Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Kris Saknussemm Reading from Reverend America
http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/saknussemm
The Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 Tenth Avenue
Seattle, Washington
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Dark Coast Press Presents: An Evening with Kris Saknussemm
Reverend America Publishing Party
Doors at 7:00 PM | FREE
Naked City Brewery & Taphouse
8564 Greenwood Ave N
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) 838-6299
For more information please visit www.darkcoastpress.com and www.reverendamerica.com
Join Dark Coast Press in celebrating the release of Reverend America by Kris Saknussemm. Come partake in a menagerie of albino preachers, pregnant prostitutes, Southern soul and the surreal glory of true American strangeness!
Interviewer extraordinaire Litsa Dremousis (as featured in Esquire, Huffington Post, and McSweeney’s) will host a live conversation with Kris about Reverend America, his career, the craft of fiction, living in Las Vegas, and his love affair with American music. Hear Kris Saknussemm read from Reverend and then feature the release of the original album, Reverend America, featuring Christopher O’Reilly, Eric Wyatt, the late Dennis Hopper, and more. Have some pints and laughs with us!
Kris Saknussemm is the internationally acclaimed author of Zanesville, Private Midnight, Enigmatic Pilot and the short story collection Sinister Miniatures. His work has appeared in Playboy, Nerve, The Boston Review, The Hudson Review, The Antioch Review, New Letters and elsewhere. He is a 2011-2012 recipient of the Black Mountain Institute’s Tom and Mary Gallagher Fellowship at the University of Las Vegas.
Litsa Dremousis’ work appears in The Believer, Esquire, Huffington Post, Jezebel, McSweeney’s, MSN Music, Nerve, New York Magazine, The Onion’s A.V. Club, Slate, on NPR and in sundry other venues. She is completing her first novel. On Twitter: @LitsaDremousis. She archives her previously published work at http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/.
Recommended Event Listing in The Stranger: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Event?event=12404657
REVEREND AMERICA review in The Stranger
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=12582721
