Date: May 23rd 2008

Hi everyone,

A few great events are around the corner and we wanted to give you a heads-up. By way of reminder, David Ohle (author of Motorman, The Age of Sinatra, and The Pisstown Chaos) will be reading at 8pm TONIGHT with Brian Evenson, accompanied by the music of Nat Badwin, tonight in the Issue Project Room at the (OA) Can Factory (232 3rd St @ 3rd Ave, 3rd Flr, Brooklyn). Cost is $10 and ADVANCE COPIES OF THE PISSTOWN CHAOS WILL BE AVAILABLE for the first time ever, and at a discount!

www.issueprojectroom.org


More news: Two Soft Skull book launches are around the corner, and Kevin Powell, Luc Sante, Favianna Rodriguez, William Upski Wimsatt, and Josh MacPhee will all feature in the Brooklyn Independents Literary series at the Brooklyn Public Library on Thursday, June 5. More information on these three events is below:

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BOOK LAUNCH: Mon, Jun 2, 7:00pm – 9:30pm

For: BE A FATHER TO YOUR CHILD: REAL TALK FROM BLACK MEN on FAMILY, LOVE, and FATHERHOOD


Kevin Powell, April Silver of AKILA WORKSONGS, Black & Male in America (BAMIA), and Allhiphop.com present a
Townhall Meeting & Booksigning for "Be a Father to Your Child: Real Talk from Black Men on Family, Love, and Fatherhood"

Event Hosted by Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur of allhiphop.com

FREE and OPEN TO GENERAL PUBLIC
Brown Memorial Baptist Church
(Rev. Clinton M. Miller, Pastor)
438 Washington Avenue (at Gates Avenue)
Clinton Hill/Brooklyn, NY 11238
[more program notes to come]

a ground-breaking anthology featuring essays, poems, and interviews by:
Aaron Lloyd • Adisa Banjoko • Alford Young, Jr. • Bakari Kitwana • Bill Stephney • Byron Hurt • Cheo Tyehimba • Davey D. • Dion Chavis • James Peterson • Kevin Powell • Kevin Williams • Lasana Hotep • Loren Harris • Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele • Mo Beasley • Rhymefest • Saddi Khali • Shaun Neblett • Steven G. Fullwood • Talib Kweli • Thabiti Boone • Timothy D. Jones • William Jelani Cobb

In Stores Early June 2008 | SOFT SKULL PRESS
check our online directory
beafathertoyourchild.com
allhiphop.com
kevinpowellforcongress.org
softskull.com
akilaworksongs.com


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Then, on Thursday, June 5, 1:30pm – 2:30pm
The Brooklyn Independents Literary series: "The Mutating City" at the Brooklyn Public Library

BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY’S DR. S. STEVAN DWECK CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CULTURE: Summer Reading Kickoff. June 5, at 7 p.m. Authors Kevin Powell (Someday We'll All Be Free, No Sleep Till Brooklyn), Luc Sante, Favianna Rodriguez (Reproduce & Revolt), William Upski Wimsatt (No More Prisons, Bomb the Suburbs, How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office), and Josh MacPhee (Stencil Pirates, Reproduce & Revolt), debate the truths and consequences of the mutating city.

The Brooklyn Independents Literary series is a consortium of highly regarded, cutting-edge independent literary publishers including Akashic, BOMB Magazine, A Public Space, Tin House and Soft Skull.

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/dweck/

Brooklyn Public Library, 1 Grand Army Plz # 1, Brooklyn, NY (map)

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And last but not least:

BOOK LAUNCH: The Bandana Republic - Soft Skull's new anthology of gang literature.

Mon, Jun 9, 6pm – 8pm

The event will be at Hue-Man Bookstore, featuring editors Bruce George and Louis Reyes Rivera along with several contributors.

Contributors to the anthology include:

Alicia Benjamin-Samuels Oscar Brown Jr. Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr Commander
Comrade X Layding Kaliba Dead Prez Ruby Dee
Shaggy Flores Erica Ford The Last Poets Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
Akua Njeri Willie Perdomo T. Rodgers Luis J. Rodriguez
Leila Steinberg Kublai Toure Ted Wilson Malik Yoba



The Bandana Republic is a collection of creative literature written by Chaplains, Bishops, Sportsmen, Crips, Bloods, Latin Kings, Black Spades, Neta, Black Gangster Disciples and others. Includes work by former gang members who have gone beyond gangbanging and into the social and cultural arenas.

Urban youth gangs and street associations are generally viewed as training grounds for thugs and felons. Left out of consideration are their members' emotional makeup, their political consciousness, their individual and collective capacities to assess the very social conditions that give rise to the need for such associations. The Bandana Republic showcases both the creative impulse and the social consciousness that is never included in any public dialogue on gangs.

Former gang members Louis Reyes Rivera and Bruce George present The Bandana Republic, an intergenerational, multiracial anthology that seeks to showcase the creative impulse that, along with violence, has always been a part of membership in urban gangs. Foreword by Jim Brown.

Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe
www.huemanbookstore.com
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd Between 124th and 125th Streets
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212-665-7400

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We are looking forward to these events and hope to see you there!

All best,
Soft Skull Press


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