FRANKLIN PARK -- MARATHON READING for BLAKE BUTLER -- TUESDAY, 3/8, 7PM

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The FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES is presenting two thrilling literary events this month!

Our Second Anniversary Bash is on MARCH 14.

But first, on MARCH 8, we're co-hosting the opening night of a four-day marathon reading of HTML GIANT founder and experimental genius Blake Butler’s hotly anticipated new novel THERE IS NO YEAR. This is a sneak preview of an April release. And, like all events at Franklin Park, it's FREE!

Please note the earlier start time -- this one is called for 7pm.

Some stellar literary folk will be reading with Blake -- including Franklin Park alumni JUSTIN TAYLOR and RACHEL SHUKERT, HarperPerennial executive editor CAL MORGAN, New York Tyrant editor GIANCARLO DITRAPANO, and the co-host of Soda Bar's reading series, JOHN DERMOT WOODS.

About Blake:

BLAKE BUTLER is the author of the novella Ever and the novel-in-stories Scorch Atlas, named Novel of the Year by 3:AM Magazine. He edits HTML Giant, “the internet literature magazine blog of the future,” as well as two journals of innovative text, Lamination Colony and No Colony. His writing has appeared in The Believer, Unsaid, Fence, Dzanc’s Best of the Web 2009, and many other places, online and in print. His work has been shortlisted in Best American Nonrequired Reading. He blogs at gillesdeleuzecommittedsuicideandsowilldrphil.com and lives in Atlanta.

Some advance praise:

“If there’s a more thoroughly brilliant and exciting new writer than Blake Butler, . . . well, there just isn’t. I’ve literally lost sleep imagining the fallout when There Is No Year drops and American fiction shifts its axis.”

-- Dennis Cooper

“Feral and awesome…Blake Butler, mastermind and visionary, has sneaked up and drugged the American novel.” — Ben Marcus

FRANKLIN PARK BAR AND BEER GARDEN

March 8. 7pm

618 St. Johns Place, between Franklin and Classon Avenues

SUBWAY: 2/3/4/5 to Franklin Avenue

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