Author Zachary Steele
Former bookstore owner, fantasy league baseball aficionado, sometimes-chef, blatant animal lover and fan of all things cheese Zachary Steele’s debut novel, Anointed: The Passion of Timmy Christ, CEO (Mercury Retrograde Press, 2009, 340 pp., pbk.), is a hilarious, satirical romp through a world in which the religion has become a huge, profitable business in need of an overturning.
(Publishers Weekly liked it and basically said the exact same thing.)
“Wait”, you may be saying to yourself, “the BUSINESS of religion? This sounds strikingly like real life.”
Indeed, we say to you, indeed.
That’s why Steele’s book event at East Atlanta Village’s Bound To Be Read bookstore on April 23rd at 7:30 PM will find him in conversation with a fellow reader, fellow ponderer/questioner and fellow animal-lover who also happens to be a beloved, brilliant local award-winning folk-singer- Wayne Fishell, of the wayne fishell experiment. Their topics of conversation will range from Anointed’s deep, controversial and far-reaching themes of the corporation modern religious practice has become, how to market a book and what it’s like being a first-time novelist to, in fact, the best sorts of cheeses to pair with other foods. It will, indeed, be a night of a round table. Possibly incorporating an actual round table.
Both Wayne and Zachary are hilarious, offensive, witty and opinionated on their own, so this evening is certain to be informative and incendiary for anyone interested in writing, religion, or, of course, cheese. They might even duet on a rousing rendition of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”, so bring your rotten tomatoes, your communion wine and your ukuleles.
Zachary Steele in conversation with Wayne Fishell of the wayne fishell experiment, April 23rd at 7:30 PM at Bound To Be Read Books, 481 Flat Shoals Ave, Atlanta, GA 30316.
(404) 522-0877.
Visit Steele’s blog, “The Further Promotion Of Me” at http://zacharysteele.wordpress.com/, and interact with characters from Anointed at www.thechristcorporation.com. Wayne Fishell is online at www.ofishell.com.
