READINGS ARCHIVE AUDIO: David Rakoff at the Jasmine Tree Lounge, 2002

Written By Michael Workman

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READINGS ARCHIVE
David Rakoff at the Jasmine Tree Lounge
Portland, OR 2002

This week in the magazine, we share a new previously unpublished recording from the Readings Archive audio collection. Late actor, author and humorist David Rakoff, who died in 2012, was a reader on the Portland, Oregon leg of our May 2002 west coast tour of the Bridge Journal at the Jasmine Tree Lounge.

In addition to his many appearances on NPR's popular "This American Life" series, from IMDB, he was also: “an actor and writer, known for Capote (2005), The Watermelon Woman (1996) and Strangers with Candy (2005).” For the reading, Rakoff read a selection from his essay collection Fraud. Click above to listen to the recording.

Video and additional audio recordings from the archive are available for listening here, and through the Listening Room, a new project of Bridge Audio.


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Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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