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SUMMARY:Indy Press Night ft. Ig Publishing w/ Carswell + Tanner
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of two new novels \nMetaphysical Ukulele \nby Sean Carswell \n& \nMissile Paradise \nby Ron Tanner \nboth books published by Ig Press \nAbout Metaphysical Ukulele: \nMixing the flair of literary invention with real events in the lives of some of our most well-known writers—Herman Melville living with a tribe of cannibals; Raymond Chandler holding The Blue Dahlia screenplay hostage from Paramount Studios; Flannery O’Connor falling in love; Chester Himes threatening to decapitate his landlord\, a ukulele player who may or may not be Thomas Pynchon\, among others—Sean Carswell takes the nonfiction of the literary life and turns it into exquisite fiction\, with a ukulele thrown in to each story for good measure. At times heartbreaking\, at times absurd\, the stories in this truly one-of-a-kind collection delightfully blur the line between what is life\, and what is literature. \nSean Carswell is the author of the novels Drinks for the Little Guy\, Train Wreck Girl\, and Madhouse Fog\, and the short story collections Barney’s Crew and Glue and Ink Rebellion. He co-founded the independent book publisher Gorsky Press and the music magazine Razorcake. He currently teaches writing and literature at California State University\, Channel Islands. \nAbout Missle Paradise: \nIn the Marshall Islands\, an island-nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that was once a testing ground for nuclear bombs\, American engineers and programmers are making and testing missiles while their “hosts\,” the indigenous Marshallese\, sweep their streets and clean their houses. It’s 2004\, the Iraq war is heating up\, and 9/11 is fresh in everyone’s minds. Following four interconnected story lines—the meltdown of a burned-out cultural liaison who has “gone native” and bitterly resents his role in keeping the Marshallese down; a young programmer who has lost his leg in a reckless solo sailing journey; the struggles of a young widow with two children whose husband drowned in a mysterious diving accident; and the destructive spiral of a Marshallese teenager whose American girlfriend rejects him when she returns to the States—Missile Paradise is an extraordinary novel that deals with the major social and political issues of our time\, including racism\, represented by the relationship between the Americans who enjoy life on Kwajalein and the subservience of the native Marshallese\, who live on the neglected and trash-strewn island of Ebeye; and climate change—the climax of the novel is a great storm and flood which forces the Marshallese on Ebeye to flee to Kwajalein. \nRon Tanner’s awards for writing include a Faulkner Society gold medal\, a Pushcart Prize\, a New Letters Award\, a Best of the Web Award\, a Maryland Arts Council grant\, and many others. He is the author of A Bed of Nails (stories)\, Kiss Me Stranger (illustrated novel)\, and From Animal House to Our House (memoir). He teaches writing at Loyola University-Maryland and directs the Marshall Islands Story Project. \nIg Publishing produces original literary fiction from writers who have been overlooked by the mainstream publishing establishment\, and political and cultural nonfiction. Their Young Adult imprint\, Lizzie Skurnick Books\, is devoted to bringing back the very best in young adult literature\, from the classics of the ’30s and ’40s to the thrillers and social issue novels of the ’70s and ’80s.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/indy-press-night-ft-ig-publishing-w-carswell-tanner/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mychal Denzel Smith
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Invisible Man\, Got the Whole World Watching: \n“This is the book that could have saved so many of our lives.” —Kiese Laymon \n\n“Mychal Denzel Smith answers the pressing but unasked question\, what would happen if all those black boys felled by bullets had a chance to make mistakes\, read books\, fall in love\, hone skills\, take new paths\, and grow up? The story is fully and unflinchingly Mychal’s and because Mychal is so distinctively self-aware\, so intellectually invested\, and emotionally raw\, it cannot simply stand in as a generic tale for all the lost black boys– except that they too would have had stories entirely their own to tell if only they had had a chance to write them. We owe it to them and more importantly to ourselves to read Mychal’s book and render visible what we would rather forget.” —Melissa Harris-Perry \n\n“If I kept a diary of my deepest thoughts\, plaguing insecurities and varied triumphs—this would be it. It is a cover to cover conversation with the reader on the complexity of (hopefully) growing to be a Black Man in the American Empire. Mychal’s coming of age book\, his first\, is a masterful meld of personal reflection\, political analysis and honest insight that yearns to be felt\, must be read and demands to be seen.”  —umi selah\, organizer and co-founder\, the dream defenders \n\nAbout Invisible Man\, Got the Whole World Watching: \nHow do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today\, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant\, Trayvon Martin\, Michael Brown\, Akai Gurley\, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of black self-determination for LeBron James\, Dave Chappelle\, and Frank Ocean.\nIn “Invisible Man\, Got the Whole World Watching\,” Mychal Denzel Smith chronicles his own personal and political education during these tumultuous years\, describing his efforts to come into his own in a world that denied his humanity. Smith unapologetically upends reigning assumptions about black masculinity\, rewriting the script for black manhood so that depression and anxiety aren t considered taboo\, and feminism and LGBTQ rights become part of the fight. The questions Smith asks in this book are urgentfor him\, for the martyrs and the tokens\, and for the Trayvons that could have been and are still waiting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mychal-denzel-smith/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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