Joni Murphy, Malcolm Sutton & Popahna Brandes: Book Launch & Reading
@ Sector 2337
2337 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Join Sector 2337 on Fri, April 8, from 7-9 pm, for a joint book launch with Bookthug authors, Joni Murphy’s (Double Teenage) and Malcolm Sutton (Job Shadowing), with Popahna Brandes (IN AN I, Sidebrow, 2015).
This event is free. Doors open @ 6:30 pm. Readings 7-9 pm. Books will be for sale.
Joni Murphy is a writer and artist living in New York City. Originally from Las Cruces, New Mexico, she has shown and published work in the US, Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Serbia, and Greece. Her creative output takes the form of poetry, criticism, curatorial projects, audio, and performance. She has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was an artist in residence with Sound Development City’s 2016 expedition to Belgrade and Athens. Double Teenage is her debut novel.
Malcolm Sutton lives in Toronto. His fiction has appeared in Maisonneuve and Joyland, and his writing on art has appeared in C Magazine and Border Crossings. He is the Founding Editor of The Coming Envelope journal of innovative prose, and the Fiction Editor at BookThug Press. Job Shadowing is his debut novel.
Popahna Brandes is the author of In An I, (Sidebrow Books, 2015); The Sea In Me/The Riddle We Heard (The Corresponding Society); and Reading Tests, in collaboration with Jack Henrie Fisher and a machinic interlocutor (Jan Van Eyck Academie). Works of translation, prose, film and music have been published by Belladonna*, The Encyclopedia Project, Sleepingfish, Ein Magazin über Orte, Tarpaulin Sky, and Pocket Myth. She has led classes in lyrical and impossible narrative forms for many years, runs an annual writing workshop in the book village of Montolieu, France, and has collected a few sticks in Chicago where she now lives. Her current book project examines invisible domestic labor and peripatetic language allowances.
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