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SUMMARY:Christos Ikonomou + Anne Germanacos
DESCRIPTION:Christos Ikonomou in conversation with Anne Germanacos about his English-language debut\, Something Will Happen\, You’ll See. \nPraise for Christos Ikonomou: \n“A gripping collection of short stories… In Ikonomou’s concrete streets\, the rain is always looming\, the politicians’ slogans are ignored\, and the police remain a violent\, threatening presence offstage. Yet even at the edge of destitution\, his men and women act for themselves\, trying to preserve what little solidarity remains in a deeply atomized society\, and in one way or another finding their own voice. There is faith here\, deep faith — though little or none in those who habitually ask for it.” — Mark Mazower\, The Nation \n“Heart-wrenching and moving…deeply illuminating\, not only about working-class Greeks in the face of the crisis\, but\, more importantly\, about the human condition.” — Publishing Perspectives \n“The Greek Faulkner… one of the most touching chronicles of the economic crisis to have come out of Greece.” — La Republica \nAbout Something Will Happen\, You’ll See: \nSomething Will Happen\, You’ll See is a heart-wrenching elegy on the impoverished working-class Greeks populating the neighborhoods around Piraeus\, the large port southwest of Athens. Ikonomou’s luminous and poignant short stories center around laid-off steelworkers\, warehousemen\, families\, pensioners\, and young couples faced with sudden loss and turmoil. Between docks\, in tenement buildings\, and on city streets Ikonomou’s men and women sustain their traumas on flickers of hope in the darkness and on their deep faith in humanity. An illuminating examination of the human condition\, Ikonomou’s award-winning book has become the literary emblem of the Greek crisis; stories so real\, humane\, and haunting that they will stay with the reader long after the final page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christos-ikonomou-anne-germanacos/
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:Dastanhayeh-jadid (New Stories): Iranian Writers Reading + Discussion
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday (4/24) Siamak Vossoughi (Better Than War)\, Persis Karim (Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian-American Writers)\, Jasmin Darznik (The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Life)\, and Shideh Etaat (recipient of the 2015 James D. Phelan Award) will be discussing the new narratives being shaped today in Iranian-American literature. \nbios: \nSIAMAK VOSSOUGHI was born in Tehran\, grew up in Seattle\, and lives in San Francisco. His work has been published in Kenyon Review Online\, Missouri Review\, The Rumpus\, and Glimmer Train. His short story collection\, “Better Than War”\, received a 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. \nPERSIS KARIM is a writer\, editor\, and professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Jose State University. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals including Reed Magazine\, HeartLodge\, Caesura\, Callaloo\, and other. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian-American literature and her most recent anthology “Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian-American Writers (with Anita Amirrezvani)”. To find out more information about her work\, go to: www.persiskarim.com. \nJASMIN DARZNIK is the author of a New York Times bestseller\, “The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life”. Jasmin’s book was published in thirteen countries and shortlisted for the 2012 Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She has contributed to the New York TImes\, Washington Post\, and Los Angeles Times\, among others. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature at Princeton University and now teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco. \nSHIDEH ETAAT is a writer and teacher at Mission High School in San Francisco. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She is a 2015 James D. Phelan Award recipient and her short story “Take Us to Our Love” was published in The Delmarva Review’s Volume 6. An excerpt from her novel can be found in “Tremors\, New Fiction by Iranian Americans”. Her first novel is about a love triangle\, Jews in Iran\, and other strange and wonderful things. For more information about Shideh’s work\, please go to: http://www.thebolditalic.com/users/shidehe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dastanhayeh-jadid-new-stories-iranian-writers-reading-discussion/
LOCATION:Arc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mixed-genre reading w/ Hahn\, Morduchovich\, + O'Hare
DESCRIPTION:Giovanna Morduchovich is a recent addition to San Francisco. She earned her MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. An Italian Jew from birth\, she writes breezy non-fiction about light topics such as ancestral grief\, shoplifting\, and gnomes. She is currently working on a book about her deaf mother’s obsession with small dogs and dolls. \nIsobel O’Hare is a poet and essayist who was born in Chicago\, Illinois but did most of her growing up in Ireland. She is the author of the chapbook Wild Materials\, published in 2015 by Zoo Cake Press. Her writing can be found in The Account\, Dirty Chai Magazine\, HOUND\, FORTH Magazine\, Numero Cinq\, The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review\, and Cease\, Cows among other publications. She received her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, and she was recently awarded a Helene Wurlitzer Fellowship. She lives in Oakland\, California. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mixed-genre-reading-w-hahn-morduchovich-ohare/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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