I’M TRYING TO WRITE MY WAY OUT OF FEELING SAD AND IT'S WORKING, I THINK: A READING TOUR w/ Oliver Mol, Brian Alan Ellis, Erin Hoover, and Steven Pérez!
I’M TRYING TO WRITE MY WAY OUT OF FEELING SAD AND IT’S WORKING, I THINK: A READING TOUR makes its way to Tallahassee, Florida, on Thursday, March 12, at Florida State University (The John R. Carnaghi Building)!
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Thursday, March 12
7PM
Carnaghi Arts Building (FSU campus), 2214 Belle Vue Way, Tallahassee, FL
Award-winning Australian author, Oliver Mol will be reading from his forthcoming book, Lion Attack! (Scribe Publications). Here’s what folks have been saying about it:
“A crackling ball of energy and inventiveness.”—Luke Ryan, author of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Chemo
“I found myself believing the book itself had a soul, had fingers that were typing each letter as my eye landed upon it.”—Lindsay Hunter, author of Ugly Girls
“Oliver Mol is one of the most exciting writers I know. Lion Attack! is one of the most exciting books I know. It’s funny and it has short chapters and it has personality and there’s a story about a friend who jerked off with a pizza. I don’t think there’s anything more to say.”—Scott McClanahan, author of Hill William
“This is a magical dream of a book.”—Juliet Escoria, author of Black Cloud
“Mol travels a fine, deft line between Too Much Information and a disarming, ruthless honesty. Lion Attack! nails some of the longing, hilarity, tremulous hope and searing embarrassment of passing from boyhood to manhood … This book will drag you every which way.”—Margo Lanagan, author of Sea Hearts
“Written in skilfully pared-back prose, Lion Attack! is a bold status update on Australian grunge lit, logging in where Eric Dando’s Snail and Andew McGahan’s 1988 left off.”—Maxine Beneba Clarke, author of Foreign Soil
“Mol is stripping away conceit in favor of a new, fresh form of narrative.”—Michael J. Seidlinger, author of The Strangest
“It is honest, thoughtful, and funny. I implore you to read this book.”—Stacey Teague, author of takahē
“Oliver Mol’s voice gets inside your head. His book pulses and crackles with energy, at once sexy and suffused with yearning.”—David Carlin, author of Our Father Who Wasn’t There
Oliver will reading with local writers
Brian Alan Ellis
Erin Hoover
Steven Pérez
Oliver Mol is a Sydney-based writer. He is a staff writer at The Adventure Handbook. He is 26. He grew up between America and Australia. He has lived in Houston, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. He was the recipient of a 2014 ArtStart Grant, the co-winner of the 2013 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers and the recipient of a 2012 Hot Desk Fellowship. He has appeared at Emerging Writers Festival and Melbourne Writers Festival. He has read creative nonfiction at the Museum of Contemporary Art. He has interned at The Lifted Brow, was a fiction editor at Voiceworks and is part of the Stilts Collective. His debut book “Lion Attack!” will be out through Scribe Publications early 2015. He is excited about life.
Brian Alan Ellis lives in Tallahassee, Florida, and is the author of The Mustache He’s Always Wanted but Could Never Grow, 33 Fragments of Sick-Sad Living, King Shit (with Waylon Thornton), and Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty. His writing has appeared in Juked, Crossed Out, Zygote in My Coffee, Monkeybicycle, DOGZPLOT, Conte, Sundog Lit, Connotation Press, Electric Literature, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, HTMLGIANT, The Heavy Contortionists, That Lit Site, Diverse Voices Quarterly, flashquake, Revolution John, Out of the Gutter, Spry, NAP, The Next Best Book Blog, Entropy, The Round Up Writer’s Zine, Gravel, and Atticus Review, among other places, and was also adapted and performed by the Buntport Theater Company in Denver, Colorado.
http://brianalanellis.tumblr.com/
Erin Hoover is a poet living in Tallahassee, Florida, with work published in Best New Poets 2013, Prairie Schooner, Gargoyle, Redivider, and Sugar House Review. She has an MFA from University of Oregon and is currently working toward a PhD from Florida State University, where she edits The Southeast Review in addition to volunteering for VIDA. Before moving to Florida, Erin worked as a communications director in New York City and co-founded Late Night Library, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sustaining book culture and supporting authors early in their careers.
