Please drop by as UICB MFA Candidate Matt Runkle debuts his collection of short stories,THE STORY OF HOW ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL & OTHER TALES, newly out from Brooklyn Arts Press. He'll have collages and broadsides of select stories on display and will give a brief, informal reading at around 6 .

In the late empire the stories are better than ever, especially if Matt Runkle is the teller of the tale. Not since Richard Brautigan’s Tokyo Montana Express have I read a collection of stories as wildly unpredictable, stories that itch your ear for a long time after reading them....The Story of How All Animals Are Equal is an instant American classic!

—CAConrad, author of ECODEVIANCE

Matt Runkle is a writer, cartoonist, printer, and book artist. His writing has appeared in The Collagist, Beecher’s, Monkeybicycle, Wigleaf, and BOMB. He currently studies at the University of Iowa Center for the Book.