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Brookline Booksmith Small Press Book Club: Loudermilk

August 19, 2019 | 7:00 pm

Free

Discussing Loudermilk: Or, the Real Poet; Or, the Origin of the World by Lucy Ives

Read something off the beaten path! Our Small Press Book Club will meet to discuss a book from an independent publisher. To contact our moderator, email smallpress@brooklinebooksmith.com.

It’s the end of summer 2003. George W. Bush has recently declared the mission in Iraq accomplished, the unemployment rate is at its highest in years, and Martha Stewart has just been indicted for insider trading. Meanwhile, somewhere in the Midwest, Troy Augustus Loudermilk (fair-haired, statuesque, charismatic) and his companion Harry Rego (definitely none of those things) step out of a silver Land Cruiser and onto the campus of The Seminars, America’s most prestigious creative writing program, to which Loudermilk has recently been accepted for his excellence in poetry. Loudermilk, however, has never written a poem in his life.

Lucy Ives is the author of the novel Impossible Views of the World. Her writing has appeared in Art in AmericaArtforum, the BafflerfriezeGrantaLapham’s QuarterlyVogue, and at newyorker.com. For five years she was an editor with the online magazine Triple Canopy.

Details

Date:
August 19, 2019
Time:
7:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.brooklinebooksmith.com/events/2019-08/small-press-book-club/

Venue

Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
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Phone:
(617) 566-6660
Website:
https://www.brooklinebooksmith.com/

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.