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Created: Jul 28, 2008
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The Eighth Annual Gist Street Cookout Extravaganza
Gist Street Reading Series
July 19, 2008: The Eighth Annual Gist Street Cookout Extravaganza with McSweeney's
McSweeney's has grown to be one of the country's best-read and widely-circulated literary journals. As a small publishing house, McSweeney's is committed to finding new voices. Recent books and journals have appeared on bestseller lists around the country and have won multiple literary and design awards, including stories selected for Best American Poetry, Best American Travel Writing, the O. Henry Awards, and Best American Short Stories. Two of our books were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards.
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The cookout poets, rallied by Dominic Luxford, editor of The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets:
Atsuro Riley was brought up in the South Carolina low country and lives near San Francisco. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Threepenny Review, and McSweeney's, and has been awarded the Pushcart Prize and Poetry's Wood Prize.
Patrick Lawler has published three books of poetry: A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (University of Georgia Press, 1990), (reading a burning book) (Basfal Books, 1994), and Feeding the Fear of the Earth, winner of the Many Mountains Moving poetry book competition (2006).
Courtney Queeney's Filibuster to Delay a Kiss and Other Poems was published by Random House in 2007. She lives in Chicago.
Gerry LaFemina's latest book is the prose poem collection Figures from The Big Time Circus Book/The Book of Clown Baby. He lives in Frostburg, Maryland, where he directs and teaches at the Center for Creative Writing at Frostburg State University.
The cookout fiction writer, rallied by McSweeney's Angela Petrella:
Nathan West lives in Philadelphia, Pa. He recently completed a translation of the medieval Spanish materpiece Carcel de amor, and is at work on an epistolary novel. His story “The Balloon” was published in McSweeney's issue 21.
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George Mendel Photography
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