Hello Friends, Citizens,Dispatch: BAR CRAWL--I will be fe...

Hello Friends, Citizens, Dispatch: BAR CRAWL--I will be featured in a rather killerevent TONIGHT (Sat., 10/29, 6pm until late) downtown LA--five contemporaryLA authors/literati reading from five classic LA Noir books--Chandler, JamesCain, Nathanael West... It'll be the mighty, mighty Gary Phillips, badass Cajuntransplant Martin Pousson, the LA Times' Carolyn Kellogg, Libros Schmibros'David Kipen, and your pal Joseph Mattson (me). I'll be dropping an ace--I'mreading from Paul Cain's FAST ONE, perhaps the most brutal classic crime novelever written, a savagely obscure book by a true enigmatic dynamo. The eventwill start at the Last Bookstore at Spring and 5th--FOLLOWING the reading is adowntown literary bar crawl/pub hop/elixir mixer. Put together by PEN as partof the Night & The City Festival. Starts at 6pm. Full info here: http://www.penusa.org/node/378Let's see you tonight!Cheers,Joseph