Sunday, Aug. 25 — Los Angeles at Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd., 4 p.m. Free. With author and cult godhead Angie Bowie (reading) backed by Chick Cashman (guitar). Brian Smith (reading from Spent Saints). A screening of three Spent Saints short films by executive producer and series co-writer Maggie Smith. Friday, September 6 — Tempe/Phoenix at Alamo Drafthouse, 1140 E. Baseline, Tempe, Az., 7 p.m. Free. With punk rock mainman/writer DJ Tom Reardon, Omnivore recording artis

Great living-roomy feel and good turnout for the Tucson Salvage reading/screening tonight at the beautifully curated South Main Book Co in tiny Salisbury, NC. What a literary town. We learned much about the place, racist secrets, and we were shown a vine-covered hanging tree afterwards—so haunted, strangely beautiful, and frightening. Salisbury-adjacent Statesville was home of a legendary KKK grand dragon and sported the largest membership of any KKK chapter. Salisbury was on

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

"How does one even begin to witness another person’s life? We see others inevitably through the prism of ourselves, all of our experiences, our fuck ups, wrong turns, heart aches, joys, fears and stumbling through the dark, hand searching for a wall that often isn’t there when we need most to lean into something that can hold all of our weight, that can sustain us. To understand suffering, one must. And survival, anyone living can speak to that, but the height of the climb an

Honored to be included here with some greats ... #LargeheartedBoy #SpentSaints #RollingStones #AliceCooper #Ramones #BillySedlmayr

. #PeterMarkus #Detroit #Tucson #SpentSaints #Novelist

There's a Q&A here and an excerpt here. Stoked about this because I've been reading Nervous Breakdown for years and often listen to Brad LIsti's podcast Otherppl. #SpentSaints #NervousBreakdown #literature #alcoholics #methaddiction

Playlist for the story "The Grand Prix" from Spent Saints. Lots of loss-of-innocence pop and punk rock I grew up on ... #spentsaints #BigStar #TheClash

Staring Tim Lacatena and Liberty Larsen. Directed and adapted by Shira Weitz (Sheesh Meister​) Produced by William Craig​ Cinematography by Sara Newton​. #SpentSaints #LibertyLarsen #ShiraWeitz #TimLacatena