Tom Schabarum is a Seattle-area poet and novelist. While he’s published his novels to the Kindle, he still loves the feel of a book in his hands. He put it this way in a blog post,

In Seattle we have the beautiful Olympic Sculpture Park, which contains a huge sculpture of a typewriter eraser complete with circular rubber wheel and feather brush top.  When I have young people in my car under thirty years old, I always ask them to identify it and none of them know what it is.  Hearing their answers keeps my mind pointing to the future and embracing it.

Read more about Schabarum on his website and his blog.

L. Marie Cook describes herself as “a sexually open potty mouth with a lot to share.” Watch her guerrilla reading from the 10th annual West Hollywood Book Fair to get a taste of what she has to offer in her book, Lay Me Down.

You can read more of Cook’s work – and learn more about the author – on her blog.

Tymeka Coney is recession-proof.

In her guerrilla reading at the 10th annual West Hollywood Book Fair, she showed us how. She read from her book of poetry, Words Unspoken, about making it through the recession and about Michael Jackson.

More about Coney on her website or on Facebook.

Filmmaker and writer Guy Magar has more than 100 film credits including episodes of series La Femme Nikita, Sliders, The A-Team, Blue Thunder, and Dark Avenger. In 1995 he was nominated for a Golden Reel Award for his television work on the series Nowhere Man.

Here Magar does a guerrilla reading from his Hollywood-behind-the-scenes book, Kiss Me Quick Before I Shoot. In the book, he tells stories from learning that his first producer turned out to be a Mafia assassin, to the time he almost accidentally decapitated a young Drew Barrymore.

Who doesn’t love a train ride? Especially writers. You can arrive at your destination rested, the seats are wide and spacious with lots of legroom, and you can actually get some work done as you make your way to your destination. Just try to get a laptop open on today’s coach class airplane seats. I dare you.

Even legal thriller dude Scott Turow famously wrote his first novel on a commuter train.

Guerrilla reader Irene Turner has, well, a rather different take on the topic. Here she is reading her piece How Not to Get Work Done on Amtrak. It appeared in Gargoyle Issue 56.

The person who has a hammer
Tends to see everything as a nail

So begins Vanessa Van Wagner’s poem, Not the Other Guy.

She did her guerrilla reading live at the 10th Annual West Hollywood Book Fair. You can connect with Van Wagner on Facebook.

Constance Dunn wants to democratize glamour. It’s not just for the rich and famous. What’s more, she says, it’s not just about appearance:

Wearing the most exquisite ensemble will fail to grant glamour if it’s the wrong style, fit or color for you. Nor will the most gussied-up beauty ever be considered quite so if she snarls at everyone in her path.

In her guerrilla reading at the West Hollywood Book Fair, Dunn gave a few hints about how it’s done.

Find out more on her website.

Poet, spoken word artist and actress Lindsay Halladay has a heart that is so zen, it needs to beat only every now and then. Just watch this guerrilla reading of her poem, Zen, and you’ll understand.

Halladay, aka The Lindz, has performed sold-out shows for the LA Women’s Theater Festival, and she  partnered with Declare Yourself, a non-partisan voting initiative founded by Norman Lear. She’s also been nominated for the Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant (FAAR) through The Ford Foundation and The Hip-Hop Theater Festival.

Read more about The Lindz on her website.

Amber Howard is a SoCal poet. Her book, Fallen, was written during a difficult year in her life. Howard describes it as “personal and observational takes on love, lust, self-discovery, dreams and musings on life.”

Howard did a guerrilla reading at the 10th annual West Hollywood Book Fair.

More on her website.

In 1971, the region then called “East Pakistan” fought a bloody liberation war with “West Pakistan” that led to creation of the independent nation of Bangladesh. Abu Zubair lived through that civil war, and he writes about it in his new novel, The Silent and the Lost. Zubair was recently awarded the  US-Asia Business Forum’s Community Support Award for support of the community through historic writing.

Zubair read from his book at the 10th annual West Hollywood Book Fair.

It’s a first here on GR: a guerrilla reading about guerrillas.

More about Zubair and his work on his website.