Christmas/Solstice/Hanuka/Kwanzza POETRY RUCKUS !!!

MG Martin will be coming in form San Francisco to wow the crowd at Ducky Waddle's on Wednesday Dec 1st. Don't Miss it. Doors at 7PM, reading 7:15, guest at 9 PM

PEACE!
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Julie Weinstein: Short Fiction Ruckus and Book Premier for 'Flashes from the Other World'

Come on out on Thursday November 11th for our next Short Fiction Ruckus @ Ducky Waddle's. Doors open at 7 PM and reading begins at 7:15 PM.

This night will also be the book premier for our special guest, local author Julie Weinstein. Julie will be reading from her rand new collection of flash fiction, Flashes from the other World.

Check it out:

"With a keen minimalist eye and a knifelike accuracy of just where the edge is, Weinstein is the angry orphaned child of Palahniuk and Octavia Butler. These stories are disturbingly correct, commanding and gorgeous."
~Traci Foust, Nowhere Near Normal

"Readers of Julie Weinstein's Flashes from the Other World will gladly find themselves lifted story by story on a true reading adventure. Her descriptive scenes are that vividly real! Here is an author whose word choice is pure magic. From the paranormal, to relationships, to the surreal, these flash stories will delight readers."
~Salvatore Buttaci, author of Flashing My Shorts

"Julie Ann Weinstein writes in a refreshing, sharp style that is perfectly suited to flash fiction. Her stories are filled with haunting scenarios and wildly funny characters, who are as unpredictable as they are endear-ing. Flashes From the Other World is aptly titled—the stories offer pure escapism in short form."
~Jen Knox, Author of Musical Chairs and To Begin Again

Find out more about Julie here

There will be free local organic refreshments.

Email ruthlesshippies@gmail.com to read

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!