SXSW Showcase: People of Letters

Amanda Palmer

• Tuesday's Gone

  On your marks, get set, Tuesday SXSW showcases!

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• Interview: Crooked Bangs

  Tuesday, March 12, 10pm, Headhunters Patio

  BY ABBY JOHNSTON

• Interview: Elle King

  Tuesday, March 12, 1am, Buffalo Billiards

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Showcase: K-Pop Night Out

  Tuesday, March 12, 7:30pm, Elysium

  BY DAN OKO

• Showcase: City of Austin

  Tuesday, March 12, 8pm, Parish

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Showcase: Fathers & Sons

  Tuesday, March 12, 8pm, Saxon Pub

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

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  Tuesday, March 12, 8pm, Friends

  BY MICHAEL TOLAND

Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire founded Women of Letters, a literary salon in Melbourne, Australia, in 2010 to celebrate the art of the epistolary tradition in an age of 140-character missives. The bestselling series presents a collection of notable female authors, musicians, and actors writing and reading a carefully composed letter following the predetermined theme of the evening. This special SXSW installment speaks to the energy of all three conferences. Among the writers slated for this coed evening of literary performance are former Dresden Doll-turned-folk singer and controversial Kickstarterer Amanda Palmer and her husband, novelist Neil Gaiman, who weaves the fantastic, macabre, and mythological into stories and graphic novels for children and adults. Also on deck is minimalist filmmaker John Sayles, whose quiet films like Lone Star and Honeydripper seethe with social critique. Singer Jenny Owen Youngs, in town to showcase her peppy indie rock at SXSW, joins the genteel fray, as does Emma Swift, a writer, singer, and radio personality from Sydney, Australia. Canadian rapper Buck 65 rounds out this deliciously eclectic program.