Recto Verse Small Press Expo
Richard Hugo House
1634 11th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122
Saturday, March 31, 2012
10 a.m. – 4 p.m., FREE
http://aprilfestival.wordpress.com/calendar/
Dark Coast Press will be operating a table at this excellent independent press expo! Come visit us! Dozens of the finest small presses from the Northwest and beyond converge on the epicenter of Seattle’s literary world for a one-of-a-kind book fair. Book-buyers’ best chance to see a bevy of small press books rarely seen on bookstore shelves. The first twenty people get a free APRIL tote bag. Readings throughout the day in the Hugo House Theater. The Hugo House bar will be open.
Corwin Ericson reads from SWELL
A Swell Evening with Corwin Ericson and Dana Colley at Arts at the Armory is … a reading. By local author Corwin Ericson. As accompanied by Dana Colley (of local alt-rock outfit Morphine). And the book is Ericson’s … Swell. Which is about … whales! And whale-watchers with both pro-whale and anti-whale dispositions! Hah! Let’s see you fit that into your descriptive, highly effective event name. Tonight’s performance has a suggested donation of five bucks, but we’d encourage more. Yeah, because supporting the arts is important, or whatever. And because we’re sending the bill for all these ellipsis straight to a certain cetacean bastard.
Tuesday April 27th, 2012
191 Highland Ave., Somerville, MA
617.718.2191.
7pm/all ages/$5
ArtsattheArmory. artsatthearmory.org
Reverend America on KNPR and other press
Check out the latest buzz on Reverend America by Kris Saknussemm. For more information visit www.reverendamerica.com!
Kris Saknussemm on Reverend America Interview on KNPR
Reverend America Starred Book Review | Shelf Awareness
Reverend America Book Review | Booklist
Reverend America Book Review | East Bay Express
Interview: Kris Saknussemm on Reverend America on KNPR Radio (audio)
Interview: Kris Saknussemm with Eric Wyatt on Reverend America at Drinks With Tony (audio)
Author Kris Saknussemm Guest Blog on Powells.com
Reverend America Book Review at Lisa Thatcher's Blog
Lisa Thatcher Q&A with Kris Saknussemm
Reverend America, Kris Saknussemm Tour Dates
Kris Saknussemm reads from Reverend America
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
Kris Saknussemm reads from Reverend America
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
University of Las Vegas (UNLV)
Kris Saknussemm reads from Reverend America
Thursday, March 16, 2012
Book Soup
8818 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069
Reverend America by Kris Saknussemm
Singing in a space between Flannery O’Connor and Carl Hiaasen, Reverend America mixes the old with the new. A kicking and spitting true-to-life tale that is Saknussemm’s most heart-rending to date.
Advance Praise for Reverend America
“Dangerous, hilarious, wildly imagined, weird as a carnival midway, and real and tragic as blues harmonica. Reverend America is blisteringly good. Kris Saknussemm is red-hot and smoking.” – Janet Fitch, author of WHITE OLEANDER (Oprah Book Club Pick)
“On the one hand, Reverend America is an impressive virtuoso comic tour de force, yet within the same remarkable novel is the sad and moving story of a world that moment by moment is losing itself.” – Jonathan Baumbach, author of DREAMS OF MOLLY and B: A NOVEL
“Saknussemm is a rare visionary of American culture, a fearless artist with his very own skew on the western world. Reverend America is brilliant!” – Jonathan Evison, New York Times best-selling author of WEST OF HERE
"One is hard pressed, while reading him, to recall the existence of any other reality." - The Boston Review
The League of Somebodies by Samuel Sattin - Release Date: 11/2012
“Sam Sattin is an extravagantly talented young writer and his debut novel, The League of Somebodies, is a dazzling investigation into masculinity and hero-making. It’s also a rollicking good time, and his characters--crazy, troubled, hilarious, endearing--are truly unforgettable." - Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban
We at DCP welcome our newest addition to the team, Samuel Sattin! Samuel Sattin is a graduate of the Mills College creative writing MFA in Oakland, California. He has appeared in Cent Magazine, Generations Literary Review, and elsewhere. Sam is a genre-bending nutcase that has provided us with a wonderful literary superhero folk story that is as profound as it is hilarious.
League of Somebodies will be due out from DCP next year. Here is an early synopsis to whet ye old palate:
Lenard Sikophsky has been fed plutonium since the age of six. Fearghas Murdoch Sikophsky, t he protagonist’s father, is intent on making him into the world’s very first superhero. Spanning the grimescape of 1960’s Massachusetts to the contemporary Colorado prairie -- even the year 2021 comes into play -- this odd and brazenly dark satire scours the foundations of American masculinity.
