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December 7, 2008

Sunday, December 14th, 2008
in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni press presents
Kevin Killian & Stephanie Young
and the release of their books Action Kylie and Picture Palace
@ 21 Grand, 416 25th St. (at Broadway), Oakland
6:30 pm, 5 US Dollars

there may be free wine, and dancing later
and, for this single day, 20 bucks will get you in the door AND copies of the two new books
both already SPD bestsellers!

Special guest appearances by Jasper Bernes and Jane Dark...

KEVIN KILLIAN, born 1952, is an art writer, poet, novelist, critic and playwright. He has written two novels, Shy (1989) and Arctic Summer (1996), a book of memoirs, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989), two books of stories Little Men (1997) and I Cry Like a Baby (2001) and a collection of poems, Argento Series (1997). With Lewis Ellingham he has written a biography of the poet Jack Spicer—Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance (Wesleyan University Press, 1998). For the San Francisco Poets Theater he has written 37 plays, including Stone Marmalade, with Leslie Scalapino, and Often, with the late Barbara Guest. His most recent book, from Hooke Press, is a volume of his Selected Amazon Reviews, edited by Brent Cunningham, and now there is Action Kylie.

STEPHANIE YOUNG lives and works in Oakland. She edited the anthology BAY POETICS (Faux Press, 2006) and is currently at work on the collaborative website DEEP OAKLAND. Hey, you should propose a project for DEEP OAKLAND! Her books of poetry are Picture Palace and Telling the Future Off. She is here very sometimes: www.stephanieyoung.org/blog.

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