The Brothers' Lot Reading - August 20th 7pm

Reblogged from The Brothers' Lot:

On Monday August 20th at 7pm  at East River State Park, Kent Ave and N 9thin Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I will be reading from The Brothers’ Lot alongside fellow Akashic Books authors Shira Nayman, and  Elizabeth Nunez. 

This is part of The Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn and WORD’s Words by the Water, a four-week outdoor reading series along the East River.

Read more… 24 more words

Suddenly this is tonight! Wall to Wall Akashic Authors, riverfront expanse, Manhattan views at sunset - what more could one want of a Monday evening?

The Brothers’ Lot Reading – August 20th 7pm

The Brothers’ Lot from Akashic Books

On Monday August 20^th at 7pm  at East River State Park, Kent Ave and N 9^thin Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I will be reading from The Brothers’ Lot alongside fellow Akashic Books authors Shira Nayman, and  Elizabeth Nunez. 

This is part of The Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn and WORD’s Words by the Water, a four-week outdoor reading series along the East River. Each event focuses on publishers/authors with a local focus.  Link here:

http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/event/words-water-akashic-books-night

The Brothers’ Lot: New Footage Released

Finally the meticulous frame-by-frame hand tinting is done and we can now proudly announce the release of second and third installments of The Brothers’ Lot live at KGB wherein Martin Mulvey SJ, Diocesan Investigator tracks Marcus Madden, BA, official biographer of Venerable Saorseach O’Rahilly to The Wharf ,a none too salubrious pub in Howth on the outskirts of Dublin.  Herewith Part 1 with its mild dosing of coarse language. and Part 2 with its liberal dosing of coarse language.

VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Winner Announced

Delighted for Justin Torres whose jewel of a novel We The Animals won the Cabell First Novelist Award.  Congratulations to him and to all the others who were in the running and gratitude to VCU for maintaining such an award.

It would be disingenuous of me to say that I am not a tiny bit disapplointed but then I remind myself that there is a larger reason we all insist on making things.  This is something that I have always found a beguilingly profound meditation of the whole creative impulse:

Look I made a hat where there never was a hat

As the man from Foxrock said: “I can’t go on.  I’ll go on.”

The Brothers’ Lot: $10 Celebratory price til June 31

From:Akashic Books:

The Brothers’ Lot is a semifinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. To celebrate we are offering a special discounted price of $10 (including shipping within the U.S.) from May 21 – June 30, 2012.

Click here: http://www.akashicbooks.com/brotherslot.htm

Details of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award

The Brothers’ Lot from Akashic Books

VCU Cabell First Novel award

  

The Brothers’ Lot from Akashic Books

Delighted to find out that The Brothers Lot is a semifinalist for the 2012 Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell first Novel Award.  I had the pleasure of reading with Justin Torres at the Brooklyn Book Festival last year so I know I am in fine company here.  Very proud to be included in this list of worthies:

The Brothers’ Lot by Kevin Holohan
Show Me Good Land by Shonna Milliken Humphrey
A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism by Peter Mountford
The Book of Want by Daniel Olivas
This Burns My Heart by Samuel Park
and yet they were happy by Helen Phillips
The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
Along the Watchtower by Constance Squires
We the Animals by Justin Torres
The Submission by Amy Waldman
Touch by Alexi Zentner

Badness in Boston presents Trouble In Dublin

Thursday April 19, 8pm, Fornino Park slope, 256 5th Ave (Bet Carroll/Garfield) Brooklyn NY 11215.

Join Kevin Holohan and Honor Molloy for an evening of Irish Black Comedy. Holohan reads from The Brothers’ Lot, a satirical and hilarious novel that explores religious hypocrisy in an Irish secondary school. Molloy reads from Smarty Girl – Dublin Savage, a wild child’s struggle to hold her family together in 1960s Dublin.

Billy Barrett will be your host for the evening. Master of the neo-beat street confessional, Highway Star, Mister B riffs on being brassy, being Boston Irish and being pissah.

The Brothers’ Lot: “A witty, brilliant, devastating expression of outrage. . . this novel is so subtly imagined, so elegantly structured, written in such hilarious prose but with such horrifying details, that what it offers is an overpowering, visionary judgement of a society.” — Times Literary Supplement

Smarty Girl – Dublin Savage: “The richness of the telling and the lessons of it can be weighed in every line. Many Irish books will be released this year, but few will be this candid or this complete. “  – Irish Voice

http://www.forninoparkslope.com/portfolio.html?folio=Venue