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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: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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