Join us in celebrating the launch of Lance Myers’s Why So Much?, the first publication of Austin-based publishing company Persistence of Vision. With readings from Lance and W. Joe Hoppe.

Debut author Lance Fever Myers paints the heartbreaking portrait of a teenage artist struggling to find her voice in a small refinery town off the Texas Gulf Coast. Why So Much? is an emotionally rich novel exploring sex, death, addiction, celebrity, and theme restaurants at the turn of the millennium. Think Vonnegut meets Jonathan Franzen.

Lance Myers has been a professional artist, writer, and animator for over twenty years. His traditional animation can be seen in the feature films Space Jam, Anastasia, Quest for Camelot, Prince of Egypt, and Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly. His essays and comics have appeared in the Austin American-Statesman, The Austin Chronicle, JINX, and Powerball Magazine. He has also written and directed several short subject films which have shown on HBO, MTV, Adult Swim, PBS, and Canada’s Movieola. Myers was born in Lubbock but got to Austin as fast as he could. He currently teaches in the Communications Department at the University of Texas, and his debut novel, Why So Much? is now available through Persistence of Vision Publishing and in fine bookstores everywhere.

W. Joe Hoppe has taught Creative Writing and English at ACC since 1996. His poetry has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, as well as two full-length poetry books:  Galvanized (2007, Dalton Publishing), and Diamond Plate (2012, Obsolete Publishing). His new collection Hotrod Golgotha will be coming out soon. Joe was named Best Mopar Poet in the Austin Chronicle’s 2016 Best of Austin Awards.