Sunday Night Fiction :: Harper’s Perennial Girl Tour

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Date: Oct 29 2006 - 7:00pm

Time: 53:52

Harper’s Perennial Girl Tour

Sarah Hall divides her time between the north of England and North Carolina. She reads from her book: Haweswater.

“A writer of showstopping genius: everyone should buy this novel.” – The Guardian

Heather O’Neill is a contributor to This American Life. She lives in Montreal, Canada. She reads from her novel: Lullabies for Little Criminals.

“This is a beautiful book. There are phrases in here that will make you laugh out loud, and others that will stop your heart. A definite triumph.” -- David Rakoff

Emily Maguire divides her time between teaching English, writing nonfiction pieces, and working on her next novel. She lives in Sydney. She reads from her novel: Taming the Beast.

“Emily Maguire embodies the great romantic myth of the writer who emerges from nowhere, fully formed.” -- Sydney Morning Herald

Monday Night Poetry :: Impetus Press

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Monday Night Poetry 09.18.06: Impetus Press

7:00 pm

Time: 01:06:05


Impetus Press is a new independent publishing house located in Iowa City, Iowa. Founded on a mountain of contempt for the commercial publishing industry, we are dedicated to publishing and promoting works of serious literary fiction with a pop edge, that fall in-between the genres of the
experimental and the commercial. Most of all, Impetus Press is committed to creating an alternate space for quality fiction, making it possible fornew voices to be heard, read, and appreciated.

Kate Hunter grew up in Thetford, Vermont and Nashville, Tennessee, among other places. She moved to New York City at eighteen to go to school and has been here ever since, except for periods spent traveling in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. She lives in North Brooklyn with her dog, Tuva. Her first novella, The Dream Sequence, is now available from Impetus Press.


Nick Antosca's writing has appeared in The Barcelona Review, Identity Theory, The New York Tyrant, The Antietam Review, Hustler, Opium, elimae, and others. His first novel, Fires, will be published this winter by Impetus Press. He was born in New Orleans and graduated from college in 2005.


Christian TeBordo was born in Albany, New York in 1978. He earned a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Syracuse University where he was a fellow in creative writing. His fiction has appeared in Sleeping Fish, 3rd Bed, LaPetiteZine and 9th Letter among others, and a novel, The Conviction and Subsequent Life of Savior Neck, was published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2005. His second novel, Better Ways of Being Dead, and a novella, We Go Liquid, are forthcoming. We Go Liquid will be published by Impetus Press in spring, 2007. He and his wife Kathryn, a choreographer, live in Philadelphia.


Jennifer Banash was born and raised in New York City. She graduated with a B.A. in Fine Art from Arizona State University and has worked as a copywriter, editor, waitress, television news writer, party promoter, and exotic dancer. She lives, works and writes in Iowa City, Iowa, and is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Iowa. In August 2005, she co-founded Impetus Press with her partner, Willy Blackmore. Her poetry has been published in Black Spring Review, Poetry Motel, and The Colorado Review. Her first novel, Hollywoodland: An American Fairy Tale, is published by Impetus Press.

Dave Housley is a writer and web geek who lives outside Washington, DC. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Backwards City Review, Ballyhoo Stories, Hobart, Nerve, Potomac Review, Yankee Pot Roast, and some other places. He's one of the founders and fiction editors and all around do-stuff grunt workers at Barrelhouse magazine. He has a M.S. in professional writing from Towson State University and is currently finishing an M.A. in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University. He has webmastered for the environment, human rights, the government, and for money. His first collection of stories Ryan Seacrest is Famous: Stories by Dave Housley, will be published Fall 2007 by Impetus Press.

Sunday Fiction: George Rabasa, Gonzalo Barr, Ryan Boudinot

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Time: 01:19:00

Start: Oct 22 2006 - 7:00pm
End: Oct 22 2006 - 9:00pm
George Rabasa's short fiction has appeared in Story Quarterly, Glimmer Train, The MacGuffin, South Carolina Quarterly and in several fiction anthologies. He reads from his book: The Cleansing.

“A complex triangular relationship is painstakingly probed in Rabasa’s thoughtful second novel . . . Its three principles emerge as complicated and seductive characters.” Kirkus Reviews

Gonzalo Barr is the winner of the 2005 Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize for fiction, selected by Francine Prose and awarded by Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He lives in Coral Gables Florida. He reads from his collection: The Last Flight Of Jose Luis Balboa.

"Engaging, funny, highly enjoyable . . .With their deceptively modest authority and just as deceptively easy charm, these stories draw you in." Francine Prose

Ryan Boudinot’s work has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 and 2005, Nerve, McSweeney’s and Black Book. He lives in Seattle, Washington. He reads from his collection: The Littlest Hitler.

“Ryan Boudinot has a hell of an ear: for dialogue, for the right adverb in the perfect spot, for the joy of weird slang, and for the rumbling underbelly of corporate culture. This is a scary, fresh, funny, eye-opening debut.”
Aimee Bender

Sunday Night Fiction :: Katherine Min and Calvin Baker

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Time: 49:27

Oct 15 2006 - 9:00pm
Katherine Min was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and graduated from Amherst College and the Columbia School of Journalism. She currently teaches at Plymouth State University and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. Katherine Min’s short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, and Prairie Schooner, and have been widely anthologized, most recently in The Pushcart Book of Stories: The Best Short Stories from a Quarter-Century of The Pushcart Prize. “Eyelids” was listed as one of 100 distinguished stories in The Best American Short Stories of 1997. “The Brick” was read on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts program in 1999. “Courting a Monk” won a Pushcart Prize. She reads from her novel: Secondhand World.

“[A] haunting debut … Swirling, textured, beautifully detailed … Min’s rendering of an outsider family’s tight-knit alienation is spot-on.” — Publishers Weekly

Calvin Baker was born in Chicago and graduated from Amherst College. He is the author of Naming the New World and Once Two Heroes. He lives in New York City and he reads from his novel: Dominion.

“Dominion leads us through yet another hidden door in the haunted mansion of our country’s history. This incantatory, petic, staring, thoughtful novel is a heroic act of exploration, feeling, and imagination.” – Francisco Goldman