On the evening of November 27th, a crowd filled Book Thug Nation to celebrate the release of Justin Maurer’s  collection Seventeen Television.

Aaron Lake Smith led off the evening with some musings on writing discipline, the ways in which writers make a living, and the strange fate of the literary “sketch.”

He was followed by Sean H. Doyle, who told a story about a friend from the Phoenix punk scene who had turned to Scientology.

Cassie J. Sneider‘s piece also focused on Arizona, as she recounted a tale of bad tattoos, road trips to California, and being haunted by the music of the Eagles.

And Justin Maurer closed out the evening by reading from Seventeen Television — specifically, “Down on the Boulevard,” about his job working for a tour bus company in Los Angeles.

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