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SUMMARY:Vanessa Hua\, Shanthi Sekaran + Ali Eteraz
DESCRIPTION:Join three local authors as they read from their latest work and discuss issues of immigration and identity. \nAli Eteraz is the author of the memoir Children of Dust and the recent novel Native Believer\, which was a New York Times Editors Choice selection. His work has appeared in the New York Times\, NPR and the Guardian. \nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and author of Deceit and Other Possibilities. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, FRONTLINE/World\, Washington Post\, ZYZZYVA\, and elsewhere. \nShanthi Sekaran’s newest novel is Lucky Boy\, an Indie Next Pick for January. She teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts\, and her work has appeared in Best New American Voices and Canteen\, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. \nBooks will be available for purchase from Laurel Book Store.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vanessa-hua-shanthi-sekaran-ali-eteraz/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library\, 125 14th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Juan Pablo Villalobos
DESCRIPTION:Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos dicusses his new novel\, I’ll Sell You a Dog\, with Mauro Javier Cardenas. \nPraise for I’ll Sell You a Dog \n“I’ll Sell You A Dog is a reminder of how effortless literature should be to love. This unexpected ride through a character’s second childhood\, his building\, neighbourhood and history is so magically twisted that it could be real. As ever Villalobos writes a peephole through politics and time\, to simply watch us dance in all our lurid whimsy.”—DBC Pierre \n“Short\, dark\, comic\, ribald and surreal . . . manic-impressive.”—Dwight Garner\, New York Times \n‘One of the wittiest\, most whimsical\, most enjoyable novels to have been published in Spanish for a long time.’ Alberto Manguel\, The Guardian \nAbout I’ll Sell You a Dog \nLong before he was the taco seller whose ‘Gringo Dog’ recipe made him famous throughout Mexico City\, our hero was an aspiring artist: an artist\, that is\, till his would-be girlfriend was stolen by Diego Rivera\, and his dreams snuffed out by his hypochondriac mother. Now our hero is resident in a retirement home\, where fending off boredom is far more gruelling than making tacos. Plagued by the literary salon that bumps about his building’s lobby and haunted by the self-pitying ghost of a neglected artist\, Villalobos’s old man can’t help but misbehave. \n  \nHe antagonises his neighbours\, tortures American missionaries with passages from Adorno\, flirts with the revolutionary greengrocer\, and in short does everything that can be done to fend off the boredom of retirement and old age . . . while still holding a beer. \n  \nA delicious take-down of pretensions to cultural posterity\, I’ll Sell You a Dog is a comic novel whose absurd inventions\, scurrilous antics and oddball characters are vintage Villalobos.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juan-pablo-villalobos/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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