• Saturday, January 13, Time TBA Old Town Books, VA130 S. Royal Street, Alexandria VA 22314 Contributors to Already Gone: Forty Stories of Running Away will read, along with James J. Patterson, who will read from Junk Shop Window: Essays on Myth, Life and Literature. Other readers TBA.

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  • Junk Shop Window Reading

    Sunday, October 29, 5:30 pm Reston’s Used Book Shop1623 Washington Plaza NorthReston, VA 20190 James J. Patterson reads from his new essay collection, Junk Shop Window: Essays on Myth, Life and Literature. He’ll be joined by poet Hayes Davie and ASP Bulletin Editor-in Chief and Associate Editor Hannah Grieco, reading her fiction.  Part of the…

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  • September, TBA: There will be events for Junk Shop Window in Ontario, Canada. Stay tuned for details.    

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  • By Eylie Sasajima To celebrate the upcoming release of Junk Shop Window: Essays on Myth, Life, and Literature, on June 6, ASP’s James J. Patterson was interviewed on E. Ethelbert Miller’s WPFW radio show, On the Margin. The conversation included personal reading and writing practices, science fiction, and the origin of ASP itself, along with…

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  • With a new edition of Nexus: the International Henry Miller Journal comes a whole new discourse on the oft-ignored American master. James J. Patterson’s unique perspective on Miller appears as “Throwing in the Tao…” an essay concerning the correspondence between writer Lawrence Durrell and his mentor, Henry Miller. An excerpt follows below. Catch it in the new…

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  • James J Patterson remembers his hero, Robert Bly, from Patterson’s forthcoming book, “Junk Shop Window” from Alan Squire Publishing. It is a late Sunday afternoon in downtown Atlanta. The Conference on Myth, Fantasy, and Imagination, on the last of its four days, is taking a breather between the afternoon lectures and mealtime festivities. The conference…

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