David Rees & Heather Fuller @ Bridge Street 5/9, 8 PM

WEDNESDAY MAY 9th at 8:00 PM


THE EDGE READING SERIES

at Bridge Street Books presents


DAVID REES

&

HEATHER FULLER


Deep in New York’s Hudson River Valley, craftsman David Rees—the world’s number one #2 pencil sharpener (and author of Get Your War On)—still practices the age-old art of manual pencil sharpening. In 2010, he began offering his artisanal service to the world, to the jubilation of artists, writers, draftsmen, and standardized test takers.

Now, in a book that is both a manifesto and a fully-illustrated walk-through of the many, many, many ways to sharpen a pencil, Rees reveals the secrets of his craft. By the time you’re through this book, you will know how to get the perfect point on your pencil without injuring yourself.

DAVID REES first came to fame as the author of Get Your War On, a Bush-era comic strip composed from clip-art that he emailed to friends. It was eventually serialized by Rolling Stone magazine, collected into three successful books, and turned into an off-Broadway play. He is also the author of the workplace satire My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable. He lives in Beacon, New York.

HEATHER FULLER grew up in Keflavik, Iceland; Dale City, Virginia; and Henderson, North Carolina. She now resides in Baltimore, Maryland, just outside D.C. She worked in the DC area with non-profits on homelessness and poverty issues for many years and now practices veterinary medicine in Baltimore, MD. She is the author of Startle Response, Dovecote, and perhaps this is a rescue fantasy.

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20007
ph 202 965 5200

Bridge Street Books is in Georgetown, next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five
blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro, blue & orange lines.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Tuesday, May 8, 8:00PM

Barrett Watten & Ryan Walker

@ Bridge Street Books


Friday, May 11, 7:00PM

Rob Halpern, Brian Fitzpatrick, Brandon Fitzgerald, & Fitz Fitzgerald

@ Black Fox Lounge : 1723 Connecticut Avenue NW


Sunday May 20, 3:00 PM

Jordan Davis, Steven Karl, Angela Veronica Wong, & Tony Mancus

@ DCAC

Watten & Walker @ Bridge Street Tues 5/8, 8 PM

Please join us
TUESDAY MAY 8th at 8:00 PM

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at Bridge Street Books presents

BARRETT WATTEN
&
RYAN WALKER

BARRETT WATTEN is a language-centered poet and critic of modernist and postmodern cultures. His study The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics (Wesleyan, 2003), received the René Wellek Prize in 2004. His collected earlier poems, Frame: 1971-1990, appeared from Sun & Moon in 1997; Bad History from Atelos in 1998; and Progress/Under Erasure from Green Integer in
2004. He has collaborated on two multi–authored works: Leningrad: American Writers in the Soviet Union (Mercury House, 1992) and The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-80. He is currently Professor of modernist studies and poetics at Wayne State University, Detroit.

RYAN WALKER grew up in Arnold, MD before moving to Colorado for grad school. In 1999 he moved to Washington, DC, where he remains. He is the author of Enjoy Potion, You Will Own It Permanently, and web impressario at dcpoetry.com.

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20007
ph 202 965 5200

Bridge Street Books is located in Georgetown, next to the Four Seasons Hotel,
five blocks from the
Foggy Bottom Metro, blue & orange lines.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Wednesday, May 9, 8:00PM
David Rees & Heather Fuller
@ Bridge Street Books

Friday, May 11, 7:00PM
Rob Halpern, Brian Fitzpatrick, Brandon Fitzgerald, and Fitz Fitzgerald
@ Black Fox Lounge : 1723 Connecticut Avenue NW

Sunday May 20, 3:00 PM,
Jordan Davis, Steven Karl, Angela Veronica Wong, & Tony Mancus
@ DCAC