Tracks Featured at Frostburg Indie Lit Fest

This weekend, Frostburg State University hosts the Sixth Annual Western Maryland Independent Lit Festival. The festival kicks off at 5:30 this Friday, October 12 with a reading and panel discussion on the author/publisher relationship.

I’ll be one of this year’s featured authors. The evening begins at Main Street Books at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, October 12. Other participants at the author/publisher relationship-themed reading include Gerry LaFemina, Richard Peabody, Jason Jack Miller, and Nathan Leslie.

The reading will be followed by a reception to welcome festival attendees at the Center for Creative Writing.

Then, at 7:30, a panel discussion portraying the editor/author relationship will be held at the Frostburg Public Library. The evening’s reading authors will participate, along with publishers Jamie Brown of Broadkill Publishing, Dan Cafaro of Atticus Books, Heidi Ruby Miller of Raw Dog Screaming Press, and Rick Campbell of Anhinga Press.

Three events rolled into one night, all free and open to the public!

Learn more about the kickoff evening at the Indie Lit Reading Facebook page.

www.facebook.com/events/309399842500826

Visit the Indie Lit Festival website for more about the weekend’s events.

www.frostburg.edu/cwcenter/indie-lit-festival

Nathan Leslie—Tracks is a Tour-de-Force

Author Nathan Leslie knows a thing or two about short fiction collections—he’s written six of them, including Believers, Madre, and Drivers. He’s also the fiction editor for The Pedestal Magazine, has been editor for two anthologies, and teaches creative fiction at Northern Virginia Community College. Here’s what the prolific fiction expert had to say about Tracks.



“Eric D. Goodman's scintillating first novel-in-stories travels along several parallel plot-lines, introducing the reader in mesmerizing fashion to men and women and the train tracks which serve as the object of their reflections and obsessions. Tracks is a tour-de-force, mirroring in its original structure perhaps train tracks themselves. The Westward expansion of our country, the grind of the daily commute, urbanization, the Holocaust—Goodman encapsulates all of this, so much of history and contemporary living. In the process, Goodman captures something almost ineffable—trains are us and vice versa. If one of the goals of great fiction is to set forth into new fictional territory, Tracks is that. And then some.”




Learn more about Nathan Leslie and his own fiction at his website.
http://www.nathanleslie.com/