Rock-n-Reading - Eugene Marten - FIREWORK, Michael Patrick Welch, Michael IX Williams, Ryan Scully | Octavia Books | New Orleans, Louisiana

Start: 09/11/2010 6:00 pm

Join us for a and signing with novelist Eugene Marten featuring his new book FIREWORK. And, mucician Ryan Scully from Rough 7/Morning 40's will play acoustic, local writer Michael Patrick Welch will give a short reading and will sign his recent NEW ORLEANS: The Underground Guide; and musician Mike IX Williams will read from his book of poetry, CANCER AS A SOCIAL ACTIVITY.

Firework is the story of a man who, though ill-equipped to help himself, attempts to help someone else, and the beautifully rendered, perhaps necessary catastrophe that results. Unequaled in intensity, it is also an exhilarating expression of the noble, all-too human impulse to become more than what we seem to be.

Click here to read the recent review from The New York Observer.

Eugene Marten is the author of many celebrated, gritty books including WASTE, IN THE BLIND, and his newest novel FIREWORK. He lives in New York City.

Michael Patrick Welch has published three books: the music and art guidebook NEW ORLEANS: The Underground Guide, the cult favorite New Orleans novel THE DONKEY SHOW and the diary COMMONPLACE. His journalist has been published in Newsweek, Spin, Filter, and many Village Voice publications. In his spare time he fronts the veteran local psych-rock band, The White Bitch.

Mike IX Williams has fronted New Orleans' world-famous sludge/doom metal EyeHateGod for over 20 years. In one of his first ever bookstore appearances, he will read from his book of poetry, CANCER AS A SOCIAL ACTIVITY: Affirmation of World's End.