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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: queer
Obsessions: Our Solitary Fancy
Who wasn’t obsessed by the Beat Generation in high school? Okay, it was just unbearable punks like me. In Jack Kerouac, I saw a reflection of my ineloquent angst. I used to be able to recite entire paragraphs of On the Road, but I’ve since blocked all of it from my memory. I was particularly interested in Allen Ginsberg because, like me, he was unpretentiously pretentious—or at least we both tried to be. He might allude to a Greek myth in a poem written on acid. A surfer boy reeking of weed, I used polysyllables that made my classmates’ eyes …Continue reading
An Evolution Beyond Gender in the Wild West: Cutting Ball Theater’s ‘Sidewinder’
For the world premiere of Basil Kreimendahl’s hilarious and tenderhearted play Sidewinders (directed by M. Graham Smith), the Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco has flipped its performance space, arranging the stands of chairs so the stage is deeper than it is wide. Papier mache clouds hang from the ceiling, casting shadows on the clouds painted on the walls, creating an illusion of depth (lighting design by Heather Basarab). The stage seems to open up in front of us on three sides. The set, designed by Michael Locher, is dotted with sandy colored, flat-topped stumps, like desert mesas in miniature. …Continue reading
