New & Noteworthy
March Member Reading
The following are pictures from our monthly member reading. Featured in the pictures are two writers, a memoirist and journalist named Mark Millhone and a fiction writer named Kate Hill Cantrill, as well as the attendees of the reading. The setting is KGB bar, which you might recognize by the signature red background. What these pictures do not show are how entertaining these two writers were and how happy they made those lucky enough to attend. Once again, we are blown away by what is being written in the writing space. All hail Mark Millhone and Kate Hill Cantrill!
This is Mark Millhone. He is very excited to read from his memoir, though he doesn't particulary take to the word memoir.
Posted April 7, 2008 at 7:12 PM | Comments (0)
Leap Year 2008
What better way to celebrate leap year than to hear Amy Brill and Doug Danoff, two terrific Paragraph members, read at KGB bar? That's what a very packed bar full of people thought, anyway. 
Funky leap year picture, reading about to get underway.
Posted March 5, 2008 at 12:36 PM | Comments (0)
2008 Member Reading Kickoff
A packed house at KGB bar rings in the first member reading of the new year. At bat and on deck: Marissa Miley and Amy Lemmon, two nonfiction greats.
Posted January 30, 2008 at 2:38 PM | Comments (0)
Paragraph Holiday Party '07
The third annual Paragraph holiday party was held on Friday, December 14th at 7pm at Paragraph on West 14th Street. Red wine, spiked egg nog, beer and hors d'oeuvres were served by Paragraph. Guests brought various commestibles and other sundry edibles, mostly of the dessert variety. Much cheer was to be had, especially by the one in the Santa suit.
Posted December 21, 2007 at 3:29 PM | Comments (0)
Peter Godwin & Anne Landsman
Here are pictures from our November reading with Peter Godwin and Anne Landsman. Both Peter and Anne are writers who grew up in southern Africa and their writing on the subject is poignant and evocative of their experience. Godwin read from his latest book, a memoir entitled When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa; Landsman read from her critically acclaimed debut novel, The Devil's Chimney; and they both left the audience hungry for more.
More! More! More!
Posted November 21, 2007 at 4:35 PM | Comments (0)
Alison Lurie & Kate Blackwell Reading
In September, Paragraph hosted a reading with two captivating women of fiction, Alison Lurie and Kate Blackwell. Here are some photos from that delightful evening. 
Who knew a reading could be this good?!
Posted October 11, 2007 at 3:32 PM | Comments (0)
Softball Season Highlights
We got off to a late start, the field was a bit overgrown and our shirts were made of polyester, but we had a blast and we even won a few games. The highlights: 
Posted September 13, 2007 at 12:53 PM | Comments (0)
Helen Schulman & Jeffrey Frank
August readings are tough. Who is left in the city? Who wants to leave their air conditioned room to sweat it out on a steamy subway platform to wait for a downtown train? When the readers are fiction great Helen Schulman and New Yorker editor Jeffrey Frank, more than enough people to make it standing room only in a yoga studio.
A captive audience in Clay's yoga studio wait for the reading to begin.
Posted August 15, 2007 at 1:41 PM | Comments (0)
Merry May Member Reading (That's a Mouthful)
Paragraph kicked off the Memorial Day weekend with a packed house member reading at KGB. Who knew people stuck around in the summer? Or perhaps when you have three heavy hitter writers, it's worth getting to the beach a few hours late.
From left to right: Braxton Robbason, upcoming reader, Lila Cecil, Paragraph co-founder, and a very nervous Sean Hanley, also an upcoming reader, chat as the bar fills up. That's Sean's manuscript in the sealed envelope.
Posted May 25, 2007 at 9:24 PM | Comments (0)
A Reading? A Gym? A Reading at a Gym!
For our May reading, we decided to have the reading at Clay, our favorite gym just five doors down from Paragraph. We had some reservations. A reading at a gym? Will that be weird? And we wanted to have our usual post-reading celebration, which, because it includes wine and cheese, is best hosted at Paragraph. Will people be willing to walk a few doors down for the after party? But because Clay is not just any gym, but a gracious, accommodating, immaculately designed one, it wasn't weird at all. It was a delight.
I love readings at gyms!