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Blazevox Books Launch (8pm, Sunday, October 28 @ Rust Belt Books)

Buffalo’s Blazevox Books has been taking advantage of new digital technologies for the past several years to publish an astonishing number of new books of poetry and fiction from around the country. It has also firmly committed to publishing the work of poets and writers living in Buffalo. This Sunday, Blazevox will host a book launch for two local authors with new books out from the press. Just Buffalo Artistic Director Michael Kelleher, fresh off a West Coast reading tour, will read from his new book, Human Scale. Kyle Schlesinger, formerly of Buffalo, now living in Brooklyn, will read from his new Blazevox title, Hello Helicopter. Event starts at 8pm, and there will be food prepared by Kevin Thurston and publisher Geoffrey Gatza, formerly a chef at the Mansion.

Aimee Parkison (7pm, Thursday, October 25 @ Medaille College)

Meeting Aimee Parkison, you would never suspect that she is the author of the violent, sometimes gruesome, always quirky stories that bear her name. Her soft-spoken politeness seems more to fit a well-bred Southern lady of bygone days. But her fiction is interested in, and exudes compassion for, drifters, the homeless and a whole panoply of marginal characters, whom Parkison renders with a style that more than one critic has called “painterly”—visual and atmospheric. Parkison’s work has also garnered her numerous awards, among them the prestigious Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize from North American Review and, in 2004, the Starcherone Press Fiction Prize, for her debut collection, Woman with Dark Horses.

Parkison will read her work as part of Medaille’s Write Thing Reading Series, which takes place in Medaille’s Library at Huber Hall. The reading will be followed by a Q&A. Refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public.