An Afternoon of Failure, Part I by Eileen Myles, Travis Jeppesen & Helen DeWitt

Summary: On April 2, 2011, Triple Canopy and <a href="http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/" target="_blank" style="color: #CC0000; text-decoration: none;">Dalkey Archive Press</a> presented <a href="http://ps1.org/calendar/view/275" target="_blank" style="color: #CC0000; text-decoration: none;">an afternoon of failure</a> at MoMA PS1 to celebrate the release of <em>The Review of Contemporary Fiction</em>'s "Failure" issue, guest-edited by Joshua Cohen and available for purchase <a href="http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?GCOI=15647100883990" target="_blank" style="color: #CC0000; text-decoration: none;">here</a>. <br><br> In this first of two installments of recordings from the event, poet <a href="http://www.eileenmyles.com/" target="_blank" style="color: #CC0000; text-decoration: none;">Eileen Myles</a> reads "Solo Performance" from her new book <em>Inferno (a poet's novel)</em>, published last year by <a href="http://www.orbooks.com/" target="_blank" style="color: #CC0000; text-decoration: none;">OR Books</a>; novelist, poet, and critic <a href="http://disorientations.com/" target="_blank" style="color: #CC0000; text-decoration: none;">Travis Jeppesen</a> delivers his essay "Itchy Homo, or Why I Am So Terrible"; and author <a href="http://www.helendewitt.com/" target="_blank" style="color: #CC0000; text-decoration: none;">Helen Dewitt</a> Skypes in (via faulty wireless connection) from Berlin to read "Re: Awesomeness, or The Internet as Consolation."