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SUMMARY:SALMAN RUSHDIE presents QUICHOTTE
DESCRIPTION:SALMAN RUSHDIE presents QUICHOTTE\nFriday\, September 20\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nFirst Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison Street\, Oakland\nTickets are available here! \nBerkeley Arts & Letters presents world-renowned storyteller and internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses) as he presents an electrifying\, modernized classic that fractures and reforms our conception of love in a whirlwind journey across present-day America. \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison Street\, Oakland. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, will be available in advance here soon. Advance sales are highly recommended. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nInspired by the Cervantes classic\, Sam DuChamp\, mediocre writer of spy thrillers\, creates Quichotte\, a courtly\, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho\, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand\, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile\, his creator\, in a midlife crisis\, has equally urgent challenges of his own. \nJust as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time\, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of Rushdie’s work\, the fully realized lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction. \n——————- \nSalman Rushdie is the author of thirteen previous novels: —Luka and the Fire of Life\, Grimus\, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker)\, Shame\, The Satanic Verses\, Haroun and the Sea of Stories\, The Moor’s Last Sigh\, The Ground Beneath Her Feet\, Fury\, Shalimar the Clown\, The Enchantress of Florence\, Two Years\, Eight Months\, and Twenty-Eight Nights\, and The Golden House — and one collection of short stories: East\, West. He has also published four works of nonfiction — Joseph Anton\, The Jaguar Smile\, Imaginary Homelands\, and Step Across This Line — and coedited two anthologies\, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center\, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature. \n​Please note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
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LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Deborah Fruchey and Jan Steckel at Expressions Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Reading featuring Zeitgeist Press poets Jan Steckel and Deborah Fruchey at Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave. in Berkeley – Open Mic to follow! \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her latest book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018) was a finalist for the poetry category of the Bi Book Awards. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Yale Medicine\, and elsewhere. She works as a medical editor and lives in Oakland\, California. \nDeborah Fruchey tried to write her first book at the age of 8. Her first novel was chosen as a Best Book by the American Bookseller’s Association. Her poetry book Armadillo was released by Cyborg Productions in 2014. Her latest is a volume of flash fiction called Priestess of Secrets. She is the editor of an upcoming anthology in tribute to Julia Vinograd\, from Zeitgeist Press\, and also editor of a volume of Vampyre Mike Kassel’s unpublished work\, due in November 2019 from Last Laugh Productions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-fruchey-and-jan-steckel-at-expressions-gallery/
LOCATION:Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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