Fiction and Poetry Reading with Sean Carswell, Mickey Hess, and Edward Carvalho: Book Promotion Tour
Jul 10, 2008, 06:00 PM – 09:00 PM
Sean Carswell will perform a reading at the Commonplace Coffee House in Indiana, PA at 6:00 on Thursday, July 10. Carswell will be joinged by Mickey Hess and local poet Edward Carvalho.
Sean Carswell is the author of Drinks for the Little Guy (1999) the short story collection Glue & Ink Rebellion, which earned him the title “the J. D. Salinger of the internet generation” by Pop Matters, and Barney’s Crew. Carswell comes to the Commonplace Coffeehouse, Indiana, PA to promote Train Wreck Girl (Manic D Press), his new novel about life after it’s too late to die young. Train Wreck Girl blends the comic and tragic, the surreal and the all-too-real, and characters bumbling with the best intentions, damaging the ones they love most.
In addition to these achievements, Carswell has made a name for himself by co-founding Razorcake, the United States’ largest not-for-profit magazine about independent music and culture. He has written for various publications running the gamut from the skateboarding magazine Thrasher to the politically charged Clamor Magazine to acclaimed literary journals like Thin Air and Rip Rap.
Mickey Hess is Assistant Professor of English at Rider University and the editor of Icons of Hip-Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture from Greenwood Press. Edward J. Carvalho is a twice-nominated Pushcart Prize poet (2004-2005) and PhD candidate in the Literature and Criticism program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short (Fine Tooth Press, 2007) and “If the radiance of a thousand suns”: Songs of the American Hiroshima (Six Bad Apples Press, 2008-09). Carvalho also holds an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College (2006). He will also guest edit Dr. David B. Downing's Works and Days journal on Academic Freedom and Intellectual Activism in the Post-9/11 University, which will feature his interviews with Noam Chomsky, Martín Espada, and Cornel West, along with new scholarship from other notable intellectuals (Spring/Fall 2008). Carvalho was born in Danbury, Connecticut in 1970.
