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The Bridge on Beer River is a Publisher’s Weekly—Book Life Editors Pick!

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Thank you to the editors of Publisher’s Weekly—Book Life for the wonderful review. I was thrilled to receive my copy in the mail!

Here is an excerpt:

“Tierney (Lucky Ride) creates an urgent, moving slice-of-life narrative of rebuilding a life in this collection of stories centering around Curt, an ex-Marine who struggles to find himself in 1980s small-town Binghamton….”

Here is a link to the journal page online: https://booklife.com/booklife-review/9781956692631

Find more information about The Bridge on Beer River HERE

Hope you can attend my reading at A Great Good Place for Books on Tuesday, September 26, at 7 pm PDT

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Please join me at my local Oakland bookstore, A Great Good Place for Books, where I’ll be reading from my new novel, The Bridge on Beer River. My friend Stewart Florsheim will join me to read from his new poetry collection, Amusing the Angels, which won the 2022 Blue Light Book Award.

Read more about the event here: https://www.ggpbooks.com/event/AmusingBeer

Learn more about The Bridge on Beer River HERE

Check out my One Question interview about The Bridge on Beer River in Hypertext Magazine

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I enjoyed recalling Curt’s genesis as a non-autobiographical narrator of the novel, and how I might share a Genesee beer with him but little else.

https://www.hypertextmag.com/one-question-terry-tierney-2/

Thank you to the editors of Hypertext Magazine!

Find more information about The Bridge on Beer River HERE

New Excerpt from The Bridge on Beer River in Hypertext Magazine

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In this excerpt from The Bridge on Beer River, Curt answers his door to a neighbor holding a gun and reluctantly recalls his service as a Marine during the Vietnam War.

https://www.hypertextmag.com/one-question-terry-tierney-2/

Thank you to the editors of Hypertext Magazine!

Find more information about The Bridge on Beer River HERE

Crossing “The Bridge on Beer River” This Week

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Just a reminder, I will be reading from my new novel, The Bridge on Beer River, in the coming week, and I would love to see you at one of these events. The Poetry Flash and Orinda Books readings will be held in person. I really enjoy sharing my novel and interacting with a live audience.

The Grotto Night at the Library will be a Zoom event featuring two outstanding authors, Sophia Raday and Pia Chatterjee, who are my colleagues from the SF Writer’s Grotto. We will read and discuss how we apply the motifs of mystery writing within whodunits and literary fiction in general.

Sunday, 8/6, 3 pm
Poetry Flash Reading Series
Reading with Peter Neil Carroll
Art House Gallery and Cultural Center  
2905 Shattuck Avenue (near Ashby)
Berkeley, CA
For info: https://poetryflash.org/calendar/?t=0o20230806o_tierney-carroll

Grotto Night at the Library
Tuesday, Aug 8, 6-7:30 pm PDT
ZOOM event
“Why We Love Mysteries: The Genre and Motif of Discovery”
Reading and Conversation with Sophia Raday and Pia Chatterjee
San Francisco Public Library
Register: https://sfpl.org/events/2023/08/08/panel-grotto-nights-library-conversation-writers

Saturday, 8/12, 2 pm (note that this event has been POSTPONED)
Orinda Books
276 Village Square
Orinda, CA 94563
For info: https://www.orindabooks.com/event/terry-tierney-author-bridge-beer-river
Register:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/terry-tierney-author-of-the-bridge-on-beer-river-tickets-682468540777

Find more information on my new novel HERE