ZYZZYVA Events
April 29, 2018Creating Home: On Finding Yourself in Another Culture
Location: 4:30 p.m., The Brower Center, Tamalpais Room, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley
Description: Bay Area Book Festival panel featuring authors Hernan Diaz (2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Rodrigo Hasbún, and Tommy Wieringa, moderated by Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. For more information, https://baybookfest.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F1N00000ohJDp
May 3, 2018ZYZZYVA Spring Issue Celebration, San Francisco
Location: 6:30 p.m., Mechanics's Institute Library, Fourth Floor, 57 Post St., San Francisco
Description: Featuring readings by contributors Natalie Serber, Christopher J. Adamson, Greg Sarris, Tom Barbash, and Mackenzie Evan Smith. Emceed by Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. Free for ZYZZYVA readers.
May 12, 2018ZYZZYVA at the Petaluma Arts Center
Location: 7 p.m., Petaluma Arts Center, 230 Lakeville Street, Petaluma
Description: Featuring readings by current and past contributors Tom Barbash, Vanessa Hua, Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Molly Giles, and Maddy Raskulinecz. For tickets, visit https://petalumaartscenter.org/events/?eid=11045
June 15, 2018Summer Dance Party 2018
Location: 6 p.m., Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco.
Description: ZYZZYVA's annual fundraiser, featuring Glen David Gold and Paul Beatty. Dancing, drinks, silent auction, and raffle. Tickets start at $25. For more info: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3379094
August 11, 2018ZYZZYVA Fiction Workshop with Anthony Marra
Location: Mechanics's Institute Building and ZYZZYVA offices, 57 Post Street, San Francisco
Description: A one-day intensive workshop with Marra, award-winning author of "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena" and "The Tsar of Love and Techno." Class size is very limited. Applications are due June 15. For more information, visit https://zyzzyva.submittable.com/submit/111999/fiction
August 18, 2018ZYZZYVA Poetry Workshop with Dean Rader
Location: Mechanics's Institute Building and ZYZZYVA Offices, 57 Post St., San Francisco
Description: A one-day intensive workshop with Rader, author of the poetry collections "Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry," "Landscape Portrait Figure Form" and "Works & Days." Class size is very limited. Application are due by June 18. For more information, visit https://zyzzyva.submittable.com/submit/106864/poetry
September 22, 2018ZYZZYVA Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Caille Millner
Location: Mechanics's Institute Building and ZYZZYVA Offices, 57 Post St., San Francisco
Description: A one-day intensive workshop with Millner, author of the memoir "The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification" and a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. Class size is very limited. Applications are due by July 23. For more information, visit https://zyzzyva.submittable.com/submit/106865/creative-non-fiction
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Interoffice Memorandum 3/27
Date: March 27th To: All Quest Industries Employees From: Ken Crickshaw Jr., Office Manager Subj: Dispelling Rumor re: UFO Sighting With my generalist title of “Office Manager,” I am aware that many here at Quest Industries can’t help but consider me a jack of all trades, even if the current description for this position does not include dispelling rumors related to supernatural phenomena such as ghost or UFO sightings. Be that as it may, I am happy to provide this service despite its absence from my detailed list of job duties. Fred Sagen, CFO, who is near retirement and admits …Continue reading
The Misapprehension of Satire: On ‘The Zone of Interest’ by Martin Amis
“O Germany— Hearing the speeches that ring from your house, one laughs. But whoever sees you, reaches for his rifle.” —Bertolt Brecht (from Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem) I. Introduction January marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the infamous labor and extermination camp in Poland where more than one million Jews were murdered by the Nazis, right under the nose of Polish citizens and the wider international community. The timing of this gruesome anniversary is poignant, as European anti-Semitism is perhaps more virulent and threatening now than at any point since the war. Anti-Semitism has unfortunately proven …Continue reading