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Sleeping With Friends (March Monthly Rumpus)

Feb.24.2010
Sleeping With Friends (March Monthly Rumpus)

The Rumpus and McSweeney’s Proudly Present:

Sleeping With Friends, the March Monthly Rumpus

Featuring authors Jesse Nathan, Jami Attenberg, Mark Morford, and Gerard Jones!

With Performances by Chicken John and comedian Nato Green.

Music by the one and only K. Flay.

Food provided by The Girl From Empanada.
Also chances to win great prizes in our monthly porn raffle.

$10, cheap! You can’t afford not to go.

Hosted by Rumpus editor Isaac Fitzgerald.

Order your tickets here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/99612

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Gerard's Latest Blogs

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Dec.21.2010 - 9:06 pm
This is not a blog post
Well, it worked. I finished that draft of my book before the end of October. While I was plowing through it, I imagined that I'd be here on November 1, crowing about it. But...
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Oct.16.2010 - 11:07 am
Another interview
Just thought I'd call attention to an interview with me about the new graphic novel and related social issues on Examiner.com by Sona Avakian. Mostly about internet privacy and...
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Oct.14.2010 - 10:45 pm
Good Signings
Some book signings are good because customers are lined up out the door and the store owner sells enough copies to pay the rent for the month. Others are good because...
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Oct.08.2010 - 11:24 pm
Public sightings
Tomorrow night, Saturday the 9th, from 7:15-8:15 PM, Elizabeth Bernstein and I will be emceeing the San Francisco Writers Grotto reading at LitCrawl, which is basically a...
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Comments from Gerard

Sep.04.2010 - 8:15 am
In response to: What it really takes
Thanks, Bob!
It will be good to be working so hard that I won't have time to think about whether it's interesting or not, if you...
Jul.23.2010 - 8:47 am
In response to: Hot wind
Skegness Is So Bracing
Aye, Rosy. The first time I really became aware of the emotional power of wind came when I was 18 and spent a summer...
Jun.06.2010 - 12:57 pm
In response to: Transparent City
Hi Rosy!
As time goes by I become increasingly convinced that I'll never be able to see anything outside my own subjectivity....
May.27.2010 - 11:00 am
In response to: My Dream Book
Ah yes...
I've had plenty of those dreams too, Sharon...a frightening number of which come (at least metaphorically) true. And...
May.10.2010 - 12:46 pm
In response to: Titular
sigh
You people are SO picky! But I changed it.

Writing

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Short Story: Million Dollar Ideas - Chapter 18
Short Story: My Pal Splendid Man - Epilogue
Short Story: The Burly Boys - Chapter 8
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About Gerard

Right now I'm writing a nonfiction book for FSG, The Undressing of America, about the bizarre cabal of cultural fringies who revolutionized publishing in the '20s with the original "reality media." I have a graphic novel, drawn by Mark Badger,...
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