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This will be an intimate evening with limited seating, featuring music from Kasey Lansdale and a reading from the legendary Joe R. Lansdale. Afterward, Joe will be taking questions and will be available to sign books and memorabilia. Because of limited seating, this will be a ticketed event. Be sure to call us (936-645-9800) or email us at therunawaymule@gmail.com to purchase yours soon! The event will be Friday, May 13 ยท 7:00pm – 10:00pm
*2 different ticket options:
$20.00 ticket gets either of our two exclusive Joe Lansdale t-shirts (which sell in our store and all around the world for $20.00); the shirt will come with a ticket to the show.
$10.00 ticket comes without the shirt and gets you into the event.
You may purchase tickets at the store.
You may also purchase them via our email and/or contact us on our Facebook page. (www.facebook.com/therunawaymule) We accept Paypal and major credit cards. Call us or email for more information!
Don’t let this very unique opportunity pass you by!
Joe R. Lansdale (born October 28, 1951) is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense. He has also written for comics as well as Batman: The Animated Series.
Frequent features of Lansdale’s writing are usually deeply ironic, strange or absurd situations or characters, such as Elvis and JFK battling a soul-sucking Ancient Egyptian mummy in a nursing home (the plot of his Bram Stoker Award-nominated novella, “Bubba Ho-Tep,” which was made into a movie by Don Coscarelli). He is the winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar Award, and seven Bram Stoker Awards. The World Horror Convention recently made him the recipient of the 2007 Grand Master Award for contributions to the field of Horror fiction.
He is perhaps best known for his “Hap and Leonard” series of novels which feature two friends, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, who live in the town of Laborde, Texas and find themselves solving a variety of often unpleasant crimes. The characters themselves are an unlikely pairing; Hap is a white working class laborer in his mid forties, and Leonard is a gay black man. Both of them are accomplished fighters, and the stories (told from Hap’s narrative point of view) feature a great deal of violence, profanity and sex. Lansdale paints a picture of East Texas which is essentially “good” but blighted by racism, ignorance, urban and rural deprivation and corruption in public officials. Some of the subject matter is extremely dark, and has included pedophilia and anti-gay violence. The novels are characterised by sharp humour and “wisecracking” dialogue.
Lansdale, who was born in Gladewater, Texas, now lives in Nacogdoches and is the writer in residence at Stephen F. Austin State University. He also teaches at his own Shen Chuan martial arts school and is a member of the Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
The Runaway Mule is located at 203 E. Main Street.
