It's Not the Size of the Boat

Daniel Grandbois is bringin' flash fiction back. No, not "slash fiction," you dirty bird. Flash, or sudden fiction, is a sort-of genre defined by its word count: few. It's the literary version of a miniskirt; what's there had better be well crafted, or no one's going to want to look at it. Grandbois' background in songwriting with bands including Slim Cessna's Auto Club and Munly set him up nicely to do the nugget thing, and many readers compare his work to poetry. His second book of stories, The Hermaphrodite: An Hallucinated Memoir, is dubbed an "art novel," illustrated with woodcuts by Alfredo Benavidez Bedoya; his reading tonight is augmented by fellow musicians Kal Cahoone and Elin Palmer as well as an exhibit of Bedoya's work.
Thu., March 12, 6:45 p.m., 2009