"City of Witerature" Reading Series Featuring Larry Baker, Joe Blair, Joseph Dobrian & Polly Frost

Local television personality Yale Cohn hosts a definitely-different-kind-of book reading - high-talent, stuffiness-free witerature - featuring Larry Baker, Joe Blair, Joseph Dobrian, and Polly Frost.

Book readings don’t always have to feature maudlin and sentimental memoirs about domestic abuse or testicular cancer scares, or thoughtful and well-meaning tomes about environmental pollution that are about as fun to read as a history of Brussel Sprout domestication. Well, maybe they do, but at least ours will feature the funny ones!

Hosted by local television personality Yale Cohn our first event will feature an All-Star line up of local and national talent who will take to the stage to shake off the stuffiness all too often associated with reading events by reading some of their funniest material:

Larry Baker, author of “Flamingo Rising”, “Athens America”, “A Good Man,” and the upcoming “Love and Other Delusions.”

Joe Blair, whose just-published “By the Iowa Sea” is generating rave reviews.

Joseph Dobrian, author of “Willie Wilden” and the upcoming collection of his journalism and essays "Seldom Right - But Never In Doubt."

And last but not least, Polly Frost, who will be performing her show "How to Survive Your Adult Relationship with Your Family," the following evening at the Englert Theater, and whose humor has been published in numerous magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Scene4 Magazine, Identity Theory, Exquisite Corpse, Art Design Cafe and Narrative Magazine.

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