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cinema_babeFOR COMPLETE AUTHOR BIOS VISIT The Raconteur's Website
Get Lit @ The Coolest Literary Event of the Year
The Raconteur Presents
WORD FEST 2007
Acclaimed writers read onstage from their most recent work!
20 AUTHORS - 4 HOURS - 2 INTERMISSIONS - 1 VAUDEVILLE VENUE...endless possibilities
7 PM, SAT. MAY 5
The Forum Theatre
314 Main Street, Metuchen
Featuring:
# 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter);
# Oscar nominated screenwriter Robert Festinger (In the Bedroom);
# O' Henry Prize winner Douglas Light (East Fifth Bliss);
literary wunderkind/Booker Prize finalist Paul Watkins (The Ice Soldier), who's been dubbed the heir to Hemingway by Entertainment Weekly and whose work has been called "an amazing tour de force" by Newsday;
# Whiting Writers' Award and Pushcart Prize winner Jess Row (The Train to Lo Wu), recently selected as one of Granta's 2007 Best Young American Novelists (alongside Nicole Strauss and Jonathan Safran Foer);
# Memoirist Jeremy Mercer (Time Was Soft There), whose recent reminiscence was touted by famed Beat Lawrence Ferlinghetti and won raves from The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal;
Nebula award winner Kelly Link (Magic for Beginners), whose stories have been called "cross-genre gems," by Time Out New York, "amazing" by New York Magazine and "intoxicating," by Alice Sebold;
#Former Paris Review editor Elizabeth Gaffney, whose Dickensian debut Metropolis has been called "thrilling, elegant and massive," by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, "brawny, old school storytelling," by Newsweek, and "a literary page-turner," by Vanity Fair;
author Sigrid Nunez, whose latest novel The Last of Her Kind was labeled "remarkable" by The New York Times and "dazzling" by The Boston Globe;
#NPR regular Robert Kaplow, whose last book Me and Orson Welles was just optioned by filmmaker Richard Linklater;
#Novelist Rich Perez (The Loser's Club), whose clear-eyed chronicle of The East Village has been praised by Tama Janowitz, Barry Gifford, Poppy Z. Brite and Mary Gaitskill;
Storyteller Clay Mcleod Chapman (The Pumpkin Pie Show), who's been called "hauntingly poetic" by Time Out New York, compared to Faulkner by The Village Voice and described as a "tattletale psychiatrist turned rodeo clown" by author Tom Robbins. Also with Chris Grabenstein, James Braly, Alex Dawson, Christopher Morrison, Michael Switek, Scott Gallagher, and Beth McLure
Plus: A theatrical reading of Kurt Vonnegut (R.I.P.) by actor and Master of Ceremonies Jeff Maschi.
Books on sale at the event. Authors will sign in the upstairs foyer during the two ten minute intermissions.
TICKETS NOW ON SALE!
$20 General Public; $15 Student/Senior/Member (with ID)
Sit above the fray and drink complimentary wine with the authors!
Limited V. I. P. balcony seating: $50.00 ($35 for Members)
To purchase tickets in advance please visit The Raconteur. Tickets available at The Forum night of event only. Please direct all queries to The Raconteur at 732-906-0009 or raconteurbooks@aol.com.
This is a "festival" and accordingly one should not feel obligated to sit immobile and quiescent throughout the entire event. Feel free to step out, stretch your legs, cop a smoke or browse the hundreds of books for sale in the upstairs foyer. We ask only that you don't get up during a reading, but rather before one begins or after one ends (readings are roughly 10 min each).
Labeled a "literary center of gravity," by Peter Applebome of The New York Times, The Raconteur is known for its eclectic programming, organizing literary happenings that range from motorcycle rides to arm wrestling tournaments. In addition to the free weekly events (film screenings, staged readings, live music) they mount at their store, The Raconteur sponsors annual film and literary festivals at The Forum Theatre, a 500 seat landmark playhouse/former vaudeville venue three blocks from the shop.
