Philadelphia native Andrew Ervin is the author of the “darkly evocative” (Philadelphia Inquirer) novel Extraordinary Renditions, a story of tarnished expatriates, Hungarian unrest, and opera. His fiction has been published in the Southern Review, Conjunctions, and Fiction International, and his essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Miami Herald, and the Inquirer, among other publications. In Burning Down George Orwell’s House, a burnt-out Chicago ad exec finds hostility and possible werewolves on the isolated Scottish island where the titular author wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four.

With a special performance by Ervin’s friends, the legendary punk band The Dead Milkmen