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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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Tag Archives: l.a.
Our Cultural DNA: ‘The Library Book’ by Susan Orlean
In 1986, a fire at the Los Angeles Central Library raged so fiercely, firefighters noted the strong potential for a flashover –– when a fire spreads rapidly across a gap due to extreme heat. “Flashover” is similar to the effect one experiences reading Susan Orlean’s The Library Book (336 pages; Simon & Schuster). It’s difficult to pull away from the story when her incisive research skills and masterful writing work in symbiosis: The Library Book is not just a sweeping narrative recounting the 1986 Los Angeles Central Library fire, but also an in-depth look at the personal, civic, and global impact …Continue reading
Babylon Burning: ‘High Life’ by Matthew Stokoe
When Matthew Stokoe’s gritty noir High Life (380 pages; matthewstokoe.com) was published by noted indie Akashic Books in 2002, the book, which received very little coverage, managed to attract a fan base, thanks partly to Stokoe’s fearless depictions of upper-crust society at its worst. His novel eventually went out of print, but now that the rights to High Life are back with Stokoe, he has self-published his own edition of his hard-to-find book. In High Life, Stokoe takes readers on a nocturnal tour of the seediest parts of late ‘90s Los Angeles, while gleefully subverting noir’s most ingrained tropes: there’s …Continue reading
Endless Fascination: Q&A with ‘L.A. Man’ Author Joe Donnelly
You can’t accuse Joe Donnelly of taking it easy. In a decades-spanning career, the Los Angeles writer has profiled the “who’s who” of Hollywood––from America’s sweetheart Drew Barrymore to iconoclast filmmaker Werner Herzog––in the pages of publications like L.A. Weekly, where he served as deputy editor for a number of years. During that time, his short stories have earned him an O. Henry Prize (“Bonus Baby,” from ZYZZYVA No. 103) and have been adapted into short films. Donnelly also co-founded and co-edited Slake, a short-lived but highly acclaimed journal that gathered journalism, fiction, poetry, and art, all with a distinctly …Continue reading
