State of the Union Resistance with Busboys and Poets Books
Date and Time
Jan 30, 2018 5:30 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Jan 30, 2018 5:30 pm
14th & V
As an artistic, counter response to Donald J. Trump's First State of the Union Address, Busboys and Poets Books presents a night of noir, pulp, sci-fi and resistance--all tied up in the award-winning anthology curated by editor and award-winning crime novelist and activist Gary Phillips, and includes stories by Walter Mosley, Robert Silverberg, Nisi Shawl, Kate Flora, Christopher Chambers and more.Â
In the tradition of satirical works of Swift and Twain, with nods to the likes of William S. Burroughs and Philip K. Dick, The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir contains vigilante First Ladies, Supreme Court judges who can clone themselves, gear-popping robots of doom, and races of ancient lizard people revealing their true master plan–all mashed up in the blender of fake news bots, climate change hoaxes, and outlandish lampoons of the most bizarro conspiracy theories heaped on the 44th President...some spun by the 45th President himself! Books will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please email books@busboysandpoets.com with questions.
About the authors:
South Central native Gary Phillips draws on his experiences from anti-police abuse community organizing, activism in the anti-apartheid movement, union rep, state director of a political action committee, to delivering dog cages in writing his tales of chicanery and malfeasance. He has written various novels, novellas, comics, short stories, radio plays and a script now and then. He has edited or co-edited several anthologies, and must keep writing to forestall his appointment at the crossroads. Phillips is president of the Private Eye Writers of America.
Kate Flora writes true crime, strong women, and police procedurals. Led Astray is her latest Joe Burgess police procedural; Death Warmed Over her latest Thea Kozak mystery. Her fascination with people’s bad behavior began in the Maine attorney general’s office chasing deadbeat dads and protecting battered children. In addition to her crime fiction, she’s written two true crimes and a memoir with public safety personnel. 2017 will bring Shots Fired: The Myths, Misconceptions, and Misunderstandings About Police-Involved Shootings. Flora has been an Edgar, Derringer, Agatha and Anthony finalist and twice won the Maine literary award for crime fiction.
Adam Lance Garcia’s first novel The Land of Nowhere was written entirely in crayon and remains unfinished to this day. However, Adam is currently completing the third and final chapter to his Green Lama: Legacy trilogy, as well as the second volume of his graphic novel Sons of Fire. In addition to print work, he is a writer and producer of the audio drama podcast Radio Room. When not writing or photographing his cats, Adam works as a television producer in Manhattan.
Christopher Chambers is a Washington, D.C. native and a Professor of Media Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of four fiction novels through Random House and McMillan has and edited two fiction anthologies, including The Darker Mask, with Gary Phillips. He was a finalist in 2008 for the PEN/Malamud Short Story Award for “Leviathan.â€
