BLAKE BUTLER and JUSTIN TAYLOR read and sign their respective novels "THERE IS NO YEAR" and "THE GOSPEL OF ANARCHY"

Start: 04/15/2011 7:30 pm

Justin Taylor

There Is No Year by Butler; The Gospel of Anarchy by Taylor (both books published by HarperPerennial)

We're thrilled to have Blake Butler and Justin Taylor here to read and sign their new novels. Butler's Ever is a staff pick, and based on Taylor's pieces in a who's-who of hip-and-smart print publications, we're really looking forward to his debut novel!

"Butler's an endlessly surprising, funny, and subversive writer." --Publishers Weekly

"[Justin Taylor is] a new voice that readers -- and writers too -- might be seeking out for decades to come” --New York Times Book Review

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, and Dzanc’s Best of the Web 2009, and has been shortlisted in Best American Nonrequired Reading and widely online and in print. He blogs at gillesdeleuzecommittedsuicideandsowilldrphil.com and lives in Atlanta.

Justin Taylor was born in 1982. His fiction and nonfiction have been published by The Believer, The Nation, The New York Tyrant, Flaunt, the Brooklyn Rail, n+1, NPR, and Time Out New York, among many other journals, magazines, and Web sites. He edited an acclaimed short fiction anthology, The Apocalypse Reader, and guest-edited issue number 24 of McSweeney’s, for whom he produced “Come Back, Donald Barthelme,” a symposium on the author’s life and work. He co-edits the literary annual The Agriculture Reader (http://theagreader.com/) and is a regular contributor to HTMLGIANT: The Internet Literature Magazine Blog of the Future (http://htmlgiant.com/). Taylor is the author of Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever. This is his first novel.