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WHERE'S RICK ROFIHE?
Open City Magazine's Tom Beller searches Manhattan for Anderbo.com's Rick Rofihe... http://www.thomasbeller.com/miniro.AVI ...and finds him!
How I Invented the Designer Jean in 1968 (Memoir)
Before I was 18 years old, in my small home town of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada, I invented the designer jean, about a decade before Calvin Klein http://www.calvinkleinjeans.com/ and Jordache http://www.jordache.com/ -- and even Gloria Vanderbilt http://www.thefind.com/apparel/info-g... .
But the men in our family clothing business dismissed my idea, and wouldn't back me. So I bid a sad good-bye to Mother and headed for the big city -- Halifax -- where, three years later, and, still months shy of my 21st birthday, I established two publishing companies, including Anderbo Books, today http://www.anderbo.com .
Then somehow I got it into my head to be an actor -- eventually I got to New York in 1978, and was soon in the personal class of Lee Strasberg. But, one day before class, Lee's wife Anna, seeing me with my face buried in The New York Times, said, "How can you read the newspaper with so many interesting people around you?"
I left acting; soon my writings were appearing in the Times, the Village Voice, SPY, The New Yorker, Grand Street, Open City Magazine, and on Mr. Beller's Neighborhood http://www.mrbellersneighborhood.com/... .
But as the years went on, designer jeans were -- are -- all around me, and it's not unreasonable to think of what might have been.... http://www.nsbd.ca/results.php?hide_i... .
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Rick Rofihe is the author of FATHER MUST, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux
(Editor: Jonathan Galassi; Agent: Gail Hochman). For a free download of his book of nine New Yorker stories, BOYS who DO the BOP, go to http://www.anderbo.com/bop9.html .
Rick is a winner of the Whiting Writer's Award; judges the Open City magazine's annual short story contest, the RRofihe Trophy http://opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy ; and is an advisor for the 2011 Vilcek Foundation Literature prizes.
But the men in our family clothing business dismissed my idea, and wouldn't back me. So I bid a sad good-bye to Mother and headed for the big city -- Halifax -- where, three years later, and, still months shy of my 21st birthday, I established two publishing companies, including Anderbo Books, today http://www.anderbo.com .
Then somehow I got it into my head to be an actor -- eventually I got to New York in 1978, and was soon in the personal class of Lee Strasberg. But, one day before class, Lee's wife Anna, seeing me with my face buried in The New York Times, said, "How can you read the newspaper with so many interesting people around you?"
I left acting; soon my writings were appearing in the Times, the Village Voice, SPY, The New Yorker, Grand Street, Open City Magazine, and on Mr. Beller's Neighborhood http://www.mrbellersneighborhood.com/... .
But as the years went on, designer jeans were -- are -- all around me, and it's not unreasonable to think of what might have been.... http://www.nsbd.ca/results.php?hide_i... .
***
Rick Rofihe is the author of FATHER MUST, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux
(Editor: Jonathan Galassi; Agent: Gail Hochman). For a free download of his book of nine New Yorker stories, BOYS who DO the BOP, go to http://www.anderbo.com/bop9.html .
Rick is a winner of the Whiting Writer's Award; judges the Open City magazine's annual short story contest, the RRofihe Trophy http://opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy ; and is an advisor for the 2011 Vilcek Foundation Literature prizes.
Free NYC Class/Salon on Literary Publishing
I hold a free one-night-a-month class/salon on all facets of literary publishing here at 270 Lafayette Street, Suite 1412, New York NY 10012, the shared offices of Open City Magazine & Books and my online literary journal Anderbo.com (space is limited.) Usually it's on a Wednesday evening, sometimes Monday evening, often Sunday afternoons, and occasionally Saturday afternoons.
E-mail me directly at rrofihe@yahoo.com
Rick Rofihe
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
http://www.anderbo.com
Judge, The Open City RRofihe Trophy
http://opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy
E-mail me directly at rrofihe@yahoo.com
Rick Rofihe
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
http://www.anderbo.com
Judge, The Open City RRofihe Trophy
http://opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy
Anderbo is doing a Reading @ KGB Bar in NYC Wed, April 27th, 7-9 pm
Anderbo.com is doing a Reading @ KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St, NYC on Wednesday, April 27th from 7 to 9 p.m.
Announced readers:
TUMI JOHNSON was raised in Ibadan, Nigeria and Nashville, Tennessee. She is a physician, dancer and poet, and has been published in Number One, Radically Shifted, and in the Annals of Internal Medicine. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/apoet...
