Suzanne Morrison video series

At the release party hosted by Hugo House and Debut Lit for Suzanne Morrison’s debut memoir Yoga Bitch, Morrison read a hilarious essay about how the book came to be, from its early start as a novel to the author’s reaction to Eat, Pray, Love.

See video of her reading on our YouTube channel!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Nicole Hardy and The Handsome Husbands

Poet Nicole Hardy performs with her back up band at the Debut Lit event at the Richard Hugo House.

Hugo House video

We had a great turnout for Suzanne Morrison’s Yoga Bitch release party at Hugo House. Thanks to all who came out to support and drink your pee-colored Suzitinis!

We’ll be posting videos and photos here over the next few days so you can enjoy it all over again.

Here for you to behold is Debut Lit’s Rebekah Anderson and Hugo House’s Brian McGuigan competing for the privilege of introducing our headliner in a little game we like to call “Six Degrees of Suzanne Morrison.”

Guest post: Brian McGuigan of Hugo House on supporting new authors

Brian McGuigan is one of the most influential writers and literary movers in Seattle. As the mastermind behind all the events at the city’s beloved Richard Hugo House, he’s the guy responsible for bringing authors like Sam Lipsyte to visit and he runs the most popular reading series in town, Cheap Wine and Poetry. DL is excited to have a chance to collaborate with him and Hugo House. Here’s what Brian had to say about our upcoming event…

Suzanne Morrison is exactly the kind of author Hugo House is here to support, a local about whom we’ll all be saying, “I remember her when….” Suzanne’s been a fixture in the arts community for several years and recently published her debut memoir, “Yoga Bitch,” a hilarious tale of her search for enlightenment. We’re honored to support Suzanne by  presenting her book launch in partnership with Debut Lit.

Awww. Come see Brian run circles around co-MC Rebekah from DEBUT LIT on stage:

Me Talk Funny Someday: A Book Launch Party for Suzanne Morrison’s “Yoga Bitch,” with funny ladies Nicole Hardy and Tina Rowley

Thursday, October 6 – 7:00pm
Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle

“I woke up in the middle of the night with an idea for the book’s structure”: Suzanne Morrison talks about writing her debut memoir

In a recent post on Culture Mob, Seattle Metro Editor Dan Coxon interviews Suzanne Morrison about her new memoir, YOGA BITCH. Morrison dishes about how she transformed her one-woman show into a novel first before it was written as a memoir, where she stands with yoga now and what projects she’s working on next.

Check out the whole transcript here…

You can see Morrison read from YOGA BITCH this coming Thursday, 10/6, 7pm at the Richard Hugo House.

Me Talk Funny Someday: A Book Launch Party for Suzanne Morrison’s “Yoga Bitch,” with funny ladies Nicole Hardy and Tina Rowley

YOGA BITCH video trailer

Check out this video trailer for Suzanne Morrison’s hilarious debut memoir, YOGA BITCH. Don’t miss her upcoming live reading with DEBUT LIT!

Me Talk Funny Someday: A Book Launch Party for Suzanne Morrison’s “Yoga Bitch,” with funny ladies Nicole Hardy and Tina Rowley

Thursday, October 6 – 7:00pm
Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle

 

Upcoming event: YOGA BITCH book launch party

New author, Suzanne Morrison, brought the house down at our last DEBUT LIT event with a hilarious reading from what was then her upcoming first memoir. The book is now out, and DL is pleased to be collaborating with the Hugo House in Seattle to host a launch party for her.

Me Talk Funny Someday: A Book Launch Party for Suzanne Morrison’s “Yoga Bitch,” with funny ladies Nicole Hardy and Tina Rowley

Thursday, October 6 – 7:00pm
Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle

 

Upcoming event: Shakespeare’s birthday in Seattle, April 23

So excited about this event for so many reasons!

1) I love wine, and Bartholomew Winery has a gorgeous old warehouse space for a tasting room that’s staggering distance from my house
2) I’ve been wanting to make a “dramatic” reading happen for about 5 years now and finally found the perfect mix of authors and books to pull it off
3) It’s my birthday week
4) It’s also Shakespeare’s birthday week
5) Laurie, Urban and Suzanne are all talented local authors who I’m thrilled to be working with
6) I love wine (twice)
7) You’ll be there! 

Join DEBUT LIT for a dramatic reading and party with local authors!

-          Laurie Frankel, The Atlas of Love
-          Urban Waite, The Terror of Living 

-          Suzanne Morrison, Yoga Bitch

 

The authors will read scenes from their books accompanied by actors 

Laurie Frankel, Urban Waite, Suzanne Morrison

Book signing and party to follow with music by The Calculus Affair from their Hamlet album

Latest releases from Bartholomew Winery will be available for purchase

April 23, 7 -9 p.m. FREE
Bartholomew Winery
3100 Airport Way South, Seattle
(in the old Rainier Brewery building)
Just a short walk from the Stadium light rail station

Bring cash as the nearest cash machine is not so near

Upcoming event: Alexi Zentner’s Touch, Seattle, April 13

If you’re anywhere near the Pacific Northwest, mark your calendars for Alexi Zentner’s tour for his fantastic debut novel, Touch. DEBUT LIT will host a cocktail party for him in Seattle on April 13 at Vermillion Gallery & Bar at 8:30 p.m. following his reading at Elliott Bay Books. With Zentner visiting Seattle for this one night during his tour for Touch, this event is not to be missed!

A starred Publisher’s Weekly review calls Touch an “eerie, elegiac debut,” and the novel has already been selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and a Knopf Canada New Face of Fiction pick.

Touch pulls the distinctly Northwest traditions of frontier-ism, indigenous lore, and an apprehensive fascination with landscape–along with the perils of each–into a haunting chronicle of a family’s experience living in a fictionalized rural British Columbia logging and mining community. Written in a style the author refers to as “mythic realism,” Touch treats ghosts and legends with as much factual weight as any other details of the characters’ lives. In the woods of Touch, you are as likely to encounter a hungry miner as you are a Sasquatch.

At the DEBUT LIT event, Zentner will be introduced by local writer, Peter Mountford, who is currently writer-in-residence at Seattle Arts & Lectures. The two are friends from Breadloaf, and coincidentally, Mountford’s debut novel, A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism, will be released the previous day.
 

Those attending can mingle with the two authors, ask impertinent questions and get their books signed or re-signed.

Noteworthy debut: a look back

 

Looking for some good reading to keep you occupied through the rest of the winter? DEBUT LIT intern and NYU creative writing student Cassandra Rodriguez looks back a few years at Ed Park’s award-winning debut novel.

  

“Personal Days is a debut novel by Ed Park. It begins as a comical, satirical outlook on the office workspace, slowly introducing characters that have each their own tics and perspectives on their nameless company. With a deceptively lighthearted start, it gradually introduces offbeat characters such as Laars, a frantic Googler who takes a vow of chastity, The Sprout, the boss whose strange sayings and eccentricity sets everyone with unease, and Maxine, a seemingly untouchable figure to all whose charm seems to hide something calculating within. The prose is written with a collective first-person perspective that encompasses all the characters, with no set hero or heroine within. Everyone is influenced and subjected to the rapidly failing company.

Ed Park