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Authors Terry Kitchen and Rob Siegel to Read at Somerville Library Thurs March 6

Boston
author (and former Somerville resident) Terry
Kitchen (Next Big Thing)
and
Newton author Rob Siegel (Memoirs of a Hack Mechanic) will be reading from
their new books at the Somerville Public Library, 79 Highland Avenue,
Somerville on Thursday March 6. The reading begins at 7 PM and
admission is free. As Kitchen and Siegel are both also singer/songwriters, they
may also perform a few songs during the reading.


TERRY KITCHEN is best known as an award-winning
singer/songwriter, releasing ten CDs since the early 1990s. His new novel Next Big Thing is set in the 1980s Boston music
scene, when Aerosmith, J. Geils and The Cars were all at their peak and some
two thousand lesser-known bands, like Kitchen's own '80s group Loose Ties, were
engaged in a nightly battle for existence and glory. At once disarmingly absurd
and heartbreakingly real, Next Big Thing combines the gritty backstage
vibe of Roddy Doyle's The Commitments with the emotional thawing heart
of Jay McInerney's Bright Lights Big City, and every page crackles
with the kinetic current of true rock'n'roll. For more information on TERRY
KITCHEN
visit www.terrykitchen.com.





For over 25 years ROB
SIEGEL
has written a monthly column called "The Hack Mechanic"
for the BMW Car Club of America's magazine Roundel.
In his new book Memoirs of a Hack Mechanic, he shares his secrets to buying,
fixing, and driving cool cars without risking the kids' tuition money or
destroying his marriage. And that's something to brag about considering the
dozens of cars, including twenty-five BMWs, that have passed through his garage
over the past three decades. With a steady dose of irreverent humor, Memoirs of a Hack Mechanic blends
car stories, DIY advice, and cautionary tales in a way that will resonate with
the car-obsessed (and the people who love them).

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