MAC BARRETT's fiction, poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Salt Hill Journal, Hanging Loose, on the radio for WBAI, and at Salon.com. He works as an associate producer for CUNY TV and lives in present-day Brooklyn and 1920's Paris.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
MARIA MODROVICH is a Slovak writer and freelance journalist. She lives in NYC and writes for magazines in Slovakia. She is currently working on a novel.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
Anderbo Contributing Editor AZIZ FRIEDRICH is a graduate of The Fieldston School in Riverdale, New York, and of New York University's Gallatin School, where he studied "Writing the Fragment" and "The Letter as Literature" with Professor Victoria Blythe; he also studied there with the writer Ed Park. Aziz is one of four founding editors of anderbo.com and is working on a novel. He is also a Contributing Editor of the literary magazine Open City.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afact...
LAUREN WATERMAN is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer whose nonfiction has been featured in Vogue, InStyle, New York and Boston Magazine; her fiction has appeared online on MonkeyBicycle. She has an M.F.A. in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence, and she is (hard) at work on a novel.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
Anderbo Contributing Editor WAYNE CONTI's short stories appear online on Pindeldyboz and Anderbo, and in Open City magazine. Wayne is one of four founding editors of anderbo.com, and is the proprietor of Mercer Street Books & Records in New York City's Greenwich Village.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
JENNIFER HANKS is an Anderbo Editor at Large. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College. She enjoys writing poems about sunken ships and is torn between pursuing a career in publishing or marine biology.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/apoet...
Anderbo Editor-in-Chief RICK ROFIHE will read from his memoirs, which explain how various accomplished individuals, including Donald Sutherland, Johnny Cash, Lee Strasberg, Gloria Vanderbilt and Colonel Harland Sanders, have affected his own life and work.
http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/ric...
http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/ric...
http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/ric...
Several Anderbo Editors will co-host the reading. See the masthead @
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/amast...
Anderbo.com thanks OpenCity.org Magazine & Books' Joanna Yas for tossing their APRIL KGB night to us.
Catch their MARCH KGB reading on Wednesday, March 30th
http://kgbbar.com/calendar/events/ope...
Announced readers:
TUMI JOHNSON was raised in Ibadan, Nigeria and Nashville, Tennessee. She is a physician, dancer and poet, and has been published in Number One, Radically Shifted, and in the Annals of Internal Medicine. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/apoet...
MAC BARRETT's fiction, poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Salt Hill Journal, Hanging Loose, on the radio for WBAI, and at Salon.com. He works as an associate producer for CUNY TV and lives in present-day Brooklyn and 1920's Paris.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
MARIA MODROVICH is a Slovak writer and freelance journalist. She lives in NYC and writes for magazines in Slovakia. She is currently working on a novel.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
Anderbo Contributing Editor AZIZ FRIEDRICH is a graduate of The Fieldston School in Riverdale, New York, and of New York University's Gallatin School, where he studied "Writing the Fragment" and "The Letter as Literature" with Professor Victoria Blythe; he also studied there with the writer Ed Park. Aziz is one of four founding editors of anderbo.com and is working on a novel. He is also a Contributing Editor of the literary magazine Open City.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afact...
LAUREN WATERMAN is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer whose nonfiction has been featured in Vogue, InStyle, New York and Boston Magazine; her fiction has appeared online on MonkeyBicycle. She has an M.F.A. in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence, and she is (hard) at work on a novel.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
Anderbo Contributing Editor WAYNE CONTI's short stories appear online on Pindeldyboz and Anderbo, and in Open City magazine. Wayne is one of four founding editors of anderbo.com, and is the proprietor of Mercer Street Books & Records in New York City's Greenwich Village.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
JENNIFER HANKS is an Anderbo Editor at Large. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College. She enjoys writing poems about sunken ships and is torn between pursuing a career in publishing or marine biology.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/apoet...
Anderbo Editor-in-Chief RICK ROFIHE will read from his memoirs, which explain how various accomplished individuals, including Donald Sutherland, Johnny Cash, Lee Strasberg, Gloria Vanderbilt and Colonel Harland Sanders, have affected his own life and work.
http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/ric...
http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/ric...
http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/ric...
Several Anderbo Editors will co-host the reading. See the masthead @
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/amast...
Anderbo.com thanks OpenCity.org Magazine & Books' Joanna Yas for tossing their APRIL KGB night to us.
Catch their MARCH KGB reading on Wednesday, March 30th
http://kgbbar.com/calendar/events/ope...
Open City Magazine Closes; Open City Books Continues...
Open City Magazine's closing is at once "Highbrow" and "Despicable", says New York Magazine...
http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmat...
A "Sad Good-Bye" to Open City Magazine, says Vanity Fair...
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolc...
This blog includes the cover of OC #19, based on a photograph taken in Jack Ruby's bar -- I'm in that issue!
http://indigestmag.com/blog/?p=7179
This blog shows long-time OC Editor-at-Large Adrian Dannatt at work and play...
http://www.mangozeen.com/2011/03/07/r...
