Posts tagged “fiction”
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Double Fist: A Book for Both Hands
June 4, 2013
Double Fist: A Reading with Chavisa Woods & Jeanne Thornton
Wednesday, June 5th @ 7pm
Bluestockings Bookstore, Fair Trade Cafe, and Activist Center
172 Allen St
New York, NY
Chavisa Woods, author of Albino Album, will be joined by Jeanne Thornton, author of The Dream of Doctor Bantam, on Wednesday, June 5th at Bluestockings for a night of readings and conversation.
In The Dream of Doctor Bantam, Jeanne Thornton tells an unlikely love story of rough, chain-smoking Texan Julie Thatch and her lover, Patrice. When Julie’s hero and sister dieds after being hit by a car, she finds her self gravitating to Patrice- someone strangely similar to her sister, and someone who is also a member of the Scientology-esque Institute of Temporal Illusion.
The Albino Album is a novel as songs that tells the epic story of a girl who rides the line between abandon and lunacy on a speeding albino horse.
Tags: albino album, bluestockings, chavisa woods, fiction, jeanne thornton, reading, the dream of doctor bantam
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Luis Negrón at Elliott Bay Book Company
May 23, 2013
Luis Negrón Book Tour
Thursday, May 23th @ 7:00pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 Tenth Avenue
Seattle, WAPuerto Rican author Luis Negrón will be speaking about his debut collection of short stories, Mundo Cruel, already a sensation in Latin America and available in English for the first time, at Elliott Bay Book Company on Thursday, May 28th.
Mundo Cruel, Luis Negrón’s debut book, elegantly presents to its readers a world both tragic and outrageous. Masterfully satirical with a discrete solemnity at its core, Mundo Cruel‘s most remarkable element is its language. Several of its stories feature unnamed protagonists brought to life by their speech—colloquial, self-incriminating, and idiosyncratic—revealing Negrón’s mesmerizing talent for conjuring the spoken word in all its subtlety.
Luis will be available for question and answer, as well as book signings. To find out more about the event, visit the Elliott Bay event page.
Tags: fiction, luis negron, mundo cruel, puerto rico, short story, translation
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Luis Negrón at City Lights
May 22, 2013
Luis Negrón Book Tour
Wednesday, May 22nd @ 7:00pm
City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway
San Francisco, CA
Join Puerto Rican author Luis Negrón at City Lights Bookstore on Wednesday, May 22nd as he reads and discusses his debut collection Mundo Cruel.
In the collection that Publisher’s Weekly calls “Slender but never slight, and often extremely funny,” Negrón offers insight to gay life in the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico. Rich with humor, satire, and expert story-telling, this collection is expertly translated by the award-winning Suzanne Jill Levine.
Luis Negrón will be available for question and answer as well as book signings. To find out more about the event, visit the City Lights Bookstore event page.
Tags: city lights bookstore, fiction, luis negron, puerto rico, san francisco, short stories, translation
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Luis Negrón at Book Soup LA
May 20, 2013
Luis Negrón Book Tour
Monday, May 20th @ 7:00pm
Book Soup LA
8818 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CAAuthor Luis Negrón will be at Book Soup in LA on Monday, May 20th to read from his debut collection Mundo Cruel.
In the collection Lambda Literary Magazine calls “a study in verve, sass, and voice, peppered with a dash of spirituality,” Negrón’s stories capture a picture of life a small community in Puerto Rico. He examines not only gay life, but the human condition across all boards. Smart, funny, and heart-wrenching, these nine stories reveal a mastery of language that leaves you wanting more.
Luis Negrón will be available for question and answer, as well as book signings. To find out more information about the event, visit the Book Soup event page.
Tags: fiction, lgbt, luis negron, mundo cruel, puerto rico, short stories, translation
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Luis Negron & Suzanne Jill Levine at Strange Loop Gallery
April 11, 2013
Luis Negrón and Suzanne Jill Levine Book Event
Sponsored by the Bureau of General Services: Queer Division
Thursday, April 11th @ 7:00pm
Strange Loop Gallery
27 Orchard Street
New York, NYAuthor Luis Negrón and translator Suzanne Jill Levine will be at the Strange Loop Gallery on Thursday, April 11th to read from Mundo Cruel, Negrón’s debut collection of short stories.
Nine short stories, expertly translated, open a door into working class Santurce, Puerto Rico, where shoddy medical offices, Catholic churches, Mormon temples, and Santeria storefronts line the sunbaked streets. Here, a bumbling prostitute-turned-fugitive bewilderingly avoids capture. Back-biting mothers hand down judgment on their neighbors and the world at large from their front lawns. A desperate dog-owner will do anything to have his precious animal sent to a taxidermist. A young Chosen One with a curious gift helps his fellow parishioners find God.
Both author and translator will be available for question and answer, as well as book signings.
