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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Welcome to KQED Arts’ \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/women-to-watch/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women to Watch\u003c/a>, a series celebrating 20 local artists, creatives and makers who are pushing boundaries in 2016. Driven by passion for their own disciplines, from photography to comedy and every other medium in between, these women are true vanguards paving the way in their respective communities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nayomi Munaweera’s family fled Sri Lanka when she was just three — first to Nigeria, and then, in 1984, to Los Angeles. But the civil war that began in 1983 between the Sinhalese and Tamils serves as the backdrop for her excellent debut novel, \u003cem>Island of a Thousand Mirrors\u003c/em>, and her brilliant follow-up, \u003cem>What Lies Between Us\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munaweera describes Sri Lanka’s culture of war with vivid detail, partially the result of memories shared by her family. Munaweera had almost given up on her debut novel when it got picked up by a publisher in Sri Lanka in 2012; after being long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and winning the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize for the Asian Region, \u003cem>Island of a Thousand Mirrors\u003c/em> finally saw publication in the U.S. in 2014 St. Martin’s Press.[contextly_sidebar id=”Urgi0E9mz8H9W9yiQ3uxcvmU62VMikPS”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where do you live?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you could describe yourself in one word, what would it be?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What did you do last night?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came home and hung out with my husband and we watched… oh no, wait, we read. 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I’ll say Nabokov, because he wrote \u003cem>Lolita\u003c/em>, which I think is the most brilliant book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you find your creative voice?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I dropped out of a Ph.D. program in English Literature and stumbled my way through writing my first novel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11833662\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Nayomi Munaweera\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nayomi Munaweera \u003ccite>(Photo: Travis Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is something that most people don’t know about you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh gosh. That I was a tall flag cheerleader in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went to school at Arcadia High School in Southern California, and the interesting part of that is we were the Arcadia Apaches, which is the Native American tribe. I came to America in 1984 and I came from Nigeria and I’m from Sri Lanka. Then, within two years, I was a tall flag girl and for parades and stuff, we wore “Indian outfits.” You know, moccasins and belts, leather and the whole thing, feather headdresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was really dislocated and didn’t have much sense of American history and what has happened here. I remember there was one science teacher causing quite a ruckus about it, and I didn’t understand. I think it wasn’t until I was in college that I understood how grievous that had been, and how complicated. And how strange for me as a South Asian person to get here and be wearing that outfit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you do when you feel uninspired?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the great things about working on a novel is it’s so big, so if one part of the book isn’t working you can go work on a different part. I really love that about novels, the big scope of it. If that just doesn’t work, I have days where I just don’t write at all and I’ll spend the day reading or I’ll go walking. I really love walking up in Mt. View Cemetery. It’s really close to me, and it’s gorgeous up there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s been your biggest learning moment, and what did you take from that experience?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think it’s just one, I think it’s a series. As a writer, something that you’re constantly grappling with is rejection. For every opportunity that is a Yes, you have about 20-25 that are a No. The ride is pretty much a roller coaster. Your books will not sell and then some maybe will sell really well. You’ll get a big event, meeting 500 people, and then for a while nothing will happen. It’s this constant roller coaster and you just have to learn that it’s the long game. I think the biggest learning thing is that it’s a long marathon of a process to have this particular career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11833663\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Nayomi Munaweera\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-2-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-2-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nayomi Munaweera \u003ccite>(Photo Credit: Travis Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What has been your greatest achievement?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d have to say writing two books. As obvious as that is, writing a book is a really, really difficult thing. Being able to say that I’ve done it twice, when I’m in it, it just seems impossible and it’s really, really difficult. To be lucky enough to have them manifest themselves in the world feels like a huge achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you drink coffee or tea, and what kind?