All 30 Open City Magazine Covers @ the March 2, 2011 blog of Michelle Legro (of Lapham's Quarterly.) Her favorite is OC #16 -- I'm in that issue, too -- twice!
http://michellelegro.tumblr.com/post/...
The New York Observer, March 1, 2011
http://www.observer.com/2011/daily-tr...
The Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2011
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacke...
The Paris Review, March 2, 2011
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/20...
Publishers Weekly, March 3, 2011
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by...
The Faster Times, March 3, 2011
http://thefastertimes.com/indiebooks/...
Joanna Yas speaks to The Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/0...
Grove Press's Joan Bingham on Open City...
http://www.courier-journal.com/articl...
Thomas Beller in The Wall Street Journal
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/0...
The Poetry Foundation's "Harriet the Blog" on the life of literary journals...
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harri...
http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmat...
A "Sad Good-Bye" to Open City Magazine, says Vanity Fair...
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolc...
This blog includes the cover of OC #19, based on a photograph taken in Jack Ruby's bar -- I'm in that issue!
http://indigestmag.com/blog/?p=7179
This blog shows long-time OC Editor-at-Large Adrian Dannatt at work and play...
http://www.mangozeen.com/2011/03/07/r...
All 30 Open City Magazine Covers @ the March 2, 2011 blog of Michelle Legro (of Lapham's Quarterly.) Her favorite is OC #16 -- I'm in that issue, too -- twice!
http://michellelegro.tumblr.com/post/...
The New York Observer, March 1, 2011
http://www.observer.com/2011/daily-tr...
The Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2011
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacke...
The Paris Review, March 2, 2011
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/20...
Publishers Weekly, March 3, 2011
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by...
The Faster Times, March 3, 2011
http://thefastertimes.com/indiebooks/...
Joanna Yas speaks to The Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/0...
Grove Press's Joan Bingham on Open City...
http://www.courier-journal.com/articl...
Thomas Beller in The Wall Street Journal
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/0...
The Poetry Foundation's "Harriet the Blog" on the life of literary journals...
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harri...
2010 Open City RRofihe Trophy Winner Amy Bonnaffons' Story Published...
Read the 2010 OPEN CITY RRofihe Trophy
Short Story Contest Winner HERE:
"The Wrong Heaven" by AMY BONNAFFONS
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
Amy Bonnaffons holds a BA in literature from Yale University and an MFA in fiction writing from New York University. She currently lives in New York City, where she teaches writing, sings Balkan folk music, and works on her first book of short stories. "The Wrong Heaven" is the 2010 Winner of the Open City RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest http://opencity.org/2010/12/the-2010-...
Note: The complete 2010 results are posted on the new Open City RRofihe Trophy pages:
http://opencity.org/2010/12/the-2010-...
http://opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy
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There were exactly 200 entries in the 2010 Open City Magazine RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest.
The Winning Writer is Amy C. Bonnaffons of New York City for her story "The Wrong Heaven".
She will receive a prize of $500, a trophy, and publication of the story in Open City #31.
The 2010 RRofihe Trophy Runner-Up is Mac Barrett of Brooklyn, New York for his story "We Call This Living; or, Ghosts".
The 2010 RRofihe Trophy Special-Mention Stories (2) are:
"This Was Going to Work Out Fine" by Barbara Arno Modrack" of Brighton, Michigan.
"Baboon" by Jan Stinchcomb of Austin, Texas.
The 2010 RRofihe Trophy Top-Ten Stories include:
"The Airplane Hangar" by Anelise Chen of New York City.
"Release" by M.E. Parker of McKinney, Texas.
"An Incident at the Plaza" by Elizabeth Kadetsky of New York City.
"One of the Funner Parties I Have Been To" by Katya Apekina of St Louis, Missouri.
"Scared" by Adeola Adeniyi of Brooklyn, New York.
"Perfect Soup" by Olivia Shih of New York City.
The 2010 RRofihe Trophy Top-Twenty Finalist Stories included entries from:
Annie DeWitt of Brooklyn, New York; Meakin Armstrong of New York City; Michael Di Gesu of Chicago, Illinois; Victoria Moon of New York City; Tamela J. Ritter of Haymarket, Virginia; Rashanna Rashied-Walker of Brooklyn, New York; Elizabeth Richards of New York City; Lindsay Allen of New Orleans, Louisiana; Brent Shearer of New York City, and, Jessica Pishko of New York City.
Short Story Contest Winner HERE:
"The Wrong Heaven" by AMY BONNAFFONS
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afict...
Amy Bonnaffons holds a BA in literature from Yale University and an MFA in fiction writing from New York University. She currently lives in New York City, where she teaches writing, sings Balkan folk music, and works on her first book of short stories. "The Wrong Heaven" is the 2010 Winner of the Open City RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest http://opencity.org/2010/12/the-2010-...
