Liars' League NYC

Eureka! Announcing the lineup for Invention & Discovery!

We’re excited to announce the line-up for our INVENTION & DISCOVERY Show on Wednesday, 5th June back at our favorite place of inspiration, KGB Bar - four stories of time-traveling, invisibility, flotsam and jetsam, and mechanical mothers, plus a performed extract from Dan Levinson’s forthcoming science-fiction novel, Psionic Earth!

THE SECRET LIFE OF A MAIL CARRIER by Paul Blaney

BEAUTIFUL WRECKAGE by Jeffrey Ethan Lee

FIXED POINT by Liam Hogan

THE ORDERED CHILD by Ledia Xhoga

PSIONIC EARTH by Dan Levinson

So that’s 7pm, Wednesday, 5th June at KGB Bar – and naturally, we’ll have our usual literary themed quiz for you as well! Watch this space for details of our performers – coming soon…

News - Submissions/Events Schedule Change

We’re having a few unforeseen scheduling conflicts here at Liars’ League NYC HQ, so unfortunately we’re going to have to postpone the next two Liars’ League events until next year – which means we’ll effectively be taking a break for the summer, when we return after Labor Day with the Teachers & Students Show on Wednesday, 4th September.

If you’ve submitted a story for “Inlaws & Outlaws” or “Travel & Leisure”, the events we’re postponing, we should have already contacted you to let you know. If you were working on a piece to send to us – please send it anyway! We’ll let you know exactly when the rescheduled events are going to be as soon as we've drawn up the schedule – in the meantime, that all means our next submissions deadline will be Wednesday, July 31st for Teachers & Students submissions. We hope that all makes sense – but just drop us a line if you have any questions.

The good news is that when we’re back in September, not only will we be back on our usual schedule, but you’ll be able to see us twice that month – once for our show, and again as part of the Manhattan Lit Crawl! Hurrah!

That’s all for now – see you in a few weeks for Invention & Discovery!

Thanks, Lit Crawlers!

Thanks to everyone who came along to Saturday's Liars' League NYC 2103 Brooklyn Lit Crawl event! We had a fantastic time, and you made us feel very welcome in our home-away-from-home at People's Republic of Brooklyn...

Special thanks to Suzanne, Camille, Katie, Daniel, and everyone at Lit Crawl for organizing such an awesome evening of events - and, of course, to our writers - Manny Martinez, C.D. Rose, and Ben Black, as well as to our performers - Jon Sprik, Jeff Wills, and Matt Alford.

If you'd like to read or hear the stories again, you'll find them right here on the site. Go take a look!

CARD SOUND by Manuel Martinez,
read by Jon Sprik

(Originally recorded at the Sickness & Health Show on 6th February 2013)

 

 

THE MOOSE IS A LIE by Ben Black,
read by Matt Alford

(Originally recorded at the Secrets & Lies Show on 6th March 2013)

 

 

DON DELILLO by C.D. Rose,
read by Jeff Wills

(Originally recorded at the Marriage & Divorce Show on October 3rd 2012)

 

Enjoy! We hope you had a good time - we're looking forward to the next one already...

YET MORE LIES at the 2103 Brooklyn Lit Crawl!

Lit Crawl is back! And we're excited to invite you to a special Liars’ League NYC show – YET MORE LIES – part of the 2013 Brooklyn Lit Crawl! We’ll be appearing at The People’s Republic of Brooklyn on Saturday, 18^th May at 6.15pm – just one of many fantastic events on the evening’s schedule.

For those of you who haven't experienced Lit Crawl, it's a FREE evening of readings, literature, and literary events, at a series of bars – essentially, a bar crawl, with books! You'll find details of the various venues and events over on the official Lit Crawl NYC website – it all starts at 5pm, and culminates in an afterparty at 8pm where you can put your feet up, drink more, and talk literature. What finer way to spend a night?

YET MORE LIES will be an expertly pruned bonsai Liars' League NYC show featuring some of our favorite stories from our archive – including:

THE MOOSE IS A LIE
by Ben Black
read by Matt Alford

CARD SOUND
by Manuel Martinez
read by Jon Sprik

DON DELILLO
by C.D. Rose
read by Jeff Wills

So once again, we’ll be at The People’s Republic of Brooklyn, 247 Smith Street, Brooklyn - a stone's throw from the Carroll Street and Bergen Street F/G subway - on Saturday, 18^th May at 6.15pm – and you’ll find full details on the Lit Crawl NYC website – hope to see you there!

Stories and recordings are up, up and away!

