The Continental Literary Magazine in collaboration with Backyard Writers presents:
NOIR | The Dark Alleyways of the Soul - presenting The Continental Literary Magazine
The Head and The Hand Bookstore welcomes CLM Editor-in-Chief Sándor Jászberényi, author and literary agent Eric Smith, writer Máté Makai, and Philadelphia’s own Backyard Writers for an event featuring The Continental's latest issue, Noir. 🕵️♂️
Whether noir is a genre or a style is hard to say, but its trademark features are known to all from cinema, literature, and comic books. Hardboiled detectives, dark alleyways, rain, and estrangement figure into this shadowy, atmospheric collection.🔍🔍
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👉Join editor-in-chief and award-winning author Sándor Jászberényi, writer and literary agent Eric Smith, renowned author, critic and journalist Máté Makai, and the legendary Backyard Writers for an overview of this publication and unique perspectives on the fourth issue's universal theme.
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Author Bios
🎤 SÁNDOR JÁSZBERÉNYI – The author of The Devil Is a Black Dog: Stories from the Middle East and Beyond (New Europe Books, 2014). In 2017 he received Hungary’s Libri Literary Prize. As a correspondent for Hungarian news sites, he has covered the conflict with the Islamic State, unrest in Ukraine, the revolutions in Egypt and Libya, and the Gaza War. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, AGNI, and The Brooklyn Rail. He divides his time between Budapest and Cairo.
🎤 ERIC SMITH - Literary agent and author from New Jersey. His recent novels include Don’t Read the Comments, You Can Go Your Own Way, and the anthology Battle of the Bands, co-edited with award-winning author Lauren Gibaldi. His latest book, Jagged Little Pill: The Novel, was written with Alanis Morissette, Academy award-winner Diablo Cody, and Glen Ballard. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and son, and enjoys video games, pop punk, and crying over every movie.
🎤MÁTÉ MAKAI (1986, Hungary) born in Veszprém and living in Szentendre, is a writer, critic, and journalist. His second volume Az Atlantis felemelkedése (The Rise of Atlantis), published by Kalligram Publishing House in 2022, contains dystopian experiments regarding an imagined near future. He works full-time managing a Hungarian designer brand and his psychedelic pop-rock musical formation goes by the name of The Monoment. In his free time, he plays guitar and football.
🎤THE BACKYARD WRITERS WORKSHOP is among Philadelphia’s longest continually running fiction workshops, and probably its favorite. Founded in 2011, it has counted among its writers Emma Copley Eisenberg, Zinzi Clemmons, Elias Rodriques, Nathan Alling Long, and so many more. Their fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Smokelong, Tin House, Glimmer Train, as well as in publications run by their good friends right here at the Head and the Hand. Although the Backyard Writers’ styles range all over the genre map, for this reading, they will put forward two of their Noir-est members to match the dark vibes. They can really do it all.