See below for a press release from our friends at The Raconteur bookshop in Metuchen. Not technically North Jersey, but worth the drive for regular FREE events that also support an excellent independent bookstore:
8 PM, Thurs. April 28
THE EAST CACKALACKY & THE SHAYFER JAMES SIDE SHOW
East Cack is a touring avant-folk duo from Klamath Falls, Oregon specializing in homemade electrical weirdness and a singing saw. Singer/songwriter/artful pianist Shayfer James writes songs that are dark, dense, and Dickensian, and fingers the 61 keys of his Casio Portable with the dodgy subtlety of a Fagan street thief (also with singing saw). FREE! Comp wine. CDs on sale at event.
8 PM, FRI. APRIL 29
MIRANDA KENNEDY
Reading/Signing
SIDEWAYS ON A SCOOTER: LIFE & LOVE IN INDIA
In the early aughts, Miranda Kennedy, a twenty-something reporter living in New York City, relocated to India, where a British great-aunt had served as a missionary and where her own parents had lived during the early years of their marriage. She stayed for half a decade, becoming a foreign correspondent for American Public Media’s Marketplace and National Public Radio. To read more about this event, click HERE and scroll down.
2 PM, Sat. April 30
MUTTS Creator PATRICK MCDONNELL
Chalk Talk/Reading/Signing
In 1994, McDonnell created the award-winning comic strip Mutts, which now appears in more than 700 newspapers in 20 countries and has been anthologized in books all over the world. It was described by Peanuts creator Charles Schulz as "one of the best comic strips of all time." To read more about this event, click HERE and scroll down.
