Posts Tagged ‘short stories’
Sunday, March 8th — 2 pm
Bill Berkson & Dale Herd:
a poet and a short story writer
read their work
Two writers with recent books out from Coffee House Press will share the Bird & Beckett stage:  Dale Herd reading stories from Empty Pockets and Bill Berkson reading poems from Expect Delays. Bill Berkson came of age as a writer during the era of the “New York School” painters and poets in the late 1950s/early 1960s,…
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Sunday, July 20th – 2 pm
Tales from the Eternal CafeAuthor Janet Hamill reads!
“There is nothing more wonderful than the café, and the tales that are drawn from them.  Long live the café, whether found on the dark backstreet, the fashionable thoroughfare, or the pages of a book!  Within them, as through these tales, we gain entrance to the history of a world where madams rub shoulders with mystics…
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Sunday, March 23rd – 2 pm
Writer A. D. Winans reads
short stories from In the Pink
S.j. Cruz reads from
The Flowers Won’t Die
A. D. Winans will read from his first short story collection, In the Pink — erotic tales released in January by Pedestrian Press with a cover too scandalous for Amazon.com, and thus issued simultaneously in a cover tame enough for that demure literary institution. For decades, we’ve admired A.D. as a straight talker, poet and West Coast small…
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Saturday, November 16th, 7 pm
Book Release Party!
Jason Friedman’s debut
short story collection, Fire Year
from Sarabande Books
Dazzling writing & great company Saturday night, November 16th, 7pm, at Bird & Beckett Books to celebrate the release of Jason Friedman’s short story collection! From a recent review: In a collection of seven pieces of literary fiction, winner of the 2012 Mary McCarthy Prize, Jason K. Friedman, confronts love and religion, family and sexual…
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