03/27/2025 Thursday at 7pm An Evening With Sam Tallent - Book Reading + Q&A
Thursday, March 27th at 7:00pm
FREE!
Everyone is welcome! Advance signup is not required, but is appreciated.
Join us in the POST studio for an event celebrating the release of Sam Tallent's novel Running the Light. Sam will be performing a reading, as well as participating in a Q+A with the audience.
About the Book:
A bona fide “instant classic” (Doug Stanhope) novel that tells the story of a road comic crashing and burning by acclaimed comedian Sam Tallent
Billy Ray Schafer stepped off the plane in Amarillo, Texas, with twenty-six hundred dollars tucked down the leg of his black ostrich-skin cowboy boot. He walked to baggage claim slowly, jelly-legged and nearing lucidity, coming out from under the Xanax he snorted before the flight.
Debauched, divorced, and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to laugh. Over the course of seven spun-out days across the American Southwest, he travels from hell gig to hell gig in search of a reason to keep living in this bleak and violent glimpse into the psyche of a thoroughly ruined man. Ex-inmate, ex-husband, ex-father—comedian is the only title Schafer has left. Trapped in the wreckage of his wasted career, Billy Ray knows the answer to the question: What happens when opportunity doesn’t come—or worse—it comes and goes?
“In vivid, electric sentences that read like cinematic tracking shots,” (Denver Post) Tallent hurls you into an absolute mess of a man’s life as we search for the mercy he does not want.
About the Author:
Sam Tallent is a comedian, novelist, and host of the Chubby Behemoth podcast.
For the last decade, he has performed more than forty-five weekends per year in North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. His acclaimed debut novel, Running the Light, heralded as the definitive book on standup comedy, is soon to be a major motion picture. Published by Random House in 2025, Running the Light will be followed by his second novel, Brut, in 2026. His novella, ATTABOY, was published as an Audible Original.
Sam has two comedy specials: Waiting For Death to Claim Us (available on Amazon Prime), and The Toad's Morale (available on the Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast Youtube.
He lives in Detroit, unless he's talking to people in Detroit, in which case he admits he lives very close to the city.