Our new friends at
Wordsmiths Books in Decatur, in association with our old friends at
Criminal Records in Little 5 Points, are putting on a great literary/music event next Wednesday night, March 14, and to promote it, they've generously given us a prize pack to give away. First, the goods on the event:
At 7:00 that evening, authors
John Sheppard and
Evan Mandery will discuss music, celebrity and pop culture, as well as playing some illustrative tunes from their iPods, at Aurora Coffee in L5P. Shepperd is the author of
Small Town Punk, the funny, semi-autobiographical story of kids trapped and bored in a landscape of Walmarts and Pizza Huts, but buoyed by their
love of old-school punk rock. (More info is
here.) Mandery's new book is
Dreaming of Gwen Stefani, a comic novel that explores the dark side of celebrity obsession. Then, as soon as the literary portion of the evening concludes, proceedings will move next door to Criminal Records, where soulful Scottish singer-songwriter (dig the alliteration, lit geeks!)
Paolo Nutini will give an in-store performance. It should be a great, esoteric evening of book and culture chat, coffee and music. The phrase "free wine" has also been tossed around.
Now the contest: Wordsmiths has given us a set of these books to give away, and you don't need to attend the event or even live in Atlanta to be eligible to win (although you do need to live somewhere in the U.S. -- the TTT treasury can't handle international shipping just yet). In a comment below, just answer one question:
What's your favorite book-related or literature-themed song? "Paperback Writer" by The Beatles? "Everyday I Write The Book" by Elvis Costello? C'mon, there must be hundreds of 'em -- let's see some creativity out there. We'll toss all the entries in a hat and draw a winner out at random the morning after the event (so next Thursday the 15th). Be sure to give us your e-mail address with your comment (no one will see it but us) -- if you win, we'll need to contact you and arrange to get you the goods.
Finally, if you want to double your chances of winning, our main man DJ Cayenne at
Baby Got Books has a
set of books to give away as well.
MP3: Belle & Sebastian - "
Wrapped Up In Books"
So, we held the drawing this morning at TTT world headquarters, high above Midtown Atlanta, and the winner of our inaugural Wrapped Up In Books contest is a gentleman called HAMMERtodd who lives in Lafayette, Indiana. His excellent entry was "The Book of Love" from 69 Love Songs Vol. 1 by The Magnetic Fields. But HAMMERtodd hasn't provided an e-mail address, so we currently don't know where to send the books. (The pic at left is his Blogger avatar -- I've posted it to grab his attention if/when he drops by again.) Yo, HAMMERtodd, congratulations, and drop me an e-mail (use the link at the top of the page) so I can ship your books to you! (We even arranged to get them signed by the authors at the event last night, so it's almost like you were there.)
