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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Chaya Bhuvaneswar / White Dancing Elephants
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon with Chaya Bhuvaneswar for her debut story collection\, White Dancing Elephants\, winner of both the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize and Narrative Magazine’s Top Five Stories of the Week for 2017. Please join us! \n  \nA woman grieves a miscarriage\, haunted by the Buddha’s birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange “rescue” mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two women culminates in regret and betrayal. A boy seeks memories of his sister in the legend of a woman who weds death. And fragments of history\, from child brickmakers to slaves in Renaissance Portugal\, are held up in brief fictions\, burnished\, made dazzling and unforgettable. \nIn sixteen remarkable stories\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar spotlights diverse women of color–cunning\, bold\, and resolute–facing sexual harassment and racial violence\, and occasionally inflicting that violence on each other. Winner of the 2017 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize\, White Dancing Elephants marks the emergence of a new and original voice in fiction and explores feminist\, queer\, religious\, and immigrant stories with precision\, drama\, and compassion. \n  \n\n  \n“A magnificent collection of stories that defy conventions\, stereotypes\, and reveal the universal complexity we all share as humans–gifted and flawed individuals\, who struggle to reconcile the mixed signals of our own hearts.” – Jamie Ford\, New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet \n  \n“Reading Chaya Bhuvaneswar is like receiving Lasik via literature–the world you return to is a little clearer and sharper for the time you’ve spent in her pages. She is a formidable talent\, formally accomplished and intellectually alive.” – Anthony Marra\, Whiting-award winning author of The Constellation of Vital Phenomena \n  \n“A bold\, honest\, often provocative first collection from a fresh new voice.” – Jeff VanderMeer\, author of Annihilation \n  \n“Bhuvaneswar’s daring mix of ancient\, contemporary\, and dystopic stories carries us to the heart of rarely exposed longing\, loss\, and the politics of violence and endurance in remarkable\, elegant\, heart-stopping prose.” – Jimin Han\, author of A Small Revolution \n  \n“White Dancing Elephants is a searing and complex collection\, wholly realized\, each piece curled around its own beating heart. Tender and incisive\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a surgeon on the page; unflinching in her aim\, unwavering in her gaze\, and absolutely devastating in her prose. This is an astonishing debut.” – Amelia Gray\, author of Isadora \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart. What a bold\, smart\, exciting new voice\, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor.” – Lauren Groff\, author of Florida\n“White Dancing Elephants is a timely stunner\, a wild collection that touches on everything from motherhood\, race\, and privilege\, to Rachael Ray and Jay Z. This book unsettles as much as it entertains. Bhuvaneswar shows an impressive range and deep emotional intelligence–this is one of those rare books that refuses to look away.” – Kelly Luce\, Electric Lit \n  \n\n  \nChaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician and writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative Magazine\, Tin House\, Electric Lit\, The Rumpus\, The Millions\, Joyland\, Large Hearted Boy\, Chattahoochee Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Awl\, jellyfish review\, aaduna and elsewhere\, with poetry in Cutthroat\, sidereal\, Natural Bridge\, apt magazine\, Hobart\, Ithaca Lit\, Quiddity and elsewhere. Her poetry and prose juxtapose Hindu epics\, other myths and histories\, and the survival of sexual harassment and racialized sexual violence by diverse women of color. In addition to the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection prize under which her debut collection White Dancing Elephants will be released on Oct 9 2018\, she recently received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and a Henfield award for her writing. Her work received several Pushcart Prize anthology nominations this year as well as a Joy Harjo Poetry Contest prize. Follow her on Twitter at @chayab77 including for upcoming readings and events. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The Bindery’s bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nick Mamatas & Michael Marshall Smith
