Drunken! Careening! Writers! April Showers: It’s Raining Men! (Hallelujah)

“April Showers: It’s Raining Men! (Hallelujah)”                           

Andrew W.M. Beirle, Tim W. Brown, Paul McComas, Adam Szymkowicz                   

with your hostess, Kathleen Warnock

Andrew W. M. Beierle will read from his novel, First Person Plural, which examines the personal lives of a pair of extremely rare conjoined twins of the type dicephalus (two-headed), one of whom is gay and one straight. First Person Plural has been short-listed for the Lambda Literary Award forbest men’s fiction of 2007. His debut novel, The Winter of Our Discothèque,received a 2002 Lambda Literary Award in the romance category. His work has appeared in the Harrington Gay Men’s Literary Quarterly and Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Tim W. Brown is the author of two novels, Deconstruction Acres and Left of the Loop. A third novel, Walking Man, is forthcoming from Bronx River Press. His latest literary effort is American Renaissance, a comic historical novel set in 1830s America, to be published by Gival Press. Brown’s fiction, poetry and nonfiction have appeared in over two hundred publications, including Another Chicago Magazine, Chelsea, Slipstream,Colorado Review, Pleiades, The Ledge, Storyhead, Rockford Review, Bridge, Oyez Review, The Bloomsbury Review, Rain Taxi, Small Press Review, Main Street Rag, Chiron Review and New Observations.  A long-time resident of Chicago, where he was a fixture in that city’s literary scene as a writer, performer and publisher of Tomorrow Magazine (1982-1999), Brown moved to New York in 2003.

Paul McComas’s fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines, and heis the author of a novel, Unplugged, and a short story collection, Twenty Questions. Paul’s comedic coming-of-age novel, Planet of the Dates, was just published by Permanent Press. He has presented his performance art and monologues at more than 70 theaters and other venues nationwide, including the Bowery Poetry Club, Chicago’s Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival andN .A.M.E. www.paulmccomas.com

Adam Szymkowicz is a playwright whose work has been called “fabulously weird and weirdly fabulous” and “sweet, sexy, neurotic friendly” by the New York Times. He graduated from The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. His work has been produced throughout theU.S.; and in Canada; England; The Netherlands; and Lithuania. Plays include Deflowering Waldo; Open Minds; Anne; The Art Machine; Pretty Theft; Food For Fish; Herbie; Incendiary; Old Fashioned Cold Fusion; Bee Eater; Temporary Everything; Susan Gets Some Play and Nerve. Several of his playshave been published by Dramatists Play Service. For more; go to www.adamszymkowicz.com.

Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a reading series dedicated to the proposition that readings should be: excellent, well-read pieces that have at least one thing in them that makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts), and don't run more than 15 minutes each.

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