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I drink coffee, which is strange, because I’m from Sri Lanka and we have the best tea in the world. I don’t drink tea unless I’m in Sri Lanka because it never seems as good. In Sri Lanka there’s a lot of ritual around tea, or at least anywhere you go it’s good china cups, and it’s the good coffee, and the sugar cubes and all of that. I just never have that same experience here. I just don’t even deal with tea here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sri Lanka people drink, I don’t know, three, four, five cups of tea a day. It’s very much part of our culture and also something we, of course, inherited from the British. Here, I’m a coffee drinker, and in Sri Lanka I’m a tea drinker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does a perfect day look like for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Books. Lots of reading. Maybe a walk out in nature, hanging out with people I like. Not engaging too much with technology. Not having to think about a list of things I have to do. Really, more than anything else, having a period of time that’s unfocused and unplanned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who are your local inspirations?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candy Martinez and Cecil Carthen are really good friends. They have a \u003ca href=\"http://skinworldwide.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">party called Skin\u003c/a> which is really fantastic. Cecil DJs with the People Party. I love that they are really local and they’ve done these giant parties for about 12 years now. The ways that they’ve brought the community together around music has been really inspiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have another friend called \u003ca href=\"http://www.keenannorris.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keenan Norris\u003c/a>. His first book won a prize and got published. It’s called \u003cem>Brother and the Dancer\u003c/em>. It’s really amazing and people should check it out. My husband has a podcast called \u003ca href=\"http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-is-actually-happening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is Actually Happening\u003c/a>, which is a narrative of changing events; that’s the intent of it. It was just featured a couple of times on Snap Judgment and on NPR because of that, and that’s fantastic. One more: My very good friend, Gustavo Sandí is a DJ called \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/eldiablosf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Diablo\u003c/a> and he plays amazing music around here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11833664\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-3-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Nayomi Munaweera\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-3-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-3-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-3-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nayomi Munaweera \u003ccite>(Photo: Travis Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s your favorite meal?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sri Lankan food, which, sadly, we do not have in the Bay, we have no restaurants. If I go down to L.A., there’s a ton of restaurants. Also Staten Island has lots of restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What upcoming show are you excited about?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our big local book event, LitQuake, which happens in October is huge. You have audiences of hundreds of people and I’m really excited about all this literary activity that is now happening in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where do you see yourself in five years?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m \u003cem>so\u003c/em> not a planner. I can only hope. And I’m hoping that in that time I have at least one more book, maybe more. Who knows? That’s pretty ambitious. I hope I’ve written another book by then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you could live in a book, or a TV show, or a movie, or a play, or a painting, or an album, what would it be?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This question takes me back to an idyllic piece of childhood. For me, the book that really captures that is a book called \u003cem>My Family and Other Animals\u003c/em>. It’s something that Americans don’t really know, because it’s by a British author called Gerald Durrell. He wrote it about his childhood spent on the Island Corfu. It’s just a beautiful, really charming, enchanting description of what it’s like to be a child and be free in nature, coming into contact with lots of different animals and people of the area. Running on the hills and discovering nature in its very raw form. That particular book was something I was very obsessed with in childhood. I think it’s very much flavored my writing, the lushness of nature and beauty of it. If I could live anywhere, I would want to live in that book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where and when can people see you and your art in action?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do events all over the Bay and the country and South Asia too. They’d really just have to check \u003ca href=\"http://www.nayomimunaweera.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my website\u003c/a>. I have been promoting my second book for some weeks now and doing readings once, sometimes twice a day. I’ve just gotten to the point where I’m taking a little break to work on my third book. I’m going to Sri Lanka to teach, and then I’m coming back and doing some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about who else made the list? Check out the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/women-to-watch/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women to Watch \u003c/a>series page, including photo galleries, interviews, and videos.