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The Orange Alert reading series.
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The Orange Alert reading series.
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Scott McClanahan. Sam Pink. Spencer Dew. Brandon Will. And TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer. Yeah.
Yeah, so, we have unabashedly been hyping the Scott McClanahan and his new joint Stories, so imagine how geeked we are to have the chance to read in support of him at The Book Cellar on July 24th at 7:00pm? Now, what if we also had the chance to read with the very awesome Amy Guth, writer, blogger, runner and one time guest of This Podcast Will Change Your Life and, and, the Sam Pink, author of I AM GOING TO CLONE MYSELF AND THE KILL CLONE AND EAT IT and the first writer ever published in This Zine Will Change Your Life. Well we are and we do and we think this reading may very well change your life. Meanwhile, if that isn't enough McClanahan for you, you can also see him on July 26th as part of the ongoing and quite killer Orange Alert Reading Series. Pretty nice, yes? Quite.
It is no secret that we here at TBWCYL, Inc. headquarters are big fans of the Spencer Dew, author of the short story collection Songs of Urgency, and so you can imagine how thrilled we were to see his most excellent and wholly awesome Dew-like review of Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine on Amazon - which if you are so inclined you may read below. Many thanks Spencer, drinks are definitely on us at the Orange Alert reading at The Whistler on November 18th.
One day you are no longer passing notes in gym class. You are an adult, of sorts. Your father is telling you that marriage is a stale social convention and you, somehow, are arguing against him. Sex has ceased to be consistently thrilling, or even pleasant, and, worse, you realize sex was never consistently thrilling or pleasant, and you find yourself nostalgic for snippets of a half-imagined past, having more and more conversations about old television shows, old television commercials, and more and more conversations about loneliness.
Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine charts a bruised path toward love, through ordeals of courtship, family relations. Words are spoken in public like this: "`Dude,' says Bob the bankruptcy restructuring guy, `four days is the minimum. One day makes you seem too eager, and two days makes you look like you were aware of the fact that calling her on the first day would have made you look too eager.'" Yet words are thought, in private, like this: with a woman sleeping, in overlap, across his body, Geoff "thinks he should enjoy this, wallow in it, and hold onto it as best he can, because something will go wrong, something has to go wrong, it always does."
Right, so, the first You Can Make Him Like You reading was going to be on March 16th at the Rediscovered Bookshop in Boise, Idaho. The turnout was uhhhm, light, but the staff rocked, and the signage was most sweet.
We then moved on to more familiar turf hitting the Orange Alert Reading Series at The Whistler, where the drinks were flowing, the crowd was most kind and the readers were sublime.
The always easy on the eyes and wonderfully reflective Victor David Giron.
The quite awesome Natalie Edwards talking dogs and copulation. Yes, you read that right. Next.
Chicago's greatest disembodied poet Luis Humberto Valadez doing his disembodied thing. And more soon. Promise.
