Thomas Powers 'takes over' the Poetry Ruckus

Just wanted to let you all know that we are organizing the next poetry Ruckus for this Wednesday 10/20. Doors are at 7PM and reading starts 7:15.

Our very special guest for this evening will be Thomas Powers, a most interesting individual who has done readings with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlingetti and Gregory Corso. In the late 70's he was part of the burgeoning punk scene with his band DaMoronics. Mr. Powers will be sharing a part lecture, part reading entitled "Before Howl" which will educate us on Black Mountain College (Mr. Powers is an alumni) and the 'San Francisco Renaissance', both of which preceded and strongly influenced the beat generation.

Stoked for this!

Send me RSVP's if you want to read: ruthlesshippies@gmail.com

FREAK FOR ALL TONIGHT

Happening at E-Street Cafe this evening

The Freak for ALL!!!

7:30-9 PM

Tao Lin in the news

As I have been enjoying my read of next Ruckus guest author Tao Lin's Richard Yates, I have also been enjoying some incredibly entertaining reviews of this work.

The most entertaining of them by far, came from the New York Times today. And if you're not the link clicking type, let me at least tell you that the book made the critic feel suicidal, which alone probably bodes well for it's place in history.

The Village Voice rushed to Tao's defense.

Hipster Runoff picked up the Tao Meme.

And Tao even appeared on the cover of the Stranger in a mock up of Time Magazine's recent Jonathan Franzen cover.

Nice Boston Globe review.


And shoot...anybody coming out for this?

Support the Duck, buy a book and get it signed!

Friday! Deets on previous post,

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Tao 'mutha effin' Lin to read @ Short Fiction Ruckus Friday OCTOBER 1st

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 !!!!

RUCKUS!

Summer Fun on the 101: a Festival of Surf Music

random updates

Us Ruthless Hippies are madly excited about

Summer Fun on the 101: A festival of Surf Music

We hope you can come, it's going to be a grand old time. The page has been updated with the track 'summer fun theme', written and recorded by yours truly!


The recent Freak for All was fun for all who witnessed it. Our freaktastic happening shall return September 6th--first Monday of the Month.

Thanks to all who submitted to the Ruckus anthology. Those who did will be receiving a copy, and any ruthless hippies hoping to sneak in past deadline should do so ASAP.


La Paloma Slam is August 24th--stoked!


gotta luv funky town in the summer sun, see you at summer fun!