About this Event
Please join us Wednesday, September 4th, 6-8:30 pm for the Adam Gnade and Friends Book Tour. Andrew Mears, Joshua Jones, and local author Rin Hart are joining Gnade. (The Shop at MATTER is seriously geeked.)
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Adam Gnade
Adam Gnade’s work is released as a series of novels and audiobooks with musical accompaniment (self-described as “talking songs”) by Three One G, Bread & Roses Press, Hello America Stereo Cassette, and the Numero Group. I Wish to Say Lovely Things is his seventh and latest novel and the third book in his “Home and Away Quartet,” which includes the novels After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different and The Internet Newspaper. He is also the author of the indie press bestseller The DIY Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin' Sad. He lives on the Ruby Teeth Homestead in rural Kansas and runs the audio literary record label Hello America Stereo Cassette. Check out his stuff here.
Joshua Jones
Joshua Jones (he/him) is a queer & neurodivergent writer from Llanelli, South Wales. His debut work of fiction, Local Fires (Parthian, 2023) was shortlisted for the 2024 Dylan Thomas Prize & currently longlisted for the 2024 Polari First Book Prize. He co-founded Dyddiau Du (Welsh for 'Dark Days'), a library and artspace for/by LGBTQIA+ & neurodivergent folk. He lives in Cardiff, Wales.
Rin Hart
The subject of Rin’s writing is lived experience: from (mis)adventures in fringe living to using landscape and anniversaries to revisit and process traumas, to what happens when identity clashes with social custom and personal desire. In addition to writing memoirs and poetry, Rin works to empower victims of rape who are underrepresented by the Me Too movement and underserved by systems that operate on a gendered and sexualized misunderstanding of rape.
Rin’s prose has appeared in Cipher Magazine, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Beyond The Veil Press, and Boulder Poetry Scene. Their first audio-literary album was released by Hello America Stereo Cassette. They’ve been featured on The Poet’s Podcast and in Climbing Magazine.
Born and raised in Berkeley, CA, Rin is closest to home when on the road or in the ocean.
Andrew Hykel Mears
Andrew’s poetry has been published by PN Review, Propel Magazine, Tears in the Fence, The Oxonian Review, Pariah Press, Anthropocene Poetry, and elsewhere. He is a Practice as a Research PhD candidate at LHU. Researching poetry's potential as a climate action tool, he is developing principles of Ambient Eco-Poetics to articulate the reciprocal, more-than-human world to which we belong. His research interests include uncertainty as a field of meaning, anti-capitalism, non-standard conceptions of time, anarchism, posthumanism, and sensuous experience as ways of knowing. He has taken part in a range of projects across disciplines, staging exhibitions and workshops at Modern Art Oxford, Leeds Festival and the Moulin Rouge (Paris), as well as participating in performances for Oxford University Poetry Society, Bath Literature Festival, All Tomorrow's Parties, British Anthems (Tokyo), and Cambridge Film Festival, among others. As a musician, he's composed for contemporary dance, performed improvised film soundtracks at the ICA, and backed poet & rapper, Saul Williams, author & musician Adam Gnade, and Can’s Damo Suzuki. He was a founding member of the bands Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies and Foals. He is the managing editor of Ambient Receiver (Ambientreceiver.org).
Masks encouraged.
Books from the author's will be available on the day of the event.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Shop at MATTER, 2114 Market Street, Denver, United States
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