The Fiction Circus is a Brooklyn-based online literary magazine

Literary magazine

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 that currently publishes short fiction and essays on the arts. The group also holds staged multimedia

Multimedia

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 fiction readings accompanied by electronic music

Electronic music

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 and incorporating visual art and theater as a frame narrative. The writers of the site operate under pseudonyms such as Miracle Jones, Stephen Future, Goodman Carter, and Xerxes Verdammt, and the main magazine content includes writing about classical and contemporary literature, including fiction in non-traditional media.

The Fiction Circus has been featured in Slashdot

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, the New York Times and Wired

Wired (magazine)

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, among other online news sources. They have performed throughout New York City

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 and Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

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, including The KGB Bar

KGB (bar)

KGB is a Soviet-era themed bar located in the East Village of New York City at 85 E. 4th Street, New York, NY 10003.-History:Before its present incarnation, the second-floor venue was a speakeasy for Ukrainian Socialists who met behind its double-locked doors to hide their political affiliations...

 and the Yippie Museum & Café.

Fiction Circus live shows have been reviewed in The Huffington Post

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  and in The New York Observer.