250 Great American Things | An Evening with Ryan Baesemann and Alex Perez
About this Event
Please join Hard Cider Press' managing editor Ryan Baesemann and associate editor Alex Perez to discuss the publication of their new book, 250 Great American Things. The book is a collection of 250 short essays from the writers and editors of County Highway. In the spirit of our founding father, Mark Twain, County Highway is honoring the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by gathering a raft of some of America’s finest essayists, humorists, fiction writers, and other prose stylists and wise-asses to remind us of what makes America great. The answers, some deadpan, and others only mildly tongue-in-cheek, are sure to be the most amusing and least-tiresome tributes to a nation that occasionally commemorates the past by staging gaudy parades or engaging in bouts of solemn introspection but thrives most of the time on making new stuff. There will be a reading, discussion, and Q&A with audience members.
🎟 This event is FREE and open to the public and books will be available for purchase the night of the event! An RSVP grants general entry, but seating is not guaranteed, so please try and show up early. Please RSVP only if you intend to join us. Can't make the event?
About The Book
In the spirit of our founding father, Mark Twain, County Highway is honoring the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by gathering a raft of some of America’s finest essayists, humorists, fiction writers, and other prose stylists and wise-asses to remind us of what makes America great. The answers, some deadpan, and others only mildly tongue-in-cheek, include lawn-mowers, gas grills, Hanna-Barbera cartoons, cowboy boots, catcher’s mitts, light-bulbs, hairspray, chicken-wire fencing, and 242 other entries in what is sure to be the most amusing and least-tiresome tribute to a nation that occasionally commemorates the past by staging gaudy parades or engaging in bouts of solemn introspection but thrives most of the time on forgetting its history and making new stuff.
Given the bitter political divisions that render Americans capable of agreeing on anything of importance, we don’t claim to list the “greatest” American things, nor do we rank them in any order besides the alphabetical. Rather, the greatness of each entry will speak for itself, and for the nation that we have built together — by solving problems that needed solving, through flashes of off-kilter genius and intuition, and by kidding around.
About The Authors
Ryan Baesemann is a writer, editor, and farmer living in California. He is the managing editor of County Highway.
Alex Perez is a Cuban-American writer and long-time pro wrestling fanatic from Miami.
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