School’s out! School’s out! And on Friday, June 14th, we’ve got three local firecrackers at Kavarna to celebrate. (Oh, wait. Firecrackers; that’s next month. Nah. Sparklers, that’s all summer long, like lightning bugs and gnats stuck in your Bonne Bell lipgloss and between your teeth, nights careening country roads, windows rolled down, your summer music [...]
True Story Preview: Erin Sroka
We find ourselves wanting to say something like, “Deadpan, wry and observant, Erin Sroka’s writing is just like she is.” This feels a little cheap, but it’s the most accurate way we can think to put it. The truths she arrives at in her writing feel easy and casually-tossed-off, but they will linger in your [...]
“They disappeared, but never before your eyes.” True Story Preview: Thomas Mullen
Thomas Mullen is a novelist of many guises. He’s won all sorts of recognition writing historical fiction, noir, and even something akin to sci-fi. What all his work has in common is an undeniable readableness and sense of adventure. We wonder what he’ll do this Friday at True Story. No matter what it is, we’re [...]
“Iron filings around a magnet that was subsequently removed” True Story Preview: Peter Trachtenberg
Hi there, dear ones. This Friday, we’re looking forward to sitting in a cozy room with friends and hearing true tales. Peter Trachtenberg comes to us all the way from the frozen north for this one, to read from his latest book, Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and People. The book’s about [...]
True Story #20 Readers Announced!
Hiya and happy spring, folks. We’ve got an exciting line-up of rogue writers for Friday, April 19th’s True Story. See ya there. Kavarna at 8:00 pm! Peter TRACHTENBERG’s latest work of nonfiction is Another Insane Devotion (Da Capo, 2012), the story of a search for a missing cat that opens up into a meditation on love [...]
“Love has been real.” True Story Preview: Laura Straub
She’s the vicereine of Vouched Books Atlanta! The sultana of the Squirrel Census! Crackerjack columnist at Creative Loafing. We know alliteration’s for rubes, but we can’t help it when it comes to our third reader this Friday, Laura Straub. It’s Valentine’s Day, and we’re smitten. If Laura Straub were a pie chart, she’d be [...]
“Fish karma could come in handy sometime.” True Story Preview: Brooke Hatfield
They told us Brooke Hatfield was flat-out one of the most hilarious people they knew. They told us she was moving here from DC, and that if we were smart, we would get her off that plane and onto our little Kavarna stage tout suite. Five months later, we hope we’ve proved to Brooke we’re [...]
“I was on an adventure.” True Story Preview: Philip Gerard
Hey, all. True Story’s this Friday at Kavarna at 8:00 pm, and we’re thrilled to have the amazing essayist Philip Gerard here from North Carolina. (Copies of his new book, Down the Wild Cape Fear, as well as The Patron Saint of Dreams, will also be on sale at the reading.) John Jeremiah Sullivan said of [...]
True Story #19 is Friday, Feb. 15th!
“True Story: Best Valentines Plan, since 2009.” “True Story: Best anti-Valentines Day plan, since 2009.” Yep, it’s strange—yet true. Since 2009, many have called True Story’s the best place to hold hands with your honey under the table while hearing true tales. Interestingly enough, it’s also widely agreed to be the best place to make [...]
Breaking News! Rebecca Burns Added to True Story #18 Roster
Hey there! The great Rebecca Burns is stepping up to take part in True Story #18, next Friday, Dec. 7th at Kavarna! (8:00 pm.) We hear she’s going to tell us some stories about a missionary childhood. We can’t wait. More about Rebecca: Rebecca BURNS is an author and journalist who focuses on Southern history [...]