Originally from the Northside, Doug Rice is a novelist, photographer, and scholar. He now teaches film theory & history at Sacramento State University. He will be reading from Here Lies Memory, the first book in a set called The Pittsburgh Trilogy.
Doug Rice is the author of Blood of Mugwump (selected by Kathy Acker as runner-up Fiction Collective 2 First Novel Award, 1996), Here Lies Memory (Black Scat Books, 2016), An Erotics of Seeing (Black Scat Books 2015), Das Heilige Buch der Stille (Solitude Press, Stuttgart, 2013, an original book, German translation by Nicolai Kobus), Between Appear and Disappear (Jaded Ibis Press, 2013), Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist (Copilot Press, 2011),Le Sang des Mugwump (French translation of Blood of Mugwump by Heloise Esquii, Desordres Laurence Viallet, Paris, France, 2007), Skin Prayer (Eraserhead Press, 2002), A Good CuntBoy is Hard to Find(CPAOD Books, 1998). He is the co-editor of Federman: A to X-X-X-X (San Diego State University Press, 1998). His fiction, memoirs and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including: Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation, Kiss the Sky, The Dirty Fabulous Anthology, Alice Redux, Phanthoms of Desire, Western Humanities Review, Zyzzyvya, Gargoyle, Fiction International, Discourse, 580 Split, and others. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2016). He is currently working on Daughters of the Rivers, the second novel in a trilogy of novels called The Pittsburgh Trilogy.
Free admission. Limited seating.
Phone: 412-321-7323
Email: citybookspgh@gmail.com
2018/03/17 - 2018/03/17
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A book signing will follow the reading.
City Books
908 Galveston Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15233