The Olive Reader

By car, by bus, and by train we wended our way to Rocky Sullivan’s in Red Hook, Brooklyn—the land of urban stillness—for our Take A Stranger Home reading. Authors Bryan Charles, Shelley Jackson, and Matt Marinovich read from their respective debut novels. As you’ll see, my video recording device can handle only so many intensities of light, but the audio is clear as a bell.

That’s Bryan Charles, author of Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way .

That’s Shelley Jackson, author of Half Life .

That’s Matt Marinovich, author of Strange Skies . My footage belies the fact that the authors did indeed look fantastic up there. Just feast your eyes upon Matt’s chiseled visage as he intones from among the shadows.

The turnout was good. The location an oasis. And the authors made it all worthwhile. If you’re looking for some great reads, look here.