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Daniel A Hoyt “This Book Is Not For You” Reading / Music After!
December 1, 2017 @ 6:00 pm
We are very excited to have Daniel A Hoyt do a special reading for us from his new book “This Book Is Not For You” for this Matinee! Maria The Mexican, and La Guerre will be playing sets after the reading as well! 6-9PM, $3 Cover, All Ages
DAN’S BIO:
Daniel A. Hoyt’s debut novel, This Book Is Not for You, won the inaugural Dzanc Fiction Prize and was published in November. Dan’s first short story collection, Then We Saw the Flames, won the 2008 Juniper Prize for Fiction. Dan’s stories have appeared in The Sun, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, and other literary magazines. Dan teaches creative writing, mainly fiction, and lit classes, such as The Literature of Rock and Roll, at Kansas State University. Dan and his wife, Sarah, live in Manhattan, Kansas, with their son. Dan received his Ph.D. at the University of Kansas in 2004. He considers Lawrence his one true home—and The Replay Lounge, of course, is the living room.
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Utilizing an innovative mashup of genres, ranging from pulp fiction, dark comedy, and metafiction, This Book Is Not for You charts the actions of nineteen-year-old Neptune, a misfit and punk haunted by the death of his parents. Having fallen in with an anarchist group determined to blow up a university building, he steals the dynamite instead, igniting an entirely different brand of trouble: the murder of his mentor; a three-way manhunt; and the mystery of the Ghost Machine, a walkman that replays snippets from his own twisted past.
Told in a nonstop chain of Chapter Ones, Daniel Hoyt’s debut novel explores the clash between chaos and calm, the instinct for self-destruction and the longing for redemption
“This Book Is Not For You introduces the world to Neptune—a self-destructive and overly self-aware hero for our times. Neptune’s misadventures are funny, harrowing, thrilling, and sweet, and the novel’s recurring Chapter Ones give a fresh start. Neptune’s bad decisions might make you cringe, but you’ll cheer for him . . . . An exciting and inventive novel.”
—Craig Finn of The Hold Steady
“I stayed up all night listening to Neptune—part Holden Caulfield, part Huck Finn, part someone I’ve never met anywhere. Sharp-edged, defiant, profane, and brutally funny, he got to me in spite of himself.”
—Kim Church, author of Byrd
“The energy of Hoyt’s prose carried me until I was reading at a pace I never do, and panting at that. A page-turner experimental novel.”
—Carmiel Banasky, author of The Suicide of Claire Bishop
“This is not a confession, but a caustic blend of pulp and metafiction that surrounds a haunted Walkman, a murder, wishful anarchists and a constant reset for the reader. Every chapter is chapter one, but Hoyt knows just how to pull the strings..”
—Andrew Sullivan, author of Waste
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Maria The Mexican – “Eclectic Mexican Rock”
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La Guerre – “Apparition pop”
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