The Las Vegas Review-Journal published this article following my reading for the Black Mountain Institute, performed at Greenspun Hall and moderated by UNLV President Emeritus Dr. Carol C. Harter.
Spring 2012:
Friday, January 20th, 9pm; Bowling Green, OH. “We Are Really Good Ppl.” With Karen Craigo, Paul Aarand Rodgers, and music by Chris Bathgate. Kamikaze’s nightclub, 153 E. Wooster St.
Friday Feb. 3rd, 6-9pm; Akron, OH. The Big Big Mess Reading Series. With John Estes, Adam Clay, Krysia Orlowski, and Michael Dumanis. Annabell’s Bar & Lounge.
Saturday, February 11th, 7pm; Venice, CA. Beyond Baroque Reading Series. With poet Stacy Gnall. 681 Venice Bl.
Thursday, March 1st, 9pm; Chicago, IL. “Everything Will Be OK,” an AWP offsite reading at Billy Goat Tavern, 430 N Michigan Ave at Lower Level. Featuring J. Bradley, Anhvu Buchanan, Chloe Caldwell, Larry O. Dean, Sean Kilpatrick, Alissa Nutting, Sam Pink, Joseph Riippi, J. A. Tyler, and Brandi Wells.
Thursday, March 1st, 10pm; Chicago, IL, Neo:
Action Books / Birds of Lace / Kate Durbin present:
An evening of intimate readings in the bathroom of a goth club!
Featuring:
Laura Goldstein
Nick Demske w/ Dolly Lemke
Feng Sun Chen
Johannes Goransson
Kristen Stone
Kate Durbin
Lucas De Lima
Gina Abelkop
Adam Atkinson
Kate Zambreno
Blake Butler
Ben Fama
Ronaldo Wilson
Lara Glenum
Lonely Christopher
Carrie Murphy
Ben Kopel
William Burke
Alissa Nutting
Anna Joy Springer
Mike Kitchell
10 PM / NEO @ 2350 N. CLARK, CHICAGO / NEW WAVE + 80′S DANCE PARTY UNTIL 4 AM
*FREE CUPCAKES / RAFFLES / COMMEMORATIVE ZINE FOR SALE $2$
Saturday, March 3rd, Chicago, IL, Green Door Tavern
Readers Matt Bell, Ian Davisson, Ryan Downey, Andy Farkas, Evelyn Hampton, Gretchen Henderson, Sean Kilpatrick, Megan Milks, Alissa Nutting, Brian Oliu, and Todd Seabrook will offer an evening of new literature certain to destroy your capacity to live a good life and make a decent wage. Starcherone Books celebrates the publication of 30 Under 30: Innovative Fiction by Younger Authors, as well as our bestselling title (Nutting’s Unclean Jobs for Women & Girls) and the forthcoming The House Enters the Street (Henderson). Hosted by 30 Under 30 editor Lily Hoang.
Fall 2011:
Thursday, November 3rd, Cleveland State University, with novelist Nancy Reisman; Student Center room 313, 7:30pm
Friday, November 4th, 6pm; “10 x 10: A Creative Exchange Between Visual Artists and Writers,” Clark County Government Center Rotunda Gallery. Part of the Vegas Valley Book Festival (Las Vegas, NV).
Artists participating in the exhibit include Noelle Garcia and nila northSun, David Sanchez Burr and Danielle Kelly, Jesse Smigel and Alissa Nutting, Jason Adkins and Becky Bosshart, Catherine Borg and T.R. Witcher, Shannon Eakins and Erica Anzalone, Andreana Donahue and Kathryn Kruse, Shan Michael Evans and Jeffrey Bennington. Grindley Troy Gillett and Dayvid Figler, Brent Sommerhauser and Maile Chapman, Sam Davis and Bliss Esposito and Erin Stellmon and Jarret Keene.
Wednesday, Nov. 9th, John Carroll University (Cleveland, OH), 7pm, Rodman Hall Room A.
Spring 2011:
Wednesday, January 19th, 7 pm: Appearance at reading group for Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, The Beat Coffeehouse, 520 Fremont Street, Las Vegas
Friday, January 21st, 5-7 pm: Book signing at Sunrise Café, 3130 E. Sunset Road Ste. A, Las Vegas
Friday, February 4th, 9 am: Reading at Starcherone’s 10th Anniversary AWP Panel
February 4th, 11 am: Book signing at AWP bookfair, Starcherone Table
Saturday, February 26th, 7pm: Reading & signing at The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
Tuesday, March 22-Thursday March 24: University of Louisiana, Lafayette: Events & Times TBA
TBA, Louisiana State University
Monday, March 28th, Reading at Powell’s Books, Portland Oregon
TBA, Indiana State University
Saturday, April 22nd, Reading for Small Press Distribution, San Francisco
Thursday, May 12th, Reading at University of Cincinnati
Fall 2010:
09/16/10: Reading, Medaille College, The Write Thing Reading Series, 7pm
09/18/10: Reading with poet Will Alexander, Just Buffalo’s “Big Night” Reading Series, 8pm
10/14/10: Reading with Donald Breckenridge, Joshua Cohen, Thaddeus Rutkowski, and Ted Pelton at the Center for Fiction, 7pm
10/29/10: Reading with Kate Bernheimer, Lydia Millet, Joy Williams, and Karen Brennan at Antigone Books in Tuscon, AZ, 7pm
11/04/10: Reading at the Clark County Library’s Jewel Theater for the Vegas Valley Book Festival with fellow The Perpetual Engine of Hope anthology authors P Moss, Dayvid Figler, Oksana Marafioti, Megan Edwards, Juan Martinez, K. W. Jeter and Geoff Schumacher, as moderator, Las Vegas, NV, 7pm
11/06/10: Teaching the “Short Fiction Writing Workshop” at the Vegas Valley Book Festival from 11:30-12:45; reading in the South Plaza at 2:00pm
11/08/10: Reading at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 5:45pm
11/10/10: Reading at Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, 7pm
11/11/10: Reading at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 7pm
11/30/10: Reading at UNLV’s Greenspun Hall Auditorium (sponsored by the Black Mountain Institute), Las Vegas, NV, 7pm
12/05/10: Reading at The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2pm