DESCRIPTION:Doors open 6:00pm\nEvent begins 6:30pm \nAt the American Bookbinders Museum \n  \nPlease join us for an evening with author Nick Mamatas reading and in conversation with Bay Area writer\, editor\, and raconteur Terry Bisson. \nNick Mamatas is the author of six and a half novels\, including The Last Weekend (PS Publishing)\, Love is the Law (Dark Horse)\, The Damned Highway with Brian Keene (Dark Horse)\, Bullettime (CZP)\, Sensation (PM Press)\, Under My Roof (Counterpoint/Soft Skull)\, and Move Under Ground (Night Shade/Prime). His latest collection is The Nickronomicon\, from Innsmouth Free Press. His novels have been translated into German\, Italian\, and Greek. Nick is also an anthologist and editor of short fiction: with Masumi Washington he co-edited the Locus Award-nominated The Future Is Japanese (Haikasoru)\, and with Ellen Datlow he co-edited the Bram Stoker Award-winning Haunted Legends (Tor Books). Nick’s own short fiction has appeared in genre publications such as Asimov’s Science Fiction and Tor.com\, lit journals including New Haven Review and subTERRAIN\, and anthologies such as Hint Fiction and Best American Mystery Stories 2013. His fiction and editorial work has been nominated for the Bram Stoker award five times\, the Hugo Award twice\, the World Fantasy Award twice\, and the Shirley Jackson\, International Horror Guild\, and Locus Awards. \nDoors and cash bar open at 5:30 – Program begins at 6:30. \n$10 donation at the door (no one is turned away for lack of funds). As always Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of the authors’ work. \nWe hope to see you here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nick-mamatas-michael-marshall-smith/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:May-Lee Chai and Jamel Brinkley
DESCRIPTION:May-Lee Chai discusses her new story collection Useful Phrases for Immigrants with Jamel Brinkley. \n\nPraise for Useful Phrases For Immigrants \n\n“May-lee Chai’s Useful Phrases for Immigrants holds multitudes\, taking us into a dazzling range of lives. With exquisite prose and unforgettable characters\, the collection is a must-read.”–Vanessa Hua\, A River of Stars\n \nThe eight stories in this collection contain multitudes. Chai interrogates heavy subjects with a light touch. She grants each character with the gift of a gleaming voice\, rendering them to be shaped by circumstances\, while also transcending them. Useful Phrases for Immigrants is more than merely “useful\,” this is essential reading and I’m honored to choose this book for the Bakwin Award.–Tayari Jones\, author of An American Marriage\, Silver Sparrow\, The Untelling\, and Leaving Atlanta\, judge of the 2017 Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman.\n \n“With insight\, compassion\, and clarity\, May-lee Chai vividly illustrates the reverberations of migration―both physical and psychological; between countries\, cities\, and generations; and within families and individuals. You won’t forget these characters.”–Lisa Ko\, author of The Leavers\, finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction\n \n“May-lee Chai presents us with a splendid gem of a story collection . . . Complementing the vivid characters\, the reader has the gift of language―’a wind so treacherous it had its own name\,’ ‘summer days stretched taffy slow’….Chai’s work is a grand event.” –Edward P. Jones\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World\, All Aunt Hagar’s Children\, and Lost in the City. \n  \nAbout Useful Phrases For Immigrants \n\nIn the title story of this timely and innovative collection\, a young woman wearing a Prada coat attempts to redeem a coupon for plastic storage bins while her in-laws are at home watching the Chinese news and taking her private phone calls. It is the lively and wise juxtaposition of cultures\, generations\, and emotions that characterize May-lee Chai’s amazing stories. Within them\, readers will find a complex blend of cultures spanning China\, the Chinese diaspora in America\, and finally\, the world at large. \n  \nWith luminous prose and sharp-eyed observations\, Chai reveals her characters’ hopes and fears\, and our own: a grieving historian seeking solace from an old lover in Beijing\, a young girl discovering her immigrant mother’s infidelity\, workers constructing a shopping mall in central China who make a shocking discovery. Families struggle with long-held grudges\, reinvent traditions\, and make mysterious visits to shadowy strangers from their past―all rendered with economy and beauty. \n  \nWith hearts that break and sometimes mend\, with families who fight and sometimes forgive\, the timely stories in Useful Phrases for Immigrants illuminate complicated lives with empathy and passion. Chai’s stories are essential reading for an increasingly globalized world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/may-lee-chai-and-jamel-brinkley/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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