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StretchyHead Reviewed in Pacific Sun

A really sweet review of StretchyHead in the Pacific Sun!
"Tuttle's fantastic story-telling brings out often overlooked details for the reader, leaving us to imagine and remember the stories of our own lives…"

Click the picture to read it in full!

reading at stable cafe

March 26, 6:30pm — I'm psyched to be a part of a Cincinnati Review release party! Though I myself am not published in the upcoming issue, three other local writers are, and we're having a party at Stable Cafe, which just so happens to be the home of a StretchyHead short story.

Stable Cafe is at:
2128 Folsom Street [...]

happenings

Feb 2: Photo show at Cafe Royale: I've got two photos in this juried show at one of the most cultured bars in the city. It'll be swell, I promise. Last photo show there was a fist fight? No, but seriously.
Feb 22: Reading at Green Apple Books, at 7pm. At the risk of pissing off [...]

Richard Brautigan meets Raymond Carver meets StretchyHead on NPR

NPR's San Francisco outlet, KALW, broadcasts the terrific show "Your Call." Today's broadcast was all about books! Kevin Hunsanger (co-owner of Green Apple Books) and Christin Evans (Owner of Booksmith) talk about their favorite books of the year.
But what's really exciting is when Mr Hunsanger praises StretchyHead at minute 47:52…
"They're little vignettes that are a cross [...]

why there are words

I'll be reading from my recently published collection of short stories, StretchyHead, at
Why There Are Words
December 8, 7:00pm (Thursday)
Studio 333
333 Caledonia St
Sausalito, CA 94965
Come on out and enjoy some incredible literature!

StretchyHead, the book

The festival is concluded and the book is in the world and you can get your hands on a copy here:

put this on your calendar:

(more details coming soon.)

It’s Litquake Time

“…Literature—literature!—transforming an ordinary Saturday night in the neighborhood into a carnival… Up and down Valencia Street, crowds overflowed out of open doorways, and between readings, people hustled from one event to another or gathered on street corners clutching red Lit Crawl maps like participants in a mammoth scavenger hunt.”
—New York Times
I’m reading from StretchyHead in [...]

It's Litquake Time

"…Literature—literature!—transforming an ordinary Saturday night in the neighborhood into a carnival… Up and down Valencia Street, crowds overflowed out of open doorways, and between readings, people hustled from one event to another or gathered on street corners clutching red Lit Crawl maps like participants in a mammoth scavenger hunt."
—New York Times
I'm reading from StretchyHead in [...]