November 8th

On Saturday, November 8th, Hexedjournal.com and WORD presents, the second installment of Vol. 1, a unique event that pairs live music with readings. Vol. 1 strives to present both contemporary authors, comedians and musicians in evenings that weave the two, too often disparate, groups together.

For this months edition of Vol. 1, the following storytellers will each present their own take on the Thanksgiving Holiday. Each give their personal insights into the holiday, either fictional or real-life. This year, with help from our friends at Sadie Magazine we present to you these five readers.

The price of admission is a gently-used book to be donated to Books Through Bars. Founded in 1989 in an effort to address the paucity of educational resources and programming made available to prisoners hoping to use the time of their imprisonment to effect positive change in their lives.
Please visit
www.Booksthroughbars.org for details

Jesse Sposato is one of the co-founders and editors of Sadie Magazine, and has been obsessed with teenage girls since she was a teenager. There is a chance she may be trying to vicariously re-live her life through her teenage self by doing Sadie, but if so, she is definitely doing a way better job of being a teen girl this time around. She also writes for several other publications, enjoys playing music, and really likes cream cheese and lox, whether in a sushi roll or on a bagel.

When Miriam Cohen is not pretending she still lives in Manhattan, she hangs out in Bronxville's version of the Hungarian Pastry Shop, Slave to the Grind, which is, in fact, better. Her fiction has appeared in Storyglossia and Sadie; and Sarah Lawrence's MFA program is the reason for all the Bronxville.

Leni Zumas is the author of the story collection Farewell Navigator (Open City). A 2008 Fellow in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, she teaches at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn, where ambiloquy and dormiats preoccupy her.

Zack Lipez is known as the singer of Brooklyn band Fresh Kills, but prior to his gig as playing Nick Cave fronting a Dischord records band, Lipez teamed with Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner for the poetry/photography project No Seats on the Party Car.

Jibade-Khalil Huffman is the author of "19 Names For Our Band" (Fence Books, 2008). He is currently collaborating with visual artist Xaviera Simmons on "Oscillations," a work for theater commissioned by the Museum of Arts and Design that will premiere in December 2008.

Music

Golden Bones
Children of The Flower Children
Soft Black