I had the wrong date on this. It's Tuesday night not Monday night. Park Slope's Robin Hirsh, owner of the Cornelia Street Cafe, sent out this late notice about his performance Tuesday May 26th at the Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street in Manhattan) at 8:30 p.m. He is reading from a work-in-progress which captures different moments in the history of the Cornelia Street Cafe.
Sorry
for the late notice, but I'm leaping in for the absent Marc Maron,
whose comedy series has been a highlight of the last few months, and
whose shoes I am not in any way attempting to fill.
Over the
last few months, mostly as a last-minute pinch hitter, I have
read/performed pieces from my memoir, LAST DANCE AT THE HOTEL
KEMPINSKI. I also read a piece called Pleasant Dreams, accompanied by
the marvelous Frank London on trumpet and Ken Filiano on bass. Last
month I took that piece up to Middlebury, Vermont, and read it as part
of a Yom HaShoah (Holocaust) memorial service at Middlebury College.
My son, Sasha, played piano, which made it an extraordinarily moving
occasion for me.
Pleasant Dreams is one of a series of cafe
stories, which are slowly coagulating into another book, a kind of
autobiography by other means, tentatively entitled THE WHOLE WORLD
PASSES THROUGH. It is in some ways a sequel to Kempinski, i.e., what
happens to a Wandering Jew when he finally stands still and opens the
doors. This is what I did thirty-two years ago at Number 29 Cornelia
Street.
I will be reading three short pieces and one longer one, which capture different moments in the history of this little joint.
I do hope you can join me. I am anxious for your feedback
