Upcoming Season: RSVP to the Team 2 Launch Party   BrooklynTheBorough.com Presents The NOVEL-T Team 2 Opening Day Party at powerHouse arena, May 7, 7-9pm   Novel-T will officially release its second line of baseball jersey styled literary tees, including the first international, nonfiction, and living players. ********************************************************** Be the first to come get your hands on the new second team, the National Puncs, featuring Jay Gatsby, Emily Dickinson, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice (from Wonderland), Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jonathan Ames, Charles Darwin, Don Quixote, Lao Tzu, and Kilgore Trout. ********************************************************** - literary baseball readings by RICHARD GRAYSON and DAVID GOODWILLIE - DJ DB WONDER (of Piano's and the Union Sq. Diesel store fame - a Wii HOME RUN DERBY contest - an appearance by Brooklyn Cyclones' mascot SANDY THE SEAGULL with Cyclones schwag - a RAFFLE of books, Novel-T's and other assorted goodies to SUPPORT 826NYC and BrooklynTheBorough.com - FREE beer and Cracker Jacks! ********************************************************** And it's the kick-off of Dumbo's BKLN DESIGNS weekend. So RSVP and swing on by. More info at www.novel-t.com and www.BrooklynTheBorough.com. WHAT: Novel-T Team 2 Opening Day Party Debuting 10 New Jerserys WHEN: Friday, May 7th, 2010 from 7pm-9pm WHERE: powerHouse arena 37 Main Street Brooklyn (Dumbo), NY 718.666.3049 RSVP: info@novel-t.com COST: free Novel-T creates baseball jersey-style literary t-shirts of writers and characters. Founded in 2009 for those whose heroes are found in the bookstore instead of the ballpark, Novel-T provides an opportunity to “wear your read.” The shirts are super-soft and available in independent bookstores, museum gift shops, t-shirt boutiques and online at www.novel-t.com. Novel-T donates $1 from the sale of each shirt to either 826NYC or Doctors Without Borders. BrooklynTheBorough.com is an innovative news website, melding the sensibilities of literary print journalism with the digital platform in a magazine feature format. This approach to local reporting is unique to Brooklyn's internet landscape and intends to shed light on the borough's subterranean cultural movements in fashion, music and art. Contextualizing the borough's political and sociological landscapes is key to the website's mission. www.BrooklynTheBorough.com. Richard Grayson is the author of a number of short story collections, including With Hitler in New York, Lincoln's Doctor's Dog, and I Brake for Delmore Schwartz, A lawyer and college teacher, he has published nonfiction in People, The New York Times, Newsday, The Miami Herald, The Arizona Republic and other periodicals. He lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Apache Junction, Arizona; and Sunrise Golf Village, Florida. www.richardgrayson.com David Goodwillie is author of the novel American Subversive (April, 2010) and the memoir Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, for which he was named one of the “Best New Writers of 2006″ by members of the PEN American Center. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Beast, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and web sites, He was formerly a professional baseball player. www.davidgoodwillie.com For close to a decade, DB Wonder (a.k.a. Dan Bradbury) has been serving up cool grooves and hot beats to the whole tri-state area. He has held down residencies at White Rabbit, Uncle Mings, Piano's & has spun a variety of gigs such as The Metropolitan Museum, Chelsea Art Museum, Savalas, Guest House & many more. You can currently catch him at Piano's on Saturdays for the infamous Mile High Parties and at the Diesel store on 5th ave. www.dbwonder.com 826NYC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around our belief that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. www.826nyc.org directions at www.powerHousearena.com         Last Season: _____________________________________________ Novel-T at 826NYC's So You Think You Can Pong Tournament January 13, 2010 at Spin NYC Novel-T's Scott Rader Finishes Runner-Up to The New York Times' Will Shortz, but no cross words were exchanged. _____________________________________________

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