Connor Coyne

Today!

Details at the Tuesday Funk Website.

Check out my nerdy essay on punctuation, spacing, and text-justification at bookish us.

FIRST, I will be reading at Sunday Salon, a Brooklyn-based reading series that has sprouted offspring here in Chicago. My co-readers will be Elizabeth Wetmore and Mary Anne Mohanraj… that’s right, I’m being trusted to stand among the tall-trees this time.

I will be reading a chapter from the first part of Hungry Rats.

March 30th, Sunday
7:30 P.M.
@ the Charleston bar in Bucktown:
2076 N. Hoyne Ave.
(773) 489-4757

This is really a very exciting opportunity for me, and I will be excited if
there are some familiar faces in the crowd.

SECOND, Tuesday Funk is a reading series has been organized by Reinhardt
Suarez, Hallie Gordon, and myself, with help from Barbara Swem. It will
debut on April 2nd. See the attached flier for more info (or the text
below).

Fig. 2
Tuesday Funk
ILLUSTRATING THE
Natural Language of the
GOTHIC FUNK NATION
A reading series to stimulate all parts of your mind.

Tuesday, April 1st, seven o’clock PM
Ennui Cafe, 6981 N Sheridan Rd.
(at the corner of Sheridan and Lunt Ave. in Chicago)

I will be reading at this month’s installment of the Guerrilla Lit series. Barring sudden and inexplicable fame, this is the last time I’ll be reading in New York, inasmuch as I’m moving to Chicago two days later. The reading is:

7:30 PM Wednesday, 11/28
170 Ave. A (@ 11th St.)
Bar on A

The reading will also feature Erik Rhey, Dani Grammerstorf, and Bernie Kravitz. I know these kids, so seriously, it’s going to be a *killer* evening. Bar on A has a *sweet* happy hour to boot, which I will employ to warm up for the event.

I will be reading from either:
A) The Silurians – A short story starring an alcholic middle-aged New York economist mother trapped 400 million years back in time with a motley crew including a politically idealistic college prof and her woe-is-me ex-husband.
B) Beowulf – A hyper!weird novel I’m drafting that, for all its bizarreness, has already managed to inspire a feature film with Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie, not to mention a 1000-year Olde English poem.

If people show a strong preference for A or B, I’ll follow their wise suggestions.

Otherwise, I’ll maybe make up my own mind, or maybe leave it to the whims of the crowd.

I will be reading from Hungry Rats at this Friday’s debut of Earshot‘s 2007-2008 series.

I will also be selling (for $3) a limited number of The Hungry Rats EP, featuring readings of Part 1, Chapters 1 and 2, and music by Elisabeth Blair, Mr. Automatic, and Nova Moturba.

It’s going to be sweet.

Here’s the info:

Earshot @ The Lucky Cat
September 14 // 8 PM
245 Grand Street (b/w Driggs & Roebling)
Nearby Train Stops: L (Bedford Ave), G (Metropolitan/Grand), J/M/Z (Marcy Ave)
$5 + one free drink

Also reading: Aaron Fagan, Allison Shaloum, Filip Marinovic, Sandra Hurtes