Tire Fire is back with another round of amazing authors. This month, you’ll be able to listen as Jason Diamond, Nicole Steinberg, Justin Sanders, and Brad Windhauser read selections of their published work.

They’ll also be collecting donations for the Nationalities Service Center, NSC, who are the largest non-sectarian organization in the Greater Philadelphia area which provides comprehensive services in the areas of language access and proficiency, legal protections and remedies, community transition and integration, access to health and wellness, and job readiness training to immigrants and refugees.

50¢ pierogi from noon – 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
JASON DIAMOND was born in Skokie, Illinois just before Ronald Reagan took office, although he remembers absolutely nothing about the Carter administration. He grew up in the Chicagoland area and moved to New York in his early 20s, but loves both places equally and with all of his heart. Jason has worked as a barista, server, fry cook, bookseller, and DJ. In 2008, he founded the site Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Vol 1. has since launched Julius Singer Press and curates regular free literary events, including the popular 3-Minute Stories series. He was the editor of the Jewish pop culture websiteJewcy.com, the literary editor at Flavorwire.com, a former associate editor at Men’s Journal, and currently the culture & sports editor editor at Rolling Stone. He has written for The New York Times, The Paris Review, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Vice, Bookforum, Tablet, The Awl, Pitchfork, McSweeny’s, NPR, The Rumpus, and many other fine outlets. His memoir, Searching For John Hughes (William Morrow/HarperCollins), was released in November 2016.
Jason is a Cancer. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, two cats, and a dog named Max.

NICOLE STEINBERG is the author of Glass Actress (Furniture Press Books, 2017) and Getting Lucky (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2013), as well as three chapbooks, most recently Clever Little Gang, winner of the 4X4 Furniture Press Chapbook Award. Her work has been featured or reviewed in the New York Times, Newsweek, Flavorwire, Bitch, and Hyperallergic. She’s the founder of New York’s EARSHOT reading series and she lives in Philadelphia.

JUSTIN SANDERS lives and writes from Baltimore, and is the author of for all the other ghosts, a book of ghost stories about “shit that really happened.”

Originally from Southern California, BRAD WINDHAUSER lives in Philadelphia. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte and is an Associate Professor (teaching/instruction) of writing at Temple University. His short stories and work have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Santa Fe Writer’s Project Journal, Ray’s Road Review, Northern Liberties Review, Philadelphia Review of Books and Jonathan. The Intersection is his second novel.