Accident is the theme for the July 8 event. 7 PM, Studio 333, Sausalito. &5. Here are the readers.
Elissa Bassist edits and occasionally writes for The Rumpus column Funny Women, an ever-widening place for women to submit and publish original humor pieces. (Please e-mail funnywomen at therumpus dot net to join the revolution.) Elissa’s first essay in print, “A Baker’s Dozen of my Feelings about David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest,” is now available in Best of the Web 2010, Dzanc Books. Elissa also produces and co-hosts the San Francisco Literary Death Match, a reading series that is competitive (find it the second Friday of every month at the Elbo Room in San Francisco). Peruse elissabassist dot com for even more information, including literary, feminist, and personal criticism.
Glen David Gold is the author of the bestselling novel Carter Beats the Devil, which was translated into 14 languages, and named a book of the year by Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Publishers Weekly, and The Washington Post. He has written memoir, essays, short stories, and journalism for The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney’s, Playboy, Black Clock, Tin House, and the Independent UK. After toiling as a screenwriter for many years, he turned to writing graphic novels for DC (The Spirit) and Dark Horse (the Escapist). His essays on the comic book artist Jack Kirby have appeared in many journals, as well as in support of the ground-breaking exhibition Masters of American Comics. His most recent novel, Sunnyside, is also an international bestseller. Currently, he is writing the libretto for an opera, Erdnase, with Gavin Bryars, composer.
Joshua Mohr is the author of the novel Some Things that Meant the World to Me, which was one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a SF Chronicle bestseller. His new book Termite Parade was released last week [June 2010]. He teaches fiction writing at the Writing Salon.
Anne Raeff grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey, and graduated from Barnard
College. She has been a teacher for over fifteen years and has taught history, government, Spanish, English as a second language, and creative writing (at the University of New Mexico). She currently teaches in East Palo Alto and lives with her partner of seventeen years in San Francisco. She speaks four languages, has traveled extensively, and taught in Malaysia and Spain. She has also worked as a bartender and and co-owned an Asian furniture store in Albuquerque, New Mexico, named after Jane Bowles’ novel Two Serious Ladies. Her first novel, Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia, was published by MacAdam/Cage in 2002 and released in Italian by Edizioni Spartaco in 2006. Her short stories have appeared in Side Show, Oasis, and an excerpt from “Winter Kept Us Warm” appeared as a short story in The New England Review. In December 2009, she finished her second novel, Winter Kept Us Warm, while at the Fundación Valparaíso residency in Spain. She is currently working on a third book.
Jason Roberts‘ most recent work, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler (HarperCollins), was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the international Guardian First Book Award, and named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Kirkus Reviews. He is also the inaugural winner of the Van Zorn Prize for emerging fiction writers, sponsored by Michael Chabon, and a contributor to McSweeney’s, The Believer, the Village Voice, and other publications. Born in Southern California, Roberts earned his high school diploma at fourteen, then took a five-year hiatus from education. He worked as a day laborer, dishwasher, and late-night disc jockey before matriculating at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he graduated with a degree in English literature. He is the founder of Learn2.com, the pioneering online education company named by Yahoo! as “one of the twelve most important websites of the 20th century.” He is also the author of several instructional texts on multimedia programming. He lives in Sausalito and is a member of the SF Grotto. Roberts is currently at work on two books: a nonfiction narrative, centered on the opening of Japan in 1853, and a novel set in Northern California and post-unification Germany.
Tatjana Soli is the author of The Lotus Eaters, which Janet Maslin of the New York Times called “quietly mesmerizing… tough and lyrical.” Her short stories have appeared in The Sun, StoryQuarterly, Confrontation, Gulf Coast, and Sonora Review, among other publications. A guest contributor to The Millions, she is at work on a second novel. See her website for more info.
By accident, incident, collision, coincidence — by something — it’s also Josh Mohr’s birthday, and we’ll be more festive than ever. Don’t miss it.
