10/26/2023
William E Jones and Derek McCormack will do a very special Halloween event on October 29th at 7pm EST/4pm PST. William will be reading from his new novel I Didn’t See it Coming, published by We Heard You Like Books. Derek has a special selection that he will be reading exclusively for this Rubicon event.
William E. Jones is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. He has made two feature length experimental films, Massillon (1991) and Finished (1997), the documentary Is It Really So Strange? (2004), and videos including The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Po*******hy (1998), Psychic Driving (2014), and Fall into Ruin (2017). His work has been the subject of retrospectives at Tate Modern (2005), Anthology Film Archives (2010), Austrian Film Museum, and Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (both 2011). Jones's writing has also appeared in periodicals such as Animal Shelter, Area Sneaks, Artforum, Bidoun, Butt, Frieze, Little Joe, Mousse, Osmos, and The White Review. He is the author of the nonfiction books Killed: Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration (2010), Halsted Plays Himself (2011), Imitation of Christ (2013), and True Homosexual Experiences: Boyd McDonald and Straight to Hell (2016); as well as the novels I’m Open to Anything (2019) and I Should Have Known Better (2021)and I Didn’t See It Coming (2023). He lives in Los Angeles. https://weheardyoulikebooks.com/releases/i-didnt-see-it-coming/
Derek McCormack’s most recent books are Castle Fa**ot, a novel, and Judy Blame’s Obituary, a collection of essays about fashion. Castle Fa**ot was a highly acclaimed novel praised by writer Dennis Cooper as “Maybe the greatest novel of all time.” https://4columns.org/lybarger-jeremy/castle-faggot
Where: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85298964602?pwd=WXpVbVM0Wlg1aXB1L2hjV2pVTUhqZz09
When: Sunday, October 29, 7pm EST/4pm PST
