Authors: Michael T. Fournier
Acknowledgments
I
STARTED THIS ONE ON
S
EPTEMBER
9, 2010 in Amherst, MA, right after I began my commute to Lowell, MA five days a week, ninety minutes each way.
The title
Swing State
âbetter than “Armbrister,” a pre-Middle-brooks baseball interference in-jokeâcame to me in the shower sometime in 2012 at our new apartment in Belchertown, MA. I finished the sixth and more or less final draft at the big house in Orono, ME August 1, 2013, after two months of doubles book-ending the Monsters of Talk tour.
Thank you to my amazing wife Rebecca Griffin for all her love and patience.
Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges continue to believe in me, despite the fact that I'm a Red Sox fan.
Much respect to all the bookstores, galleries, living rooms, and basements that hosted readings on my Hidden Wheel tour: Rachel and Benn at Atomic Books; Aaron and Book Thug Nation; Black Wine; Pete Camerato and Pillowman; Chop Suey Books; Chris Dooley, Meghan Minior, and all at Flywheel; Valerie Leavy and Satellite 66; Megan London and all at Main Street Music Studios; Midtown Scholar; Megan and Dexter
Murphy; Papercut Zine Library; Gina Quaranto and Blackbird Studios; Liz and all at Quimby's; The Regulator Bookstore; Liberty and RiverRun Bookstore; Laurie Steelink and Track 16 (RIP); Liz at Stories; Txotuo and Sub-Mission Gallery; Eric Truchan and Rehab House; Maggie and all at Wonder Root; and Dani and Emily of Word Portland.
Beta readers: James Brophy, Jen Grosso, and Ed McNamara, Broderick Lang, Katie Lattari, Ben Stein.
Thanks to friends and family, pets included. Dr. Damian Adshead, Momi and Ramsay Antonio-Barnes, Tyler Babbie and Kate Kenderish, Billy Babbitt, Austin Bagley, the staff of the Belchertown Post Office, Tim Berrigan, Black Wine, Whitney Erin Boesel, Casey Boyd and Becky Cyr, Julie Burrell, Tobias Carroll and Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Coastwest Unrest, Marc “Gus” Desgroseilliers, Todd Dills and the 2nd Hand, Mike Faloon, Shelly Fank and Tim O'Neill, Ray and Kathy Fournier, Duane Gorey, Jay Grant, Great Western Plain, Ned Greene and Eliza Burke-Greene, Dave Griffin, Russ Griffin, Broseph Grillo and Hilary Preston, Emma Howes, Duncan Wilder Johnson, Kickstarter Muster Roll, Dave Kress, Kathy and Jerry Lacroix, Rich and Jackie Ladew-Tang, Dave Lawton, Miriam Leibowitz, Karen Lillis, Heather and Andy Malenke, Sam McPheeters, Paige and Lily Mitchell, Dan Moellering and Courtney Davis, Lisa Panepinto and Ryan Roderick, Rachel Perry and Rob Bergen, The Pichettes, Sammy Ponzar, Mike Powers, Brendan Emmett Quigley and Liz Donovan, Amber Porter and Ramsay Tatawi, Adra Raine, Steve Reynolds, Maggie Sabo, Kevin Shine and the ShineTones, Spippy, Taiwan Typhoon, Lori Timm, Tooth and Germ, Wah-Tut-Ca Scout Reservation, Tommy Walsh and Marna Eckels, Mike Watt, and you.
Molly T. Bunnyâaka Cabildoâ1997â2013.
Rest in Peace: Jon Cook and Jason Noble.
I'd love to read in your town/at your bookstore/in your living room/at your school, etc. Get in touch:
[email protected]
, and/or PO Box 784, Belchertown, MA 01007.
Now go start your own ___________ !
For more information, visit
http://michaeltfournier.tumblr.com
About the Author
M
ICHAEL
T. F
OURNIER IS A WRITER
/
CRITIC
/
MUSICIAN
, and the author of two novels:
Hidden Wheel
(Three Rooms Press, 2011) and
Swing State
(Three Rooms Press, 2014), as well as
Double Nickels on the Dime
(33 1/3 Series/Bloomsbury Academic), a book-length discussion of the 1984 Minutemen album of the same name. He is founder and co-editor of
Cabildo Quarterly
, a broadsheet literary journal. His writing has appeared in the the
Oxford American, Vice, Pitchfork
, and the
Boston Globe
. He lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife Rebecca and their cat.
Recent and Forthcoming Books from Three Rooms Press
PHOTOGRAPHY-MEMOIR
Mike Watt
On & Off Bass
FICTION
Ron Dakron
Hello Devilfish!
Michael T. Fournier
Hidden Wheel
Swing State
Janet Hamill
Tales from the Eternal Café (Introduction by Patti Smith)
Eamon Loingsigh
Light of the Diddicoy
Richard Vetere
The Writers Afterlife
DADA
Maintenant: Journal of Contemporary Dada Art & Literature (Annual poetry/art journal, since 2008)
MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
Nassrine Azimi and Michel Wasserman
Last Boat to Yokohama: The Life and Legacy of Beate Sirota Gordon
Richard Katrovas
Raising Girls in Bohemia: Meditations of an American Father; A Memoir in Essays
Stephen Spotte
My Watery Self: An Aquatic Memoir
SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY
Have a NYC:
New York Short Stories
Annual Short Fiction Anthology
PLAYS
Madeline Artenberg & Karen Hildebrand
The Old In-and-Out
Peter Carlaftes
Triumph For Rent (3 Plays)
Teatrophy (3 More Plays)
MIXED MEDIA
John S. Paul
Sign Language: A Painters Notebook
TRANSLATIONS
Thomas Bernhard
On Earth and in Hell
(poems by the author in German with English translations by Peter Waugh)
Patrizia Gattaceca
Isula d'Anima / Soul Island
(poems by the author in Corsican with English translations)
César Vallejo | Gerard Malanga
Malanga Chasing Vallejo
(selected poems of César Vallejo with English translations and additional notes by Gerard Malanga)
George Wallace
EOS: Abductor of Men
(poems by the author in English with Greek translations)
HUMOR
Peter Carlaftes
A Year on Facebook
POETRY COLLECTIONS
Hala Alyan
Atrium
Peter Carlaftes
DrunkYard Dog
I Fold with the Hand I Was Dealt
Thomas Fucaloro
It Starts from the Belly and Blooms Inheriting Craziness is Like a Soft Halo of Light
Kat Georges
Our Lady of the Hunger
Robert Gibbons
Close to the Tree
Israel Horovitz
Heaven and Other Poems
David Lawton
Sharp Blue Stream
Jane LeCroy
Signature Play
Philip Meersman
This is Belgian Chocolate
Jane Ormerod
Recreational Vehicles on Fire
Welcome to the Museum of Cattle
Lisa Panepinto
On This Borrowed Bike
George Wallace
Poppin' Johnny
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