Tag: mechanics-hall

Hello friends. My plan had been to send out a single mid-fall omnibus update about recent goings-on, but things began to pile up, some of which are time-sensitive. I will do my best to keep this quick.

• On Sunday, October 12th, there’ll be a release party for the debut issue of Big Score (which includes my squalor-gothic story “Dumpster Fries v. the Monster”). The release event will be from 5-8 PM at Gallery 198 in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, where there will be food, drinks, music, readings, and fresh copies of Big Score available to purchase. I will not be in attendance, unfortunately, but if you show up with a paper mask of my face and act as my proxy, lordy, I will be grateful.
• And on the following Sunday, October 19th, from 2-5 PM, I will be in attendance running a vendor’s table at the Back to the Book Fair fundraising event at Mechanics’ Hall at 519 Congress Street in Portland, Maine. I will have books for sale both fresh and seasoned (including the few remaining copies of Ultramarine in both its paperback and vinyl incarnations). Tickets are $5 for members, $10 for non-members, with all proceeds going to expand the Mechanics’ Hall Library Collection.
• Maine critic and poet Carl Little recently wrote a glowing review of my memoir Any Less You (“a haunting story of broken lives”) for the Working Waterfront, which you can read here.
• The kind folks at The Adroit recently published in their fifty-fourth issue my short story “Lucky,” a continuation of my series narrated by the down-and-out former-basketball-champion Coleman. 
• And the latest installment of The New Farmers Almanac—an infrequent collaborative publication by The Green Horns and Pilot Editions—includes my essay “Landscape (Vertical),” about my years working among the trees at a 150+-year-old apple orchard in Cumberland, Maine. This seventh volume of the series also includes work by former classmate Bridget Huber, longtime collaborator Alexis Iammarino, and my dear friend Jonathan Rodriguez. You can pre-order volume seven of the almanac here.

That’s it for now, y’all. I hope you attend the events you’re available to attend and read the stories that pique your interest. Without your involvement in these things I do, I’d just be an out-of-work weirdo talking to his cats (a lot).