The Raconteur
A Damn Fine Bookstore
431 Main Street, Metuchen
732-906-0009
www.raconteurbooks.com
Get Lit @ The Coolest Literary Event of the Year
The Raconteur Presents
WORD FEST 2007
Acclaimed writers read onstage from their most recent work!
20 AUTHORS - 4 HOURS - 2 INTERMISSIONS - 1 VAUDEVILLE VENUE...endless possibilities
7 PM, SAT. MAY 5
The Forum Theatre
314 Main Street, Metuchen
Featuring:
# 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter);
# Oscar nominated screenwriter Robert Festinger (In the Bedroom);
# O' Henry Prize winner Douglas Light (East Fifth Bliss);
literary wunderkind/Booker Prize finalist Paul Watkins (The Ice Soldier), who's been dubbed the heir to Hemingway by Entertainment Weekly and whose work has been called "an amazing tour de force" by Newsday;
# Whiting Writers' Award and Pushcart Prize winner Jess Row (The Train to Lo Wu), recently selected as one of Granta's 2007 Best Young American Novelists (alongside Nicole Strauss and Jonathan Safran Foer);
# Memoirist Jeremy Mercer (Time Was Soft There), whose recent reminiscence was touted by famed Beat Lawrence Ferlinghetti and won raves from The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal;
Nebula award winner Kelly Link (Magic for Beginners), whose stories have been called "cross-genre gems," by Time Out New York, "amazing" by New York Magazine and "intoxicating," by Alice Sebold;
#Former Paris Review editor Elizabeth Gaffney, whose Dickensian debut Metropolis has been called "thrilling, elegant and massive," by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, "brawny, old school storytelling," by Newsweek, and "a literary page-turner," by Vanity Fair;
author Sigrid Nunez, whose latest novel The Last of Her Kind was labeled "remarkable" by The New York Times and "dazzling" by The Boston Globe;
#NPR regular Robert Kaplow, whose last book Me and Orson Welles was just optioned by filmmaker Richard Linklater;
#Novelist Rich Perez (The Loser's Club), whose clear-eyed chronicle of The East Village has been praised by Tama Janowitz, Barry Gifford, Poppy Z. Brite and Mary Gaitskill;
Storyteller Clay Mcleod Chapman (The Pumpkin Pie Show), who's been called "hauntingly poetic" by Time Out New York, compared to Faulkner by The Village Voice and described as a "tattletale psychiatrist turned rodeo clown" by author Tom Robbins. Also with Chris Grabenstein, James Braly, Alex Dawson, Christopher Morrison, Michael Switek, Scott Gallagher, and Beth McLure
Plus: A theatrical reading of Kurt Vonnegut (R.I.P.) by actor and Master of Ceremonies Jeff Maschi.
Books on sale at the event. Authors will sign in the upstairs foyer during the two ten minute intermissions.
TICKETS NOW ON SALE!
$20 General Public; $15 Student/Senior/Member (with ID)
Sit above the fray and drink complimentary wine with the authors!
Limited V. I. P. balcony seating: $50.00 ($35 for Members)
To purchase tickets in advance please visit The Raconteur. Tickets available at The Forum night of event only. Please direct all queries to The Raconteur at 732-906-0009 or raconteurbooks@aol.com.
This is a "festival" and accordingly one should not feel obligated to sit immobile and quiescent throughout the entire event. Feel free to step out, stretch your legs, cop a smoke or browse the hundreds of books for sale in the upstairs foyer. We ask only that you don't get up during a reading, but rather before one begins or after one ends (readings are roughly 10 min each).
Labeled a "literary center of gravity," by Peter Applebome of The New York Times, The Raconteur is known for its eclectic programming, organizing literary happenings that range from motorcycle rides to arm wrestling tournaments. In addition to the free weekly events (film screenings, staged readings, live music) they mount at their store, The Raconteur sponsors annual film and literary festivals at The Forum Theatre, a 500 seat landmark playhouse/former vaudeville venue three blocks from the shop.
The Raconteur
A Damn Fine Bookstore
431 Main Street, Metuchen
732-906-0009
www.raconteurbooks.com
