
From Century Girl by Lauren Redniss.Photo: Courtesy of Lauren Redniss
Like
Lost,
New York's Stoop Series is going on hiatus until the fall. Also like
Lost, we’re going out with a bang: On Thursday night,
New York contributing editor Logan Hill will host a free talk at the
Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn Heights, with two of the city’s most uncategorizable New York artists:
Lauren Redniss and
Christopher Myers. Redniss was Pulitzer-nominated by the New York
Times for her wild “Op Art” editorials — and she composed the brilliant book
Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies. Christopher Myers is an award-slathered children’s-book illustrator and author (
Wings, Black Cat, Fly!,
Blues Journey) who has exhibited artwork at the Studio Museum in Harlem and P.S. 1.
Jabberwocky, his most recent book, recasts Lewis Carroll's fable on a Brooklyn basketball court. As always, the event, with music by D.J. Eliot Aronow, is free — as is the booze from Brooklyn Brewery and Johnnie Walker Blue Label.

A spread from Lauren Redniss's Follies-girl bio, Century Girl.Photo: Courtesy of Lauren Redniss

One of Redniss's "Op-Art" columns from the Times.Photo: Courtesy of Lauren Redniss

An illustration from Chris Myers forthcoming adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky.Photo: Courtesy of Christopher Myers.
Stoop Series, Thurs., June 7, 7–10 p.m.
The Rotunda Gallery 33 Clinton St., Pierrepoint St., Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn; 718-855-7882.
Lauren Redniss [Official site]
Blues Journey by Christopher Myers [Amazon]
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