Funny Faces and Lesbian Erotica during Drunken! Careening! Writers! at KGB
I call this evening I got all my sisters with me, Kathleen Warnock began, kicking off the monthly Drunken! Careening! Writers! readings at KGB bar in the East Village last night. Soviet propaganda posters and framed clippings of the readings reviews with punny headlines like Back in the USSR and Much Better Red than Dead adorned the red walls.
Warnock, the events founder and host, introduced Alice Elliott Dark as a former colleague and Beatle fan, whose favorite is George Harrison. Whooo, mine too, a woman shouted from the back of the room, which was conspicuously devoid of the mini-dresses and leggings standard in many East Village bars.
Dark, who has been published in The New Yorker, Harpers and Best American Short Stories, read from a story about her physical resemblance to both the Quaker Oats man and Elvis Presley. The story is from a forthcoming anthology on the faces of writers.
Three actors read one of Warnocks own plays, a one-act titled "The Beast," in which a barking character embodying the self-doubt and jealousy of two friends nearly ruins their relationship.
Carol Rosenfeld, a New York-based poet and fiction writer, confessed she had read so often at the monthly events that she had exhausted the chapters of her two published books. Instead, she read an unpublished monologue, a cross between lesbian erotica and vampire fiction.
Next months authors will be [all men], and Mays authors all have names that [start with A](http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-05-15_drunken_careeni.html).