HOW I LEARNED TO TELL IT LIKE IT IS Plays Happy Ending Tonight, 8/22

The How I Learned Series emphatically presents HOW I LEARNED TO TELL IT LIKE IT IS. Featuring Baratunde Thurston (How To Be Black), DAVID CRABB (Bad Kid), KERRI DOHERTY (I Like You, Maude), RUPINDER GILL (On The Outside Looking Indian), ARYN KYLE (Boys and Girls Like You and Me), creator, producer and host BLAISE ALLYSEN KEARSLEY and intern LYRA SMITH, the show will play tonight, August 22nd at 8pm. Doors open at 7 at HAPPY ENDING, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth + Eldridge (J, M, Z, F to Delancey B, D to Grand). FREE!

Baratunde Thurston is a politically-active, technology-loving comedian from the future. He co-founded the black political blog, Jack & Jill Politics and served as Director of Digital for The Onion. His book, How to Be Black, is a New York Times Bestseller and was published by Harper in February 2012. Basically, he's a smart, funny, extremely handsome dude.

DAVID CRABB is a performer, writers, storyteller, and 2-time MothSLAM champion. He is the co-creator of the live storytelling series ASK ME, and has told stories at RISK!, Stripped Stories, The Soundtrack Series, and The Story Collider. David is a member of NYC's Axis Company Theatre where his solo show, Bad Kid, was named a New York Times Critics' Pick. He teaches storytelling at The PIT and Kevin Allison's The Story Studio. He generally dislikes sorcerers, dragons, and anything having to do with "wizardry."

KERRI DOHERTY is a humor writer and storyteller. She's written for Adult Swim's blog, and is the Managing Editor of the Brooklyn-based blog Fucked in Park Slope. She's performed at storytelling shows all over the city, including The Soundtrack Series, The Story Collider and on the RISK! podcast. Kerri currently hosts two shows in Park Slope: a storySLAM called I Like You, Maude on the third Tuesday of every month at The Tea Lounge, and a bi-monthly comedy and storytelling show called Geeking Out at Union Hall.

RUPINDER GILL has been published in the National Post and on McSweeney’s. She was a writer for Canada’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes and On The Outside Looking Indian is her first book. To learn more, please visit rupindergill.net and connect with her on Twitter @rkgill.

ARYN KYLE is the author of the bestselling novel The God of Animals and the short story collection Boys and Girls Like You and Me. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Award and a National Magazine award in fiction, and her work has been translated in eighteen languages.

HOW I LEARNED is a live monthly series featuring writers, storytellers, comedians, bloggers, and other raconteurs holding forth on lessons learned, unlearned, relearned, or in progress. Called "hip" and "energetic," and named one of the best series of its kind by Time Out New York, How I Learned happens once a month, and sometimes more than that, which just basically means you will have the best night of your life on those nights, repeatedly.

BLAISE ALLYSEN KEARSLEY is a writer and storyteller, as well as the creator, producer, and host of the How I Learned series, and she also does some other stuff, too. She's appeared on The Rejection Show, The Liar Show, The Soundtrack Series, Real Characters, The Story Collider, Steamboat, Mortified, Cringe, Literary Death Match, and elsewhere. Her writing has been published in The Nervous Breakdown, Vice Magazine, a couple of anthologies, and several other places a long time ago that are perhaps not worth mentioning by name. One time, she was awarded a writing residency in Vermont where she got electrocuted and maybe almost killed a horse. Visit her at your own risk at bazima.com.

To learn more, go to www.howilearnedseries.com.

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