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SUMMARY:Josh Weil
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nThe Age of Perpetual Light \nfrom Grove Press \nA dazzling new work that spans a century and eight tales of light\, human progress\, and the search for a better life from Josh Weil\, one of “the most gifted writers of his generation” (Colum McCann)\, winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters \nFollowing his debut Dayton Literary Peace Prize-winning novel\, The Great Glass Sea\, Josh Weil brings together stories selected from a decade of work in a stellar new collection. Beginning at the dawn of the past century\, in the early days of electrification\, and moving into an imagined future in which the world is lit day and night\, The Age of Perpetual Light follows deeply-felt characters through different eras in American history: from a Jewish dry goods peddler who falls in love with an Amish woman while showing her the wonders of an Edison Lamp\, to a 1940 farmers’ uprising against the unfair practices of a power company; a Serbian immigrant teenage boy in 1990’s Vermont desperate to catch a glimpse of an experimental satellite\, to a back-to-the-land couple forced to grapple with their daughter’s autism during winter’s longest night. \nBrilliantly hewn and piercingly observant\, these are tales that speak to the all-too-human desire for advancement and the struggle of wounded hearts to find a salve\, no matter what the cost. This is a breathtaking book from one of our brightest literary lights. \nJosh Weil was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novella collection\, The New Valley. A National Book Award “Five Under Thirty-Five” author\, he has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation\, Columbia University\, the MacDowell Colony\, Bread Loaf\, and Sewanee. His fiction has appeared in Granta\, Esquire\, One Story\, and Tin House. \nPraise for The Age of Perpetual Light \n“A rich\, often dazzling collection of short stories linked by themes while ranging widely in style from Babel-like fables to gritty noir and sci-fi . . . engrossing\, persuasively detailed and written with a deep affection for the way language can\, in masterful hands\, convey us to marvelous new worlds.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josh-weil/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Words: Readings in Two Languages
DESCRIPTION:A bicycle: \nthere is no poetry \nin stopping. \nSo writes Ahmed Al Mulla\, the groundbreaking Saudi poet whose vivid\, free-flowing prose has gained him critical acclaim across the Arab World. Diverging from the strict\, metered-style of Arabic poetry\, Al Mulla chooses to embrace free verse in his poems. Al Mulla will share a number of his poems in both the original Arabic and English translation alongside poet Mohammad Salama and musical accompaniment by Hafez Modirzadeh.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-readings-in-two-languages/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Middle East Institute":MAILTO:exchanges@mei.edu
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