Reading Local Seattle

{ Lynne Breedlove on Manic D: One Freak Show }

Jen Joseph from Manic D was nice enough to take some time to answer some Reading Local questions via e-mail last week. She will be at Bumbersoot this year for a twenty-five year anniversary reading for a press that has published writers such as Michelle Tea, Francesca Lia Block, and Beth Lisick. At twenty-five Manic D has become one of the West Coast’s great independent presses, such as Mercury House, Black Heron Press, Future Tense Press, and the late Black Sparrow Press. About surviving twenty-five years, Joseph said, “Don’t let the bastards get you down.”

Joseph will introduce authors Amber Tamblyn (Bang Ditto), Lynn Breedlove (Lynn Breedlove’s One Freak Show), Bruce Jackson (Growing Up Free in America), and Jon Longhi (The Rise and Fall of Third Leg) . They will be on the Literary Arts Stage Monday 9/7 at 1:45 p.m.

(Interview after the break.)

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