Author Talk: Chris Wrenn

Chris Wrenn will discuss his new book, Fenway Punk. Since his salad days as a teenage skateboarder, Chris Wrenn has focused on two tasks: releasing albums for his favorite bands and finding unusual ways to pay for it. The indie record label that he started three decades ago in his college dorm room, Bridge Nine, has gained an international following by releasing over three hundred recordings from some of the most impactful bands in the punk music underground. At the same time, Sully’s, the Beantown-centric brand that Chris founded with an initial goal: to earn the money needed to fund the record label, went from profiting on bitter sports rivalries to celebrating all things Boston. The slogan that he coined in the spring of 2004, “Believe In Boston,” has become a rallying cry embraced by all of the city’s professional sports teams twenty years later. Chris and his wife, Katherine, live just north of Boston in Beverly, Massachusetts. Together, they are raising a toddler and a teenager while also managing the day-to-day responsibilities of both brands. You can learn more about what Chris is up to next at http://www.ChrisWrenn.com.

About the Book:

An audacious and inspiring debut social history that explores how entrepreneurial members of the tight-knit hardcore punk scene within the vibrant heart of Boston cashed in on one of baseball's greatest rivalries.

“Fast, wild and scrappy, Chris Wrenn’s improbable success story reminds us of how powerful the DIY spirit at the heart of hardcore punk remains. Fenway Punk is a bare-knuckled time capsule, an unabashed celebration of a time and place anyone who was a part of will remember forever.”—Stewart O’Nan, author (with Stephen King) of Faithful and A Face in the Crowd

“Chris Wrenn is an icon in the Boston hardcore music underground, and his wild tale of how he and his band of punks cornered the market on 'Yankees Suck' merch has been Gen X lore for decades. It's high time this story is told to the masses as it exposes the most unlikely of culture clashes, showcases Boston's relentless and at times terrifying DIY ethos, and tears back the curtain on a turbulent subculture where drugs, violence, gangs, and money often violently collide.”—Dave Wedge, New York Times bestselling author of Blood & Hate: The Untold Story of Marvelous Marvin Hagler's Battle for Glory and Riding With Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang

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