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Book Release and Readings
with Kate Bernheimer and Laynie Browne
w/ music by Greasy Light Orkestra

Friday, December 2
7-9 p.m.

Free and open to the public

Refreshments will be served

Please join Casa Libre in celebrating the work of two Tucson writers Kate Bernheimer and Laynie Browne. Kate and Laynie will be reading from their newest books, their books will be available for purchase, and they will be available for book signings. The readings will be complemented by the music of Greasy Light Orkestra. Please see artist bios for more information.

 

Kate Bernheimer’s first story collection, Horse, Flower, Bird, has been described as “a collection readers won’t soon forget, one that redefines the fairy tale into something wholly original” (Booklist). She is the author of a trilogy of novels—The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold, The Complete Tales of Merry Gold, and The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold. She recently edited My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (Penguin), a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. She is Associate Professor & Writer in Residence at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette each spring, and spends the rest of the year in Tucson.

You can read more about The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold here: http://www.katebernheimer.com/lucygold.html.

 

Laynie Browne is the author of nine collections of poetry and one novel. Her most recent publications include: Roseate, Points of Gold (Dusie, 2011), The Desires of Letters, The Scented Fox, and Daily Sonnets. Her honors include: the National Poetry Series Award, of the Contemporary Poetry Series Award, and two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative American Poetry. Currently she edits for Trickhouse and is co-editing the anthology with Caroline Bergvall and Vanessa Place, I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues, forthcoming, 2011). She has taught creative writing at The University of Washington, Bothell, at Mills College in Oakland, at Naropa University, and at the University of Arizona, where she teaches creative writing and coordinates an interdisciplinary writers-in-the-schools program.

Regarding Roseate, Points of Gold: “In this collection of poems, we find that during human reproduction, one experiences an endless chain of possibilities and consequences as alchemical mysteries. At the edges, where things depend on things is something like sacred literature. The skin is made in a scriptorium: roseate, points of gold.” — Fanny Howe

Greasy Light Orkestra is a four-piece band from Tucson playing original waltzes, polkas and tangos. The band, which typically plays on street corners, includes button accordion (Mike Stark), tuba (David LeGendre), saxophone (Eli Szabady) and bucket percussion (Chris Halvorsen). Although not a traditional-style dance band, the Orkestra borrows from the spirit of old Europe – minor chords, unresolved tension and instrumental songs named after darkened cities, bullfighters and daring circus acts.


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