I swear we're almost done with the superhero catchphrases. But we now have the stories and recordings up on the site - together with a podcast of the entire show in the iTunes Store, as well as a few photos we took on the evening

We also have a couple bonus tracks for you - firstly, a brief but amazing piece of improv from actor Everett Goldner which we edited out of the final track - a minor technical hitch meant we lost a page from the story Wilhelm David, but Everett managed to hold the fort admirably while we located it:

Wilhelm David improv outtake

And, by absolutely no public demand whatsoever, here's the complete three-part saga that is Moon Knight: Hecate's Vengance, extracts from a script thirteen-year-old me wrote for the comic book Moon Knight, performed by members of the audience, featuring Elizabeth as Narrator and me as Moon Knight. Let's just say Marvel never got back to me:

Moon Knight - Hecate's Vengance

We'll be back at KGB on Wednesday, 5th June with the Invention & Discovery Show - in the meantime, if you'd like to submit a story, our next deadline is Friday, 31st May for our Inlaws & Outlaws theme. Full details and submissions guidelines are on our submissions page.

We'll also be appearing again this month as part of the Brooklyn Lit Crawl on Saturday, 18th May at 6.15pm at The People’s Republic of Brooklyn, with three of our favorite stories from the past six months. More details soon!

Thanks to Catherine Bright for taking photos on the night, our audience members for their sterling portrayals as the cast of Moon Knight, and to literary heroes Vintage/Anchor Books for providing this month's quiz prizes - don't forget, Verlyn Klinkenborg’s essential Several Short Sentences About Writing is out in paperback now and available on Amazon! But most of all, thanks to our writers for the words, and our actors for bringing them to life.

- Andrew

Friends Without Benefits by Vito J. Racanelli

Friends without Benefits read by E James Ford

I ran into Lily accidently, after not having seen her for a long time. It was intentional. The not seeing her.

Wilhelm David by Jerry Sticker

Wilhelm David read by Everett Goldner

One thing was for certain. The dog was a double agent. First time I saw him was out there roaming the countryside. It was called “No Man’s Land” for a reason. But what if you were not a man?

The Sidekick by E.P. Henderson

The Sidekick read by Seth James

T-Man is real strict about masks in the Lair. “Always keep it on, Kid, inside and out. Any room there’s a window, people can see you. There’s a lot more capes about than you think.”  Blah blah blah thinks the Chromium Kid, flipping the bird at the windowless door. Luckily T-Man doesn’t have X-Ray vision or anything or he would be so screwed.

El Bandito by Michael G. McLaughlin

El Bandito read by E James Ford

Victorio Valdez, El Bandito, was a retired Mexican actor living in Guadalajara. He had been in over 30 Mexican and American films, always as the heavy. In his youth he was shot from horses, tumbled down flights of stairs, and had whiskey bottles shattered over his head. In his film career he had been killed by some of the legends of the cinema including Gilbert Rowland, Eli Wallach and John Wayne. John Ford liked Victorio’s deaths so much the Duke killed him three times in one film.

Heart of a God by Sam Carter

Heart of a God read by Alexandra Gray

Of all the flatmates with whom I’ve shared a house, I have to admit that the ancient alien God Dread Cthulhu, despite being an unspeakable, cephalopoid horror from the darkest abysses of the ocean, was not the worst. Not by quite a long way, in fact.

Holy Book Report, Batman!

SHAZAM! Thanks to everyone who came out for last night’s thrilling HEROES & VILLAINS SHOW! We had it all – Cthulhu in love, tiny Germans, heroic bad guys, duplicitous friends, and surly clones, as well as, of course, the premiere of an original Moon Knight script, for which my 13-year-old self will never, ever forgive me. What’s more, you guys took every single geeky comic book question we could throw at you and emerged worryingly triumphant! You guys rock, in a nerdy, bookish fashion, which is, of course, the best possible way to rock.

Thanks to everyone at KGB, and especially to last night’s Moon Knight/Hecate’s Vengance impromptu cast members from the audience – you were TONY worthy, each and every one. And of course, thanks to our friends at Vintage/Anchor Books for providing the prizes for the quiz – for those of you who didn’t win a copy of Verlyn Klinkenborg’s Several Short Sentences About Writing, it’s out in paperback now and available on Amazon!

Naturally, the lion’s share of praise goes to our amazing writers: Michael G. McLaughlin, E.P. Henderson, Sam Carter, Vito J. Racanelli, and Jerry Sticker, as well as the fantastic actors who brought their words to life: E. James Ford, Seth James, Alex Gray, and Everett Goldner. We’ll have the stories up here this afternoon, and the recordings should be up by the weekend, together with a free podcast of the show itself in the iTunes Store.

We’re back at KGB on Wednesday, 5th June with our Inventions & Discovery Show – but you don’t need to wait that long to see us! Because we’ll be appearing again this month as part of the Brooklyn Lit Crawl on Saturday, 18th May at 6.15pm at The People’s Republic of Brooklyn, with three of our favorite stories from the past six months. We’ll bring you more details about that in the next week or so, but put it in your diaries now. It’s going to be a fun show!

Thanks again, guys!