Date: Sunday, March 30, 2008
Time: 7:00 p.m., $5
Location: Hideout (1354 W. Wabansia)
Participants: Susannah Felts, author of This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record; Eileen Favorite, author of The Heroines; Patrick Somerville, author of Trouble: Stories and the forthcoming novel The Cradle; J Adams Oaks, author of the forthcoming novel Why I Fight

Full disclosure: This event is a book release for Susannah Felts, teacher, writer, and editor extraordinaire, (and contributor to this site). (More disclosure: I am finishing the book this eve and am happy to report it’s even better than I thought it’d be.) Her new novel This Will Go Down in Your Permanent Record (Featherproof Books), is the coming of age-ish story of two teenage girls in Nashville in the late 80s. Here, Felts, (also a Nashville native) responds eloquently to those inevitable “is it you?” questions in this interview, and the book–which nicely straddles the line between YA and adult fiction–is reviewed on a teen book review site, here. Issues of jealousy, competition, boys, sexuality, drugs, and y’know, the whole “figuring out one’s identity” are explored. Dying for more info before you head to this sure-to-be-killer-party at the Hideout with local faves Pat Somerville, Eileen Favorite, and J. Adams Oaks? Check her blog for exposition about the book and more.