EventsThe New Social Environment#844
Henry Threadgill: Easily Slip Into Another World
Featuring Threadgill and David Hershkovits, with Julie Patton
Friday, June 30, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Musician Henry Threadgill joins writer David Hershkovits for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Julie Patton.
In this Talk
Henry Threadgill
The composer and multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill is widely recognized as one of the most original and innovative voices in contemporary music. He has acclaimed releases from his bands Air, X-75, the Henry Threadgill Sextett, Very Very Circus, Make a Move, Zooid, and Ensemble Double Up. He was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2021. His four-movement work, In for a Penny, In for a Pound, received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2016. His autobiography Easily Slip Into Another World published by Knopf in May 2023 has been received with wide acclaim.
David Hershkovits
David Hershkovits is a writer, editor and publisher who taught English at LSUNO and began as a journalist at the Courier, a New Orleans weekly. Moving back to New York in the late 70s, he joined the staff of the Soho Weekly News. Hershkovits co-founded Paper magazine in 1984 and co-edited the books From Abfab to Zen: Paper’s Guide to Pop Culture (1994) and 20 Years of Style: The World According to Paper (2004). He has written for GQ, Vanity Fair, Max (Germany), High Times, the New York Post, Daily News, Newsday and others. He also hosted the Light Culture podcast, focusing on culture and cannabis.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