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SUMMARY:Marisa Silver w/ Peter Orner
DESCRIPTION:In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century\, a child called Pavla is born to peasant parents. \nHer arrival\, fervently anticipated and conceived in part by gypsy tonics and archaic prescriptions\, stuns her parents and brings outrage and disgust from her community. Pavla has been born a dwarf\, beautiful in face\, but as the years pass\, she grows no further than the edge of her crib. When her parents turn to the treatments of a local doctor and freak sideshow proprietor\, his terrifying cure opens the floodgates persecution for Pavla. Little Nothing unfolds across a lifetime of unimaginable\, magical transformation in and out of human form\, as this outcast woman is hunted down and incarcerated for her desires\, her body broken and her identity stripped away until her soul is strong enough to transcend all physical bounds. \nWoven throughout is the journey of Danilo\, the young man entranced by Pavla\, obsessed only with protecting her. Part allegory about the shifting nature of being\, part subversive fairy tale of love in all its uncanny guises\, Marisa Silver’s new novel spans the beginning of a new century\, the disintegration of ancient superstitions and the adoption of industry and invention. With a cast of remarkable characters\, a wholly shocking and original story\, and extraordinary\, page-turning prose\, it is a work of sheer electricity. \nMarisa Silver is the author of the novel Mary Coin\, a New York Times bestseller. She is also the author of The God of War(a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist)\, No Direction Home\, and two story collections\, Alone With You and Babe in Paradise (a New York Times Notable Book and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year). Her first short story appeared in The New Yorker when she was featured in the magazine’s first “Debut Fiction” issue. Winner of the O. Henry Prize\, Silver’s fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories\, The O. Henry Prize Stories\, and other anthologies. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marisa-silver-w-peter-orner/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Comics Are Your Therapy Cat
DESCRIPTION:A night of readings of original works by Bay Area comics artists\, plus a comics therapist.\nCome hear readings of original works by:\nKayan Cheung-Miaw\nInés Ixierda\nIll Nappashi\nEmeric Kennard\nDiego Gomez\nLacey Johnson\n————————–————\nBios: \nKayan Cheung-Miaw is from Hong Kong and New York\, and comes from a family of garment and restaurant workers. Her work as the lead organizer for the Yank Sing restaurant workers’ campaign resulted in a historic $4 million settlement for 280 workers. Comics is her favorite medium because she considers it an art for the people. Check out her work at:kayancheung.tumblr.com \nInés Ixierda is a multi-media visual artist and bruja. She uses handcraft and mark making to heal and hold her lived experience. She will be presenting old and new works. \nIll Nappashi is a comics therapist\, idea man\, and motorcycle mechanic. \nEmeric L. Kennard or “Elk” is an award-winning artist and illustrator currently based in Oakland. A socially active creator\, Elk’s subject matter includes queer and transgender issues interpreted from a unique lived perspective\, environmentalism\, trauma\, and cultural survival. His work has exhibited locally and nationally\, hung in Congressional halls\, and been recognized by the Society of Illustrators. \nDiego Gomez created Daddy Issues magazine\, worked on the comic books Pride High\, Glamazonia\, Mama Tits Saves the World & most recently “ALPHABET: LGBTQAI Anthology”. They have created the panel discussion “Homo Superior: Queering Comics\, Costumes as Drag & Gender Equality” at Stan Lee’s ComikazeExpo\, co-curated “Queering Mythologies” for the National Queer Arts Festival & spoke at RuPaul’s DragCon’s “Geeks and Glamazons: Gender Bending in Comics.” They are currently completing the story & illustrations for the comic they are about to read about 1963 civil rights. instagram.com/designnurd \nLacey Johnson has been doing waay underground diary comics for 10 years. She will present a retrospective on her body of work\, talk process\, and present current work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/comics-are-your-therapy-cat/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Forrest Leo
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Forrest Leo: \n“An effervescent book with a cheerfully lunatic plot. Cavalier\, funny\, and totally engrossing. It’s a delicious crumpet of a novel that will leave you wondering if Forrest Leo drinks tea with the devil.”—Sara Levine\, author of Treasure Island!!! \n“Let us all bow down before the nutty and delightful romp that is The Gentleman. An assured stylist tells a hilarious story with perfect pacing and aplomb: yes\, please.”—Henry Alford\, author of Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?: A Modern Guide to Manners \n“Simultaneously very strange and very familiar\, The Gentleman has all the right echoes and influences – the ‘scientific romance\,’ the postmodernist novel\, the comedy of manners. It’s witty and erudite\, with great whiffs of Wells and Wilde and Wodehouse – all of it beautifully combined\, with one of the best opening sentences I’ve read in years. Go on—open up!”—Geoff Nicholson\, author of The Lost Art of Walking \n\nAbout The Gentleman: \nA funny\, fantastically entertaining debut novel\, in the spirit of Wodehouse and Monty Python\, about a famous poet who inadvertently sells his wife to the devil–then recruits a band of adventurers to rescue her. \n  \nWhen Lionel Savage\, a popular poet in Victorian London\, learns from his butler that they’re broke\, he marries the beautiful Vivien Lancaster for her money\, only to find that his muse has abandoned him. \n  \nDistraught and contemplating suicide\, Savage accidentally conjures the Devil — the polite “Gentleman” of the title — who appears at one of the society parties Savage abhors. The two hit it off: the Devil talks about his home\, where he employs Dante as a gardener; Savage lends him a volume of Tennyson. But when the party’s over and Vivien has disappeared\, the poet concludes in horror that he must have inadvertently sold his wife to the dark lord. \n  \nNewly in love with Vivian\,  Savage plans a rescue mission to Hell that includes Simmons\, the butler; Tompkins\, the bookseller; Ashley Lancaster\, swashbuckling Buddhist; Will Kensington\, inventor of a flying machine; and Savage’s spirited kid sister\, Lizzie\, freshly booted from boarding school for a “dalliance.” Throughout\, his cousin’s quibbling footnotes to the text push the story into comedy nirvana. \n  \nLionel and his friends encounter trapdoors\, duels\, anarchist-fearing bobbies\, the social pressure of not knowing enough about art history\, and the poisonous wit of his poetical archenemy. Fresh\, action-packed and very\, very funny\, The Gentleman is a giddy farce that recalls the masterful confections of P.G. Wodehouse and Hergé’s beautifully detailed Tintin adventures.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forrest-leo/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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