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Tour Diary: Austin, Texas
Last night, Frayn and I read at House Wine here in Austin, Texas. It was a fun outdoor reading with a good crowd and the host was Tyson Midkiff, who also runs a series called Whiskey Rebellion (“Where we drink as much as we can tell and try to read,” he says). Unfortunately, two of…
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Some Shenanigans
Hey folks–a couple of fun things coming up. First off, I’ll be hosting a reading on July 2nd at Ampersand. This all came about (or was INSPIRED by) Evelyn Hampton’s brain-meltingly good book of poems, “We Were Eternal and Gigantic.” I was so transfixed by the oddness of her unique world (I read a bunch…
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Noir, One Year Later
On May 1st of last year, the Portland Noir anthology came out from Akashic Books. It took a couple of weeks for people to notice it at local bookstores, but when it did, it really took off. Portland Noir has been one of the top 20 best-selling fiction titles at Powell’s every month for a…
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Southern Sizzle
Hey y’all, I am in the middle of setting up some southern road trip readings for July. Take a gander at the Book Tour page and see if I’m coming your way. I’ll be reading with my fiance, B. Frayn Masters, at most stops. So far I’ve got Houston, New Orleans, and Atlanta set. Still…
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Nervous Breakdown
Hey–I am the featured non-fiction person on The Nervous Breakdown right now. That means they have an excerpt from ACP, a self-inflicted interview, a link to my ACP Video, and some snappy new photos that B. took of me the other night at the last minute. It’s some pretty nifty stuff. In other quick news,…
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Fancy Stuff
It seems like I’ve been dabbling in a lot of “fancy stuff” lately. I mean, I actually bought a Flipcam a few months ago! Now all I need is a laptop and an iPhone (I just have a desktop Mac Mini and a crummy two-year old cell phone). Last weekend I had my last big…
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Before You Get Sick Of Me
I definitely have worries that people are going to get sick of me doing readings for A Common Pornography in Portland, so…tomorrow night will be the hometown finale! It’s gonna be a good one too. We’re making a whole event of it, with Frayn Masters doing some “instructional” sex education (maybe you could call it…
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GO to the SHOW: HOT AWKWARD
Get Tickets here: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/107562 HOT AWKWARD is a one-time awesome show featuring three of Portland’s best writers and performers! Me, KEVIN SAMPSELL, doing my final local reading and slide show from my acclaimed memoir, A Common Pornography. I promise to read only the dirty parts. NATHANIEL BOGGESS performing his autobiographical one-man show, This Is Not…
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AWP!
Heading to the big ass AWP thing today. First time for me. I don’t have a Future Tense table but I’ve been given permission to crash the following tables: Hobart, HTML GIANT, Publishing Genius, and Featherproof Books. Look for me at those places. Maybe I’ll do one of those Twitter things and update you on…
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On the Hunger for Reality
Tonight at 7:30pm, I’ll be hosting and introducing David Shields at Powell’s. I just finished reading his “manifesto” Reality Hunger. It’s a book that has been pretty divisive among readers. In it, Shields basically illustrates why current fiction, especially novels, are dead to him. Or at least bore him. The assembled quotes and anecdotes (over…
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