(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Volume, a new free reading and music series hosted by Hallie Goodman and Dani Grammerstorf French at Spotty Dog Books and Ale on the second Saturday of each month, kicks off on Saturday, November 14, at 7pm, with readings by authors Amanda K. Davidson, Lee Matthew Goldberg, and Rebecca Wolff, followed by a quick DJ set.
Amanda K. Davidson is the author of the chapbooks Arcanagrams: A Reckoning (Little Red Leaves 2014), The Space (Belladonna 2014), and Apprenticeship (New Herring Press 2013), as well as The Conditions of Our Togetherness, a serial comic on Weird Sister Magazine. A 2014 NYFA Fellow in Poetry, she has been a writer in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, MacDowell, Millay, I-Park, and Art Farm Nebraska.
Lee Matthew Goldberg’s debut novel “Slow Down” (New Pulp Press) is a neo-noir thriller out now. His novel “The Mentor “is forthcoming from Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Press in fall 2016 and has been acquired by Macmillan Entertainment. His TV pilot “Join Us” made the finals in Script Pipeline’s 2015 TV Writing Competition.
After graduating with an MFA from the New School, his fiction has appeared in The Montreal Review and The Adirondack Review, Essays & Fictions, The New Plains Review, Orion headless, Verdad, BlazeVOX, and others. He is the co-curator of The Guerrilla Lit Fiction Series. His writing style has been described as being “like a young Bret Easton Ellis doing a line of uncut Denis Johnson off the back of a public urinal.”
Rebecca Wolff is the author of four collections of poetry, one novel, and numerous pieces of occasional prose. Her first book, “Manderley,” was selected for the National Poetry Series by Robert Pinsky. Her second, “Figment,” was selected for the Barnard Women Poets Prize. Her third, “The King,” was published by W. W. Norton in 2009. Her novel “The Beginners” was published by Riverhead in 2011.
Her latest collection, “One Morning—,” was published by Wave Books in 2015. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Millay Colony for the Arts. In 1998, Wolff founded the influential literary journal Fence; in 2001 she founded Fence Books and launched The Constant Critic website. Wolff lives in Hudson, and is currently a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany.
Followed by a DJ set by Jake Perry. Books available for sale and signing.