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    Richard Wirick: book signing and discussion

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    Presented by Brazos Bookstore at Brazos Bookstore

    September 29, 2010

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    Brazos Bookstore is pleased to welcome author Richard Wirick for an in-store appearance on Wednesday, September 29, 2010, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM where he will read from and sign his book, Kicking In: Stories.

    With a finesse that invigorates and then jars the reader, Wirick maneuvers between narratives of shimmering hallucinations and ecstatic mood-peaks. But Kicking In is not just another drug book. A gut punch to the notion that the drug war stems from society’s fringe element, Wirick shines a light on the ways presumably democratic governments use depressants and stimulants to keep selected segments of the population marginalized and disenfranchised.

    The result is a masterful collection—a vividly terrifying yet startlingly prosaic consideration of the varieties of drug users' experience with what Coleridge called “the milk of Paradise.”

    About the author: Richard Wirick’s first book of linked stories, One Hundred Siberian Postcards, was released to wide acclaim in 2007. His other stories and articles have appeared in a number of publications, including The Los Angeles Times, Playboy, Fiction, Chicago Review, and PEN Quarterly. He lives in southern California.


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        Brazos Bookstore

        2421 Bissonnet
        Houston, TX 77005

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        September 29, 2010

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        7:00pm

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