Autumn Leaves Books and Angry Mom Records are excited to bring a 33 1/3 extravaganza to Ithaca. Kevin Dunn, author of a new book on Stiff Little Fingers’ Inflammable Material, will be joined by other fabulous 33 1/3 writers Michael T. Fournier, Bob Proehl, and Elizabeth Sandifer.

Situating Stiff Little Fingers and their groundbreaking 1979 debut within the context of The Troubles, Dunn’s book explores the band’s complicated and controversial relationship with the Belfast punk scene, a scene that actively defied violent social divisions to create important non-sectarian spaces through which an “Alternative Ulster” was imagined and put into practice.

This event is free. Join us upstairs on the mezzanine. Keep in mind, seating is limited.

About the authors:
Kevin Dunn is Professor in the International Relations Department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA. He is author of Global Punk: Resistance and Rebellion in Everyday Life (Bloomsbury 2016), Inside African Politics (with Pierre Englebert; 2013, 2020, and 2026), as well as the award-winning novel Vicious is My Middle Name (2022). Active in DIY punk scenes since the 1980s, he continues to perform in several bands, runs an independent record label, publishes various zines, and is a regular contributor to the influential DIY punk zine Razorcake.

Michael T. Fournier is the author of the novel The Impasse (St. Rooster Books 2024), Double Nickels on the Dime (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2007), Hidden Wheel (Three Rooms Press, 2011), and Swing State (Three Rooms Press, 2014). He graduated from University of Maine’s MA program where he won the Steven Grady Award for fiction. His writing has appeared in Razorcake as well as Pitchfork, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Vice, Electric Literature, Oxford American, Boston Globe and more. He is co-founder of Outer Frequencies, a not-for-profit group devoted to bringing independent artists to Cape Cod.

Bob Proehl is the author of The Nobody People and A Hundred Thousand Worlds, a Booklist best book of the year. He has worked as a bookseller and programming director for Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca, New York, a DJ, a record store owner, and a bartender. He was a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Fiction and a resident at the Saltonstall Arts Colony. His work has appeared on Salon, as part of the 33⅓ book series, and in American Short Fiction.

Elizabeth Sandifer created Eruditorum Press. She blogs about the psychic history of comics and science fiction. She is author of TARDIS Eruditorum, a history of Britain told through the lens of the Doctor Who sci-fi series. She is a graduate of The College of Wooster.