Date: May 19th 2008

Hi from Soft Skull Press!

This Friday night, David Ohle will be in Brooklyn reading from his soon-to-be-released and much-awaited book The Pisstown Chaos! And we will have advance copies on sale! More details on that and a couple of other good events are below. Hope to see you there.

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David Ohle, Brian Evenson, and the music of Nat Baldwin.
FRIDAY May 23 8pm
Littoral Reading Series
Issue Project Room at the (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd St (@ 3rd Ave) 3rd Flr
Brooklyn, NY 11215
718-330-0313
$10
M/R to Union
F to 4th Avenue
www.issueprojectroom.org


Nat Baldwin: http://www.myspace.com/natbaldwin


Brian Evenson is the author of eight books of fiction, most recently The
Open Curtain, which was a finalist for an Edgar Award, an IHG Award, and the
Paterson Prize, and was one of Time Out New York's best books of 2006. He
lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs the Literary Arts
Program at Brown University.


David Ohle's novel, Motorman, was published by Alfred P. Knopf in 1972 and
re-released by 3rd Bed Press in 2004 with an introduction by Ben Marcus. Its
sequel, The Age of Sinatra, was published by Soft Skull in 2004. A third
novel, The Pisstown Chaos, will be published by Soft Skull/Counterpoint, in
June 2008. He has edited two non-fiction books, Cows are Freaky When They
Look at You: An Oral History of the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers and Cursed From
Birth: the Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs, Jr. (Soft Skull,
2006). His short fiction has appeared in Harper's, Esquire, the Paris
Review, TriQuarterly, the Missouri Review, the Pushcart Prize and elsewhere.
He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

About the forthcoming book, The Pisstown Chaos, Publishers Weekly has just
said: “Fans will rejoice—in their own dystopian way—at the arrival of this
mesmerizing installment....Ohle’s creation of a vivid world, both familiar
and foreign, dark and slyly humorous, makes the book a grim delight.”
—Publishers Weekly
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The same night at the Bowery Poetry Club...

Friday May 23, 8pm

A Salon Cocktail Party for Cultural Studies Association
Drinks!

An evening of Poetry on the Bowery, hosted by May Joseph. Brief readings by Bowery Books poets, featuring Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (author of Soft Skull's book Words in Your Face!), Seren Divine, Patricia Spears Jones, Kristin Prevallet, Moonshine Shorey, Marjorie Tesser.

Hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar.
$5(CSA registrants free).

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And then on Tuesday, May 27, please come to a reading and reception -- with dancing --
to celebrate the paperback publication of the novels

Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand
and
Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe
both from Harcourt Books

The Soft Skull Press book Jamestown is being released in paperback by Harcourt!

Hosted by Teachers & Writers Collaborative
520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 2020 (at 36th St.)
New York, NY 10018
212-691-6590

Reading: 6:30
Reception: 7:30
Dancing: 8:30

Attendance at any and/or all portions of the evening encouraged.

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See you soon.

Soft Skull Press


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