“A big-fun, good-friends book-launch party at Pittsburgh’s most art-and shark-friendly bar, brillobox, will celebrate new books by four big-fun, good-friends authors: Dave Newman (“The Same Dead Songs”/memoir); Adam Matcho (“ask your undertaker”/poems); Kareem Tayyar (“The Revolution of Heavenly Bodie”s/stories); and Lori Jakiela (“How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?”/poems).
The event, which is free and open to everyone, begins at 7 p.m. upstairs at brillobox, 4104 Penn Avenue.
A special limited edition of Newman’s “The Same Dead Songs,” featuring cover art by brillobox’s own Lou Ickes, will be available for sale.
Copies of all the authors’ new books will be available for sale and author-signing, too.
AUTHOR BIOS:
Pittsburgh’s Dave Newman, who legendary author Gerald Locklin called “the best writer of his generation,” is the award-winning author of seven books, most recently “The Same Dead Songs,” a memoir of working-class addictions, and “East Pittsburgh Downlow,” a novel “The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette” called “a rollicking tale of working-class heroes.”
Adam Matcho, of Apollo, Pa., is a poet, essayist, big-box-store manager, and former obituary writer. He is the author of several acclaimed collections of poetry, including his newest—”ask your undertaker”–as well as “Love Songs from Flood City” and “$6 An Hour: Confessions of a Gemini Writer.” Matcho is also the author of an essay collection, “The Novelty Essays,” which spotlights his work at a Monroeville Mall novelty store, as a Cash for Gold clerk, and more.
Kareem Tayyar, who comes to Pittsburgh straight out of Los Angeles, California, is the author of seven celebrated books of poetry and prose, most recently “The Revolution of Heavenly Bodies,” “Let Us Now Praise Ordinary Things,” and “The Prince of Orange County.” Academy Award-winning author Ed Field says, “Reading Kareem Tayyar, you are in the presence of an electric first-rate mind, a poet with a real voice.”
Pittsburgh native Lori Jakiela is the author of seven books, including the poetry collection “How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?”, which won the Wicked Woman Prize from Brickhouse Books; the memoir “Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe,” which received the Saroyan Prize for International Literature from Stanford University, and more. Her newest book, “They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice,” is forthcoming from Atticus Books.”
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