Book Reading/Release/Signing April 27, 2007

Who: Anthony Tognazzini, Author of “"I Carry a Hammer in My Pocket for Occasions Such as These"
What: Reading/Release/Signing (Books from Mobile Libris; Wines from 67Wines)
When: Friday, June 8, 8:00pm
Where: West Side YMCA-- The George Washington Lounge
5 West 63rd Street (between Central Park West & Broadway)
Accessible Trains: A, C, B, D, 1 & 9 to Columbus Circle.
Cost: Admission Free and Open to the Public
For More Info: Contact Glenn Raucher, Literary Arts Director, (212) 875-4124, [email protected]

About the Author
Anthony Tognazzini was born in California and has lived in Texas, the Philippines, Spain, Germany, Indiana, and the Czech Republic. He currently lives in New York City, where he makes his living as a teacher and freelance journalist.

Anthony's poetry and short fictions have appeared in Quarterly West, Paragraph, Pindeldyboz, Salt Hill, The Hat, Mississippi Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, La Petite Zine, Sentence, Spork, Double Room, Quick Fiction, and The Alaska Quarterly Review, among other journals. His work has also appeared in the collections Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Miniscule Fiction and PP/FF: An Anthology.

Anthony has received an AWP Award, a Greer Artist Foundation Fellowship, a Hemingway Fellowship, and an Academy of American Poets prize. He has received fellowships to the Prague Summer Writer's Workshop, Ledig House International Writer's Colony, the Indiana University Writer's Conference, and the Vermont
Studio Center.

About the Book
I Carry A Hammer In My Pocket For Occasions Such As These is a collection of 57 short pieces that range in length from compressed paragraphs to 10-page stories. Its characters, voices, and surreal scenarios are unified in a playful vision of the world that is equal parts metaphor, memory, cartoon, tragedy, love story, and song.

Speed and brevity are a large part of the collection's design. To this end, I Carry A Hammer In My Pocket For Occasions Such As These is quick, colloquial and comic, yet challenging and highly reflective. It offers readers--at a glance--a journey into a fictional world that is poetic and narrative, fantastic and familiar, accessible and adventurous.

Official Website: http://www.ymcanyc.org/westside