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SUMMARY:Bruce Holbert in conversation with Suzanne Lang
DESCRIPTION:Bruce Holbert in conversation with Suzanne Lang\n\n  \ndiscussing his new novel \nWhiskey \nfrom Farrar\, Strauss\, Giroux/MCD \nBrothers Andre and Smoker were raised in a cauldron of their parents’ failed marriage and appetite for destruction\, and find themselves in the same straits as adults—navigating not only their own marriages\, but also their parents’ frequent collision with the law and one another. The family lives in Electric City\, Washington\, just a few miles south of the Colville Indian Reservation. Fiercely loyal and just plain fierce\, they’re bound by a series of darkly comedic and hauntingly violent events: domestic trouble; religious fanaticism; benders punctuated with pauses to dry out that never stick. \nWhen a religious zealot takes off with Smoker’s daughter\, there’s no question that his brother—who continues doggedly to try and put his life in order—will join him in an attempt to return her. Maybe the venture will break them both beyond repair or maybe it will redeem them. Or perhaps both. \nWhiskey is the story of two brothers\, their parents\, and three wrecked marriages\, a searching book about family life at its most distressed—about kinship\, failure\, enough liquor to get through it all\, and ultimately a dark and hard-earned grace. With the gruff humor of Cormac McCarthy and a dash of the madcap irony of Charles Portis\, and a strong\, authentic literary voice all his own\, Bruce Holbert traverses the harsh landscape of America’s northwestern border and finds a family unlike any you’ve met before. \nBruce Holbert is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared in The Iowa Review\, Hotel Amerika\, Other Voices\, The Antioch Review\, Crab Creek Review\, and The New York Times. He grew up on the Columbia River and in the shadow of the Grand Coulee Dam. His great-grandfather was an Indian scout and among the first settlers of the Grand Coulee. Holbert is the author of The Hour of Lead\, winner of the Washington State Book Award\, and Lonesome Animals. \nSuzanne Lang is a reporter for KQED and the host of “A Novel Idea” on KRCB . \nPraise for Whiskey: \n“[An] impressive novel . . . Like Cormac McCarthy\, another bard of the modern West’s brutality\, Holbert finds beauty and cruelty in the land\, in the tease and punch of eloquently elliptical dialogue\, and in the way humans struggle for love\, self-knowledge\, and a grip on life . . . He writes terse prose whittled to essentials and grained with vernacular . . . His characters may well brand a reader’s memory. A gut-punch of a bleak family saga that satisfies on many levels.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bruce-holbert-in-conversation-with-suzanne-lang-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:C. Dale Young / The Affliction
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host acclaimed poet C. Dale Young reading from his debut novel in stories\, The Affliction. Reading with him will be poet Javier Zamora—don’t miss it! \n“…It is never easy to know a story well. Sometimes\, all one can gather is an impression. Sometimes\, Time itself muddies\nthe details to the point little if any fact remains….”\nfrom “Inside the Great House” \nJavier Castillo was born with the strange ability to disappear; it takes up to three minutes. Rosa Blanco sits in her small kitchen\, replaying a moment from the past over and over again. Leenck is aware of his impending death\, but no one is aware of him. C. Dale Young’s fiction debut The Affliction: A Novel in Stories weaves together the lives of these characters\, lives lived in the cracks and seams of cities like Los Angeles and Santa Monica. Reminiscent of Julia Alvarez and Manuel Muñoz\, The Affliction makes audible the voices we have heard “whispering in the air as the sun left the sky.” \nYoung\, the prize-winning author of four collections of poetry\, deftly explores the inexplicable as it haunts the everyday: “What I know clearly is that the rain pelted everything\, and the deck\, the dock\, the very earth between the boat and my father’s small house\, suddenly took on the dark stain of rainwater\, a stain not quite as dark as the heart\, a stain not quite as dark as blood.” Young writes of people who know what it is to be disappeared—desaparecidos— and of those who know what it is to have to hide. He renders the grueling\, distorting effect of such disappearances on individuals and on those who know them in love or fear or wonder. The Affliction provides powerful testament to the notion of stories as resistance to loss. This is a book of necessary\, clear-hearted affirmation in troubled times. \n— \nC. Dale Young practices medicine full-time and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently The Halo (Four Way Books\, 2016); this is his first fiction collection. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. His fiction and poetry have appeared in many publications\, includingThe Atlantic Monthly\, Guernica\, The Hopkins Review\, Normal School\, The Paris Review\, andPloughshares\, as well as anthologies\, including several editions of The Best American Poetry. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, Poetry Foundation\, and Yaddo. The recipient of a 2017 Lannan Literary Fellowship\, the 2017 Narrative Prize\, and the 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer for Writers Award; Zamora’s poems appear in Granta\, Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, The New York Times\, and elsewhere. Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press\, Sept. 2017) is his first collection. \n—\nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any books by the authors\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/c-dale-young-the-affliction/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bruce Holbert in conversation with Suzanne Lang
