As part of Litquake 2011 (
http://www.litquake.org/), we'll be celebrating the launch of Everywhere Man, a literary audio tour and book written by Bay Area author Jim Nelson, featuring original music composed by Jesse Solomon Clark (
www.agentsdelfuturo.com) with Cornelius Boots (
http://corneliusboots.bandcamp.com/) on bass clarinet.
HOW THIS EVENT WORKS:
#1 PREORDER YOUR BOOK FOR A DISCOUNTED PRICE: To guarantee that you receive a copy of the limited-edition book and map, order yours today for $15, and we'll have it waiting for you at the event:
http://www.invisiblecityaudiotours.org/Everywhere_Man. At and after launch, the book will be available for $19.95 (tour included).
#2: DOWNLOAD THE TOUR FOR FREE: The download will be available October 8 on the Everywhere Man webpage (
http://www.invisiblecityaudiotours.org/Everywhere_Man) or through our Invisible City Audio Tours iPhone App (
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/invisible-city-audio-tours/id416746852?mt=8).
#3: Meet us at the beginning of the tour route on October 15 from 10 AM - 3 PM. We'll have a table at the Powell/Market cable car turntable where you can pick up your pre-ordered book and map. Bring cash for the cable car ride ($12 total). You will also be able to buy the book at the table if you haven't pre-ordered it.
ABOUT THE TOUR
Everywhere Man invites Invisible City Tourists to solve a modern mystery while riding San Francisco's historic cable cars. Tour participants will hear about a stranger haunting millions of tourist photographs that are taken around San Francisco and posted on the Internet, a man whose image quietly frustrates the fabric of the city's digital history. "Everywhere Man," as he comes to be known, is constantly visible in the background of photos taken over years and across the city's landscape. He has never been identified, his anonymity remaining unchallenged until the time comes when he can no longer be ignored.
The story unfolds aboard the cable car, then leads Tourists through a walking tour of Fisherman's Wharf and Ghirardelli Square as the search draws closer. The tour ends at San Francisco's Cable Car Museum where the machinery of the cars and cables are laid bare along with the identity of Everywhere Man.
Again, it's very important to DOWNLOAD TO TOUR on an MP3 player BEFORE coming out to take the tour!
More information about the tour can be found here:
http://www.invisiblecityaudiotours.org/Everywhere_Man.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jim Nelson's work has appeared in Confrontation, We Still Like, North American Review, Instant City, Switchback, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Watchword among others. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from SFSU where he has also taught. Awards include Honorable Mention in the San Francisco Browning Society Dramatic Monologue Competiton, First Prize in the Clark College Fiction Contest, and a Webby nomination for his webzine Ad Nauseam. He's a prior Fiction Editor for Transfer, former Web Director for Parthenon West Review, and a Floundering Skeptician of the Flat Earth Collective. He can be located on the Web at
http://www.barbecuingpeople.com.
MORE DETAILS TO COME!
*Image for this facebook event designed by Sarah Ciston*
