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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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A Wandering Artist: Philip L. Fradkin’s ‘Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife’
I first heard about Everett Ruess, a 20-year-old wander and fledging artist who disappeared in southern Utah 75 years ago, when I lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, during the ‘80s. His story – a longstanding mystery — was one you eventually got to know if you spent anytime roaming around the backcountry of the high desert. Many years later, on April 30, 2009, the New York Times published an article titled “A Mystery of the West Is Solved.” The article explained that researchers at the University of Colorado, using DNA analysis, claimed to have identified human remains found in …Continue reading
