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Story Is the Thing: Kepler's Quarterly Reading Series
Presented by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler's Books.
Thursday, February 16, 2017
7:30 p.m.
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park CA 94025
Please join us at 7:15 for light refreshments -- the program will begin at 7:30.
Join us to celebrate the second installment of the Story Is the Thing, Kepler's quarterly reading series with readings by Jeanne Althouse, Angela Pneuman (Home Remedies, Lay It on My Heart), Shobha Rao (An Unrestored Woman), Tanya Rey, (her writing appeared in Granta, Roads & Kingdoms, McSweeney's Internet Tendency), Rick Trushel, Genanne Walsh (Twister), and James Warner (All Her Father's Guns) on the theme That Electrifying Moment.
Jeanne Althouse's flash fiction and longer stories have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, including Matter Press, Shenandoah, Pif Magazine, Pindeldyboz , Madison Review, Hawaii Review, the MacGuffin, Red Rock Review, Referential, and Jewel, a publication of Gray Sparrow Press. Her story, Goran Holds his Breath was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. An early draft of her first novel was finalist in the Augury Books Editors Prize.
Angela Pneuman is the author of the novel Lay It on My Heart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner 2014) and the short story collection Home Remedies (Harcourt 2007). She is a former Stegner fellow at Stanford, where she has taught creative writing since 2001. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, New England Review, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Glimmer Train, Virginia Quarterly Review, Los Angeles Review and many other literary journals, and she is also a contributor to the Believer, the Rumpus and salon.com. Recently she joined the Napa Valley Writers' Conference as its executive director.
Shobha Rao is the author of the collection of short stories, An Unrestored Woman, published in March 2016. Kirkus Reviews called An Unrestored Woman "stunning and relentless." Booklist said of the collection, Raos raw and breathtaking short story collection is set against [an] epic canvas, yet her character studies are intimate. She is the winner of the 2014 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction, awarded by Nimrod International Journal. She has been a resident at Hedgebrook and is the recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation fellowship. Her story "Kavitha and Mustafa" was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in the Best American Short Stories 2015. She lives in San Francisco.
Tanya Rey's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, Guernica, The Chattahoochee Review, The Morning News, Roads & Kingdoms, The Nervous Breakdown, McSweeneys, Catapult and Trop. She holds an MFA degree in fiction from New York University and has received fellowships from the San Francisco Writers Grotto, Hambidge Center for the Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, UCross Foundation and Blue Mountain Center. She lives and writes in Oakland, CA.
Rick Trushel tutors recent immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala, helping them improve their spoken and written language skills. Recently hes had short pieces published at 101 Words and The SUN magazine. He likes to procrastinate, as he erroneously believes his writing improves when he does this.
Genanne Walsh is the author of Twister, awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel from Black Lawrence Press. Twister was also a finalist for the 2016 Housatonic Book Award in Fiction. Excerpts appeared in Puerto del Sol, Blackbird, and Red Earth Review. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and dogs.
James Warner's short stories have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Santa Monica Review, Mid-American Review, Narrative, and many other literary magazines. He is also the author of All Her Father's Guns, a novel from Numina Press which satirized U.S. politics back in the days when that was even possible.
Tickets: $10.00 per person
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LocationKepler's Books (View)
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
United States
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