READINGS
  Upcoming Readings
Hosted by Lisa McLaughlin

SLEEPING NAKED IS GREEN by Vanessa Farquharson
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.

Vanessa Farquharson author of SLEEPING NAKED IS 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


IN THIS WAY I WAS SAVED by Brian DeLeeuw
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.

Brian DeLeeuw author of IN THIS WAY I WAS SAVED
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

  Last Wednesday Series Reading and Open Mike

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.

  2009 Readings

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

  2008 Readings

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"

  2007 Readings

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