Pathologically shy and physically debilitated Lenard has never enjoyed the carefree childhood oth
ers have in his broken down stomping ground of Milton, Massachusetts. His father, a Jewish, Polish, Scottish émigré of mysterious, possibly jail-bound origins, and his itinerant, glass-eyed assistant, Argyll, poorly keep his son’s destiny a secret, all while teaching, with indelible integrity, the importance of a sacred book passed down through their family for generations: The Manaton.
The Manaton, other than a tome of great significance to the Sikophsky bloodline, is a rulebook instructing on the proper way to be male, from concepts as simple as growing attractive chest hair to the nasty business of wrestling lions. Along with the plutonium, it is from this book that Lenard's Super-training will take stake. Throughout his adolescent instruction--which involves fleeing from trains, battling wild beasts, and the unintentional ingesting of psychotropic drugs--Lenard is introduced to his all-too-likely destiny as a vigilante, all while falling in love with the beautiful (and compulsively suicidal) Laura Rabinowitz, who is bound to him, of all things, by contract.
In this whirlwind of confused masculinity, a violent entity called ‘THEY’ is hot on Lenard's trail. He can change his name, elude them best he can, but twenty years later, when his own son, Nemo, is introduced to the same destiny as his father, the danger becomes more real than he would like.
Stay tuned for more information on Sam Sattin’s debut The League of Somebodies forthcoming 2012!
Swell Book Release Party + Other Dates This Weekend!
Mark your calendars for the Seattle book release party for Corwin Ericson’s Swell. Cory will be reading in person, plus some excellent locals readers, a band, and booze. You know how we do by now. They just keep getting better and we are so excited to throw this Swell party. More information available at www.swellthenovel.com.
Get Your Fill of Swell Reviews, Blogs, Excerpts and More
The release of Swell by Corwin Ericson is in full swing. Here are some quick links for favorable reviews, guest blogs by the author, and online excerpts for your reading pleasure!
SWELL by Corwin Ericson out now!
The day has come folks! Swell by Corwin Ericson hits bookstores today! We are so proud of this title. Please stop by your local bookseller or online and pick yourself up a copy today! If you haven't heard, here is some summary and advanced praise info, as well as links to pursue your thirst for knowledge of all things Swell. Corwin will be GUEST BLOGGING at Powell's bookstore's blog all week. Check out his hilarious story The Conference up now!
For more information head over to www.swellthenovel.com!
Advanced praise for Swell:
A raucous roller-coaster ride . . . the writer deconstructs all things New England to hilarious effect. Ericson's tale reveals strong flavors of Tom Robbins, but there is also a splash of Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Just sit back and enjoy the long strange trip. - Shelf Awareness
This delightfully loopy debut combines Down East deadpan with elements of Nordic my
thology and Pynchones que py ro t ec h nics. Ericson's Maine coastal setting lies at the edge of the surreal. - Publishers Weekly
Jaunty, playful, hilarious, and eminently readable, Swell is much more than an auspicious debut, it's that rarest of birds, a good old-fashioned reading pleasure. - Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here and All About Lulu
A superbly crafted mixture of humor and observations of modern life, a combination of barely-noticeable detective fiction and magical realism, something uniquely its own and, in the end, a truly good read. Swell is a fantastic novel. - Line Zero
SWELL is a masterpiece of the comic novel . . . If you’ve ever hoped there would be just one more Douglas Adams novel . . . I love this book and it's hell trying to convey that in a few sentences. - Jeff Battis, City Light's Bookstore
The humor builds as the story progresses and Orange becomes entangled in stranger and stranger circumstances, while all he wants to do is waste time, acquire more beer, and get home to his cat, hopefully without being thrown overboard (again). - Emily Adams, Third Place Books
Two Year Anniversary Party, Join us at The Backdoor @ Roxys!
To all wonderful friends and allies of Dark Coast Press:
For the past two years we have been publishing books in the city of Seattle. We would not have been able to do this without the support and help from all of you. So we found the perfect cocktail bar called The Backdoor @ Roxy's in Fremont (where the Rain City Video used to be) and met the perfect bartender for a DCP event named Jayson and booked the place for the night. We are just going to enjoy the two years of life with some cocktails and good company. Please stop by and hang out! This is open to the literary community at large - so bring some friends. Below are the party details. See You There!
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Saturday, September 10 at 7:00pm - September 11 at 12:00am |
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462 N 36th St Seattle, WA |
