This month’s line up of local authors reading their funniest, most irreverent, offbeat, saucy, and sexy material include:
Sean Genell, frontman for the “post-punk West Coast pre-electric country blues” band Illinois John Fever. Sean’s a former cab driver and current cab company dispatcher who – Iowa City being Iowa City – has an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU.
Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Sean has written reviews of true crime books (no word on if he was friends with the folks who committed them,) just finished his first full-length novel “The Empire of Tomorrow,” a spy thriller set in World War I, and helped create the “Hauling Ass” series published in Little Village Magazine.
http://www.seangenell.com/
Rachel Yoder has had her written work appear in Nerve, Kenyon Review, the New York Times, and the Missouri Review among other publications, often writing about love, sex, relationships and small engine repair, and always with a wise (and occasionally wise-ass) sensibility.
Rachel’s also a member of Iowa City’s burlesque troupe, Les Dames du Burlseque, so she’s used to bearing a lot more than her soul on stage.
http://www.racheljyoder.com/
Last but not least is Stand-Up comedian Nathan Timmel, who was somehow able to get credit for his community service obligation for reading at this event.
Nathan is a prolific blogger, and self-professed idiot who has also published his first book “I was a White Knight . . .Once” in September of 2011, in spite of a grueling tour schedule which has him on the road doing Stand-up 200 nights a year. He’s been brought over to both Iraq and Afghanistan to entertain U.S. troops stationed there (they said they’d have preferred more mortar fire) and is regularly heard on Sirius/XM Sattelite radio.
http://nathantimmel.com/