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May102012

May 10, 2012, Thursday - Coffee House Press Publication Reading with Dylan Hicks at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, (Performance Hall) 1011 Washington Avenue South

Coffee House Press Publication Reading with Dylan Hicks
 
Come to the Loft May 10th to hear celebrated musician Dylan Hicks read and discuss his debut novel Boarded Windows published by Coffee House Press.

“Do yourself a favor and read this smart, tender book. The characters will haunt you with their longing, and inspire you with their sweet, caustic wit. Dylan Hicks knows his music and his prose is a song in itself. He’s given light to the shuttered and boarded parts of life.”—SAM LIPSYTE

Wade Salem is a charismatic aesthete, drug dealer, and journeyman country musician. He’s also a complicated father figure to this novel’s narrator, whose cloudy childhood becomes both clearer and more confusing through Wade’s stories, jokes, and lectures. Through the eyes of a keenly observant, underemployed record collector,Wade emerges as a sly, disruptive force, at once seductive and maddening. Steeped in the culture and spirit of Uptown Minneapolis in the nineties, Boarded Windows explores the fallibility of memory and the weight of our social and cultural inheritance. Stylistically layered and searchingly lonesome, Dylan Hicks’s debut novel captures the music and mood of the fading embers of America’s boomer counterculture.

The book will include a free download of Sings Bolling Greene, a soundtrack to the novel written and performed by the author.

Dylan Hicks is a songwriter, musician, and writer. His work has appeared in the Village Voice, New York Times, Star Tribune, City Pages, and Rain Taxi, and he has released three albums under his own name.A fourth, Sings Bolling Greene, is a companion album to this novel and will be released in May 2012. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Nina Hale, and his son, Jackson. This is his first novel. Visit the author online at http://www.dylanhicks.com/.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.