This Thursday, January 28, at 7:30 PM I’ll be doing an event with GELF magazine called the Non-Motivational Speakers Series at a gallery in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Also appearing will be orthodox bike evangelist Baruch Herzfeld, de facto peacekeeper in Williamsburg’s longstanding Hipster-Hasid cold war; and Dr. Jay Parkinson, Brooklyn-based digital doctor and one of Esquire’s “Radicals and Rebels Who Are Changing the World.” Adam Rosen published an interview with me in conjunction with the event here.
Next Thursday, February 4 at 7:30 I will be reading from Prospect Park West at Fort Greene’s new Greenlight Bookstore. Looking forward to that.
Finally, yesterday I had a great time at the Six-Word Memoir event at the 92nd St. Y, with AJ Jacobs, Ben Yagoda, Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser. You can read people’s six-word memoirs on New York City living here.
See you soon,
Amy
January 2010
So I don’t really love giving links to video of me not looking my best, but hey, the cooking vid is already out there. I recorded an interview at Brooklyn Independent Television with my good friend and fellow Brunonian Cynthia Hopkins, who you may know from her amazing one-woman shows at St. Ann’s Warehouse and her band Gloria Deluxe. Cindy and I have been friends for almost twenty years and though our work is very different we are great mutual admirers of each other. She used to play for Dan Zanes, I just checked Dan Zanes out at the Coop. Anyway, Cindy and I talked about solo work, dysfunction, Brooklyn, fiction, autobiography and nudity on this awesome TV show “Caught in the Act.”
My hair and makeup are terrible. I am proud to say that I have since thrown out the shirt I was wearing, am buying new cover-up, and have gotten my hair cut (though not re-colored).
For those who want to watch on TV, the show is on Time Warner 56 and Cablevision 69 every Monday & Wednesday at 2pm & 10pm until January 23rd. Go here to watch online, and click on the link on the right that says “Amy Sohn and Cynthia Hopkins.”
Hope everyone had a good holiday.
