This past Sunday I was a part of a literary magazine extravaganza at Greenlight Bookstore, a new bookstore in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. The bookstore hosted readings by Electric Literature, A Public Space, BOMB, and Armchair/Shotgun, who I was there reading for. APS editor Brigid Hughes read a dark new story by Salvatore Scibona from issue 10. Joshua Furst read from a work-in-progress about the similarities between college and role playing games. (You can listen a podcast of Furst reading “Black Ice,” his eerie Carveresque story from the latest BOMB literary supplement.) And Teddy Wayne read a hilarious scene about economics, lust, and marijuana from his novel Kapitoil, a different section of which is excerpted on the Electric Literature blog. Greenlight also has a great and numerous array of new mags right by the door. (I picked up the newest issues of Zoetrope & Threepenny.)

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