Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Launching Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock along with readers from Exile Quarterly
7:15pm - The Dora Keogh Irish Pub, 141 Danforth Ave, Toronto - No Admission Charged

Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock is a coming of age, fast-paced, whirlwind story of film-worthy proportions... "Fun, frantic, and feisty!"–Ray Robertson
Five youths grow up in Anglo-Irish Montreal in the 70s and 80s, each taking their turn telling the story... dropping acid in the past, dropping out in the future, dropping in on a present, and the result: a work that bursts in three-minute adrenaline jolts punctuated with lonely drifts of rolling prose. A fascinating Generation X tale that is built upon the lifestyle cornerstones that deliniated this remarkable period in social change!
"Bissonnette’s sad and angry teenage boys are at first hard to like, eventually hard to dislike, and ultimately hard to let go of." — Juliet Waters, Books Editor of the Montreal Mirror
"Breaks new literary ground and reads like Mordecai Richler meets Charles Bukowski meets Dee Dee Ramone." — Diane Keating

Matt Bissonnette of Canada has written and directed two feature films, Looking for Leonard and Who Loves the Sun. Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock is his first novel.

CIUT Radio (Toronto) will be interviewing Matt the morning of April 22.

Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock
Fiction/Novel; 6x9 • 214 pages
978-1-55096-100-3
(pb) $22.95
Buy This Book: click on the cover!

 

The Evening’s Quarterly Readers:

Lisa Foad is a young writer whose fiction has appeared in Arsenal Pulp’s Red Light: Superheroes, Sluts and Saints, McGilligan Book’s Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws, as well as Matrix Magazine, and Exile: The Literary Quarterly. She’s been workshopped through Nightwood Theatre’s annual playwriting development program, and is a regular contributor to the Toronto weeklies Xtra! and NOW. She is currently at work on a short story collection with the support of the Canada, Ontario and Toronto Arts Councils, and reads tonight from a selection that appears in Exile 31.1

Joe Davies has had fiction appear in magazines across Canada including Descant, The Capilano Review, The Antigonish Review, Queen's Quarterly, subTerrain, The New Quarterly, and Exile: The Literary Quarterly. His work has been short-listed for CBC literary awards three times and just recently he was nominated for the Journey Prize anthology. Currently he is working on a novel set in the Toronto neighbourhood of South Riverdale. He reads tonight from his selection that appears in Exile 31.3

Ray Robertson is the author of the novels Home Movies, Heroes, Moody Food, Gently Down the Stream, andWhat Happened Later, as well as a collection of non-fiction, Mental Hygiene: Essays on Writers and Writing. He reads tonight from "David", this selection an excerpt from a novel-in-progress that appeared in Exile 31.1 (www.rayrobertson.com)