Monday, July 11, 2011

Debut Novelist Reads in Lawrenceville Tonight


A reminder that tonight Jesus Angel Garcia comes to town on his 32-city book tour with his debut novel, Bad bad bad. His readings are multi-media and lean toward performance, so come out and enjoy the show, which opens with three local writers from Cyberpunk Apocalypse.

Garcia’s novel kind of blew me away, and I wrote a review of it on my small press blog:

Badbadbad draws on styles and themes from familiar stories and older literatures. The novel sustains the straight-talk trashiness of 20th Century pulp, the sex-romp identity games of Kathy Acker, and the dark inevitability of Giovanni's Room. But it considers an absolutely current societal malaise: the twin-headed hydra of selective isolation and social media addiction. In the process, badbadbad reveals a new brand of lust for life and a new kind of lost generation.
Read more: http://karenslibraryblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/book-review-bad-bad-bad-by-jesus-angel.html

Event Details:

Cyberpunk Apocalypse Presents:
JESUS ANGEL GARCIA
Monday, July 11th
Belvedere's Ultra Dive Bar
4016 Butler Street near 40th
7:00pm-10:00pm
$1-$5 suggested donation
with Cyberpunk Apocalypse readers:
*Art Noose, amazing zine maker, letterpress whiz, & storyteller
*Nate McDonough, comics king & GRIXLY publisher
*Gunner, exquisitely offbeat fiction writer & absurdist performer

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