Transmedia novelist Jesús Ángel García stops by the Arena on his badbadbad marathon book tour for a night of literary debauchery with special guests Melissa Febos, Scott McClanahan, Janice Erlbaum, and m.g. martin.

About badbadbad:

When his wife inexplicably flees from home with their infant son, Jesús Ángel García struggles to redefine himself by being of service on both sides of the Southern cultural divide. By day, he works as the humble, God-fearing webmaster of the First Church of the Church Before Church. At night, he plays the part of sexual messiah on fallenangels, an online social network for extreme desires. Blinded by righteousness, obsession, and identity confusion, Jesús refuses to change his path even as it leads to the greatest of sins.

About the Author:

About the Guests:

After moving to New York in 1999, Melissa Febos graduated from The New School University, spent four years working as a professional dominatrix, received an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She has now lived in Brooklyn for over a decade, co-curates and hosts the popular monthly music and reading series, Mixer, on the Lower East Side, and teaches writing and literature at SUNY Purchase College, NYU, & The New School, in addition to offering private editing and instruction. Her essays, stories, journalism, and the occasional poem have been published widely, and her memoir, Whip Smart, was published by St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books in March 2010. She is currently at work on a novel about music, madness, and dioramas. http://www.melissafebos.com/

Janice Erlbaum is the author of Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir (Villard, March '06), and Have You Found Her: A Memoir (Villard, Feb. '08). Her poetry and prose have been featured in anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order, The Best American Erotic Poems from 1800 to the Present, The Autobiographer's Handbook: The 826 National Guide to Writing Your Memoir, and Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets.
She was a contributor to Bust Magazine from 1994 through 2007, and has also written for the websites of McSweeney's, Nerve, and Nextbook. Her work has been featured in Glamour, Redbook, Marie Claire, Elle, Elle UK, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, and The New York Times. Janice teaches memoir writing and has addressed audiences at colleges, coffee houses, and theaters across the East Coast. She lives in her native New York City with her domestic partner, Bill Scurry, and their three cats.

Scott McClanahan is the writer of Stories, Stories II, and Stories V! His book, Hill William, will be published in 2012 by Tyrant Books. He is also one of Dzanc Books 20 under 40 writers to watch.

m.g. martin is the author of One For None (Ink., 2010.) His poems appear or are forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, Pank, Shampoo, Spork & Short, Fast, and Deadly, among others. He is a co-producer of Literary Death Match NY & a Spam Musubi junkie. m.g. lives in Brooklyn with the poet Tess Patalano & the dog Ihu. In other news, mgmartin.tumblr.com, and @themgmartin, in addition to blah, blah, blah.