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Postcards from Irving 7 OUT MONDAY

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[in best Avon Barksdale voice] “Surpriiise!”

Volume 7 of Postcards from Irving is out Monday 3/11.

The contents include
All Towns Small but Interesting: Port Huron, MI
Venue Stories: The Hawaiian Room at the Lexington Hotel, NYC
The Ben Irving Songbook: “Post Office Complaint”
Plus a bonus, spirited rant inspired by finally reading James Howard Kunstler’s The Geography of Nowhere (1994).

If you would like a copy, some copies for your distro, or would like to subscribe (The 2024 run – Volumes #7-10 for $12 shipped) please reach out via the Instagram page. You can also mail $4 of well-concealed cash to Box 1309, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48804 and receive Volume 7 in the mail with a personal note. Just don’t forget to include your mailing address.

Postcards from Irving 6 OUT NOW

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Volume 6 of Postcards from Irving (12 pages, color + b/w) is out now, and has been for the past week or so. Sorry – the holidays and end of the semester have slowed down the printing/mailing process, but the new issue has been sent out to most of the subscribers, and new one-issue purchasers out there should be receiving it by this weekend.

If you would like one, or to subscribe (a $10 donation gets you four issues, beginning with whichever one you’d prefer), please reach out at Box 1309, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48804, via tyler at sonicgeography dot com or via the Instagram page.

I’m hoping to get around to a 2023 wrap post or two, but in case we don’t speak before then, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Postcards from Irving 5 Out Now ||| Friends of the Cabildo Lecture LIVE Online Tonight

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There’s a lot happening in Ben Irving HQ to report. Well, there are two things happening, but they’re both pretty exciting.

First, Issue 5 of Postcards from Irving (Summer 2023) is out now! They’re available for $3 PPD or equitable trades. Back-issues are also available for $3 (Issue 4) or $1 apiece (Issues 1-3). You’re welcome to send cash to PO Box 1309, Mt. Pleasant, MI or email me with questions about subscriptions/PayPal. Some back-issues (along with many other good-times zines) are available from Policymaker.

Second, I’ll be lifting my (highly translucent) veil of obscurity tonight to present, live via satellite, “A Postcard Tour of Pre-War New Orleans” for the Friends of the Cabildo, a French Quarter-based history non-profit. The lecture will begin at 6pm Central Time (7pm Eastern), and costs $10 for the general public. Admission link passes are available here.

A Postcard Mailed Home to Brooklyn, February 2, 1941.

Postcards from Irving Volume 4 Out Now! (Supplemental Content Here)

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Postcards from Irving Vol. 4 is out now, and in color!

Those with subscriptions should have yours by this weekend, and if you’d like one, please drop me a line via email or mail (PO Box 1309, Mount Pleasant, MI 48804). More info is here. Here’s the masthead and index of this quarter’s issue:

THE SUPPLEMENTS

The Hialeah Park (1970s-1990s?) Club House (?), which is mentioned in Volume 4’s ‘July All Year Round’ installment. It included one photo; here is the rest of the set. All contextual information can be found in the printed version.

I will also present this with absolutely no context. I promise it will make sense if you read Postcards from Irving Vol. 4, though. Incentives!

Postcards from Irving Volume 3 OUT NOW

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After a long delay, the third installment of the Postcards from Irving zine is now out in the world. It’s 12 pages long, and features highlights of my interview with Jean Trim, a longtime resident of Quincy, FL (1930s-1990s). It also features a special focus on one of Irving’s first regular gigs at the now-gone Lyric Theater in Hartford.

Postcards from Irving Volume 3 masthead.

If you would like to subscribe, send me an email or write to PO Box 1309, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48804. Back-issues are $1 apiece and probably most easily paid for with cash.