SILVER RIPPLES @silverripples - Tumblr Blog

Mixer Reading and Music Series

Mixer Reading and Music Series Wednesday, June 10, 2015, 7:00 p.m., FREE with readings by Jynne Dilling Martin Vica Miller Chris Ross Ariel Schrag Music by Silver Ripples with your hosts, Melissa Febos and Rebecca Keith at Cake Shop 152 Ludlow St., bet. Stanton and Rivington F, V to 2nd Ave., F, J, M to Delancey/Essex https://www.facebook.com/Mixerreadings Ariel Schrag is the author of the graphic memoirs Awkward, Definition,Potential, and Likewise, which chronicle her four years at Berkeley High School. Potential was nominated for an Eisner Award and is currently being developed into a feature film, for which Schrag wrote the screenplay. She was a writer for Season Two of the HBO series How To Make It In America and a writer for Seasons Three and Four of the hit Showtime series The L Word. She’s the editor of Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age, an anthology of comics about middle school. Along with her friend Kevin Seccia, Schrag co-writes the webcomic Ariel and Kevin Invade Everything! Jynne Dilling Martin’s poetry has appeared widely, including in The New York Review of Books, The Believer, and Granta, and in her debut collection We Mammals in Hospitable Times. Her nonfiction has appeared in Glamour, Food & Wine, Slate, and The Antarctic Sun. She is the Associate Publisher of Riverhead Books and has served as the Antarctica Artist in Residence and been a Yaddo fellow. Vica Miller is a native of St. Petersburg (Russia) and has been a New Yorker for over two decades. George Plimpton called her a writer, and she believed him. Her first novel, Inga's Zigzags, was published in May of 2014 by Ladno Books. Vica is the founder (2009) of the Vica Miller Literary Salons, a chamber reading series held at private NYC galleries. She's written for Vogue Russia and Tennis Week magazines and her short stories have appeared in LitroNY, The Jet Fuel Review, Asymptote, The Linnet's Wings and Thrice Fiction literary journals. When not writing fiction, Vica runs communications for DataArt, a global technology consulting firm. She holds a Master's degree from ITP - Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and is proud to have launched and taught New Media and PR courses at Hunter College, CUNY. Vica is an excellent swimmer, a beginner paraglider and a mother of two. She's also a big fan of burlesque and has synesthesia, which makes her life full of color. You can find her at www.vicamiller.com Chris Ross is an Associate Editor at The Wall Street Journal. Silver Ripples are the echoes of a thousand lives reverberating across the canyon of time, often getting stuck around the mid-90's and arcing back to the present for a dark, ethereal, and rhythmic experience. B is the plaid princess, and Sasha & Josh cover loops, beats, and beards. Listen to them at music.silverripples.com

tinydeskcontest

Tiny Desk Contest Entrant: Silver Ripples (Brittany Taylor, Sasha Mandel, Josh Renkow and Ian Miller)

City: Brooklyn, N.Y.

Original Song: ”Jane’s Addition”

Every day we share some of the Tiny Desk Concert Contest entries that stood out to us. To be clear: if your video doesn’t appear here, don’t panic — your entry is still eligible to win (as long as it follows these rules)!