Good Sirs and Gentle Ladies,
Thanks to all who came out for the last Poetry Ruckus where Mr. Dylan Barmmer wowed the crowd in lieu of our originally scheduled guest reader Robert Kelly not being able to make it.
The next Ruckus will be a very special one, indeed.
On Friday October 1st with doors opening at 7PM, we will have a Ruckus of short fiction, and the featured guest will be none other than author Tao Lin, reading an excerpt from his brand new novel Richard Yates.
If you have never heard of Tao Lin, then maybe these quotes will make you want to know who he is...
“Richard Yates is a moving, very funny, discomforting, and heartbreakingly life-affirming meditation on extremes—extreme alienation, extreme intimacy, extreme confusion, extreme expectations—that reads like a meticulously and lovingly crafted collaboration between a weirder Ernest Hemingway and a more philosophically-minded Jean Rhys.”
—James Frey, author of Bright Shiny Things and A Million Little Pieces
“Richard Yates is hilarious, menacing, and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. He has that most important gift: it’s impossible to imagine anyone else writing like he does and sounding authentic. Yet he has already spawned a huge school of Lin imitators. As precocious and prolific as he is, every book surpasses the last. Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today.”
—Clancy Martin, author of How to Sell
“A revolutionary.”—The Stranger
“[A] deadpan literary trickster.”—New York Times
“Deeply smart, funny, and head-over-heels dedicated.”—New York magazine
“Prodigal, unpredictable...impossible to ignore.”—Paste magazine
ANYHOW...
If you would like to be part of the opening act, please submit ONE (and only one) piece of original short fiction that you can read in under five minutes. Send to:
ruthlesshippies@gmail.com
While you are at it, if it's written in 101 words or less, then you will probably want to send it to Citybeat for their annual short fiction contest that ends on Monday September 27th.
adult beverages for those 21 and up
reading starts 7:15, Q & A and book signing to follow !!!!
