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Teleportal 3: McSweeney’s
Mar 22 10

We’re pleased to announce Teleportal 3: McSweeney’s, a multimedia reading in partnership with one of the country’s most celebrated independent presses. On March 30 at 8pm, Teleportal’s monthly takeover of the Hotel San Jose‘s courtyard will feature live readings by Bill Cotter and Annie La Ganga, teleportal readings by Dean Young and James Hannaham, video from Wholphin, and a special musical guest. As always, Domy Books will have a pop-up store with titles by the readers and other timely selections. A second Teleportal: McSweeney’s event, featuring philosopher Tamler Sommers, will take place on April 24th at Domy Books, Houston.


Teleportal Readings is a monthly multimedia series designed for those who love reading but hate readings. In partnership with Monofonus Press, the Hotel San Jose, and Domy Books, Teleportal does away with the fluorescent lights, folding chairs, and library atmosphere of typical literary events to bring you live and virtual readings from some of the nation’s most exciting authors, as well as video transmissions from independent presses and literary magazines across the country.

McSweeney’s began in 1998 as a literary journal founded by Dave Eggers and has since grown into one of the country’s most respected independent publishing houses. In addition to McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, monthly magazine The Believer, and DVD quarterly Wholphin, McSweeney’s has published more than 70 books through its four imprints, McSweeney’s Rectangulars, Believer Books, the Collins Library, and McSweeney’s Irregulars.

Bill Cotter was born in Dallas in 1964. In his ongoing struggle to stave off impending ruin, he has worked as a debt collector, book restorer, freelance crossword-puzzle constructor, toilet scrubber, sawyer, low-stakes poker grunt, door-to-door vacuum-cleaner salesman, renter-outer of those shoddy miniature black-and-white TVs you used to see suspended from the ceilings of hospital rooms, and, for the moment, novelist. He is the author of Fever Chart (McSweeney’s Rectangulars).

Annie La Ganga is a poet, performer, and visual artist. She is the author of Stoners and Self-Appointed Saints (Red Hen Press). She is a Scorpio. She lives in Austin, Texas. She loves candy. She hates housework.

Dean Young is the author of nine books of poetry,  including Design with X, Beloved Infidel, Strike Anywhere (which received the Colorado Prize for Poetry), First Course in Turbulence, Skid, Elegy on Toy Piano, Embryoyo (Believer Books), and Primitive Mentor. He holds the William S. Livingston Chair in Creative Writing of the Michener Center for Writers.

James Hannaham’s first novel, God Says No, published by McSweeney’s Rectangulars in 2009, was named an honor book by the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Awards. His stories have appeared in The Literary Review, Open City, Nerve, One Story, and several anthologies. His criticism and journalism have appeared in The Village Voice, Spin, Us, Out, and Salon.com, where he was once on staff, and have been reprinted in Best African American Essays 2009 and Best Sex Writing 2009. He teaches creative writing at the Pratt Institute and the New School.

Wholphin is a quarterly DVD magazine featuring short films, documentaries, animation, and instructional videos that have not, for whatever reason, found wide release. Recent issues of Wholphin have included films by Spike Jonze, David O. Russell, Miranda July, Miguel Arteta, Errol Morris, and Steven Soderbergh, and performances from John C. Reilly, Selma Blair, Patton Oswalt, Andy Richter, a monkey-faced eel, and many others.

Teleportal 3: McSweeney’s

feat. Bill Cotter, Annie La Ganga,

Dean Young, James Hannaham, and Wholphin

Tuesday, March 30, 8pm

Hotel San Jose

1316 S. Congress Ave

Austin, Texas

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