, runs to the end of the month. Read an interview with the artist by Anthony Haden Guest. SOHO GALLERIES

AT DEITCH PROJECTS: Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey Of his exhibt May Day, Fairey has said, “These people I’m portraying were all revolutionary, in one sense or another. They started out on the margins of culture and ended up changing the mainstream. When we celebrate big steps that were made in the past, it reminds us that big steps can be made in the future.” While his images have an identifiable look, his work borrows heavily the look and feel from the posters of Soviet propaganda, and also seems to draw its strength from the potency those posters once held. Yet his work doesn’t do enough to transcend the quaintness the posters have assumed in our culture, and ends up feeling lifeless.

AT THE DRAWING CENTER

(Leon Golub, Hell’s Fire Awaits You, 2003)

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MONDAY 5/3: Talk Show: An Evening with Ugly Duckling Presse. Join authors Andy Fitch and Jon Cotner and poets Matthew Rohrer, Rachel Levitsky, Alex Stein and more for an evening of interviews, poetry, and unscripted surprises in the format of a late night talk show. The Kitchen.

TUESDAY 5/4: Spring Gala Honoring John Leguizamo. Join Spike Lee, John Turturro, Rosie Perez and Eric Bogosian who will stage a special performance, in celebrating the work of John Leguizamo. Performance Space 122.

Murder by Death at the Bowery Ballroom. 7:30pm.

Light Industry presents two films by Thomas Comerford. Through its observations and audio-visual juxtapositions, The Indian Boundary Line meditates on a span of land in Chicago about 12 miles long, but suggests how this land and its history are an index for the shifting inhabitants, relationships, boundaries and ideas of landscape — as well as the consequences — which have accompanied the transformation of the “New World.”

WEDNESDAY 5/5: Daniel Clowes discusses Wilson at the Strand Bookstore. 7:00pm.

FRIDAY 5/7: Electric Literature celebrates the launch of Issue 4, with a reunion of The Golden Palominos. Also performing will be the Wingdale Community Singers with Rick Moody and Brooklyn indie-rockers The Walking Hellos with Myla Goldberg. Le Poisson Rouge.

Cabinet, Evidence Design, and Hugh Raffles’ ”Insectopedia” (Pantheon, March 2010) present INSECTOMEDIA, an evening of insect-related film, readings, sound, images, projections, and cocktails.

SATURDAY 5/8: Jonsi at Terminal 5. Sigur Ros frontman Jonsi performs from his first solo album “Go.” All the album’s arrangements are by Nico Muhly, the Philip Glass protege known for his work with Bjork, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Antony & the Johnsons and Grizzly Bear. Terminal 5. 8:00pm.

Shepard Fairey at Deitch Projects. Shepard Fairey is the man behind OBEY GIANT, the graphics that have changed the way people see art and the urban landscape. Fairey’s art reached a new level of recognition in 2008, when his “HOPE” portrait of Barack Obama became the iconic image of the presidential campaign. Ongoing exhibition until May 29 at Deitch Projects. His mural, which just went up at Houston and Bowery, is already being vandalized.

SUNDAY 5/9: Tribute to Flannery O’Connor. Curated by Lynne Tillman and Matthew Sharpe, the event takes as its impetus Brad Gooch’s important biography, Flannery, A Life of Flannery O’Connor, published in 2009 and a Finalist for the NBCC. The tribute readers include authors Brad Gooch, Michael Cunningham, James Hannaham, and Samantha Gillison, as well as its co-curators, Sharpe and Tillman. KGB Bar. 7:00pm.

ART: Spencer Finch at the High Line. The River that Flows Both Ways.

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