1. The stadium seating crowd, with FSG staffers Dan and Mark enjoying the free Asahi in the centre row. 2. Tim Small shows off his creation.
The powerHouse Arena is no Standard Hotel rooftop, but it was rather the right venue for last nights intimate launch party for The Milan Review, created and imported by Tim Small and Riccardo Trotta, the editor and production manager, respectively, of VICE Magazines Italian operation.
The first edition is The Milan Review of Ghosts, and each biannual issue will be consecrated to the survey of another worldly or otherworldly thing. Its unclear if the formatting will change too, but I desire it doesnt because the Reviews first run built to withstand abuse of a book toted deep inside a New York handbag: hardbound, and a lovely size and weight.
1. Deb Olin Unferth. 2. E. C. Osondu.
Attendees rolled in sounding a little shell-shocked from BEA, but the generous stack of Asahi cases behind the bar re-erected the drooping eyelids in the crowd. Contributors to this issue Nelly Reifler, E. C. Osondu, and Deb Olin Unferth turned out to read, and Tim Small played emcee. He said he knew what people had been saying, the head on everyones mind: Why did I put out a lit journal in word format in 2011? He wouldnt leave us the whole answer, claiming that he would carry it on www.themilanreview.com after that night, but he admitted part of itI want to be rich.
1. Elias right and Philippe left, who told me I didn`t feel like a writer, but wouldn`t clarify the input as a compliment or an insult. 2. Emily Wunderlich of Bedford St. Martin`s and multi-talented, past Vice slash future Milan Review contributor Seth Fried.
Nelly Reifler continued the stake in the Reviews physical form, calling it a word that you care to pet, before she show her (more or less) short story Motel, Directors Cut, set up like a script, with hilarious commentary from an unknown director interjected throughout. E.C. Osondu followed with a version of his story G is for Genocide set in Nigeria, and Deb Olin Unferth closed with two very light and very funny pieces, Blue Story and A Visit. The other she said she wrote in frustration, in mocking of a much longer story she had been running on, which was eventually scrapped, all of which only goes to prove that Deb is brilliant even (especially?) when she is procrastinating.
1. From good to left, author James Yeh, Joclyn Sparr, Norwegian novelist and poet Audun Mortensen, and Victoria Durnak. 2. I wish to imagine I helped Italian novelist Francesco Pacifico, left, come round to St. Germain liquer at the BEA kick off on Monday, but maybe he was only being polite.
There was enough of Asahi, so people hung around. Mike from VICE caught me making silly faces at his adorable baby girl, and so happily chatted about his newfound life as a parent (Yeah, shes [baby] working on her first novelwe just dont make the middle to distinguish her yet its not really good. ) and adventures in organic Fort Greene food (among the topics: organic rocks). Actual copies of The Milan Review were difficult to do by because a FedEx workers take in Paris (of course, right?) had delayed shipment. But this was DUMBO on a perfect early summer night and everyone was as glad to drink the mind of the Milan Review as the Milan Review itself.
Kai Twanmoh is a regular subscriber to Electric Dish.
1. I know a powerHouse room shot. 2. Mike Monaghan, managing editor of Vice, with his wife Joanna and new baby Levia, the cutest human existence to always see a lit event.
1. Nelly Reifler. 2. Nelly Reifler didn`t dare this man to chug this beer for this photo, but he did.
1. Vice interns Jessica Rivers, Chloe Campion, and Leanna Butkovic. 2. DJ photographer Lele Saveri taking requests.
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