We had a most excellent time reading at Freebird Books in Brooklyn this past Sunday night and want to offer many thanks to the quite awesome Ken Wohlrob author of the quite awesome The Love Book for arranging the reading, and reading himself - see him actually reading below, for real; Peter from Freebird for hosting, now please go buy books there, and a lot of them; and to the various people who came out, including, but not limited to long-time friends Lisa and Laura, old, like many decades old, friend and This Zine Will Change Your Life compatriot Adam Lawrence, and new bestest friend Michael Paige Glover the wonderful and quite cool artist that did the cover for "Most Likely Your Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine," who we would add can be seen below with TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson and "Go Your Way..." author Ben Tanzer, who wants you to know that he cannot explain what happened to his hair in this particular shot though he thinks it has something to do with the failed Wall Street bail-out.
We recently had the chance to read The Love Book by Ken Wohlrob who we will be reading with on September 28th at Freebird Books in Brooklyn and we wanted to let you know how much we enjoyed it. There are just five not so short, short stories in this unbelievably rich collection, and while love may be the operative word here, we're not sure anyone would call them love stories, per se. Now that said, are these stories all about how love gets warped, lost, manipulated, sublimated, twisted, fetishized, tainted and occasionally celebrated? Yes, and more. And so do we think you should you read this collection? Yes, again, for sure, so, go ahead, please read The Love Book, it just might change your life.
First off, we want to send out a big thank-you to our newest best friend and the author of The Love Book Ken Wohlrob for the quite awesome Lucky Man shout-out he gave us today at his blog. Many thanks, and drinks are on us for sure sir when next we meet, which you readers may want to note will be on September 28th when we get together to read at Freebird Books in Brooklyn. Please come out, won't you? And second, you may recall that Lucky Man's new, and now former, distributor AtlasBooks has taken the remaining copies of Lucky Man hostage and our kick-ass publisher Manx Media has been forced to reprint them. What we didn't know is that this would require a new ISBN number. Why is that important you ask, well, there are some who have been let's say less than happy with the Lucky Man proofreading, but we couldn't technically make any changes under the current ISBN number. Now that we have to get a new number however, we also have the chance to give it a thorough edit, which we are doing even as we speak. Pretty cool, right? Way.
While we would be absolutely geeked just to have two readings coming up next month for "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine," we are especially geeked about the flyers that have been created for the events, which obviously makes us, well you know geeks.
First off, we have the "Go Your Way..." book release party on September 6th here in Chicago at the DVA Gallery. For more information about the party you can go here and to get a look at Chris Szostek's killer flyer, please look above.
And second, we are way thrilled to be reading at Freebird Books and Goods in Brooklyn on September 28th and we want to express our gratitute to our most current best friend, New York writer and author of The Love Book Ken Wohlrob for his willingness to both arrange the reading and read with us.
We also want to thank Ken for the awesomely kick-ass job he did on the flyer for the event. To see that flyer please look below.
We hope to see you at one or both events and much appreciation to everyone involved for making them happen.
