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Join us for a reading and discussion with author Kurt Baumeister as he sits down with Joseph Salvatore (& James Reich, his publisher at Stalking Horse Press) to talk about his new novel Twilight Of The Gods.
This is not your comic book trickster. Kurt Baumeister’s Twilight of the Gods is satire and alternate history on an operatic, cinematic, and cosmic scale, with a cast that transcends time and space. The grinding of The Wheel of Fate is heard in Valhalla, as it is in Berlin and Boston. Can Odin’s many schemes be undone? Who can rewire the robotic nightmare of politics and write a brighter future for humanity? Only humanity’s champion, the long misunderstood, supposed force of evil, Loki. This is a tale of fallen gods and failing humanity, of love lost and found, of parents and children, magic and sex, art and lies, good, evil, and the end of Fate. This is the story of Loki. In his own words.
Humorous, urgent, and timely, Twilight Of The Gods asks us to not only read this story of Loki as an alternative history, but as one both eerily prescient and contemporary.
Presented by the Creative Writing Program at the Schools of Public Engagement.
Kurt Baumeister’s writing has appeared in Salon, Guernica, Electric Literature, Rain Taxi, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Nervous Breakdown, The Weeklings, and other outlets. An acquisitions editor with 7.13 Books, Baumeister holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. Twilight Of The Gods is his second novel.
James Reich is the author nine books, most recently the science fiction novel Skinship (Anti-Oedipus Press, and the psychological monograph Wilhelm Reich versus The Flying Saucers (punctum books). His other novels are The Moth for the Star (7.13 Books) The Song My Enemies Sing, Soft Invasions, and Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness (Anti-Oedipus Press), Bombshell, and I, Judas (Soft Skull Press). He has also produced a limited-edition collection of poems, The Holly King.
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Kurt Baumeister’s writing has appeared in Salon, Guernica, Electric Literature, Rain Taxi, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Nervous Breakdown, The Weeklings, and other outlets. An acquisitions editor with 7.13 Books, Baumeister holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. Twilight Of The Gods is his second novel.
James Reich is the author nine books, most recently the science fiction novel Skinship (Anti-Oedipus Press, and the psychological monograph Wilhelm Reich versus The Flying Saucers (punctum books). His other novels are The Moth for the Star (7.13 Books) The Song My Enemies Sing, Soft Invasions, and Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness (Anti-Oedipus Press), Bombshell, and I, Judas (Soft Skull Press). He has also produced a limited-edition collection of poems, The Holly King. In October 2025, he will be a presenter at the Henry Miller in the 21st Century Conference in California. James’ analysis of British science fiction in the 1960s was published as part of Bloomsbury’s Decades series. He contributed to early editions of Deep Ends: The J.G. Ballard Anthology, and his writing also been published by Literary Hub, CrimeReads, SPIN Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Salon, Sensitive Skin, American Book Review, International Times, and many others. In 2015, he founded Stalking Horse Press, an independent publishing house dedicated to innovative fiction, poetry, and criticism. James was born in England in 1971 and has lived in New Mexico since 2009. Lean more at: jamesreichbooks.com