Note: The complete 2010 results are posted on the new Open City RRofihe Trophy pages:
http://opencity.org/2010/12/the-2010-...
http://opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy
***
There were exactly 200 entries in the 2010 Open City Magazine RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest.
The Winning Writer is Amy C. Bonnaffons of New York City for her story "The Wrong Heaven".
She will receive a prize of $500, a trophy, and publication of the story in Open City #31.
The 2010 RRofihe Trophy Runner-Up is Mac Barrett of Brooklyn, New York for his story "We Call This Living; or, Ghosts".
The 2010 RRofihe Trophy Special-Mention Stories (2) are:
"This Was Going to Work Out Fine" by Barbara Arno Modrack" of Brighton, Michigan.
"Baboon" by Jan Stinchcomb of Austin, Texas.
The 2010 RRofihe Trophy Top-Ten Stories include:
"The Airplane Hangar" by Anelise Chen of New York City.
"Release" by M.E. Parker of McKinney, Texas.
"An Incident at the Plaza" by Elizabeth Kadetsky of New York City.
"One of the Funner Parties I Have Been To" by Katya Apekina of St Louis, Missouri.
"Scared" by Adeola Adeniyi of Brooklyn, New York.
"Perfect Soup" by Olivia Shih of New York City.
The 2010 RRofihe Trophy Top-Twenty Finalist Stories included entries from:
Annie DeWitt of Brooklyn, New York; Meakin Armstrong of New York City; Michael Di Gesu of Chicago, Illinois; Victoria Moon of New York City; Tamela J. Ritter of Haymarket, Virginia; Rashanna Rashied-Walker of Brooklyn, New York; Elizabeth Richards of New York City; Lindsay Allen of New Orleans, Louisiana; Brent Shearer of New York City, and, Jessica Pishko of New York City.
Open City's Greatest Hits! Edited by Thomas Beller and Joanna Yas
THEY'RE AT IT AGAIN: Stories from Twenty Years of Open City Magazine
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1890447595/r...
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/They...
In its 800+ pages you'll find Paul Bowles, Jonathan Ames, Sam Lipsyte, Mary Gaitskill, Rivka Galchen, Robert Stone, Walter Kirn, James Lasdun, Edmund White, Richard Yates, Antonya Nelson, Charles Bukowski, David Foster Wallace, Robert Bingham, Thomas McGuane, Nick Tosches, Jerry Stahl, Hubert Selby Jr, Rick Rofihe, Sigrid Nunez, Philip Lopate, Martha McPhee, Jonathan Baumbach, Jim Harrison, Ed Park--and DOZENS more!
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1890447595/r...
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/They...
In its 800+ pages you'll find Paul Bowles, Jonathan Ames, Sam Lipsyte, Mary Gaitskill, Rivka Galchen, Robert Stone, Walter Kirn, James Lasdun, Edmund White, Richard Yates, Antonya Nelson, Charles Bukowski, David Foster Wallace, Robert Bingham, Thomas McGuane, Nick Tosches, Jerry Stahl, Hubert Selby Jr, Rick Rofihe, Sigrid Nunez, Philip Lopate, Martha McPhee, Jonathan Baumbach, Jim Harrison, Ed Park--and DOZENS more!
Anderbo Is Always Seeking New Voices...
Anderbo.com guidelines for submitting work are at
http://www.anderbo.com/guidelines.html
Anderbo is always looking for new voices:
Fiction - submit stories up to 3500 words
Poetry - submit up to 6 poems
"fact" - submit Creative Nonfiction and Personal Essays up to 1500 words
Send submissions to editors@anderbo.com
Got a story of more than 3500 but less than 5000 words?
Go to The 2013 Open City Magazine RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest @ Anderbo
Now in its 10th Year! No Fee To Enter!
Postmark Deadline: January 7th, 2014
Guidelines @ http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/no-fe...
Read the 2012 RRofihe Trophy-Winning Short Story "Her Voices. Her Room" by Martha Clarkson @ http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/no-fe...
We will also consider nonfiction features, short memoirs, novellas, published-book excerpts, photography, essays, and photo essays.
http://www.anderbo.com/guidelines.html
Anderbo is always looking for new voices:
Fiction - submit stories up to 3500 words
Poetry - submit up to 6 poems
"fact" - submit Creative Nonfiction and Personal Essays up to 1500 words
Send submissions to editors@anderbo.com
Got a story of more than 3500 but less than 5000 words?
Go to The 2013 Open City Magazine RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest @ Anderbo
Now in its 10th Year! No Fee To Enter!
Postmark Deadline: January 7th, 2014
Guidelines @ http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/no-fe...
Read the 2012 RRofihe Trophy-Winning Short Story "Her Voices. Her Room" by Martha Clarkson @ http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/no-fe...
We will also consider nonfiction features, short memoirs, novellas, published-book excerpts, photography, essays, and photo essays.
