Hannah Burns

Oct 11, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Evangeline Riddiford Graham |Claire Potter |Hannah Burns |Shelley Martin

In Episode 16 of Multi-Verse, Devon Walker-Figueroa reads her poem “Private Lessons,” in which a dying man determines that his young pupil must become a prima ballerina, and chats with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham about the uses of silence, breaking Dante’s rhyme scheme, and what it means to be haunted by lessons long since over. “What use?” her dancer wonders, “in maligning his methods now?”This is not your grandfather’s ghost story.

Oct 10, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Hannah Burns |Shelley Martin |Mitchell Abidor

In 2016, white evangelical Christians showed up at the polls in force for Donald J. Trump, part of a diverse movement that defied expectations to sweep him into the White House. In the past decade, scholars and journalists have spilled a lot of ink on what seemed initially like a strange affinity of highly religious people for a base, immoral and violent man.

Sep 25, 2024 | atwoodmagazine.com | Hannah Burns

Kid Lake’s Carter Long celebrated their ‘as the form wanes, the spirit appears’ EP release with a reflective show in Ridgewood, Queens!Stream: ‘as the form wanes, the spirit appears’ – Kid LakeThey weren’t performing as Kid Lake back then, but maybe with Cry Baby, another of their projects. It was my first time in Bushwick and I remember thinking how cool it was that my friends went to high school with someone who was pursuing music in New York.

Aug 20, 2024 | atwoodmagazine.com | Hannah Burns

The Greeting Committee made space for grieving the past and romanticizing the future at their incredibly present ‘Everyone’s Gone and I Know I’m the Cause’ Bowery Ballroom show in New York City. Stream: ‘Everyone’s Gone and I Know I’m the Cause’ – The Greeting CommitteeThe thickness of the air promised rain, eventually, though it was unclear when. Before I knew it June had crept into July and it was time for The Greeting Committee to grace the stage of Bowery Ballroom.

Jul 30, 2024 | atwoodmagazine.com | Hannah Burns

When a fiction writer composes music, you get some of the best lyricism of 2024: It was a nostalgic summer night when singer/songwriter Sofia Wolfson sang of the West Coast in a Ridgewood basement. Stream: ‘Imposing on a Hometown’ – Sofia WolfsonA month after her debut LP Imposing on a Hometown was released, and a month after her hometown reclamation show in Los Angeles, Sofia Wolfson started her New York album release show in true form.