Blog Tour: Misfortunes of T-Funk

Our audio series "The Authors Read. We Listen."  was hatched in a NYC club during BEA back in 2012. It's a fun little series, where authors record themselves reading an excerpt from their own novels, in their own voices, the way their stories were meant to be heard.




Today, Barnaby Hazen reads an excerpt from his novel Misfortunes of T-Funk as part of the blog tour that runs March 26th through April 10th, which you can check out in its entirety here. 

The novel highlights contemporary fiction with musical tracks embedded directly into the pages of his novel. Hazen is an author, editor and musician, and regularly contributes to the education-based journal The Bud Hawthorne Revue. In 2015, he debuted a full-length collection of nine-strange tales on convenience store fiction in Seven Eleven Forgotten and Other Stories.

Click here to listen to Barnaby Hazen reading from his novel: 










What it's about:

An ensemble sets off on a dark comedy of errors and uncertain conclusions, featuring original music throughout the story. 

Theo and Judah, two childhood friends, are trying desperately to find an audience for their hard-edged, “grunge” music as they move past their twenties and feel the need to establish careers. Together, they enroll in an unusual college, called The University of Jazz and Music Technology.

Attracted at first by the means within the school to professionally record their own original music, the two friends embark on what could be a lifelong journey. But the endeavor has an alternate effect, as Theo begins to question his musical efforts with Judah. 

Entanglements with co-eds quickly complicate matters. Theo and Judah hit as many rough spots as any amateur band may find along the way, including a disastrous mini-tour of the northwest during spring break. Little do they know, the misfortunes have just begun…