Book Launch - David Moscovich and RJ Huneke

Book Release Event - David Moscovich and RJ Huneke

Event moderated by Igor Rocha (@igor_o_rocha)

Come join us for an exciting book release event featuring authors David Moscovich and RJ Huneke! It's going down at Rosebud Bookshop a perfect spot for book lovers to gather and celebrate literature.

Enjoy an evening discussing the books with the authors! Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with the authors and support these talented writers.

• Moscovich makes poetry out of a group of verbal CAPTCHAS from 2007-2009. The ultimate in restricted writing—David Moscovich’s athletic and poetic feat, a poem every five minutes from 9AM till 5PM with a lunch break. 74 snapshots of the human body and mind under extreme stress. Not to be tried by everyone, but available for inspection by the curious.

About David Moscovich
David Moscovich (it/its) is the Romanian-American author of four novels: You Are Make Very Important Bathtime, LIFE+70[Redacted], Blink if You Love Me, and Manhattan Other. It is recipient of grants, sponsorships and fellowships from New York University, PEN America, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), Teachers & Writers Collaborative, The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and International House NYC. In 2011, it won the Broad Set Collective Award for Flash Fiction, has been nominated for an &Now Award and a Pushcart Prize. Moscovich runs Louffa Press, a small press publisher of chapbooks and artist books. It triangulates between New York, Nebraska and Portugal. It has sound art releases on Tymbal Tapes and Public Eyesore Records. It is homo sapiens sapiens. 

• For readers of fantasy, Huneke's ANTS WAKING is a thrilling, visceral magical realism tale about an autistic college freshman in the magical city of Cambridge racing against meddlesome gods for the means to thwart their friend's premature death before a Dark storm consumes them. The title novella is accompanied by Huneke’s illustrations plus bonus material: previously published and unpublished short stories and select poetry. For every book sold the author is donating $1 to the Global Action for Trans Equality [GATE] and $1 to the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, to benefit the trans and neurodivergent communities.

About RJ Huneke

R.J. Huneke is an author and artist whose writing career began after a cross-country journey from New York to California. A former columnist for Newsday, he has written for numerous outlets and founded the fiction review magazine TheForgottenFiction.com. His work spans speculative fiction, graphic novels, poetry and more. His debut novel Cyberwar published in 2015. R.J. holds an honors degree in English Literature and Writing from Stony Brook University and currently lives in Portugal with his family.

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