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SUMMARY:An evening w/ Masande Ntshanga
DESCRIPTION:reading from his acclaimed new novel \nThe Reactive \nfrom Two Dollar Radio \nHeralded in the author’s native South Africa as “the hottest novel of the year\,” The Reactive is a clear-eyed and compassionate depiction of a young HIV+ man grappling with the sudden death of his younger brother\, for which he feels unduly responsible. \nLindanathi and his friends—Cecelia and Ruan—make their living working low-paying jobs and selling anti-retroviral drugs (during the period in South Africa before ARVs became broadly distributed). In between\, they huff glue\, drift in and out of parties\, and traverse the streets of Cape Town\, where they observe the grave material disparities of their country. A mysterious masked man appears seeking to buy their surplus of ARVs\, an offer that would present the three with the opportunity to escape their environs\, while at the same time forcing Lindanathi to confront his path\, and finally\, his past. \nWith brilliant\, shimmering prose\, Ntshanga has delivered a redemptive\, ambitious\, and unforgettable first novel. \nMasande Ntshanga is the winner of the inaugural PEN International New Voices Award in 2013\, and a finalist for the Caine Prize in 2015. He was born in East London in 1986 and graduated with a degree in Film and Media and an Honours degree in English Studies from UCT\, where he became a creative writing fellow\, completing his Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon Mays Foundation. He received a Fulbright Award\, an NRF Freestanding Masters scholarship\, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship and a Bundanon Trust Award. His work has appeared in The White Review\, Chimurenga\, VICE and n + 1. He has also written for Rolling Stone magazine. \nCritical Praise for the work of Masande Ntshanga: \n*Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Finalist \n*Etisalat Prize for Literature Longlist \n*One of the Best Books of the Year —City Press\, The Sunday Times\, The Star\, This is Africa\, Africa’s a Country\, Sunday World \n“[The Reactive is] a searing\, gorgeously written account of life\, love\, illness\, and death in South Africa. With exquisite prose\, formal innovation\, and a masterful command of storytelling\, Ntshanga illustrates how some young people navigated the dusk that followed the dawn of freedom in South Africa and humanizes the casualties of the Mbeki government’s fatal policies on HIV & AIDS.”\n—Naomi Jackson\, Poets & Writers \n“Woozy\, touching… a novel that delivers an unexpected love letter to Cape Town\, painting it as a place of frustrated glory. The Reactive often teems with a beauty that seems to carry on in front of its glue-huffing wasters despite themselves.”\n—Marian Ryan\, Slate
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-w-masande-ntshanga/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nell Zink
DESCRIPTION:Nell Zink exquisitely captures the clash between Baby-Boomer idealism and Millennial pragmatism\, between the have-nots and want-mores\, in a riotous yet tender novel that brilliantly encapsulates our time. \nRecent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life… by being the conventional one. Her mother\, Amalia\, was a member of a South American tribe called the Kogi and her much older father\, Norm\, long ago attained cult-like deity status among a certain cohort of aging hippies while operating a psychedelic “healing center.” She’s never felt particularly close to her much older half-brothers from Norm’s previous marriage; one\, wickedly charming and obscenely rich (but mostly just wicked)\, and one a photographer on a distant tropical island. \nAll that changes when her father dies and Penny inherits his childhood home in New Jersey. She goes to investigate the property and finds it not overgrown and abandoned\, but rather occupied by a group of friendly anarchist squatters whom she finds unexpectedly charming\, and who have renamed the property “Nicotine.” The Nicotine residents (united in defense of smokers’ rights’) possess the type of passion and fervor Penny feels she’s desperately lacking\, and the other squatter houses in the neighborhood provide a sense of community she has never felt before. She soon moves into a nearby residence\, becoming enmeshed in the political fervor and commitment of her fellow squatters. \nAs the Baker familys’ lives begin to converge around the fate of the house now called Nicotine\, Penny grows ever bolder and more desperate to protect it and its residents until a fateful night when a reckless confrontation between her old family and her new one changes everything. \nNell Zink grew up in rural Virginia. She has worked in a variety of trades\, including masonry and technical writing. In the early 1990s\, she edited an indie rock fanzine. Her writing has also appeared in n+1. Her debut novel\, The Wallcreeper\, was published in 2014. She lives near Berlin\, Germany.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nell-zink/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Liza Monroy w/ Elizabeth McKenzie
DESCRIPTION:Liza Monroy’s new book is a collection of deeply personal essays that tackle the universal themes of romantic and familial love\, fate and chance\, all told in a humorous and intelligent manner that keeps the reader yearning for more. Created in the wake of Liza’s popular essays — including her piece for the Modern Love column in the New York Times — Seeing as Your Shoes Are Soon to Be on Fire chronicles Liza’s many misadventures in her quest for love. These misadventures span a variety of countries and a variety of men\, all bound together under the watchful eye of her eccentric\, single mother\, a profiler for the U.S. State Department\, who is soon using her professional aptitude to weed out the men in her daughter’s path. \nFilled with quirky details and archetypal characters from our everyday lives\, with stories that are both wildly hilarious and deeply heartfelt\, Seeing as Your Shoes Are Soon to Be on Fire is both a vulnerably open testament to Liza’s personal experiences and an intriguing work that confronts the odds of finding love and intimacy in the increasingly depersonalized world of technology. \nLIZA MONROY is the author of The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took to Keep My Best Friend in America… and What It Taught Us About Love and Mexican High. Her essays and articles have appeared in the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Psychology Today\, and Poets & Writers. Her work has also been featured in various anthologies\, including Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York and One Big Family. Liza has taught writing at Columbia University\, UCLA Extension\, and UC Santa Cruz. She currently lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nELIZABETH MCKENZIE is the author of The Portable Veblen and Stop That Girl. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and the Pushcart Prize anthology\, and has been recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. She received her MA from Stanford\, was an assistant fiction editor at The Atlantic\, and currently teaches creative writing at Stanford’s school of continuing studies. She lives in Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liza-monroy-w-elizabeth-mckenzie/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Litquake Presents a Julio Cortázar Celebration
DESCRIPTION:City Lights and the Center for the Art of Translation join us for a celebration of the legendary Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. \nWith readings by: \nMauro Javier Cardenas \nSilvia Oviedo \nKatherine Silver \nand more \n\nPraise for Julio Cortázar: \n“Anyone who doesn’t read Cortazar is doomed. Not to read him is a serious invisible disease which in time can have terrible consequences. Something similar to a man who has never tasted peaches. He would quietly become sadder . . . and\, probably\, little by little\, he would lose his hair.” —Pablo Neruda \n“Some people run the world\, others are the world. Cortázar’s poems are the world; they have a special consideration for the unknown.” ––Enrique Vila-Matas on Save Twilight \n“The most magnificent novel I have ever read\, and one to which I shall return again and again.” —C.D.B. Bryan\, The New York Times Book Review on Hopscotch \n\nAbout Julio Cortázar: \nJulio Cortázar was an Argentine novelist\, short story writer\, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom\, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe. He has been called both a “modern master of the short story” and\, by Carlos Fuentes\, “the Simón Bolívar of the novel.” \nRead Cortázar’s Art of Fiction interview in the Paris Review. \n\nAbout Stephen Kessler’s translation of Save Twilight: \nThe power of Eros\, the enduring beauty of art\, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland\, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature\, music\, art\, and history\, and most of his own emotional geography\, Cortázar’s poetry traces his paradoxical evolution from provincial Argentinean sophisticate to cosmopolitan Parisian Romantic\, always maintaining the sense of astonishment of an artist surprised by life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-presents-a-julio-cortazar-celebration/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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