Big Lonesome

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BUSY WEEKEND IN BIG LONESOME COUNTRY

 

This weekend promises to be one of my busiest of the year with multiple readings and literary activity in multiple states.

The first event is a fiction reading in conjunction with the Northern Arizona Book Festival in Flagstaff, Arizona where I earned my MA. How long ago was that? So long that I'll have the honor of sharing the stage with a former colleague and a former student from my very first class as a Comp instructor!

Reading with Seth Muller and T. Greenwood
Saturday, April 25 at 3pm
Orpheum Theater
Flagstaff, Arizona

The next day I'll fly back to Los Angeles for the L.A. Times Festival of Books at UCLA. As usual, the depth and breadth of the events is across-the-boards excellent, prompting many hard decisions for attendees. And, with the exception of parking, it's completely free. I won't have too many tough decisions to make this year as I'll be modering a panel and participating in a reading, both on Sunday.

Fiction: The Post-Modern World
Todd Hasak-Lowy, Lee Konstantinou, Fiona Maazel & Jerry Stahl
Sunday, April 26 at 1:30pm
Franz Hall, UCLA
Westwood, CA

Big Lonesome will be available for sale after the reading; however, I won't be at the signing booth as I'm participating in a reading immediately afterwards. I'll be contributing a three-minute story as part of Amy Wallen's Dime Stories  and will be happy to sign books after the reading at the Etc. stage.

Dime Stories with Amy Wallen
Sunday, Aprril 26 at 3pm
Etc. Stage, UCLA
Westwood, CA

Lastly, Gorsky Press will be sharing a booth with Manic D Press this year at their infamous location -- Both 666. They'll have Big Lonesome available and you just might catch me hanging out in the morning.

SAN DIEGO'S NEW NORTH ENGLISH SOUND

I'm a little late with this post, but don't miss Northern Towns -- a San Diego punk band fronted by a lad from the north of England. I did a short piece for the San Diego City Beat but I'm gonna interview them for Razorcake soony soon. Good stuff. Loud, fast, and very blokey.

THINK BLUE

 

Spring is here and that means two things: a new season of hope for the Dodgers and Hobart's baseball issue. Last year I wrote about my trip to Los Angeles Coliseum to see the boys in blue play a spring training game with the Boston Red Sox. Who knew that a few months later the Red Sox's most celebrated player would be traded to the Dodgers. This year I wrote a fictional account of the enigmatic player's offseason. Remember, fiction means "stuff I made up."