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Do you know a Bay Area artist who is doing amazing things? \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kqed_arts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We\u003c/a> want to hear from you! Highlight her efforts using \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/baybrilliant/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BayBrilliant\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That I was a tall flag cheerleader in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went to school at Arcadia High School in Southern California, and the interesting part of that is we were the Arcadia Apaches, which is the Native American tribe. I came to America in 1984 and I came from Nigeria and I’m from Sri Lanka. Then, within two years, I was a tall flag girl and for parades and stuff, we wore “Indian outfits.” You know, moccasins and belts, leather and the whole thing, feather headdresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was really dislocated and didn’t have much sense of American history and what has happened here. I remember there was one science teacher causing quite a ruckus about it, and I didn’t understand. I think it wasn’t until I was in college that I understood how grievous that had been, and how complicated. And how strange for me as a South Asian person to get here and be wearing that outfit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you do when you feel uninspired?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the great things about working on a novel is it’s so big, so if one part of the book isn’t working you can go work on a different part. I really love that about novels, the big scope of it. If that just doesn’t work, I have days where I just don’t write at all and I’ll spend the day reading or I’ll go walking. I really love walking up in Mt. View Cemetery. It’s really close to me, and it’s gorgeous up there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s been your biggest learning moment, and what did you take from that experience?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think it’s just one, I think it’s a series. As a writer, something that you’re constantly grappling with is rejection. For every opportunity that is a Yes, you have about 20-25 that are a No. The ride is pretty much a roller coaster. Your books will not sell and then some maybe will sell really well. You’ll get a big event, meeting 500 people, and then for a while nothing will happen. It’s this constant roller coaster and you just have to learn that it’s the long game. 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As obvious as that is, writing a book is a really, really difficult thing. Being able to say that I’ve done it twice, when I’m in it, it just seems impossible and it’s really, really difficult. To be lucky enough to have them manifest themselves in the world feels like a huge achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you drink coffee or tea, and what kind?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I drink coffee, which is strange, because I’m from Sri Lanka and we have the best tea in the world. I don’t drink tea unless I’m in Sri Lanka because it never seems as good. In Sri Lanka there’s a lot of ritual around tea, or at least anywhere you go it’s good china cups, and it’s the good coffee, and the sugar cubes and all of that. I just never have that same experience here. I just don’t even deal with tea here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sri Lanka people drink, I don’t know, three, four, five cups of tea a day. 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The ways that they’ve brought the community together around music has been really inspiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have another friend called \u003ca href=\"http://www.keenannorris.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keenan Norris\u003c/a>. His first book won a prize and got published. It’s called \u003cem>Brother and the Dancer\u003c/em>. It’s really amazing and people should check it out. My husband has a podcast called \u003ca href=\"http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-is-actually-happening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is Actually Happening\u003c/a>, which is a narrative of changing events; that’s the intent of it. It was just featured a couple of times on Snap Judgment and on NPR because of that, and that’s fantastic. One more: My very good friend, Gustavo Sandí is a DJ called \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/eldiablosf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Diablo\u003c/a> and he plays amazing music around here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11833664\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-3-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Nayomi Munaweera\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-3-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-3-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-nayomi-3-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nayomi Munaweera \u003ccite>(Photo: Travis Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s your favorite meal?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sri Lankan food, which, sadly, we do not have in the Bay, we have no restaurants. 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Mostly, I am thankful to read this ambitious, expansive new novel at this exact moment in American history. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Homegoing\u003c/em> is the first novel for \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-yaa-gyasi-20160523-snap-story.html\">Gyasi\u003c/a>, an Iowa Writer’s Workshop graduate who lives in Berkeley. It begins in 16th century Ghana and ends 250 years later, in the new millennium. During that time, as we know, more than 10 million Africans were forced into captivity between the 15th and 19th centuries; it’s one of those factoids that’s repeated in history books so often the magnitude becomes unreal. \u003cem>Homegoing\u003c/em>, like Toni Morrison’s \u003cem>Beloved\u003c/em>, brings those numbers to life, and returns the ocean of dead bodies back to the forefront of modern consciousness. None of my ancestors, as far as I know, were forced to endure the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr4.html\">Middle Passage\u003c/a>, but while reading, I couldn’t help but contemplate how my own ancestral history connected to the sickening era of slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11815201 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/BN-OC968_GYASI__JV_20160520165430.jpg\" alt=\"BN-OC968_GYASI__JV_20160520165430\" width=\"426\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/BN-OC968_GYASI__JV_20160520165430.jpg 426w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/BN-OC968_GYASI__JV_20160520165430-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ancestral curses and inheritances lie at \u003cem>Homegoing’s \u003c/em> core. 