What better time than January 26th to smarm it up with all your friends from ANIMAL FARM, NYC’s destination for the newest and best satirical and/or critical writing in any genre. We are honored to host Gawker features editor TOM SCOCCA, Sackett Street Writers founder and novelist JULIA FIERRO, critic and fiction writer RAHAWA HAILE, and poet BRUNO DAVEY for a Malcolm Gladwell-approved evening of the most exciting, incisive, and funny writing that the discursive parameters of the contemporary public sphere can accommodate.

ANIMAL FARM takes place at OVER THE EIGHT, 594 Union Avenue at N. 11th Street in Williamsburg (L to Bedford or G to Metropolitan), and begins at 8 pm on Sunday, January 26th.  Like speech, it is free.

 

 

TOM SCOCCA is the features editor of Gawker; previously, he served as managing editor of Deadspin, wrote the “Scocca” blog for Slate, and was a writer and editor at The New York Observer, the  Washington City Paper and the Baltimore City Paper. He is the author of  the 2011 book Beijing Welcomes You, an account of the Chinese capital’s reinvention of itself as an international city.

RAHAWA HAILE is a Brooklyn-based writer. Her work  has appeared in The Awl, Volume I Brooklyn, and the Village Voice. You  may find her on Twitter at @rahawahaile.
BRUNO DAVEY was brought up in the north of England and studied English at King’s College London. He received his MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University and has worked as, amongst other things, a record shop grunt, a TV extra and a market researcher. He writes fiction and poetry, a selection of which has been published at www.thisisyourz.wordpress.com.