BACKFENCE Unhinged podcast — LIVE TAPING!

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BACKFENCE Unhinged podcast — LIVE TAPING!

When
Thursday, Nov 5, 2026 · 7:00 PM – 8:45 PM

About this event

BACKFENCE Unhinged is a conversational storytelling podcast featuring a guest every episode who shares a delightfully unhinged story. Past guests include Lauren Weedman, Aaron Draplin, Chris Williams, Eden Dawn, Derrick Brown, and Beth Lisick.

All these good times are hosted by ANDREW DICKSON & FRAYN MASTERS, two people you’d actually want to get stuck in an elevator with.

And they are EXTREMELY excited to welcome two acclaimed storytellers and authors for their first-ever live show!

They’re closing down the Pearl Room at Powell’s Books to bring you this special private event.

Joining them: Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award-winning writer MITCHELL S. JACKSON, author of The Residue Years, and New York Times Modern Love writer NICOLE HARDY, author of Confessions of a Latter-day Virgin: A Memoir. Both will share their own delightfully unhinged stories.

Get cozy and ready for a couch-y, casual, conversational show. The hosts will also be joined by MATT SHEEHY, frontman for Lost Lander and creator of the BACKFENCE Unhinged theme music. He’ll bring the good times with music, banter, and a few stories of his own.

There’ll even be opportunities for you, the audience, to share some anecdotes of your own! Plus there’ll be a few surprise antics along the way.

You’ll laugh, nudge your neighbor, and feel connected to the people all around you while having a real good time.

BONUS: Books will be 15% off for ticket holders during the show, and Mitchell and Nicole will be there to personalize your copies!

A bar with NA drinks + snacks will be provided by GUILDER.
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Mitchell S. Jackson has won the Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award in Feature Writing. Jackson’s debut novel The Residue Years won a Whiting Award and The Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. His essay collection Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family was named a best book of 2019 by more than a dozen publications and was later acknowledged as one of the best nonfiction books of the 21 st century by Oprah’s Book Club. Jackson is also the author of Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion, described by the. New York Times as “A coffee-table book that elevates the subject to the same decorative status as a Dior or Gucci monograph.” Fly was a USA Today bestseller and won a Booktique Award (honoring the Best Coffee table books of the year). Jackson is a formerly incarcerated person who engages in outreach in prisons and youth facilitiesin the United States and abroad.

📊Event Scores

Scale of productionProduced: a dedicated venue, ticketed show or multi-part program
Social loadModerate: some mixing, a group activity, a guided session

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