CRITICAL STUDIES: Falling immediately after the Democratic and Republican conventions, CalArts’ acclaimed literary magazine Black Clock celebrates the launch of the politically-themed Black Clock 9 with a reading at the Hammer Museum. The journal’s ninth edition offers political allegory, subversive satire and secret presidential histories. The reading will feature Black Clock 9 contributors--Seth Greenland, Anthony Miller, David L. Ulin, and Black Clock editor Steve Erickson. Entry is free of charge.

Black Clock is published semi-annually by the CalArts MFA Writing Program.

See: www.blackclock.org/blog/