MIDTOWN — Whiskey and spooky stories will scare an East Village literature group this Halloween.
Fiction Addiction's event on Tuesday night will have a "Hauntings and Horror Stories" theme — complete with a ghostly projection of the authors out onto the street as they read their work.
The event begins at 8 p.m. in the bar 2A on the corner of Second Street and Avenue A, and includes a $4 whiskey special.
“It is cool to just meet the writer, especially if they are more established writers,” said Christine Vines, 22, who pioneered Fiction Addiction.
Those who attend the free event can expect to hear from four authors, including Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Darin Strauss, and J.E Reich, who is the managing editor and fiction editor for the online magazine Art Faccia.
Reich will be reading from her short story "I Will Be There But I Will Not" with the spine-tingling opening line: "My dead wife’s voice resounds from Terminal B of Logan International Airport...”
Fiction Addiction, which takes place on the last Tuesday of each month, began in April of this year as a way to bring an alternative and artistic crowd to the bar. It has since become a passion for writer and bartender Vines, who organizes the event.
“It is in such an informal setting,” said Vines. “It is interesting to hear how the authors have the story in their heads.”
Not only do authors have the chance to test their work on a live audience, they also get projected onto the bare wall in front of the bar. The moving image of giant authors creates a backdrop through the floor to ceiling windows of the bar, and generates plenty of curiosity from passersby.
“I think a lot of the writers enjoy being 50 feet tall,” said Vines.
