Zip It Up! Too

The new collection of pieces from Trouser Press is out this week. Available from us at Trouser Press Books -- ask for yours to be inscribed! -- and all the usual places.



We've got author events all the over the place:

13-Aug
Book House (Millburn, NJ) Tim Sommer presents Dispatches From the Kingdom of Outsiders with Evan Davies (WFMU)

16-Aug
Orpheum Cinema (Saugerties, NY) Tony Fletcher presents POW! with author/filmmaker Steven Blush

18-Aug
P&T Knitwear (NYC) Tony Fletcher and Ira Robbins discuss the music of the '80s and their new books, POW! and Zip It Up! Too

19-Aug
Housing Works Bookstore (NYC) Tim Sommer talks about Dispatches From the Kingdom of Outsiders with Kay Kasparhauser

20-Aug
Sterling Records (Brooklyn, NY) Tony Fletcher discusses POW! with Jack Rabid (The Big Takeover)

23-Aug
Stonykill Coffee (Chatham, NY) Tony Fletcher presents POW! with Dusty Wright

27-Aug
Politics and Prose (Washington DC) Tony Fletcher discusses POW! with Seth Lorinczi

2-Sept
Greenlight Books (Brooklyn, NY) An evening with Trouser Press Books: Ira Robbins, Mitchell Cohen and Tim Sommer. Moderated by Amy Linden.

5-Sept
Spike's Record Rack (Catskill, NY) Tim Sommer presents Dispatches From the Kingdom of Outsiders as part of the Dromfest Festival

13-Sept
Jefferson Market Library (NYC) Mitchell Cohen discusses Wake Me, Shake Me with Richard Barone

16-Sept
Bookies (Denver, CO) Nigel Dick presents Music Video Mischief

24-Sept
Book Soup (Los Angeles) Nigel Dick presents Music Video Mischief

29-Sept
Nashville Public Library, Bordeaux branch (Nashville, TN) Dan Beck presents "You've Got Michael"

6-Oct
Rough Draft (Kingston, NY) Tony Fletcher presents POW! with Dan Epstein

14-Oct
Music Box Dinner Theater (Cleveland, OH) Dan Beck discusses "You've Got Michael" with Steve Popovich

23-Oct
Museum of the Moving Image (Queens, NY) Nigel Dick shows some of his video work and reads from Music Video Mischief

13-Aug
Book House (Millburn, NJ) Tim Sommer presents Dispatches From the Kingdom of Outsiders with Evan Davies (WFMU)

Evan 'Funk' Davies? I miss his show - is it ever returning to WFMU?

As one of the resident DC-ites, I will note that the discussion at Politics and Prose is apparently at their Union Market location near Byrdland Records, much closer to my house than the prime store on Upper Connecticut Avenue.

[politics-prose.com]

Really enjoyed last night's discussion with Tony Fletcher about POW! It was a pretty decent group of people at Politics and Prose, many of them seem to have been big fans of the Jam and the mods. And the usual crew of aging punk rockers, etc.

I found the discussion all very engaging even though not all that music is specifically close to my heart; I'm a slightly younger generation so it was latter-1980s and 1990s alternative music that I grew up on, not the stuff from the late 1970s and early 1980s as is covered in Fletcher's book.

Got my book in the mail last week! Thanks for the note, Ira!

I'll also note the presence of the amazing Powell's Books here in Portland, which would be a lovely venue for an event....

I'll endorse Rhett's recommendation, having visited Powell's more than once, whenever I've had the pleasure of spending time in Portland.