Sarah Pinsker

Having already crisscrossed the states for two decades promoting her indie label singer-songwriter and rock releases—with the van repair bills to prove it—Baltimore-based author Sarah Pinsker may need to get more used to packing books than guitars and amps. With a new collection, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories, just out from Small Beer Press collecting the best of her award-winning short speculative fiction to date, and her debut science fiction novel, A Song For A New Day, due this September from Penguin Random House literary fiction imprint Berkley, Pinsker’s off-beat, smart writing star is on the rise, even as she sets to work on a fourth album. For now, though, we get both the books and the music in one of the more unique shows on the calendar. 

[$5 suggested]