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14 May 03
• Pros Only •

This month's Pros Only reading is Wednesday 21 May at 8pm. Featured readers include Jessica Mesman (nonfiction) and Zoje Stage (fiction). It will be a night of smart and surprising reading, cookies and beer, and books and T-shirts for sale.

( about our readers: )
Jessica Mesman is the managing editor of the journal Creative Nonfiction and a student in the MFA program at the University of Pittsburgh.

Zoje Stage is a writer and independent filmmaker. Her first feature film, "Bewilderness", will screen in Berlin in spring 2004 (and hopefully somewhere closer to home before then). Please visit masterbuilderfilms.com.

The evening is free and happens at Modern Formations Gallery at 4919 Penn Avenue in Garfield. For those who won't be in town, you may listen to the broadcast on WRCT 88.3 FM on Tuesday 27 May at 6pm EST. WRCT's broadcast is available online at www.wrct.org.

Pros Only: The writing's so good you have to hear it. Sponsored by Augustiner Lager.

• Sociable Behavior •
The New Yinzer hosts another installment of its monthly happy hour, Sociable Behavior, on Wednesday 28 May from 6 to 8 p.m at Zythos on the South Side. It's a chance to meet the editors, writers, and readers of the magazine while enjoying cheap beer and other libations. Zythos is located at 2108 East Carson Street and is on the 54C bus line.

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