The Writer’s Center welcomes Y.S. Fing and Garinè Isassi for musical performances and a discussion on how music influences writing. As teens, these authors absorbed similar musical, cultural and literary vibes, which remained at the forefront of their creative pursuits. To celebrate Fing’s newest book, Elysium, Part Three of The Profane Comedy and revisit Isassi’s previously published novel, Start with the Backbeat, join them in a musically literary conversation.
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Y.S. Fing is one of several pseudonyms used by Will Pittman for use in his various artistic projects. Will is a world-traveller, English professor, and mutli-media content producer who has lived in MD for the past 20 years. Under the name D. Selby Fing, he has published the three-part epic poem The Profane Comedy with New Academia Publishing, the separate parts brewing, Perdition, Limbo, and Elysium. Under the name D. Selby Fing Jr., he has written 200 pages of annotations for The Profane Comedy. As Y.S. Fing, he has written numerous other works, including Event Horizons: Aphorisms on the Life of D. Selby Fing, and a variety of essays for the Washington Independent Review of Books, as well as writing and producing songs for his band The Microcosmic Examples. As Bugs Pacino, Will has produced hundreds of collages, many as illustrations of The Profane Comedy. His ultimate goal is to produce The Profane Comedy as a staged musical. We can dream!
Garinè Isassi is recovering journalist and the author of the award–winning novel Start with the Backbeat, winner of the IPPY Silver Medal for contemporary fiction. Additional fiction publications include short stories in anthologies, This is What America Looks Like (2021), Grace in Love (2023), and America’s Future, as well as a variety of online publications. She currently lives in Maryland and serves as the Gaithersburg Book Festival Workshops Chair.
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