Steven Appleby

Black Francis launching his book 'The Good Inn' at The Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn (tix on sale)

Created in the explosive space between the surreal and the concrete, follows Solder Boy–the lone survivor of the explosion of the battleship Iéna–as he wanders aimlessly after the accident, falls deeply for an innkeeper’s daughter, and even more deeply into a bizarre, alternate universe he discovers through a hole in his bedroom wall…