http://www.hipsterbookclub.com/features/interviews/reverendjenmiller0409/index.html
Kind of snarky, but ultimately quite positive!
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-08/books/downtown-s-lady-boswells-lydia-lunch-s-will-work-for-drugs-reverend-jen-s-live-nude-elf/
Unfortunately my addiction to facebook has greatly curbed my blogging here on my own web site or even providing links to some of the interviews I’ve done lately. But alas, I’m going to try to remedy that right now.
Firstly, here’s a link to an interview I did with the Huffington Post. You can also see me doing a reading in LA on the video link they provide though I’m looking more puffy and tired than Jim Morrison toward the end. Anyway, here it is:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-wellington-ennis/emlive-nude-elf-emrev-jen_b_224508.html
It’s finally landed: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=live+nude+elf
Help stimulate the economy (and a few other things) by picking up yer copy today!
Been so busy, I haven’t posted many updates, but I’m doing A LOT of shows/readings/appearances this spring.
Here are just a few:
Live Nude Elf: The Sexperiments of Reverend Jen
Official Launch Party:
Saturday, May 2nd 8pm
Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery)
with Reverend Jen
The Trachtenburg Slide Show Family Players,
The Electric Mess, Brer Brian, go-go elves and more!
Additional Readings and Appearances:
Sat. 4/25, 2pm, NY Round Table Writers’ Conference
(NY Center for Independent Publishing, 20 W. 44th St.)
Fri. 5/15, 7pm, McNally Jackson, 52 Prince Street
Sat. 5/29, 1:30-2:30 Book Expo America, Javits Center
REVEREND JEN’S ANTI-SLAM
Wednesday, February 25th, 10pm
At Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery)
performers get 6 minutes
3 dollars
Join “it elf”, author and art star, Reverend Jen, as she hosts her long-running open mike, the Anti-Slam! Pros and amateurs alike share the stage, and both are given equal respect and a place to try out new things. All performers are welcome – poets, storytellers, novelists, comedians, musicians, dancers, performance artists and people who simply need therapy but can’t afford it. Plus, everyone gets a ten no matter what!
“The Bowery Poetry Club feels like the last vestige of the old East Village. Reverend Jen’s open mike is always wonderfully insane; it’s kind of like being in Bellevue without being locked up.” — Jonathan Ames, author of THE ALCHOLIC
”Reverend Jen is a beacon of hope—that the unconventional can thrive, even among trendy new restaurants where they can’t afford to eat.” —Village Voice
REVEREND JEN’S ANTI-SLAM
Wednesday, January 28th, 10pm
At Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery)
performers get 6 minutes
3 dollars
Join “it elf”, author and art star, Reverend Jen, as she hosts her long-running open mike, the Anti-Slam! Pros and amateurs alike share the stage, and both are given equal respect and a place to try out new things. All performers are welcome – poets, storytellers, novelists, comedians, musicians, dancers, performance artists and people who simply need therapy but can’t afford it. Plus, everyone gets a ten no matter what!
This month’s show will feature a world-premiere screening of “Reverend Jen’s Really Cool Neighborhood, the Rock ‘N’ Roll Episode” starring Rev. Jen, Moonshine, Mangina, J-Boy Thompson, the O’Debra Twins, Lloyd Floyd and more. The live show that was voted best “Off-Off-Off Broadway Musical Theater” by the Village Voice is now a TV show!
Come on down and join the madness!
“The Bowery Poetry Club feels like the last vestige of the old East Village. Reverend Jen’s open mike is always wonderfully insane; it’s kind of like being in Bellevue without being locked up.” — Jonathan Ames, author of THE ALCHOLIC
“Reverend Jen is a beacon of hope—that the unconventional can thrive, even among trendy new restaurants where they can’t afford to eat.” —Village Voice
“Reverend Jen’s Really Cool Neighborhood made me wish I still did acid and had walked in peaking.” – Satisfied Audience Member
A friend sent me a copy of A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties by Suze Rotolo. Given my love for NYC, they thought I’d dig it, which I am. It’s less about her relationship with Bob Dylan (she’s the girl on the cover of Freewheelin w/ Bob Dylan) and more about all of the unconventional characters that hung out in the Village in the ’60s.
In one part, Suze writes
There were so many talented people who practiced their art form and sharpened their skills during the period of the Greenwich Village rennaisance of the sixties. To become a legend or a star wasn’t always the point.
Very cool. I think sometimes the obsession with fame hampers artists and kills originality. Anyway, glad I have this book, as I am stuck at work in midtown. It will be a miracle on 34th Street if I ever leave.
Forgot to mention that the goals of this blog are to let readers know where I’ll be performing and also to promote my book, which comes out April 25th. The book party is May 2nd at Bowery Poetry Club. I still need boylesque dancers for it and possibly a band or two.
Now I have to go back to work at the therapist’s office where I spend every Tues., Wed., Thurs. I signed a confidentiality agreement when I was hired hence I won’t bore you with the details of what goes on there.
Sad that I will have to miss a great moment in history because of work. Wondering how my crazy friends who went down to DC are faring. A small, masochistic part of me wishes I could be there, but due to my tiny bladder and the lack of public restrooms in DC, it’s probably for the best. This was a big problem during anti-war demonstrations. I hate war, but I also hate feeling like I need to wear depends in order to protest it.