The documentary film based on the book, Tucson Salvage: Tales and Recollections from La Frontera, is growing legs too. Got into its first film festival. Screens next week, Dec. 5 at noon.

Tucson Salvage - Tales and Recollections from La Frontera

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Tucson Salvage - Tales and Recollections From La Frontera reading and doc showing in Brighton UK at the stunning Brighton Unitarian. Many kudos and finger pistols to brilliant writer Kirk Lake for joining us with his films and words, Brian's brother Barry Smith for showing up and serenading us with his mad psych electric violin and also Brian's sister-in-law, the lovely Moose Susan Azim, for kicking the packed event into high gear, and Brian's wife Maggie Rawling Smith for di

An 8-minute film based on the short story "Sirens" from Spent Saints is screening at the Memphis Film Fest this weekend. It features the stunning, Gene Clark-ish music of Kenny Tudrick, and was adapted for the screen by me and Maggie Smith and stars Sheesh Meister as Serena. So if you live in Memphis ... From the co-director, Sarah Ledbetter: " Matteo and I are delighted to announce that SIRENS will be featured in Indie Memphis' 21st Annual Film Festival November 1-5th! We ar

Sold-out reading for Tucson Salvage - Tales and Recollections From La Frontera at Eyewear Press party at London Review of Books. #TucsonSalvageEyewearPublishing #London

Tucson Weekly columnist, Brian Smith, seems to have lived multiple lives, traveling one path and then another. He was a nationally-ranked cyclist as a kid. He was the lead singer of The Pills, the Beat Angles, and Gentlemen After Dark, before becoming a full-time writer. After stints as a writer and editor at the Phoenix New Times and Detroit’s Metro Times, he came back to Tucson, where he was born. He draws upon his rich life experiences and battles with depression to tell t

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