GALVESTON — Midsummer Books will host a book signing with author, musician and candidate for governor of Texas Kinky Friedman in Edna’s Room at The Grand 1894 Opera House, 2020 Postoffice St., at noon Saturday. Friedman will sign copies of his new novel, “Ten Little New Yorkers.”
Kinky Friedman recently made national news when he announced an independent bid for governor of Texas in front of the Alamo in San Antonio.
Outrageous and irreverent but always thought-provoking, Friedman wrote and performed satirical country songs during the 1970s and has been hailed the Frank Zappa of country music as he performed with his band, Kinky Friedman & the Texas Jewboys.
He has written for “Rolling Stone” and “Texas Monthly” magazines and, most famously, has become a writer of unique and outrageous mystery novels such as “Greenwich Killing Time,” “A Case of Lone Star” and “The Mile High Club.”
Equal parts whimsy and metaphysics, the books blur fiction and reality. They feature a Jewish country singer turned Greenwich Village-private eye named Kinky Friedman, who sometimes returns to his native Texas. Other characters are drawn from Friedman’s circle of friends in both New York and Texas.
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What: Midsummer Books presents Kinky Friedman, author of “Ten Little New Yorkers.”
When: Noon Saturday.
Where: Edna’s Room, The Grand 1894 Opera House, 2020 Postoffice St., Galveston.