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new novel \nWhiskey \nfrom Farrar\, Strauss\, Giroux/MCD \nBrothers Andre and Smoker were raised in a cauldron of their parents’ failed marriage and appetite for destruction\, and find themselves in the same straits as adults—navigating not only their own marriages\, but also their parents’ frequent collision with the law and one another. The family lives in Electric City\, Washington\, just a few miles south of the Colville Indian Reservation. Fiercely loyal and just plain fierce\, they’re bound by a series of darkly comedic and hauntingly violent events: domestic trouble; religious fanaticism; benders punctuated with pauses to dry out that never stick. \nWhen a religious zealot takes off with Smoker’s daughter\, there’s no question that his brother—who continues doggedly to try and put his life in order—will join him in an attempt to return her. Maybe the venture will break them both beyond repair or maybe it will redeem them. Or perhaps both. \nWhiskey is the story of two brothers\, their parents\, and three wrecked marriages\, a searching book about family life at its most distressed—about kinship\, failure\, enough liquor to get through it all\, and ultimately a dark and hard-earned grace. With the gruff humor of Cormac McCarthy and a dash of the madcap irony of Charles Portis\, and a strong\, authentic literary voice all his own\, Bruce Holbert traverses the harsh landscape of America’s northwestern border and finds a family unlike any you’ve met before. \nBruce Holbert is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared in The Iowa Review\, Hotel Amerika\, Other Voices\, The Antioch Review\, Crab Creek Review\, and The New York Times. He grew up on the Columbia River and in the shadow of the Grand Coulee Dam. His great-grandfather was an Indian scout and among the first settlers of the Grand Coulee. Holbert is the author of The Hour of Lead\, winner of the Washington State Book Award\, and Lonesome Animals. \nSuzanne Lang is a reporter for KQED and the host of “A Novel Idea” on KRCB . \nPraise for Whiskey: \n“[An] impressive novel . . . Like Cormac McCarthy\, another bard of the modern West’s brutality\, Holbert finds beauty and cruelty in the land\, in the tease and punch of eloquently elliptical dialogue\, and in the way humans struggle for love\, self-knowledge\, and a grip on life . . . He writes terse prose whittled to essentials and grained with vernacular . . . His characters may well brand a reader’s memory. A gut-punch of a bleak family saga that satisfies on many levels.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bruce-holbert-in-conversation-with-suzanne-lang/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Veronica Gerber Bicecci and Christina MacSweeney
DESCRIPTION:Veronica Gerber Bicecci discusses her new novel\, Empty Set\, with translator Christina MacSweeney. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. \n\nPraise for Empty Set \n\n“Verónica Gerber writes with a luminous intimacy; her novel is clever\, vibrant\, moving\, profoundly original. Reading it made me feel as if the world had been rebuilt.” —Francisco Goldman \n  \n“From the very beginning\, Verónica Gerber set out to write a novel that would end up at a loss for words. She alone could achieve this feat: because she’s a visual artist who takes everything she reads in as concentric circles threaded with color\, and because she writes essays on painters who write across canvasses and writers who paint plots from the realities of life. . . . She alone could bring the necessary silence to a novel so perfect it ended up leaving me speechless as well.” —Jorge F. Hernández \n  \n“Empty Set(ES) belongs to the set of Great Fragmentary Novels(GFN)\, which in turn fits plainly and simply within the set of Great Novels(GN). Verónica Gerber writes with the modesty and care of those who may seem to belong more to the set of Visual Artists(VA) than Writers(W)—each fragment is a precious miniature that exudes subtle\, melancholy humor.” —Juan Pablo Villalobos \n\nAbout Empty Set \n\nHow do you draw an affair? A family? Can a Venn diagram show the ways overlaps turn into absences\, tree rings tell us what happens when mothers leave? Can we fall in love according to the hop skip of an acrostic? Empty Set is a novel of patterns\, its young narrator’s attempt at making sense of inevitable loss\, tracing her way forward in loops\, triangles\, and broken lines.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/veronica-gerber-bicecci-and-christina-macsweeney/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Verónica Gerber Bicecci
DESCRIPTION:Mexican visual artist who writes\, Verónica Gerber Bicecci discusses her novel Empty Set\, with critically acclaimed translator Christina MacSweeney\, who brought it into English. A novel of patterns\, Empty Set traces and reconstructs its young narrator’s attempt at making sense of inevitable loss\, tracing her way forward in loops\, triangles\, and broken lines.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/veronica-gerber-bicecci/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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