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Soon, Esi will be forced into heinous conditions on a slave ship across the Atlantic, but not before she is raped by one of the white jailers — a sign of the atrocities to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“What’s below?” she [Effia] asked James, and the mangled Fante word that came back to her was “cargo.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>With that one word, cargo, humanity is brutally split in two. It’s a legacy that continues to haunt America into the 21st century. As Sarah Jaffe writes in her new book \u003cem>Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Modern capitalism was born out of and then fueled by slave labor and then by coal, more coal, and oil. Indeed, the sweat and strain of enslaved people served as substitute for fossil fuels in the American South, part of the reason that the South industrialized so much later than the North. Black people, wrenched from their birthplaces to labor at the end of a whip, were a reliable power source for hundreds of years before slavery was eliminated — and in England, when it was eliminated reparations were paid not to former slaves but to the people who owned them. That money was pumped back into the coal-fired plants that made the industrial revolution possible.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“Theirs was the kind of life that did not guarantee living,” says Ness, the daughter of Esi, now a slave on a Southern plantation, whip-scarred by an owner she calls only The Devil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gyasi neatly crams 300 years of history into \u003cem>Homegoing\u003c/em>, a feat achieved by giving each character just one chapter. The descendants of Esi and Effia grapple with major developments in Africa and America. For Ness’s son Kojo, who lives in Baltimore as a free man with his wife Anna and children, it’s the Fugitive Slave Act, which tears his family apart. 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H somehow survives, marries, and has children with the woman he loves, and becomes a union activist. In another chapter, his daughter Willie migrates to New York where she and her husband, who passes white, are torn apart by strict racial lines and white privilege. Willie’s son Sonny, an activist and NAACP worker, gives up on the fight and turns to heroin as a solace. His son Marcus, a graduate student at Stanford, closes out the book with a return to the Cape Coast Castle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The African history in the novel is just as powerful, holding to the fire the conscious role of Europeans in creating a war-torn and broken African continent. As in this passage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>James knew the British had been incited tribal wars for years, knowing that whatever captives were taken from these wars would be sold to them for trade. His mother always said that the Gold Coast was like a pot of groundnut soup. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake,” wrote James Joyce in \u003cem>Ulysses\u003c/em>. Yaa Gyasi, a writer with a rich talent for visceral story-telling, is part of the wake-up crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If I were still teaching high school English, I would assign Gyasi’s \u003cem>Homegoing\u003c/em> to my students in East Oakland and Southeast San Diego — and were I able, I’d assign it to every American this July. While we live among \u003ca href=\"http://nyti.ms/29xJiRH\">white supremacists supporting Donald Trump\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Identity-Evropa-768888626526663/\">posting of fascist propaganda\u003c/a> around the Bay Area, the historical amnesiacs that deride Black Lives Matter as an anti-police domestic terrorist group and young white people slowly waking up to the privileges afforded by certain skin tones, the book is timelier than ever. Mostly, I am thankful to read this ambitious, expansive new novel at this exact moment in American history. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Homegoing\u003c/em> is the first novel for \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-yaa-gyasi-20160523-snap-story.html\">Gyasi\u003c/a>, an Iowa Writer’s Workshop graduate who lives in Berkeley. It begins in 16th century Ghana and ends 250 years later, in the new millennium. During that time, as we know, more than 10 million Africans were forced into captivity between the 15th and 19th centuries; it’s one of those factoids that’s repeated in history books so often the magnitude becomes unreal. \u003cem>Homegoing\u003c/em>, like Toni Morrison’s \u003cem>Beloved\u003c/em>, brings those numbers to life, and returns the ocean of dead bodies back to the forefront of modern consciousness. None of my ancestors, as far as I know, were forced to endure the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr4.html\">Middle Passage\u003c/a>, but while reading, I couldn’t help but contemplate how my own ancestral history connected to the sickening era of slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11815201 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/BN-OC968_GYASI__JV_20160520165430.jpg\" alt=\"BN-OC968_GYASI__JV_20160520165430\" width=\"426\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/BN-OC968_GYASI__JV_20160520165430.jpg 426w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/BN-OC968_GYASI__JV_20160520165430-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ancestral curses and inheritances lie at \u003cem>Homegoing’s \u003c/em> core. The novel opens with a fire raging in the woods outside of a