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SUMMARY:Andre Perry / Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \nSome of Us Are Very Hungry Now: a collection of essays \npublished by 2 Dollar Radio \nWith luminous insight and fervent prose\, Andre Perry’s debut collection of personal essays\, Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now\, travels from Washington DC to Iowa City to Hong Kong in search of both individual and national identity. While displaying tenderness and a disarming honesty\, Perry catalogs racial degradations committed on the campuses of elite universities and liberal bastions like San Francisco while coming of age in America. \nThe essays in Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now take the form of personal reflection\, multiple choice questions\, screenplays\, and imagined talk-show conversations\, while traversing the daily minefields of childhood schoolyards and Midwestern dive-bars. The impression of Perry’s personal journey is arresting and beguiling\, while announcing the author’s arrival as a formidable American voice. \nWhat has been said about Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now: \n*A “Most Anticipated Book of 2019” —LitReactor\, The A.V. Club\, Big Other \n“Beautiful\, brilliant\, bold… Tantamount to a slice from the Americana songbook. These essays are ballads\, images from the self\, isolated and marginalized in other countries and in his own land. These are songs of identity and sexuality and expectations the world has of African American males from those perspectives. Here’s hoping this book will mark the start of a long and varied journey for Perry. If the goal of a literary traveler is to show how connected we are to one another\, his debut collection is an assured indication of deeper glories yet to come.”\n—Christopher John Stephens\, PopMatters \nAndre Perry is an essayist and arts advocate. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and his work has appeared in The Believer\, Catapult\, Granta and other journals. He co-founded Iowa City’s Mission Creek Festival\, a celebration of music and literature\, as well as the multidisciplinary festival of creative process\, Witching Hour. He continues to live and work in Iowa City. This is his first book.
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LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Crissy Van Meter: Creatures
DESCRIPTION:Crissy Van Meter discusses her new novel\, Creatures. \nPraise for Creatures \n“Creatures is the kind of beautiful book that makes you want to lick the salt from its pages. It’s so physically present you can feel the waves hit your body\, smell the sea life\, hear the roar of the ocean as your hair whips around your face in the breeze. Crissy Van Meter has written a book about the complexities of love and families\, yes\, but it’s also a careful look at intimacy through the lens of a person learning and relearning how to love the people who continually let us down. It’s inventive and surprising. The text is tactile; a punch to the heart. It’s one of the best novels I’ve read this year.”—Kristen Arnett\, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things \n“Crissy Van Meter pulls us into depths of loneliness\, sweetness\, pain\, history\, and pulsing vulnerability in prose swift and clear as an ocean current\, in Creatures. On Winter Island\, time and landscape ache with memory; need spills over in subtle moments of intense connection\, fracture\, deprivation\, and wound; unconditional love may be a concept as unreachable as the mainland\, and as isolating. Like water\, loss and longing fill the space between each prism of a word in this gorgeous\, jewel-tone debut.” —Sarah Gerard\, author of Sunshine State \n“At the intersection of the natural world and the human heart\, Van Meter explores alcoholism\, absence\, daughterly loyalties and longing in this slim and beautiful tale that contains a whole aqueous universe in its depths.”—Melissa Broder\, author of The Pisces \nAbout Creatures \nOn the eve of Evangeline’s wedding\, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island\, the groom may be lost at sea\, and Evie’s mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there\, in this mesmerizing\, provocative debut\, Evie remembers and reckons with her complicated upbringing in this lush\, wild land off the coast of Southern California. \nEvie grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father\, surviving on the money he made dealing the island’s world-famous strain of marijuana\, Winter Wonderland. Although he raised her with a deep respect for the elements\, the sea\, and the creatures living within it\, he also left her to parent herself. With wit\, love\, and bracing ashes of anger\, Creatures probes the complexities of love and abandonment\, guilt and forgiveness\, betrayal and grief—and the ways in which our ability to love can be threatened if we are not brave enough to conquer the past. \nLyrical\, darkly funny\, and ultimately cathartic\, Creatures exerts a pull as strong as the tides. \n 
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LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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