Date: May 9th 2008

Hi from Soft Skull!

This coming Tuesday, May 13, 7pm, Douglas A. Martin and Arthur Phillips will be the featured readers in The Pacific Standard Fiction Series: Victorian Night.

The Pacific Standard Fiction Series: 82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York (betw. St. Marks and Bergen) hosted by Garth Risk Hallberg

Books available on-site!
Drink specials to be chosen by dartboard!
The Spring Season Finale for New York Magazine's "Best New Literary Event!"

Douglas A. Martin's second novel, BRANWELL (Soft Skull Press), was hailed as "a cohesive and convincing portrait of the lost, forgotten Brontë" by The Austin Chronicle. "Stylistically complex and emotionally evocative," Darcey Steinke wrote. "Branwell Brontë emerges as ...both muse and devil to his sisters' passions, giving us a new dimension to this ever fascinating family." Martin's first novel, OUTLINE OF MY LOVER (Soft Skull Press), was named an International Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement, and was adapted for the Forsythe Company's multimedia production "Kammer/Kammer." Martin, an award-winning poet and critic, is also the author of THEY CHANGE THE SUBJECT and, with Michael Stipe, Grant Lee Phillips, and others, THE HAIKU YEAR.

"[BRANWELL's] beautiful declarative sentences are perfectly fitted to this famously imaginative, headstrong family; they bring Branwell Brontë's world to light." -Publishers Weekly

Arthur Phillips' third novel, ANGELICA, was, like PRAGUE and THE EGYPTOLOGIST, a national bestseller. The Washington Post, which named it one of the best novels of 2007, wrote, "[ANGELICA] cements this young novelist's reputation as one of the best writers in America, a storyteller who combines Nabokovian wit and subtlety with a narrative urgency that rivals Stephen King's." Phillips, a five-time Jeopardy! champion and winner of the Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum Award for best first novel, has been translated into 25 languages.

"ANGELICA impresses first as a clever send-up of the late Victorian novel, and then becomes its own very original thing. It is engrossing, deeply moving, and - precisely because it is moving - very frightening." -Stephen King

Host Garth Risk Hallberg is the author of A FIELD GUIDE TO THE NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY. The Pacific Standard Fiction Series aims to showcase the intense and varied literary energies of Brooklyn by pairing writers from the borough and beyond. We offer fine stories and appealing beverages in a civilized setting.

For more information, please visit www.pacificstandardbrooklyn.com




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