Kevin Geeks Out About....
GENRE BUSTERS!
Wednesday, December 1st @ 8:00pm
92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, NYC
What's Kevin Geeks Out?
A live variety show where we dive deep into an obsession-worthy topic.
But what's a GENRE BUSTER?
Genre Busters are those brave artists who bring their A-game to a disrespected genre.
The December 1st show brings together 5 authors doing amazing work in Comic Strips, Young Adult novels, Romance Books, Wrestling magazines and "mash-up" literature. The multi-media variety show will include mini-lectures, music, readings, video clips, trivia prizes, audience Q&A and more. Here's what you can expect from the 90-minute show:
"A MASH UP MASTERCLASS
Ben H. Winters (author of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and Android Karenina) defines and defends the hybrid genre known as the "mash-up novel," and explains why adding robots to Anna Karenina is more like adding smooth chocolate to creamy peanut butter than putting a mustache on the Mona Lisa. The reading will include prizes to those who can correctly identify which passages are his, and which from the original, un-mashed-up books.
Ben H. Winters (author of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and Android Karenina) defines and defends the hybrid genre known as the "mash-up novel," and explains why adding robots to Anna Karenina is more like adding smooth chocolate to creamy peanut butter than putting a mustache on the Mona Lisa. The reading will include prizes to those who can correctly identify which passages are his, and which from the original, un-mashed-up books.
