The Park Bench Reader: An English Library in New York. Conflux 2008. C.F.A. LaGuardia Place, New York City.
Bram Thomas Arnold will curate a library of literature that has been culled from the charity shops of his Hackney stomping ground in London.This ‘English’ literature library will be shipped to New York and act as a center for the quiet activism of reading: a protest against the ongoing and ever increasing pace of a society that is beginning to collapse under its own weight. The gentle intervention seeks to reignite community and individual imagination through an engagement with the very stories that took this civilization to its current peak.Coordinated readings will take place on prominent benches at set hours across the days of the festival, and the library,will act as a promotion tool for prearranged readings as well as an opportunity for volunteers to take the novels on to the streets themselves.
