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SUMMARY:Folkland Book Club featuring books from Small Press Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our October book at the September Book Club meeting on 9/25\, or at the Main Library Reference desk starting on 9/26 while supplies last. \nOUR OCTOBER BOOK CLUB PICK: \nROOM IN ROME\nPoetry by Jorge Eduardo Eielson \n“As a person\, Eielson always kept something secret\, an intimacy he preserved even beyond the reach of his closest friends. This mysterious depth intrigued and fascinated those who knew him and is a salient feature of his writing\, sculpture\, and paintings. Perhaps this depth will help ensure that his visual and poetic works endure. Though inseparable from the period in which it was created\, Eielson’s work deserves to live on and bear witness for future generations to the myths\, dreams\, miseries\, and achievements pertaining to the world in which Eielson both suffered and enjoyed his life.”\n—Mario Vargas Llosa \n“David Shook’s translation of Jorge Eduardo Eielson’s ROOM IN ROME rescues an essential voice of contemporary Peruvian poetry. A poet of the world who rebels against national as well as aesthetic borders\, Eielson rejects simplistic discords between social and artistic commitment. His poetry heralds the power of words: gathering them\, sculpting them\, changing them to gunshots.”\n—Katherine Hedeen \n“Alongside his other Roman collection\, Noche oscura del cuerpo\, critics consider ROOM IN ROME to be Eielson’s masterpiece. The collection displays its author’s rare ability to ‘knot’ together past and present\, tradition and novelty\, the anguish of modern life and the resplendence of another\, serene existence within reach.”\n—Martha Canfield \n“There was a time when poetry belonged to the world\, both the known world and the one beyond knowing. Eielson taught me everything.”—Mario Bellatín
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LOCATION:Oakland Main Library\, 125 14th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Susan Steinberg presents Machine
DESCRIPTION:Susan Steinberg presents Machine\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 30\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nSusan Steinberg discusses Machine: a haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning\, the first novel by the author of Spectacle. \nIn conversation with Lucy Corin\, author of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses.\n  \nSusan Steinberg’s first novel\, Machine\, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book\, Spectacle\, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves around a group of teenagers—both locals and wealthy out-of-towners—during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular\, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate\, she pieces together the details of this tragedy\, as well as the breakdown of her own family\, and learns that no one\, not even she\, is blameless. \nA daring stylist\, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. This restless approach gains focus and power through a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender\, class\, privilege\, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Machine is the kind of novel—relentless and bold—that only Susan Steinberg could have written. \nPRAISE \n\n“The narrative shifts\, experimental structure and poetic language in Steinberg’s hypnotic first novel capture the teen years with their shifting emotional tides and heightened awareness of class\, gender\, self and others.”—BBC Culture\nAfter making waves with her book ‘Spectacle\,’ bold stylist Susan Steinberg resurfaces with her first novel\, a tale of gender\, class\, privilege and trauma set during a summer at the shore. . . . The narrative grapples with guilt and blame while eschewing formal conventions.”—Chicago Tribune\n“With simple\, lyrical language\, Steinberg presents a mystery of privilege and youth that deftly captures the unadulterated gear quaking deep behind a teenagers invincible front.”—Booklist\n“What makes [Machine] so thrilling is Steinberg’s artistry with form; she fractures narrative into its fundamental parts. Steinberg writes prose with a poet’s sense of meter and line\, and a velocity recalling the novels of Joan Didion. The result is a dizzying work that perfectly evokes the feeling of spinning out of control.”—Publishers Weekly\, starred review\n“Steinberg writes in small\, interconnected\, and poetic fragments. . . . Heartbreaking\, eerie\, and acutely observant.”—Kirkus\, starred review\n\nAUTHOR BIO \nSusan Steinberg is the author of Machine\, Spectacle\, Hydroplane\, and The End of Free Love. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship\, a National Magazine Award\, and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at the University of San Francisco. \nLucy Corin is the author of two short story collections\, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses (McSweeney’s Books) and The Entire Predicament (Tin House Books) as well as a novel\, Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls (FC2). She won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Rome Prize. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the University of California at Davis\, and is at work on a novel\, The Swank Hotel. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, October 30\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
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LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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