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SUMMARY:Folkland Book Club: THE COMPLETE STORIES OF LEONORA CARRINGTON
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our August book at the July Book Club meeting on 7/31\, or at the Main Library Reference desk starting on 8/1 while supplies last. \nOur August Book Club Pick:\nTHE COMPLETE STORIES OF LEONORA CARRINGTON \nFiction. Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre\, of gorgeous tableaus\, biting satire\, roguish comedy\, and brilliant\, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote throughout her life. \nWith a startling range of styles\, subjects\, and even languages (several of the stories are translated from French or Spanish)\, THE COMPLETE STORIES captures the genius and irrepressible spirit of an amazing artist’s life. \n“This definitive collection of Carrington’s short fiction is a treasure and a gift to the world. A stunning achievement.”—Jeff VanderMeer \n“Leonora Carrington has unswervingly followed the intensity of her own particular vision and way of being…Her work bristles with a fierce\, unconventional brand of feminism; anger gives it its final edge of irony and power.”—Angela Carter \n“Her delirious fantasy reveals to us a little of the secret magic of her paintings.”—Luis Buñuel \n“Carrington’s stories are optimistic and nihilistic\, beautiful and grotesque\, tender and cruel. She never contented herself with something simple or trite\, a philosophy of life that can be shortened and simplified and put in a fortune cookie.”—Sheila Heti \n“Her stories are vivid\, funny and surprisingly fresh…[combining] satire with surrealist situations to deftly mock the pomposity of organized religion\, sexual repression or the endless forms of bureaucratic hypocrisy and ineptitude.”—The New York Times
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LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kimberly King Parsons / Black Light: Stories
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kimberly King Parsons for her new story collection\, Black Light. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \n“The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird\, surprising\, utterly lush… I loved every moment of this book.” – Carmen Maria Machado\, author of Her Body and Other Parties \nWith raw\, poetic ferocity\, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire’s darkest hollows—those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. In this debut collection of enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories\, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love\, the banality of self-loathing\, the scourge of addiction\, the myth of marriage\, and the magic and inevitable disillusionment of childhood. \nTaking us from hot Texas highways to cold family kitchens\, from the freedom of pay-by-the-hour motels to the claustrophobia of private school dorms\, these stories erupt off the page with a primal howl — sharp-voiced\, acerbic\, and wise. \n\n“The bad-ass gals in these terrific stories are all attitude\, and as funny and appealing in their imperfection and thwarted desire as you’ll find in any fiction out there. Parsons opens and ends stories brilliantly. I just finished this book\, and I’m going to read it again right away.” – Amy Hempel\, author of Sing to It \n“Kimberly King Parsons’s Black Light is savage\, celestial\, and gorgeous. Texas\, dusty and sprawling\, houses Parsons’s pining\, broken\, twangy\, and unforgettable characters. The prose shimmers into incantation. In this collection\, Parsons dissects the guts of the soul\, to show us how awful we all are and how crushingly beautiful.”  – Hannah Lillith Assadi\, author of Sonora \n“The very fact that Black Light exists in the world makes everything feel a little less bleak. These stories are funny and poignant and searching\, full of taut poetry\, not to mention the long pain and sharp joys of living and loving and lusting. In her debut collection\, Kimberly King Parsons has put it all on the line\, with a hell of a payoff.” – Sam Lipsyte\, author of Hark \n\nBorn in Lubbock\, Texas\, Kimberly King Parsons received her MFA from Columbia University. Her fiction has been published inBest Small Fictions 2017\, New South\, Black Warrior Review\, No Tokens\, Joyland\, Ninth Letter\, and The Kenyon Review\, among others. Author photo by Heather Hawksford. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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