Events

Ongoing Series: Last Thursday

Last Thursday at Hyde Bros Books on Thursday February 27th, 2025 at 7pm featuring authors Tony Didier, Catherine Martin, and Hallie Nowak

Hyde Brothers, Booksellers is thrilled to kick off another season of our literary series, Last Thursday! This free event occurs at 7pm on the final Thursday of each month and is hosted in-store. Each event features at least two local authors who read their original poetry, prose, creative nonfiction, etc. in 15-20 minute installments with a brief intermission between readers.

The February reading will occur on Thursday, February 27th at 7pm. This month, we will welcome local authors Tony Didier, Catherine Martin, and Hallie Nowak.

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Interested in becoming a reader? Visit our Last Thursday page to get started!

Tony Didier, a proud Fort Wayne, Indiana native, is a true pillar of the local arts community, celebrated for his remarkable versatility as a singer, actor, dancer and writer. In 2024 he released a book of poetry titled, The Ballad of a Plastic Bag. Signatures of Tony’s poetry include universal love, acceptance, and overtones of social, political, and spiritual consciousness. He is the lead singer and one of the founding members of the Fort Wayne Funk Orchestra, and a singer/songwriter in the folk genre with music available on all streaming platforms. Tony is a regular in the local theatre community and a multiple-time recipient of the Anthony Award from The Fort Wayne Civic Theatre. Tony is also a retired ballroom and Latin dance teacher and professional competitor and his passion for the arts extends into education, where he serves as the Director of Theatre at Most Precious Blood School and as a visual instructor for the North Side High School Marching Legends, both institutions being his alma maters.

Catherine Martin is a Latin teacher, a lover of literary fiction, a fan of humorous prose, and a devotee of the Great British Baking Show. She has a Masters in Classics from the University of South Africa (it's a long story), a husband from Peru, and two children from upstate New York. Although she generally writes short pieces of fiction, she somehow decided that writing a novelization of Books 1-4 of Vergil's Aeneid was a great idea. So after almost twenty years, she has done it! Now the world will know what really went down in that cave outside of Carthage.

Hallie Nowak is a poet and artist writing and residing in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She has her Bachelor’s degree in English Writing from Purdue University Fort Wayne. She is the author of Girlblooded, a poetry chapbook (Dandelion Review, 2018), and a full-length book of genre-bending poetry and flash fiction. She’s been published in numerous literary journals, including Okay Donkey, Honey & Lime Literature, Anti-Heroin Chic, and others. When she isn’t writing, Hallie can be found painting pictures of sad cats, playing the theremin, and/or eating a crunchwrap supreme in the Taco Bell parking lot.