YOU GUYS: FREEEEEEEEEEEE BOOOOOOOOOZE NEXT TUESDAY IF YOU COME TO MY READING IN WILLIAMSBURG with Christopher Boucher (HOW TO KEEP YOUR VOLKSWAGEN ALIVE). I’m 100-percent serious about the free-booze part. As for the reading, I’m in that phase where I’m a bit burned out on THE METROPOLIS CASE (is that bad to admit? — sorry!) but nervous as hell about reading something new. But really, who cares because: FREE BOURBON! WE WILL GET DRUNK TOGETHER FOR FREE! How much bourbon can you drink in 30 minutes? Let’s find out! When we are all sufficiently blitzed/wasted/tanked/obliterated/shitfaced/more-than-tipsy-to-say-the-least, I guess we’re going to play some word game called “Apples 2 Apples” because we are NERDS. #battlestargalactica Details below from the kind organizers of this event. See you there! <3 <3 <3 PUBLIC ASSEMBLY is located at 70 N. 6th St. between Wythe and Kent, in WILLIAMSBURG.  Be there at 9 pm.  MATTHEW GALLAWAY (The Metropolis Case) and CHRISTOPHER BOUCHER (How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive) will read, join in CONVERSATION after the readings conclude, and play an onstage game of APPLES TO APPLES with HOST OF ANIMAL FARM (HOAF) PATRICK W. GALLAGHER, if they are not too tired at that point. IT’S VERY HARD TO PREDICT HOW THESE THINGS WILL TURN OUT.  BUT THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT. FREE BUFFALO TRACE BOURBON FROM 9 TO 9:30: With the Trace, you can get pretty hammered in just 30 minutes. SPECIAL NOTE: ANIMAL FARM is joining FIRST TUESDAYS, a one-of-a-kind MEGACOMPLEX OF EVENTS that will run all night at PUBLIC ASSEMBLY.  For details, check out THE ATTACHED. Matthew Gallaway is the author of The Metropolis Case: A Novel, whose four narrators are linked across space and time by their enthusiasm for Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde.   In the New York Times, Scott Timberg wrote that “It’s to the credit of Matthew Gallaway’s enchanting, often funny first novel that it doesn’t require a corresponding degree of obsession from readers, but may leave them similarly transported: the book is so well-written—there’s hardly a lazy sentence here—and filled with such memorable lead and supporting characters that it quickly draws you into its worlds.”  He lives in Washington Heights and also writes for The Awl and The Millions.  Christopher Boucher’s How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive is about a man whose girlfriend gives birth to a 1971 Volkswagen beetle and the relationship that ensues between man and automobile.  Emily St. John Mandel in The Millions says that “I have to imagine that trying to explain this book—its complexity, its brilliance, the way it manages to make emotional sense even though almost everything about it is, on the surface at least, absurd—must pose a significant marketing challenge.”

YOU GUYS: FREEEEEEEEEEEE BOOOOOOOOOZE NEXT TUESDAY IF YOU COME TO MY READING IN WILLIAMSBURG with Christopher Boucher (HOW TO KEEP YOUR VOLKSWAGEN ALIVE). I’m 100-percent serious about the free-booze part. As for the reading, I’m in that phase where I’m a bit burned out on THE METROPOLIS CASE (is that bad to admit? — sorry!) but nervous as hell about reading something new. But really, who cares because: FREE BOURBON! WE WILL GET DRUNK TOGETHER FOR FREE! How much bourbon can you drink in 30 minutes? Let’s find out! When we are all sufficiently blitzed/wasted/tanked/obliterated/shitfaced/more-than-tipsy-to-say-the-least, I guess we’re going to play some word game called “Apples 2 Apples” because we are NERDS. #battlestargalactica Details below from the kind organizers of this event. See you there! <3 <3 <3

PUBLIC ASSEMBLY is located at 70 N. 6th St. between Wythe and Kent, in WILLIAMSBURG. 
Be there at 9 pm.  MATTHEW GALLAWAY (The Metropolis Case) and CHRISTOPHER BOUCHER (How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive) will read, join in CONVERSATION after the readings conclude, and play an onstage game of APPLES TO APPLES with HOST OF ANIMAL FARM (HOAF) PATRICK W. GALLAGHER, if they are not too tired at that point.
IT’S VERY HARD TO PREDICT HOW THESE THINGS WILL TURN OUT.  BUT THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT.
FREE BUFFALO TRACE BOURBON FROM 9 TO 9:30: With the Trace, you can get pretty hammered in just 30 minutes.
SPECIAL NOTE: ANIMAL FARM is joining FIRST TUESDAYS, a one-of-a-kind MEGACOMPLEX OF EVENTS that will run all night at PUBLIC ASSEMBLY.  For details, check out THE ATTACHED.

Matthew Gallaway is the author of The Metropolis Case: A Novel, whose four narrators are linked across space and time by their enthusiasm for Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde.   In the New York Times, Scott Timberg wrote that “It’s to the credit of Matthew Gallaway’s enchanting, often funny first novel that it doesn’t require a corresponding degree of obsession from readers, but may leave them similarly transported: the book is so well-written—there’s hardly a lazy sentence here—and filled with such memorable lead and supporting characters that it quickly draws you into its worlds.”  He lives in Washington Heights and also writes for The Awl and The Millions. 


Christopher Boucher’s How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive is about a man whose girlfriend gives birth to a 1971 Volkswagen beetle and the relationship that ensues between man and automobile.  Emily St. John Mandel in The Millions says that “I have to imagine that trying to explain this book—its complexity, its brilliance, the way it manages to make emotional sense even though almost everything about it is, on the surface at least, absurd—must pose a significant marketing challenge.”
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  1. linusinhats said: I made my book club read your book last month. They liked it!
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