7/19 Prose Reading: Faloon, Fournier, Vachon, & Lillis @ Nine Stories

7PM THURSDAY, JULY 19…

Mike Faloon & Mike Fournier are touring writers coming to Pittsburgh to celebrate Faloon’s new book of music essays, THE OTHER NIGHT AT QUINN’S. Local writers Jude Vachon & Karen Lillis will round out the bill.

Mike Faloon is a former DJ, dishwasher, and drummer. He is the author of The Hanging Gardens of Split Rock and the co-editor of Fan Interference. Faloon co-founded Go Metric and Zisk zines and has contributed to Cabildo Quarterly, Cashiers du Cinemart, Razorcake, Submerging Writers, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. His latest book is The Other Night at Quinn’s, a collection of music essays about the free jazz scene that emerged at a diner in upstate New York.

Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE) exclaims, “Whoa, these spiel batches pack much punch and got their grip way into brain-frame! Faloon had me captured and I had to keep reading.”

Wayne Kramer (MC5) adds that it’s “…a deeply personal dive into the psyche of a hardcore music fanatic…utterly indispensable. A truly great read.”

Rudy Wurlitzer (Nog, Two Lane Blacktop) says, “A mesmerizing and lucidly well written journey inside and out and around of what it means to live, celebrate and survive inside an expanding and eroding culture.”

More information at Razorcake/Gorsky:
http://razorcake.org/the-other-night-at-quinns-pre-sale/

Michael T. Fournier is the author of two novels (Swing State and Hidden Wheel, both on Three Rooms Press) and a book-length discussion of the Minutemen’s Double Nickels On The Dime album for the 33 1/3 series. Fournier is a regular contributor to Razorcake, and his writing has appeared in Pitchfork, Oxford American, Entropy, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Vice, Maudlin House and more. He and his wife Rebecca live on Cape Cod.

Jude Vachon is a writer, creator, zinester, & translator.

Karen Lillis is a writer and a bookseller. She is the author of Watch the Doors as They Close and three other books of fiction.

2/22 The Bridge Series: Tony Norman, Adriana Ramirez, & Jan Beatty @ Brillobox

8PM THIS WEDNESDAY…

The Bridge Series unites the Pittsburgh literary and activist communities to raise awareness and funds for local organizations fighting the good fight in these troubling times.

The series convenes the last Wednesday of each month at The Brillobox. Each installment will feature Pittsburgh’s finest writers and a special guest organization (with proceeds from the evening going directly to that organization).

Plus every evening will end with a short Open Mic segment!

Tonight will feature readings from:

Tony Norman – Associate Editor / Columnist / Book Review Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Adriana Ramirez – a Mexican-Colombian nonfiction writer, storyteller, digital maker, and performance poet. her nonfiction novella, Dead Boys, was published by Little A (November 2016), and her debut full-length nonfiction book, The Violence, is forthcoming from Scribner (Fall 2017).

Jan Beatty – worked as a waitress for fifteen years, and as a welfare caseworker, an abortion counselor, and a social worker and teacher in maximum-security prisons. She is the managing editor of MadBooks, a small press that has published a series of books and chapbooks by women writers. For twenty years, Beatty has hosted and produced Prosody, a public radio show on NPR-affiliate WESA-FM featuring national writers. Jan Beatty directs the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops at Carlow University, where she is also director of creative writing and teaches in the low-residency MFA program. Her latest book is Jackknife: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017).

Our guest organization tonight is Be Well! Pittsburgh and Jude Vachon will be onhand to discuss its mission.

Be Well Pittsburgh! collaborates with health care consumers, health care providers, social service providers and community organizations to improve uninsured Pittsburghers’ awareness of and access to health care resources.

Be Well! was founded in 2005 and was originally funded by a Seed Award from the Sprout Fund. The Seed Award supported the printing of 6,000 copies of a resource booklet entitled Be Well! Healthcare Options for the Uninsured. The booklet was distributed in public venues and through social service organizations in Pittsburgh. Its release was launched at a community health fair at the Quiet Storm Coffeehouse during the summer of 2006.

Be Well! continues to revise, update, print and distribute the booklets as funds allow. We also continually revise and update the website. We act as a reference source to individuals and service providers, participate in community events, and hold community information sessions on health care resources for uninsured people. www.bewellpgh.org

Thanks to Krisofer Collins & Jason Baldinger for organizing this great new series!

 

7/7 Stories & Other Ephemera: A Reading & Zine Swap @ Big Idea

THIS TUESDAY…

STORIES & OTHER EPHEMERA:
A Reading and Zine Swap

Big Idea Bookstore

7-9pm, Free

Readers: Mike Faloon, Michael T. Fournier, Becky Tuch, Jude Vachon

MC: Karen Lillis of Small Press PittsburghJoin us for a reading with four writers involved in zines & periodicals: Michael T. Fournier (New England) & Mike Faloon (upstate New York) are touring fiction writers and zinesters coming through Pittsburgh on Fournier’s “Swing State” Tour. Representing Pittsburgh talent, fiction writer Becky Tuch (relocated from Boston) is founding editor of The Review Review and zinester and artist Jude Vachon always has a surprise for us on the microphone. Bring zines to swap before and after the show.

2/19 TNY Presents @ ModernFormations

TONIGHT at 8PM…

Dear Friends,

Please join us at ModernFormations Gallery tonight, for the first 2015 installment of our TNY Presents reading series. This month features Rich Gegick, Karen Lillis, Erin Oh, Jude Vachon, and special guest Andy Hoffman.

 

As always, admission is $5 or free with pot luck contribution. Proudly sponsored by Mellingers Beer Distributor. BYOB encouraged.

When: Tonight (Thursday, February 19th), 8pm
Where: Modern Formations, 4919 Penn Ave. (in Garfield)

https://www.facebook.com/events/436493913186616/440062469496427

Also, pre-game drinks at Lou’s Little Corner Bar at 6:30!

ABOUT THE READERS:

 

Richard L. Gegick is from Trafford. He writes and waits tables for a living.

 

Karen Lillis was born in Washington, DC during the Vietnam War and has lived in Virginia, Texas, New York, Paris, and Pittsburgh. She is the author of four short novels, including “Watch the Doors As They Close” (Spuyten Duyvil, 2012) and “The Second Elizabeth” (Six Gallery Press, 2009). She was a writer in residence at Shakespeare and Company in Paris, a regular contributor to the anti-war/poetry newspaper New York Nights after 2001, and once wrote a short story on the side of a freight train. In 2014 her fiction was recognized with an Acker Award for Avant Garde Excellence. She runs Small Press Roulette, an indie bookselling service.

 

Erin Oh grew up in Pittsburgh and lived in Canada for eight years where she studied the sociology of education. She has worked as a union organizer, researcher, video instructor, and workshop facilitator. Erin is currently interested in growing community around feminist, anti-racist parenting. Her favorite books are “Just Kids” and “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.”

 

Jude Vachon lives in Pittsburgh with a pack that includes a beagle and a cat. She works as a librarian, which unfortunately does not mean that she sits around and reads all day.

 

Andy Hoffman knew from an early age he’d make a lousy woman. Every time he looked at himself, he thought, “I hope I never produce a bunch of estrogen.” One Summer, he dropped everything and drove to Alaska to work in a fish cannery. He’s lived in Pittsburgh far too long and works as a web developer at IBM.

Hope to see you there!

The New Yinzer