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User Not Found book release party w/ Felicity Fenton & friends
December 15, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeCome celebrate the release of the newest Future Tense book, User Not Found, by Portland’s Felicity Fenton. She’ll be joined by authors Rebecca Schiff (The Bed Moved) and Jay Ponteri (Darkmouth Strikes Again), with music by Milk Bandits.
About the book:
Prompted by a sequence of discouraging internet encounters, Felicity Fenton attempts to free herself from the tendrils of an online world we know, but struggle to look away from. She evaluates the endless distractions of being tethered to her device and all that comes with it: email, spam, texting, taking pictures, and social media (aka “the walls”). In lyrical prose that swerves into dream-like mirage, hilarious thoughts, social observations, and unwavering sadness, User Not Found is a powerful essay that is all too relatable.
https://futuretensebooks.com/product/pre-order-user-not-found-by-felicity-fenton-scout-book-series/
Felicity Fenton’s multidisciplinary work (social practice, photography, installation) has been featured in public and private spaces around the globe. Most recently, her stories and essays have been featured in WOBBY, Fanzine, Split Lip Press, Wigleaf (forthcoming) and The Flexible Persona. By day she works as a Creative Director and Radio Host at Freeform Portland. She calls Portland, Oregon home sweet home.
Rebecca Schiff is the author of the short story collection The Bed Moved, a finalist for an LA Times Book Prize and a Sami Rohr Prize. Her fiction has appeared in n+1, Electric Literature, Catapult, Fence, Guernica, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, Washington Square, Lenny Letter, and in The Best Small Fictions 2017. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.
Jay Ponteri is the author of the memoir Wedlocked (Hawthorne Books), winner of an Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction, and the Future Tense chapbook, Darkmouth Strikes Again. His work has appeared in Del Sol Review, Seattle Review, Cimarron Review, Puerto Del Sol, Essay Daily, and elsewhere. He is founder of show:tell, The Workshop for Teen Writers & Artists.
Milk Bandits is an indie-soul trio from Portland.
The event is hosted by Future Tense Books publisher Kevin Sampsell.
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