Tags: bureau of general services: queer division, fiction, lgbt, luis negron, mundo cruel, puerto rico, short stories, strange loop gallery, Suzanne Jill Levine, translation
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Luis Negron & Suzanne Jill Levine at Barnes & Noble UWS
April 10, 2013
Luis Negron & Suzanne Jill Levine Book Event
Wednesday, April 10th @ 7:00pm
Barnes & Noble UWS
82nd Street and Broadway
New York, NY
Luis Negrón will be at the Upper West Side Barnes & Noble on Wednesday, April 10th, alongside translator Suzanne Jill Levine, to read from his debut collection of short stories Mundo Cruel.
In the collection that Publisher’s Weekly calls “Slender but never slight, and often extremely funny,” Negrón offers insight to gay life in the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico. Rich with humor, satire, and expert story-telling, this collection is expertly translated by the award-winning Suzanne Jill Levine.
Both author and translator will be available for question and answer, as well as book signings. To find out more, visit the Barnes & Noble event page.
Tags: Barnes & Noble UWS, fiction, luis negron, mundo cruel, puerto rico, short stories, Suzanne Jill Levine, translation
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Luis Negrón at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts in Boston
April 4, 2013
Mundo Cruel Book Launch with Luis Negrón
Thursday, April 4th @ 7:00pm
La Galeria at the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts
85 W. Newton St. Boston, MAPuerto Rican author Luis Negrón will be speaking about his debut collection of short stories, Mundo Cruel, with Alan West-Durán, Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program at Northeastern University, at La Galeria at the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts on Thursday, April 4th at 7pm.
“Hilarious and heart-wrenching, provocative and pitch-perfect, each story is a tiny, transgressive explosion. I feel inadequate to the task of expressing just how wonderful this book is…read it slowly, and listen close; here is a master storyteller at his finest.”—Justin Torres, author of We The Animals
Puerto Rican author Luis Negrón brings his impeccable ear for dialog to English readers with his debut collection of short stories, Mundo Cruel, capturing the rhythms of daily life in a community in Puerto Rico as well as the longing, abuse, and isolation faced by the marginalized gay subculture.
Tags: alan west-duran, fiction, lgbt, luis negron, mundo cruel, puerto rico, short stories, villa victoria arts center
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Chavisa Woods at Left Bank Books
March 18, 2013
Chavisa Woods, author of The Albino Album: A Novel, will be at Left Bank Books in St Louis on Monday, March 18th, to discuss her new book.
An epic story of a big-hearted country girl with a dirty black tutu, combat boots, and an unpronounceable name, The Albino Album is a novel as a song about a girl riding the line between lunacy and abandon on a speeding albino horse. In the tradition of the southern gothic novel, Woods presents a new land of contemporary misfits including fire dancers, pseudo-Nazis who breed albino animals, circus performers, catholic workers, horse thieves, and the archangel Gabrielle.
Come hear Chavisa Woods talk about her original and breathtaking novel at Left Bank Books! To learn more about the event, visit the event page.
Chavisa Woods Talk Monday, March 18th @ 7pm Left Bank Books Central West End 399 North Euclid, St. Louis, MOTags: bank street books, chavisa woods, fiction, st louis, the albino album
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Chavisa Woods in Seattle
March 13, 2013
Chavisa Woods, author of The Albino Album, will be at Seattle Town Hall on Wednesday, March 13 at 7:30pm to discuss her new novel.
The Albino Album is a novel as songs that tells the epic story of a girl who rides the line between abandon and lunacy on a speeding albino horse. A lead character with an un-pronounceable name, our fiery, unhinged, growling, big-hearted country girl in a dirty black tutu and combat boots leaves ashen valentines in her wake along this unique exploration of the bizarre yet familiar aspects of human desire.
Chavisa Woods is a Brooklyn-based writer and artist, and recipient of the 2009 Jerome Foundation Award for emerging writers. Her debut collection of short stories, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Debut Fiction. Woods has read or performed at The Whitney Museum, Penn State, the New York Vision Festival, the NYC HOWL festival, and the New York Hot Festival.
Tags: chavisa woods, fiction, seattle town hall, the albino album
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Chavisa Woods in Eugene
March 11, 2013
Chavisa Woods will be at the Eugene Public Library on Monday, March 11 at 6pm to discuss her new book, The Albino Album.
Emerging author Chavisa Woods, noted for capturing a “strange, troubling vision of domestic life in the rural U.S.” (Go Magazine), here presents a technicolored vision of rural adolescence. The novel, told as songs, follows a lead character with an unpronounceable name who rides the line between abandon and lunacy on a speeding albino horse. The Albino Album breaks into a whirlwind tour of the underbelly of America spanning countryside to cityscape, from the cornfields of Luisiana, to the big brass sound of Mardi Gras, and the heights of the Empire State Building.
The Albino Album will be out February 2013.
Chavisa Woods Book Tour Monday, March 11th @ 6:00pm Eugene Public Library 100 West 10th Avenue, Eugene, ORTags: chavisa woods, eugene public, fiction, the albino album