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ARTSPEAK with Joey Da’rrell Cloudy

0 CommentsThursday • October 22, 2015 • by admin

ARTSPEAK:
“THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD”
Saturday, November 14, 5 pm
MFA Gallery, 409A North Tyler St., 75208

Joey Da’rrell Cloudy is a writer whose poetry and short stories have been published by Dance Macabre, Tom Cat Press, Mad Swirl, Fat Fizz and DeJour. He has read and hosted numerous readings, is co-publisher of the literary journal “Death List 5” and taught creative writing workshops through with Writers In The Schools. He is the author of ‘Howl 18 poems for Allen Ginsberg’, the forthcoming ‘Watermelons, White Women and Cadillac’s’, ‘It’s Complicated’, and ‘Party In My Mouth’. ‘Tramp’ is the title of the first novel completed by the poet. He currently lives to writes in Dallas, Texas.

IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION OPENING at MIGHT FINE ARTS!

Eileen Myles @ Half Price Books

0 CommentsThursday • October 22, 2015 • by admin

EILEEN MYLES

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17

Half Price Books, 7-9

5803 E. Northwest Highway

Eileen Myles is the author of nineteen books including I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, and a reissue of Chelsea Girls, both out in fall 2015, from Ecco/Harper Collins. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital art writers’ grant, a Lambda Book Award, the Shelley Prize from The Poetry Society of America, as well as being named to the Slate/Whiting Second Novel List. Currently she teaches at NYU and Naropa University and lives in Marfa TX and New York.

FIRST HEARINGS: DAVID SEARCY AT THE WILD DETECTIVES

0 CommentsFriday • September 11, 2015 • by admin

FIRST HEARINGS: DAVID SEARCY
WHERE: THE WILD DETECTIVES
WHEN: JANUARY 14, 7 PM
HOSTED BY: CHARLES DEE MITCHELL

ANOTHER HOMETOWN BOY MAKES GOOD

David Searcy has been a friend and supporter of WordSpace since its inception in 1994. He is the author of two novels, and over the past few years his essays have begun to appear in The Paris Review, Esquire, and other of what they call your Prestige Publications.

Some of these essays have now been collected in Shame and Wonder, published by Random House on January 5, 2016. In this collection Searcy writes about – or thinks on paper about – everything from paper airplane construction to the Ken Burns documentary on Lewis and Clark. Along the way there are sidebars on cereal box prizes, El Caminos, and an enchanted tree near Fredericksberg.

Good things are already being said.

“Shame and Wonder is a work of genius. A very particular kind of genius, to be sure, one that bides more comfortably with questions, potentialities, mysteries and wonders than with the hard and fast answers that the information age has taught us to crave. If you want to know things, real things, read Shame and Wonder. It will knock you flat and lift you up.”—Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

“Strange, wonderful, and full of curiosity and nostalgia, David Searcy’s essays chip away at the world around us to lay bare the beauty and sadness at the heart of it all.”—Gay Talese

Please join WordSpace in honoring David Searcy on January 14.

Following the reading, David will be joined in conversation with award-winning novelist Ben Fountain.

Harry Hunsicker: First Hearings at The Wild Detectives

0 CommentsFriday • August 28, 2015 • by admin

The Grid

First Hearings: Harry Hunsicker
Where: The Wild Detectives
When: September 24, 7 pm
Hosted by: Charles Dee Mitchell

The Grid (Thomas & Mercer; August 2015)

A former federal law enforcement contractor with a somewhat spotty record, Jon Cantrell has seen—and done—just about everything. Now he’s a sheriff, keeping the peace in small-town Texas. He thought that he’d finally settled into a quiet, less-complicated life—until his deputy gets himself murdered. Soon Cantrell’s search for the killer points to an online-dating site designed for extramarital affairs and to a woman who may have been the unfortunate deputy’s last date.

Meanwhile, someone is staging a series of seemingly random attacks on the regional power grid, and Cantrell is reluctantly pulled back into the federal fray when he accepts an off-the-books assignment to uncover the culprit. With the power company and the feds impatient for an arrest—and clues in his deputy’s case pointing to something more sinister—Cantrell must run parallel, conflicting investigations. But will he find what he’s looking for? Or is he about to take a fall?

Harry Hunsicker is a novelist and former executive vice-president of the Mystery Writers of America. His work has been short-listed for both the Shamus and Thriller Awards. Hunsicker’s story “West of Nowhere,” originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, was selected for inclusion in the anthology,The Best American Mystery Stories 2011. His sixth novel, The Grid, will be published in August 2015 by Thomas & Mercer.

Zach Dodson @ Wild Detectives

0 CommentsTuesday • August 11, 2015 • by admin

When: Tuesday, October 19, 7 pm
What: First Hearings
Hosted by Charles Dee Mitchell

Photo by Jonathan Crawford

Zach Dodson is a book designer particularly interested in visual narrative. He has designed books for many independent presses, most notably featherproof books, which he founded in Chicago in 2005.

Texan Zachary Thomas is the author and illustrator of Bats of the Republic, an illuminated novel due from Doubleday in 2015. Zach Plague wrote and designed the hybrid image/text boring boring boring boring boring boring boring in 2008. Neither should be contacted, as they exist only speculatively.

Professor Zachary Dodson teaches courses on hybrid narrative and storytelling atAalto University in Helsinki, Finland. He is available for guest lectures or workshops on book design, visual narrative or publishing.