Thursday, January 21at 7 PM
The Ivy Bookshop
6080 Falls Rd, Baltimore, Maryland 21209
Come hear DC writers David Ebenbach and Leslie Pietrzyk, and
Baltimore writer Kathy Flann read from new books.
David’s newest book, his first full-length collection of
poetry, We Were the People Who Moved, is “a journey across America…a journey
you will be grateful for having taken” (poet Jesse Lee Kercheval), and “a
post-modern ‘wagons west’ of dislocation, brief homesteading, and the threads
of regeneration” (poet David Gewanter). Poet Kelly Cherry calls We Were the
People Who Moved “a book of continual brilliance.”
Leslie's short fiction collection, This Angel on My Chest,
won the Drue Heinz Prize at University of Pittsburgh Press. It's a collection
of unconventionally linked stories, each about a different young woman whose
husband dies suddenly and unexpectedly. Ranging from traditional stories to
lists, a quiz, a YouTube link, and even a lecture about creative writing, the
stories grasp to put into words the ways in which we all cope with unspeakable
loss.
Kathy's collection of short stories, Get a Grip, all set in
Baltimore, won the George Garrett Award at Texas Review Press. Writer Stephen
O'Connor says, "In her smart and beautifully observed stories, Kathy Flann
drops us straight into the complex lives of a collection of imperfect strivers,
who want love, want to be good, or want somehow to transcend their makeshift
existences, and who are often their own worst enemies. Each of these tales is
simultaneously a portrait of its grim-funny, yet touching protagonist and of a
land, very like the United States, where everything is possible, and nothing is
quite what it should be."