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March 24, 2019Ferlinghetti at 100/Open House Birthday Party
Location: 1:45 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco
Description: ZYZZYVA joins in celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 100th Birthday at City Lights, and Vesuvio's. Managing Editor Oscar Villalon emcees a reading in City Light's basement featuring Barbara Jane Reyes, Wendy Trevino, D.A. Powell, sam sax, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Garret Caples, and Joseph Lease. Free. For more info: https://bit.ly/2TIWqPw
Ferlinghetti at 100/Open House Birthday Party
Location: 3 p.m., Vesuvio, 255 Columbus Ave., San Francisco
Description: ZYZZYVA joins in celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 100th Birthday at City Lights and Vesuvio. Managing Editor Oscar Villalon emcees a reading featuring D.A. Powell, sam sax, Barbara Jane Reyes, Wendy Trevino, Clark Coolidge, Jack Hirschman, and Aggie Falk. Free. For more info: https://bit.ly/2TIWqPw
March 28, 2019ZYZZYVA at AWP
Location: 10:30 a.m., Portland Ballroom 253-254, Oregon Convention Center, Level 2
Description: "Behind the Curtain: The Editors Speak!" with Alison Wright, executive editor of VQR; Emily Nemens, editor of The Paris Review; Karissa Chen, editor-in-chief at Hyphen, and Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. Moderated by Christian Kiefer. More info here: https://bit.ly/2HWVUIk
March 30, 2019ZYZZYVA at AWP
Location: 1:30 p.m., E143-144, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Description: "The Future of Criticism: A Conversation with Established and Emerging Critics" with Kate Tuttle, Ismail Muhammad, Jane Ciabattari, Hope Wabuke, and Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. More info here: https://bit.ly/2DYEyXz
April 14, 2019ZYZZYVA at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Location: 4 p.m., Hoffman Hall, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Description: "Writing & Publishing: Inside Stories of the Book Business," featuring panelists Nicole Dewey, Colleen Dunn Bates, and Betsy Amster. Moderated by Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. For more information: https://bit.ly/2HoPxMA
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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Understanding Desperation, & Knowing the Natural World: Q&A with Christian Kiefer
“Once upon a time, you told yourself that you would be no killer, that this was how you would live your life,” reflects the protagonist of Christian Kiefer’s new novel, The Animals (Liveright/Norton; 320 pages), as he prepares to euthanize a wounded moose in the book’s opening chapter. “And yet you learn and relearn that everything is the same.” Bill Reed is the operator of the North Idaho Wildlife Rescue and a man haunted by a guilty conscience. Caring for wounded animals—raccoons, badgers, an owl, a wolf, and a blind grizzly bear, among others—is a form of catharsis for Bill, …Continue reading
A Field Guide to San Francisco Fog, and to Mutable Memory: Q&A with Kyle Boelte
Kyle Boelte’s memoir, The Beautiful Unseen: Variations on Fog and Forgetting (Counterpoint; 176 pages), weaves together the author’s investigations into the mysterious San Francisco fog with an exploration of his memories of the life and suicide of his brother, Kris. On one side of this dual narrative, Boelte researches the fog from the standpoint of San Francisco history and the science behind the Bay Area’s climate. On the other, he remembers his life before and after his brother’s death. Juxtaposing these two themes, memory becomes reminiscent of the fog and vice versa. With remembering comes forgetting, and memories can cloud …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
The Oval Track of Memory: ‘Butterflies in November’ by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Set in the wintery depths of Iceland during the darkest days of the year, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir’s novel Butterflies in November (Black Cat/Grove; 296 pages) opens with a surreal scene. After accidentally running over a goose, the unnamed narrator hauls the carcass into her car trunk with plans to surprise her husband with a lavish dinner. What follows is the story of a woman out of sync with domestic life, whose impulsive nature leads her on a journey to self-discovery. We get a sense early on of our narrator’s elusive nature during a confrontation between herself and her husband. With …Continue reading
