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Sep
20
2010

Boston – Benjamin Lowenkron at Grub Street

October 1, 2010
12:30 pmto1:15 pm

The author of our first chapbook, Preacher’s Blues, Benjamin Lowenkron, will be on hand in Boston to head one of Grub Street’s popular Brown Bag Lunch Workshops.

Learn “Oracle Poet,” the technique developed by Ben’s mentor, Andrei Codrescu, which Benjamin developed into his unmistakable style.  With an oracle of your own and a little guidance, you too will soon be writing poetry that can jump-kick the sun!

“Lowenkron isn’t my illegitimate grand-child, but goddamn I wish he was!” – T.S. Eliot

Sep
20
2010

New York – Tyramperius Rex

October 3, 2010
8:00 pmto10:00 pm

Ampersand Books   The NY Tyrant   Publishing Genius

Friends! Writers! Degenerates!

Lend us your ears!  Your eyes!  Your livers!  Ampersand Books, Publishing Genius, and NY Tyrant invite you out for a reading you’ll never forget – if you remember anything at all.  Live readings, live writing, topless dancers!!

Sep
19
2010

Boston – Small Press Saturday @ Newtonville Books!

October 2, 2010
2:00 pmto5:00 pm

Sat, Oct 2, 2PM: Small Press Saturday with Ampersand Books, Dzanc Books, Madras Press, Rose Metal Press, and Small Anchor Press

The owners of Newtonville Books, one of the best independent bookstores in Boston, have graciously extended an offer for Ampersand to join several other baddasses of independent publishing for a afternoon of tea, crumpets, and brilliance.  Editor Cook will be in attendance, ubiquitous posse in tow, along with these other fine chaps & chappettes:

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Benjamin Lowenkron will read from reading from our very first chapbook, PREACHER’S BLUES.  If you’ve never witnessed Preacher Ben perform, imagine this:

get a bomb
wrap it in poetry
make it sing

Dzanc Books: William Walsh and Myfanwy Collins will read from THE BEST OF THE WEB 2010

Coincidentally, William Walsh is editing the anthology RE:Telling, from Ampersand Books, due in Feb. at AWP, and Myfanwy Collins wrote “Sunburn,” published in our debut issue.  It would have been our Pushcart nomination if we were better at reading calendars.

Madras Press: Editor Sumanth Prabhaker will read “A Manual for Sons” by Donald Barthelme, the first Madras Press Classic Reprint

Rose Metal Press: Adam Golaski will read from COLOR PLATES

Small Anchor Press: Joseph McElroy will read from PREPARATIONS FOR SEARCH

Sep
19
2010

Joseph Riippi & Melissa Broder storming The Enclave

September 25, 2010
4:00 pmto6:00 pm

Catch Ampersand authors Melissa Broder & Joseph Riippi at The Enclave Reading Series at the Cake Shop, Sept. 25th, at 4 P.M.

Full details about the series and their fellow reader, Clay Mcleod Chapman, are here.

Sep
11
2010

The Serial Rapist Sitting Behind You Is Dodging Traffic

We Love Our Authors, and So Should You

J. Bradley, whose trademark blend of sincerity and smut has graced the pages of every print and online journal in this solar system, has switched gears into fiction.  It may have destroyed the transmission, but like every death-defying stunt, ultimately worth it.

“The Serial Rapist Sitting Behind You is a Robot” is Bradley’s first collection of fiction, available now from Safety Third Enterprises, the brainchild of Ampersand contributor and evil genius Matt Debenedictis.

Check out this review at the Outside Writers Collective, and another at PANK.

“Serial Rapist” is also the subject of a new interview of the illustrious author by the even more illustrious Roxane Gay on HTMLGiant.

We love our authors.  Ampersand Books is, in fact, more like a family than a traditional press, complete with desert compound and runaways willing to do our bidding.  As a show of support for our simile-slinging brother-in-arms, The Ampersand Books family is offering you a limited-time only book-buying Extra Vaganza opportunity!

Discount on Dodging Traffic!

Purchase a copy of The Serial Rapist Sitting Behind You is a Robot and e-mail the receipt to ampersandeditor@gmail.com.  You’ll get Dodging Traffic, J. Bradley’s first poetry collection from Ampersand Books,  for just $9, shipping included!  Or, subscribe to Ampersand Books!  The next subscriber to the Ampersand subscription service will get a copy of “The Serial Rapist Sitting Behind You is a Robot” for free!

Apparently, we’re out of our fucking minds.  We recommend taking advantage of us while you can.

Get The Serial Rapist… here.  Supplies are limited, and when these hand-crafted beauties are gone, they’re gone.

Aug
18
2010

St. Pete, FL: Adam Gallari appearing with NYC Bestseller Tim Dorsey and Shellie Zacharia!

September 3, 2010
5:00 pmto7:00 pm

St. Pete Reads!

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Presenting:

Tim Dorsey!

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Tim has published twelve novels in several languages, including: Florida Roadkill,  Atomic Lobster, Nuclear Jellyfish and Gator A-Go-Go. His zany stories set in local locales have him a local favourite.  Word is, he’s bringing rubber chickens.  You won’t want to miss this, whatever it is.

Cha Cha Coconuts will also be severing a special Tim Dorsey-themed drink!

Adam Gallari!

Adam is the author of Ampersand Books’ first short story collection, We Are Never as Beautiful As We Are Now.  His sensitive, insightful stories have been published in anderbo.com, Fifth Wednesday, and The always-awesome Ampersand Review.  Check out this review at The Rumpus!

& Shellie Zacharia!

Shellie Zacharia’s stories are subtle blend of sincerity and quirkiness, of characters puzzled and hurt by a world they don’t understand, but who haven’t given up on daydreams and humour.  These short stories and flash fictions have appeared in Hobart, Opium, Keyhole Magazine, Canteen, The Pinch, Washington Square, Beloit Fiction, and many others, including St. Pete’s local Studio Quarterly. Her first book, Now Playing, is available from Keyhole Press. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.

Special thanks to The St. Pete Pier, The City of St. Pete, and our official bookstore partner, Books at Park Place.