[Englecturers] A Saturday Night with Rick Moody, John Doe, and Josh Kun

[englecturers at lists.ucr.edu]

A Saturday Night with Rick Moody, John Doe, and Josh Kun
Conversation and Performance
Saturday, October 8 at 8PM

  826LA is pleased to announce that on Saturday, October 8, author Rick 
Moody will appear in conversation musician John Doe, and author and music 
critic Josh Kun for a discussion of literature and music. And some point in 
the night, both Moody and Doe will sing. Admission is $20, with all 
proceeds benefiting free student programming at 826LA. Books will be 
available for purchase.

  Rick Moody is the author of The Diviners, Demonology, Purple America, The 
Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven, The Ice Storm and Garden State, 
which won the Pushcart Press Editors' Book Award. He is a past recipient of 
the Addison Metcalf Award and a Guggenheim fellowship. Moody has 
contributed fiction and essays to most major publications and has been 
widely anthologized. He also writes songs and plays music.

  Jon Doe co-founded the seminal punk band X. His blues-, punk-, folk-, and 
country-infused solo albums, including Meet John Doe, Dim Stars, Bright 
Sky, and Forever Hasn't Happened Yet, have garnered critical acclaim. He 
has also appeared in the films Great Balls of Fire, Road House, Georgia, 
and Roadside Prophets.

  Josh Kun is an LA writer, critic, and an Associate Professor of English 
at UC Riverside and a recent guest of The Ucross Foundation. He writes a 
column about music that runs in weekly papers in San Francisco and Boston 
and he has written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, LA 
Magazine, SPIN, Rolling Stone, Details, & others. His first book, 
Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America, will be released in November from UC 
Press.

  To reserve a place in the audience, email rsvp at 826la.com 
<mailto:rsvp at 826la.com>  or call (310) 305-8418.

    826LA, SPARC Building, 685 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291 (310) 305 8418



Katherine Kinney
Chair and Associate Professor of English
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951 827-1458