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Bar Flies at Valley Bar in Phoenix: Here's the April Lineup

Hey Phoenix, you ready for more stories? We suggest you get your tickets (just $5!) early for the Thursday, April 7, installment of Bar Flies at Valley Bar. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the event is at 7. R. Bradley Snyder is curating, and the theme is Fathers. The...

By Amy Silverman

March 22, 2016

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Hey Phoenix, you ready for more stories? We suggest you get your tickets (just $5!) early for the Thursday, April 7, installment of Bar Flies at Valley Bar. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the event is at 7.

R. Bradley Snyder is curating, and the theme is Fathers. The readers: James Ahlers, Melissa Campana, Jacob Meders, Marshall Shore, and Amy Silverman. Kevin Vaughan-Brubaker is providing the music.

Tickets are now available through Ticketfly.

If you are interested in participating in an upcoming Bar Flies event, contact Amy at [email protected].

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Amy Silverman is a two-time winner of the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year award. Her work has appeared on the radio show This American Life and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Lenny Letter, and Brain, Child. She’s the co-curator of the live reading series Bar Flies, and a commentator for KJZZ, the NPR affiliate in Phoenix. Silverman is the author of the book My Heart Can’t Even Believe It: A Story of Science, Love, and Down Syndrome (Woodbine House 2016). Follow her on Instagram (@amysilverman), Twitter (@amysilvermanaz), and at amy-silverman.com.

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