Fwd: Thursday night--post-apoc discussion with Brian Francis Slattery

[Mark Kohut]

--- On Thu, 11/20/08, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> Subject: Fwd: Thursday night--post-apoc discussion with Brian Francis Slattery
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 7:09 AM
> From: "Freebird Books"
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> Date: November 19, 2008 8:58:31 PM EST
> To: "Freebird Books"
> <info at freebirdbooks.com>
> Subject: Thursday night--post-apoc discussion with Brian
> Francis Slattery
> 
> Thursday, November 20, 7:30 pm
> Just a friendly reminder that Brian Francis Slattery will
> be on hand
> to discuss his new novel Liberation: Being the Adventures
> of the Slick
> Six After the Collapse of the United States of America. 
> The
> apocalypse he envisions is economic induced, so don't
> be scared off if
> you haven't finished the novel yet.  Cuz you're
> already living through
> it.....
> Liberation is a speculation on life in near-future America
> after the
> country suffers an economic cataclysm that leads to the
> resurgence of
> ghosts of its past such as the human slave trade. The
> possible saviors
> are an unlikely group of international criminals named the
> Slick
> Six--none of whom are named Greenspan or Paulson. For
> additional info
> about the book and Brian Francis Slattery, check out this
> recent
> interview on the Huffington Post.
> In addition to being the author of the acclaimed Spaceman
> Blues,
> Slattery edits the New Haven Review, as well as several
> public-policy
> journals which touch on economics and economic issues. But
> he may be
> more familiar around Brooklyn for his appearances at Barbes
> and Jalopy
> as a member of the bands Mud Brothers and Wahoo (not to
> mention the
> Dirtballs).
> 
> NEXT PICK:
> 
> January's pick (we'll take December off) is John
> Wyndham's classic
> novel The Chrysalids, just being reissued by the New York
> Review of
> Books.
> 
> 
> 
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