DNA Reading Series: 
PETER ALSON
LIZ FODASKI

Event:  Sunday, August 13th, 2006  8pm

Provincetown, MA-  The DNA Gallery is thrilled to announce the return of its reading series with Peter Alson and Liz Fodaski.  The event will take place at DNA Gallery.

PETER ALSON will be reading from his latest book Take Me to the River:  A Wayward and Perilous Journey to the World Series of Poker.  In his latest tale Alson, having just turned the incomprehensible (to him) age of fifty, and staring down his own mortality, this rambling- gambling bachelor decides it's time to settle down. After years of equivocating, he pops the question to his longtime girlfriend. A wedding date is set for just after Labor Day, and to pay for it, a plan is hatched involving poker and a trip to Vegas.  Take Me to the River is a first person account of what it means to be part of the fastest-growing and most popular sports in the United States and the many lessons poker has to teach about probability and luck, good and bad fortune, patience, perseverance, and – most fitting for a man with marriage in his near future – commitment.

Alson is the author of the highly acclaimed memoir Confessions of an Ivy League Bookie and coauthor of One of a Kind, a biography of the poker champion Stuey Ungar, and Atlas: From the Street to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man. Alson's articles have appeared in many national magazines, including Esquire, Playboy, and The New York Times Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Alice, and their daughter Eden.

LIZ FODASKI will be reading new poems.  A native of New York, Fodaski was editor and publisher of Torque, from 1993-99 and was also curator of the Segue Foundation's reading series. Recent work has appeared in Scent, Shiny and the Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative Poetry. She is currently compiling her second collection of poems and teaches English in Brooklyn. Jessica Grim writes about fracas:

"Elizabeth Fodaski's fracas grabs attention, then holds, examines, and explodes the attentions it attracts. This work is both elegant and playful, sardonic and amused. A din, a brawl, a noisy quarrel. It instructs, implores, and navigates a level of writerly inquiry that's a joy to encounter. From the heady, generative tumble of 'Flood Watching' to the studied and gorgeous language of 'Paper Daybreak' and 'ETYMOLOGIES', fracas rocks."