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Book release party announcement!

I'll be reading from my new book The Internet Newspaper at Verbatim Books on Saturday, February 4th.

Lora Mathis has a new book out.

It's called Here I Am In It and it's out via San Diego risograph press Burn All Books.

I've read it three times already.

It's powerful, funny, beautiful, and a lot of other things that should prompt you to want to read it.

I'm giving away three copies of Here I Am In It to the next three people who buy my audio book label's latest tape, Nick Bernal/matty terrones' scary, intelligent, and gorgeous album of writing with music/noise scoring, Les Tirs.

https://helloamerica.bandcamp.com/

-AG

September Tour Dates!

Here's what I've got so far. More coming.

Saturday 9/3 Lawrence, KS, Paper Plains Zine Fest, 11am-5pm @ Van Gogh (tabling books)

Saturday 9/3 Kansas City, Kansas, book reading with Dmitry Samarov and Nathaniel Kennon Perkins, 7pm @ Flagship Books

Tuesday 9/6 Kansas City, MO, with Nathaniel Kennon Perkins plus bands Pig City and the Runts @ Farewell

Wednesday 9/14 San Diego, CA, with Ana Carrete, Rin Hart, and Nick Bernal (with musical accompaniment by Matty Terrones, 6:30-8pm @ Libelula Books

Friday 9/16 San Diego, CA, SDZineFest opening show with Rin Hart and Ana Carrete and others TBA 5-10pm @ Bread & Salt Gallery 

Saturday 9/17 San Diego, CA, SDZineFest (tabling books) @ Bread & Salt Gallery

Sunday 9/18 San Diego, CA, SDZineFest (tabling books) @ Bread & Salt Gallery

Monday 9/19 Minneapolis, MN opening for Porridge Radio @ 7th Street Entry

Tuesday 9/20 Chicago, IL opening for Porridge Radio @ Empty Bottle

Wednesday, 9/21 TBA Omaha? Lincoln?

Thursday, 9/22 TBA Salt Lake City/Provo?

Friday, 9/23 TBA Portland?

The Nick Bernal/matty terrones audio book my label released, Les Tirs, got a nice write-up from Julia Dixon Evans over at the San Diego NPR station, KPBS:

If you prefer to have fiction read aloud to you, accompanied by gentle yet unsettling instrumental music, I have a recommendation for you. If you like your short stories set in the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego La Jolla Campus at an opening night reception for the Niki de Saint Phalle exhibition, and there's also some sort of climate apocalypse? Boy do I have a recommendation for you.

Hello America Stereo Cassette is a "record label for writers," the brainchild of former San Diegan Adam Gnade. Stories are released on cassette tape, but you can also get downloadable files to stream if you don't have access to a tape deck. Their recent release, "Les Tirs," is a collaboration between local writer, publisher and Burn All Books co-founder Nick Bernal and musician Matty Terrones. Bernal's storytelling is sharp, with a keen use of detail and a balance of softness and violence that left me thinking about it long after the recording ended. He juggles multiple points of view seamlessly and cleverly, and weaves apocalyptic fear with a sense of jadedness and resignation that honestly felt too real after the last few years we've had.