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SUMMARY:Bushwick Book Club: Guilt Sport
DESCRIPTION:A celebration of songwriter\, composer\, bandleader\, record label founder\, Chris Rael’s first book of short stories Guilt Sport. \n \nCome see what these artists and musicians have to say about it in new art\, song and snacks! \nWith:\nPenny Arcade\nLisa Barnstone\nPatrick Brennan\nRima Fand\nNO DISCIPLINE (Ed and Susan)\nCharlie Nieland\nChris Rael\nDon Rauf\nAnni Rossi\nPatricia Santos\nHenry Tenney\nAlejandro Vargas (Billy Plastered)\nand others! \nGuilt Sport is the first collection of short stories by writer/musician Chris Rael\, visionary of New York City world pop orchestra Church of Betty. The consummate lyricist/poet tackles the short-story format with anecdotal tales grounded in his long\, strange voyages around the sun. Settings and premises emerging from the author’s life are embellished into fictional litanies of whimsy\, insight and regret. \nNine stories tackle the commitment of parenthood\, bullying and racism in the ’60s\, cultural identity and adoption\, discomfiting nuances of urban gentrification\, a regrettable walkabout ending in darkness\, corporate intrusion into employees’ lives\, America’s private prison industry\, Latino drug culture in the American West\, and a self-proclamation of spiritual chaos. \nComposer Chris Rael loves to turn short story collections into song cycles. In 2011 he won the New York International Fringe Festival’s composition award for Araby\, which retold the stories of James Joyce’s Dubliners in one song per story. His group Church of Betty is currently recording his latest song cycle: Eleven Kinds of Loneliness\, the short stories of Richard Yates\, to be released in spring 2026. This penchant for transforming literature into songs makes him a natural devotee of the Bushwick Book Club.
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/bushwick-book-club-guilt-sport/
LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Happening Now,Happening Soon,Performance,Performances,Special Event
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