Arts & Entertainment
Friday,
April 8, 2005
Volume 33,
Issue 14
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Author guarantees entertaining book tour for Geography Club sequel |
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| Brent Hartingers new novel The Order of the Poison Oak promises to be a very fun read | ||
| Thursday, April 14
7:00 p.m. at Bailey-Coy Books 414 Broadway Ave. E. Brent Hartinger, author of the 2003 Gay teen novel Geography Club, is so fed up with boring authors events that hes offering a cash reward to anyone who thinks one of his events is boring. Some of these bookstore author events are pretty tedious, Hartinger says. So people quickly learn not to attend bookstore events. It can make it hard for those of us authors who try hard to be entertaining when out whoring our books. Hartinger says hell pay a dollar to anyone who attends one of his events, and then tells him afterwards to his face that the event was boring. Hartinger is promoting the just-released sequel to Geography Club called The Order of the Poison Oak (HarperCollins, $15.99). Geography Club was a big hit, Hartinger says. Ive already adapted it for the stage, and it may soon be adapted for the movies. A sequel, he says, was inevitable. In short, Hartinger said, Im milking this cash cow until she dies of dehydration! At some events in his tour, Hartinger will be appearing with Michael Jensen, his partner of 13 years, and also the author of the Gay historical novels Frontiers and Firelands. Think of us as the Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward of Gay fiction, Jensen joked. But only if I get to be Paul Newman. Cities where Hartinger and/or Jensen are scheduled to appear in the months ahead include Tacoma, Bellingham, and Seattle; Portland; Shrewsburry, Mass.; Albany and New York City; Philadelphia; Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; Norfolk; San Diego, Santa Rosa, San Francisco, and Sacramento; Chicago; Minneapolis; Milwaukee and Green Bay; and Vancouver, B.C. Vancouver makes it a world tour, Hartinger said proudly, because we have an event in Canada! In Seattle, the authors will appear in Seattle on Thursday, April 14, 7:00 p.m. at Bailey-Coy Books, 414 Broadway Ave. E., (206) 323-8842. For more information, and for the exact dates and times of Hartingers events, visit Brents Brain, the authors website, at www.brenthartinger.com. |
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 GENERAL GAYETY Leslie Robinson |
 NOT THINKING STRAIGHT Madelyn Arnold |
