Littoral: David Ohle + Brian Evenson + musical guest, Nat Baldwin

Fri 23 May, 2008, 8pm
Old American Can Factory

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.