Good Times: Bad Trips

CLIFF HENGST & SCOTT HEWICKER
Issues, Confessions, and Psychedelic Crises
A public reading from Good Times: Bad Trips
Thursday October 25, 7:30 - 9:30pm
Gallery 16, San Francisco

Please join us at Gallery 16 on Thursday evening, October 25th, for Issues, Confessions, and Psychedelic Crises, a public reading from Hengst and Hewicker's new book Good Times: Bad Trips. The reading will feature many of the book's contributors including Kevin Killian, DodieBellamy, Lawrence Rinder, John Koch, Karla Milosevich, Shaun O'Dell, Margaret Tedesco, Ezra Feinberg, Cheryl Meeker, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Jennifer Locke, Scott Hewicker, Gerald Corbin, Leslie Shows, and IrwinSwirnoff, among others. Cliff Hengst will MC the event.

This book is a collection of true accounts exploring an under-recognized rite of passage: The Bad Trip. Pairing individual stories with paintings, collages and photographs by the artists, the book delves deeply into the romantic pathos of psychedelic crises."The thing is, it almost doesn't matter who wrote which story, so much so that the credits are tucked away, way in the back of the book, so the stories are just that, stories, removed from their authors, not overly writerly, instead conversational, like hanging out drinking and telling tales, where most bad trip stories actually get told. And these are some seriously demented stories. Some are super funny, some are really intense and brutal, some are so ridiculous they sound made up, others are more mundane, but resonate as experiences most of us have shared. It's an amazing read..." (Aquarius Records SF). Hengst and Hewicker's exhibition S.A.N.E at Gallery 16 continues through November 3, 2007. For additional information please contact Vanessa Blaikie at 415.626.7495 or email vanessa@gallery16.com.

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