Rudolph Delson, hot new author of the not new novel, Maynard and Jennica,  will be doing his FIRST reading at Brooklyn Reading Works on Thursday September 20, at 8 p.m. at the Old Stone House.

This funny, wise, deep and ambitious novel weaves together dozens
of voices to create an unusual post-9/11 love story that’s a real page turner. 

Told in multiple voices, excerpts from the novel will be read by a bunch of writers and friends of the author.

Here’s the blurb:

Maynard Gogarty is a defeated musician, a reformed misanthrope who
makes a hobby of surreptitiously filming the fashion faux pas of New
York City commuters. On an uptown 6 train in the sweltering summer of
2000 he meets Jennica Green, a nostalgic Californian who calculates
that she�s been lonesome 68.53 percent of her adult life. Though their
initial acquaintance is fleeting, when fate next brings them together,
at a screening of Maynard�s film, romance intrudes. And as with most
things in life, everyone has an opinion.

In the case of Maynard & Jennica, everyone includes many living and
some dead relatives, a sultry scam artist who may or may not be Russian
or Israeli or German, a hip-hop impresario named Puppy Jones, several
dubious lawyers, a long-lost best friend, and a freelance contributor
to The New Yorker. Exuberantly illuminating much that is telling (and
often horrifying) about our times, fast-paced, and wryly funny, Maynard
& Jennica introduces an astonishing number of narrators —
thirty-five in all — while remaining true to the relationships at its
heart. The result is an uproarious and deeply moving tour de force.
Delson has given us a pair of lovers who are flawed, complex, at once
eccentric and deeply familiar — and in whose story we continue to feel
invested long after we’ve turned the last page.