togatherinc:Julie Buntin is the literary events coordinator at powerHouse Arena, where she curates,
togatherinc:Julie Buntin is the literary events coordinator at powerHouse Arena, where she curates, manages, and publicizes between 15 and 20 book events a month. Previously she worked for the NYU Creative Writing Program as the reading series assistant, helping select fiction readers, write introductions, and tame a finicky audio system. As a co-curator of the KGB Emerging Writers Reading Series in 2010, she worked with writers like Anne Enright, Chad Harbach, Nick Flynn, and many, many more. After work, you can find her writing freelance book reviews for Publishers Weekly, reading like a maniac, and obsessing over her novel. Julie is finishing up her MFA fiction thesis at NYU. Her prose can be found in Sonora Review and Explosion-Proof, and she is an editor-at-large at Bodega Magazine. powerHouse Arena is Togather’s downstairs neighbor in Dumbo, so we met up with Julie over lunch to talk about punk rock posters, unlikely author pairings,how bringing two disparate audiences together can lead to a really amazing event, and how not to pitch your event to her. (“I think my friends might come” is a no-no.)Read More -- source link