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Jacket Weather NYC Book Launch: Sunday, Oct. 10

10-08-2021

Jacket Weather Reading and Book Launch Sunday, October 10, 3 p.m. Howl! Happening Gallery

 


Jacket Weather Readings

09-23-2021

Jacket Weather by Mike DeCapite

Mike DeCapite will be reading from his new novel, Jacket Weather, and signing books on the following dates.

NYC: Sunday, October 10, 3 p.m., Book Party w/ Reading
Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st

Cleveland: Friday, October 15, 8 p.m., with Adele Bertei and Lucy Sante
Beachland Tavern, 15711 Waterloo Rd.

Detroit: Saturday, October 16, 6 p.m., with Adele Bertei and Lucy Sante
Third Man Records, 441 West Canfield St.

NYC: Sunday, October 24, 3 p.m., with Adele Bertei and Lucy Sante
Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st

Hudson, NY: Wednesday, October 27, time TBA, with Adele Bertei and Lucy Sante
The Spotty Dog, 440 Warren St.

Woodstock: Saturday, October 30, 2 p.m., with Adele Bertei and Lucy Sante
Bearsville Center (hosted by the Golden Notebook) 297 Tinker St.

Los Angeles: Thursday, November 11, 7:30 p.m., with Adele Bertei and Lucy Sante
Skylight Books, 1818 North Vermont Ave.

San Francisco: Saturday, November 13, 6:30 p.m., with Adele Bertei and Lucy Sante
Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd St.


Jacket Weather Now Available For Pre-Order

02-12-2021

Jacket Weather by Mike DeCapite cover review copy

Jacket Weather Advance Review Copy

Mike DeCapite’s new novel, Jacket Weather (publication date: October 12, 2021), is now available for pre-order at Mac’s Backs, IndieBound, Bookshop.org, and Amazon.


Merry Christmas!

12-23-2020

Lee Ufan, Winds, 1982

Mike DeCapite’s novel Jacket Weather will be published by Soft Skull in October 2021.

For now, here’s Mike’s piece “Christmas Eve,” which appeared in 2017 at the Howl! Happening website.

Happy Holidays, everyone!


Mike DeCapite on Poets Pandemic Podcast

05-13-2020

the old gipsy's dream book and fortune teller

Mike DeCapite reads outtakes from Jacket Weather on Maggie Dubris’s totally charming Poets Pandemic Podcast here. With Klezmatic Lisa Gutkin playing songs as fresh as spring.

We also highly recommend the episodes with Elinor Nauen, Sanjay Agnihotri, Mimi Lipson, and Max Blagg, though any episode will provide you with a welcome break from the computer screen or TV and transport you as completely as listening to a radio on a porch.

Maggie recorded Mike DeCapite reading other excerpts from Jacket Weather on February 16, 2020.


Coming in Fall 2021: Jacket Weather

04-04-2020

Soft Skull Press made the following announcement in Publishersmarketplace on March 25, 2020:

Author of THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD and RADIANT FOG Mike DeCapite’s JACKET WEATHER, about a couple who meet in New York City’s downtown music scene in the ’80s and then reunite in the present day in their fifties and fall in love, which contemplates art, community, mortality, and the textures and patterns of time, to Yuka Igarashi at Soft Skull, for publication in fall 2021 (world). Rights: foreignrights@softskull.com.


Local Knowledge: DeCapite/Masters/Agnihotri @ Parkside, February 9, 2 p.m.

01-26-2020

Mike DeCapite will read from his novel Jacket Weather with friends Greg Masters and Sanjay Agnihotri as part of Sanjay’s Local Knowledge reading series, on Sunday, February 9, at 2 p.m., at the Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston (at Attorney).


December, for Carla MacDonald

12-01-2019

One night after work, more than thirty years ago, in Cleveland, I took the Rapid Transit train downtown, a Friday night in early December, that’s how I remember it, right after work, in the dark. For some reason, maybe by mistake, I took the train to 25th Street instead of downtown. I was going to the record store, Record Rendezvous, where Jimmy Jones presided, maybe it was payday, and after mentally paying all my bills and figuring and refiguring my budget for the next two weeks, maybe I had an extra twenty to blow. I could usually manage to buy a record or two every couple of weeks. Anyway, I got off the Rapid at this deserted station, this deserted platform across the river from downtown, and it was snowing. I was a little lost but not completely lost, because I could see the Terminal Tower across the river, through the falling snow. I was just lost enough. And since I had nowhere to be that night and didn’t have to work the next day, which opened my imagination or dropped my defenses against it, and since I was accountable to no one, I started walking toward downtown. I must have dared myself to do it—just walk there—and started walking down the hill toward the river. Not that it was a long walk or anything. It was a challenge to routine, to the idea that I had to get right home or explain myself to anyone or to myself. It was a challenge to established routes. And so I made my way downhill and then, in the dark among the weeds, I found an unused road along the river, and I followed it. The snow was falling in big flakes and ticking into the weeds, and through it I could still see the Terminal Tower. I was lost but not too lost, and because it was Friday and payday I was free but just free enough to know it. I think of this as the time of Sandinista, the Clash record, but it could have been a year later. I don’t remember what I bought at the record store, I don’t remember being there, I don’t remember downtown or by what bridge I crossed the river. What I remember is walking on a road that wasn’t quite a road, through tall dead weeds, with the Terminal Tower visible through the falling snow, in the early dark of a Friday in December, having what turns out to have been one of the happiest nights of my life.


November 27: Mike DeCapite and Zena Smith at Visible Voice

10-27-2019

Zena Smith is the author of the poetry collections Fracture; Take No Prisoners, Pull No Teeth; Shake Hands; Siding with Desire; and Ticks.

Mike DeCapite returns to Cleveland’s Southside, the setting for his first novel, Through the Windshield, to preview his latest, Jacket Weather.

November 27, 2019, 7 p.m.
Visible Voice
2258 Professor Ave.
Cleveland 44113


New Readings

07-23-2019

We’ve added video of two recent readings. At Dani Leone’s author page, you’ll find her July 2, 2019, reading at Jim Ruggia’s Backroom Broadsides series at Fox & Crow, in Jersey City. On Mike DeCapite’s author page, you’ll find his appearance on the same bill, plus a reading he did in Cleveland at Guide to Kulchur on November 26, 2013.