Hello Friends:
I have several readings coming up soon in Southern California, one in San Diego and one in Los Angeles. If you’re nearby, come on out.
Upcoming Southern California readings for
The Quarry and The Lot
In San Diego:
Saturday, November 12, 7 p.m.
D.G. Wills Books
7461 Girard Avenue
La Jolla, CA
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In Los Angeles:
Saturday, November 19, 8 p.m.
The Empty Globe Literary Series
with readings also by Bruna Mori and Adam Novy
At:
Pieter
420 West Avenue 33, Unit 10
Los Angeles, CA
$5 donation
*please park on the street, and not in the lot
The Empty Globe series is curated by Amina Cain
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Bruna Mori is a writer, and educator, preoccupied with peripatetics. Her books include
Derivé (Meritage Press), with paintings by Matthew Kinney, and
Poetry for Corporations (forthcoming from Insert Press), exploring the unregulated drift of people and commodities through cities. Since moving to La Jolla, she has turned her attention to the suburbs, with photographer George Porcari, in a collaboration titled “Beige.” She also teaches in the writing program at the University of California at San Diego, and writes for a nonprofit design and media firm called Lybba founded by filmmaker Jesse Dylan, dedicated to open-source health advocacy worldwide. She is also Lucien’s mom.
Adam Novy is the author of a novel,
The Avian Gospels (Hobart). He lives in Southern California.
Mark Wallace is the author of more than fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction, and essays. Temporary Worker Rides A Subway won the 2002 Gertrude Stein Poetry Award and was published by Green Integer Books. His critical articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, and he has co-edited two essay collections,
Telling It Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s, and
A Poetics of Criticism. Most recently he has published a novel,
The Quarry and The Lot (2011), and a book of poems,
Felonies of Illusion (2008).
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On
The Quarry and The Lot:
Joseph Klein was a brilliant boy, talented—and dangerous. When he dies, at age 32, under uncertain circumstances, a group of his former friends gather for his funeral and see each other for the first time in some years. How did Joseph change them and what does he mean to them? What do they mean to each other, and why have their lives come to be what they are?
The Quarry and The Lot is a novel about love and its limits, memory and history. It explores whether any truth can be stable when what’s happening is changed by what people understand and where what passes for normal is something far more frightening.
Mark Wallace's
The Quarry and The Lot is a big, complex, tender, angry, haunted charting of how each of us is many strangers, any past many pasts, our biographies always-already written by others. Ultimately, though, for me it's about that bland, dangerous medication called the American suburb--how, once you've had a taste of that stuff, it's almost impossible to kick, even as it turns you into a ghost, or a guerilla, or, sometimes, both at once.
--Lance Olsen, author of
Calendar of Regrets and
Nietzsche's Kisses
For more details about the book, go to:
http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/news/the-quarry-and-the-lot-by-mark-wallace-34/
