Author Booksigning: "Killing Williamsburg" by Bradley Spinelli (fiction)

“Spinelli offers sharp and stylish prose.”
—Publisher Weekly

Join as we welcome national author Bradley Spinelli for a reading, Q&A and interview. Booksigning to follow. Free admission. 

In 1999, the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg is hit by an epidemic of suicide. The burgeoning hipster enclave rapidly becomes a macabre spectacle, witnessed and deftly described by Benson, a reflexively cynical Gen-Xer and New York transplant. As his friends kill themselves off and the “Bug” spreads to Manhattan, Benson forms a crew to clean up the mess of his adopted city, fighting against hopelessness. A testament to the human spirit, Killing Williamsburg follows in the haunting tradition set by Albert Camus’ The Plague and José Saramago’s Blindness.

http://killingwilliamsburg.com/

Bradley Spinelli has herded cattle, worked on Wall Street, and run away with the circus. He was born in North Dakota and has lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, since 1999, when the neighborhood was rife with grit and promise.. His play Elusive was presented by the National New Playwrights Network in Denver and given a staged reading at 13th Street Rep (NYC). His play Ifni, set in Morocco, was workshopped in New York, and his one-act Pretty Mouth was produced at the Duplex. One of his novels was a semifinalist for the Faulkner (Pirate’s Alley) Competition. Spinelli was a principal actor in the well-received independent film Home (various festivals). He also wrote, directed, and performed in the short film Kind of Blue (Dallas Video Festival). His short fiction has previously been published by Sparkle Street Press, Le Chat Noir (We Live for Blood and Glory and Drinking with Papa Legba), and he competed in Canteen Magazine’s first flash fiction write-off versus Dana Goodyear. Selections from Killing Williamsburg recently appeared in Sensitive Skin. Spinelli is working on a novel set in Bangkok. He lives with his wife in Brooklyn.