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Contact: Dani Kirschbaum
Email: dani.kirschbaum@gmail.com
Cell: 917-939-0781
Address: 8 Main Street Southampton New York 11968
RSVP: longhaulparty@gmail.com
Fashion Collective LOLA New York GETS LITERARY
Amanda Stern's spare and haunting debut novel, THE LONG HAUL (Soft Skull Press, 2003) has been chosen by fashion collective LOLA New York as the inaugural title to be sold at the trend-setting Southampton clothing boutique, Blue&Cream.
In a creative move to make literature cool, LOLA New York will use their brand as an innovative platform to disseminate risk-taking literature to their Generation Y peers. Please join the founders of LOLA New York for the launch party to fete Amanda Stern and celebrate this creative initiative pairing fashion with literature. Sunday, July 1st from 5-7pm at 8 Main Street, Southampton.
Dubbed by Metro as a downtown literary doyenne for her critically-acclaimed "Happy Ending Music and Reading Series," Stern was recently hailed by the New York Times Magazine as a "New Bohemian," who is "helping to keep downtown New York alive."
Yet it is her writing rather than hosting that LOLA New York seeks to promote. Comparisons to Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son and Vincent Gallo's Buffalo 66 have made THE LONG HAUL a culty favorite among the 18-34 year old set. In their review, San Francisco Chronicle said Stern's novel was written with, "brave, risky language...metaphors that are so fresh they are almost jarring." Hal Hartley called the novel, "powerful." MacArthur award winner Joanna Scott called Stern "a brilliantly precise writer."
Mark your calendars for this mid-90s themed party, where fashion forward hipsters commingle with the literary and the lettered, as Amanda and the lifestyle brand LOLA New York join forces to drink, dance, party and read. After-party venue will be announced during the event.
Visit amandastern.com for more information about the author. And Lolanewyork.com for information about the collective. To RSVP, email longhaulparty@gmail.com. All other queries should be directed to Dani Kirschbaum.
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