Name: Song Over The Bones / Mia Zapata & The Gits Book Event
Start: 2025-10-11T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-11T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Atomic Books

$Song Over The Bones \/ Mia Zapata & The Gits Book Event$

It's a music-related double-hitter with Steve Moriarity and Melissa Mezaros discussing their new books.
Song Over The Bones
When a wildfire destroys her home and her ‘soulmate’ disappears without a trace, Melissa is left to navigate the emotional and physical wreckage. Alone and adrift, she turns to her lifelong passion for music and hits the road in search of solace. Traveling from coast to coast, Melissa stops at influential landmarks and gravesites, leaving and collecting tokens in honor of iconic figures like Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and more.
Mia Zapata and The Gits: A Story of Art, Rock, and Revolution
Seattle band, The Gits and their charismatic front person Mia Zapata were on the verge of international rock stardom but on July 7, 1993, days before their third US tour, Mia Zapata, The Gits 27-year-old singer-songwriter, was brutally assaulted and murdered by a stranger. This book reclaims Zapata's story to focus on the art she and The Gits created and not her tragic end.
Melissa Meszaros
Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Melissa Meszaros has set the precedent for breaking tropes and forging the way for the modern nomadic. As tenured entertainment industry publicist, Melissa is also the founder of Grrrl Front PDX Music Festival and the comic book publicity firm, Don’t Hide PR. She is a self-proclaimed grunge aficionado, graduate of Antioch University Los Angeles’ MFA in Creative Writing, and proudly shares a birthday with Melvins leader, Buzz Osborne.
Steve Moriarity
Steve Moriarty was the drummer and founding member for Seattle-based rock band The Gits. He holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Rights Law from Antioch College and a master’s in clinical social work from the University of Washington. He is an accomplished psychotherapist and musician. Originally from Indiana (home of his favorite author, Kurt Vonnegut), he now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he combines principles of neuroscience and rhythm creation in his private psychotherapy practice.