Bela Koe-Krompecher Discusses Love, Death & Photosynthesis

1124 Parsons Ave.,Columbus OH 43206

23 September, 2021

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Join us for a special conversation with Bela Koe-Krompecher about his new book, Love, Death & Photosynthesis. Please note: We will be limiting attendance to half-capacity. Masks and proof of vaccination are required. In the early 1990’s while working at Used Kids Records, Bela Koe-Krompecher partnered with Jerry Wick to create the independent record label Anyway Records. During the following decade, Bela was involved in Columbus’ underground music scene as a writer, concert promoter, and continued his role as the head of Anyway Records. In 2009, he began a popular blog chronicling his involvement in the burgeoning midwestern music scene and the characters who inhabited much of the national underground music world. He has since written three graphic comics based on his stories and experiences, which have been compared to the likes of Harvey Pekar, Nate Powell, and John Porcellino. "Love, Death, & Photosynthesis is such a generous text. One that offers both a timeline and a soundtrack of living. One that populates a world with people who could easily be your kind of people, immersed in days and nights that could be your days and nights. I loved this book for how it acts as both an intimate profile of a time and era, and also a mirror through which a reader can see their own history, their own affections, and their own music." -Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America, A Fortune For Your Disaster, Go Ahead in the Rain, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, and The Crown Ain't Worth Much