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   • Lucia Berlin reads "My Jockey" and "T...  

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Early in 1984, Lucia Berlin was recorded reading her short stories for The Poetry Center, one of her rare readings documented on video. The audience, from sonic and brief oncamera evidence, features a full house of friends among scattered students at Newspace, New College of California, on Valencia Street, San Francisco. Here, she delivers two incredibly compressed little chefd’ouevres: “The Pony Bar, Oakland” and “My Jockey.” Berlin reads here a total of not even two pages. “There are certain perfect particular sounds.” (text adapted from "For Mnemosyne" https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2016/10/...)
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