Hosted by
Lisa McLaughlin
Wednesday, July 15th, 7:00 p.m.
VANESSA FARQUHARSON reads from her book
Sleeping Naked is Green
No one likes listening to smug hippies bragging about how they don't
use toilet paper, or worse yet, lecturing about the evils of plastic
bags and SUVs. But most of us do want to lessen our ecological
footprint. With this in mind, Farquharson takes on the intense
personal challenge of making one green change to her lifestyle every
single day for a year to ultimately figure out what's doable and
what's too hardcore.
Vanessa goes to the extremes of selling her car, unplugging the
fridge, and washing her hair with vinegar, but she also does easy
things like switching to an all-natural lip balm. All the while, she
is forced to reflect on what it truly means to be green.
Whether confronting her environmental hypocrisy or figuring out the
best place in her living room for a compost bin full of worms and
rotting cabbage, Vanessa writes about her foray into the green world
with self-deprecating, humorous, and accessible insight. This isn't a
how-to book of tips, it's not about being eco-chic; it's an honest
look at what happens when an average girl throws herself into the
murkiest depths of the green movement.
Vanessa Farquharson is an arts reporter and film critic at the
National Post, based in Toronto. Her blog, "Green as a Thistle,"
tracked her year-long green adventure. She has been published in
Eye Weekly and the Ottawa Citizen, profiled on Treehugger.com and featured
numerous times on CBC Radio.
"Farquharson's appealing candour and nonsanctimonious attitude make
other ecowarriors seem dour by comparison."
- Publishers Weekly
"Writing anecdotally with friendly candor and blithe humor,
Farquharson makes each of her carefully considered attempts at
reducing waste, pollution, and her carbon footprint entertaining and
informative ... Lively and specific, [her] forthright chronicle of the
ups and downs of green awareness is the perfect book for
eco-skeptics."
- Donna Seaman, Booklist
Wednesday, September 16th, 7:00 p.m.
BRIAN DeLEEUW reads from his novel
In This Way I Was Saved
On a chilly November afternoon, six-year-old Luke Nightingale's life
changes forever. On the playground across from the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, he encounters Daniel. Soon the boys are hiding from dinosaurs
and shooting sniper rifles. Within hours, Luke and his mother, Claire,
are welcoming Daniel into their Upper East Side apartment - and their
lives.
Daniel and Luke are soon inseparable. With his parents divorcing, Luke
takes comfort in having a near-constant playmate. But there's
something strange about Daniel, who is more than happy to bind himself
to the Nightingales. The divorce has cut Luke's father out of the
picture, and as his increasingly fragile mother struggles with the
insidious family depression, Daniel - shrewd, adventurous, and
insightful - provides Luke both recreation and refuge.
As Luke grows from a child to an adolescent to a young man, he
realizes that as much as his mother needs him, Daniel needs him more.
Jealous of Luke's other attachments, Daniel's gestures of friendship
turn into increasingly sinister manipulations. In the end, Luke finds
himself in a daily battle for control of his own life - wondering
whether he or Daniel will emerge victorious.
Brian DeLeeuw's debut, a haunting and provocative story of a family's
love and madness, is a book you will not be able to put down.
"In this original, inventive debut, Brian DeLeeuw delivers a
suspenseful and surprisingly tender psychological thriller that gives
physical shape to the torment of isolation."
- Helen Schulman, author of A Day At The Beach
"In This Way I Was Saved gave me chills, not only for its dead-on
depiction of the searing loneliness of a hermetically sealed mind, but
because it is so thrillingly well-executed. A superb first novel."
- Kate Christensen, author of Trouble and The Great Man
Rocky Sullivan's is pleased to welcome the Last Wednesday Series Reading and Open Mike to Brooklyn, in collaboration with the Seven Towers Agency.
The Last Wednesday Series Reading and Open Mike will run simultaneously in Cassidy's Bar, Westmoreland St, Dublin 2 and Rocky Sullivan's on, indeed, the last Wednesday of every month.
A showcase event for published writers as well as a showcase and peer review event for new and upcoming writers. Resident writers at The Last Wednesday Series in Ireland, MC'd by Declan McLoughlin currently include Ross Hattaway, Oran Ryan, Noel Ó Briain and Steve Conway.
Resident writers at The Last Wednesday Series in Brooklyn, MC'd by Lisa McLaughlin, will include Quincy R. Lehr, R. Nemo Hill and Rick Mullin.
If you would like to read, come at 7pm to sign up or contact Lisa McLaughlin.
Clifford D. Conner
Arthur O'Connor: The Most Important Irish Revolutionary You May Have Never Heard Of
Mary Beth Keane
The Walking People
Daniel Scott
Pay This Amount
Alan Black
Kick in the Balls: An Offensive Suburban Odyssey
Stefan Merrill Block
The Story of Forgetting
Joseph Caldwell
The Pig Did It
Rachel Cline
My Liar
T.J. English
Havana Nocturne:
How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution
Leonard Getz
From Broadway to the Bowery:
A History and Filmography of the Dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids and Bowery Boys Films
N.S. Köenings
Theft
Michael Patrick MacDonald
Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion
Oran Ryan
Poet and Author of Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger
Rachel Shukert
Have You No Shame?
C.J. Sullivan
Wild Tales From the Police Blotter
Jess Winfield
Freebird Books' Shakespeare Crawl through Red Hook
Solon Timothy Woodward
Cadillac Orpheus
Sol Yurick
"The Warriors"
Rich Blake
The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up
Daniel Cassidy
How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
Bryan Charles
Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way
Peter Duffy
The Killing of Major Dennis Mahon, A Mystery of Old Ireland
John J. Finucane
When the Bronx Burned
Charles J. Hynes
Triple Homicide
John Kearns
Dreams and Dull Realities
Tom Kitts
Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else
Shelley Jackson
Half Life
Matt Marinovich
Strange Skies
Jeff Somers
The Electric Church
