Book Signing w/ Andrew Farkas

Many authors have traveled and explored the out-of-doors, both in life and then in their books, proving themselves stalwart, audacious, even heroic; Andrew Farkas is not among them. He is brave enough to admit that the outdoors isn’t for him. Instead, in these essays Farkas reports on his bold explorations of a very different territory: the in-of-doors, the waiting rooms, kitchens, malls, bars, theaters, roadside motel rooms, and other places that feature temperature control, protection from rampaging predators, and a higher degree of comfort than can be found outside.

Farkas discovers that, just as the mannered and wonderfully (gloriously) artificial indoors influences us greatly, our lives are also controlled much more by fiction than by anything “real.” So come in out of the weather (it’s always terrible) and join the Great Indoorsman on his adventures, where he makes fun of pretty much everything, most of all himself.

Andrew Farkas is the author of The Big Red Herring (KERNPUNKT Press), Sunsphere (BlazeVOX [books]), Self-Titled Debut (Subito Press), and The Great Indoorsman: Essays (University of Nebraska Press). He is a teacher at Washburn University. He is the fiction editor for The Rupture.

Mike Miley is the author of Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film (Univ Press of MS, 2019) and co-editor of Conversations with Steve Erickson (UPMS, 2021). His writing has appeared in TheAtlantic.com, Literature/Film Quarterly, The North Dakota Quarterly, The Smart Set, and elsewhere. He teaches literature at Metairie Park Country Day School and is currently working on a book about the films of David Lynch.