Ghanaian chief’s compound, and a birth. We later learn that the fire was set by Esi and Effia’s mother, Maame, on the night of Effia’s birth. It’s her only chance to escape enslavement in Fanteland and further rape by the village chief. Effia is left behind to be raised by her father’s first wife, Baaba, a cruel woman who resents her beautiful adopted daughter. Maame escapes home to Fanteland, where she starts a new life, gives birth to Esi, and tries to live in peace, but the serenity doesn’t last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Effia will never know that her own half-sister is one of those people trapped in the mud-walled, windowless, feces-drenched dungeon. Soon, Esi will be forced into heinous conditions on a slave ship across the Atlantic, but not before she is raped by one of the white jailers — a sign of the atrocities to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“What’s below?” she [Effia] asked James, and the mangled Fante word that came back to her was “cargo.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>With that one word, cargo, humanity is brutally split in two. It’s a legacy that continues to haunt America into the 21st century. As Sarah Jaffe writes in her new book \u003cem>Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Modern capitalism was born out of and then fueled by slave labor and then by coal, more coal, and oil. Indeed, the sweat and strain of enslaved people served as substitute for fossil fuels in the American South, part of the reason that the South industrialized so much later than the North. Black people, wrenched from their birthplaces to labor at the end of a whip, were a reliable power source for hundreds of years before slavery was eliminated — and in England, when it was eliminated reparations were paid not to former slaves but to the people who owned them. That money was pumped back into the coal-fired plants that made the industrial revolution possible.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“Theirs was the kind of life that did not guarantee living,” says Ness, the daughter of Esi, now a slave on a Southern plantation, whip-scarred by an owner she calls only The Devil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gyasi neatly crams 300 years of history into \u003cem>Homegoing\u003c/em>, a feat achieved by giving each character just one chapter. The descendants of Esi and Effia grapple with major developments in Africa and America. For Ness’s son Kojo, who lives in Baltimore as a free man with his wife Anna and children, it’s the Fugitive Slave Act, which tears his family apart. As he watches his daughter Beulah sleep, he wonders when the nightmare, for black Americans, will end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Maybe this was where it started, Jo thought. Maybe Beulah was seeing something more clearly on the nights she had these dreams, a little black child fighting in her sleep against an opponent she couldn’t name come morning, because in the light that opponent just looked like the world around her. Intangible evil. Unspeakable unfairness. Beulah ran in her sleep, ran like she’d stolen something, when really she had done nothing other than expect the peace, the clarity, that came with dreaming. Yes, Jo thought, this is where it started, but when, where, did it end?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In the chapter that follows, H, the son of Kojo and Anna, is imprisoned for not paying a $10 fine, forced to work in coal mines for free as part of a prison chain gang. H somehow survives, marries, and has children with the woman he loves, and becomes a union activist. In another chapter, his daughter Willie migrates to New York where she and her husband, who passes white, are torn apart by strict racial lines and white privilege. Willie’s son Sonny, an activist and NAACP worker, gives up on the fight and turns to heroin as a solace. His son Marcus, a graduate student at Stanford, closes out the book with a return to the Cape Coast Castle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The African history in the novel is just as powerful, holding to the fire the conscious role of Europeans in creating a war-torn and broken African continent. As in this passage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>James knew the British had been incited tribal wars for years, knowing that whatever captives were taken from these wars would be sold to them for trade. His mother always said that the Gold Coast was like a pot of groundnut soup. Her people, the Asantes, were the broth, and his father’s people, the Fantes, were the groundnuts, and the many other nations that began at the edge of the Atlantic and moved up through the bushland into the North made up the meat and pepper and vegetables. This pot was already full to the brim before the white men came and added fire. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Welcome to KQED Arts’ \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/women-to-watch/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women to Watch\u003c/a>, a series celebrating 20 local women artists, creatives and makers who are pushing boundaries in 2016. Driven by passion for their own disciplines, from photography to comedy and every other medium in between, these women are true vanguards paving the way in their respective communities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plenty of people write poetry when they’re going through heartbreak. Very few people wind up writing poetry so hilarious it lands them a book deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna Pulley falls into that latter category. The Oakland writer just published her first book, the witty collection \u003cem>The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (With Cats!), \u003c/em>illustrated by her partner, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://kelseybeyer.com\">Kelsey Beyer\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I’d been following her writing for years before that — whether she was dishing out sardonic yet empathetic advice in her \u003ca href=\"http://www.redeyechicago.com/entertainment/dating/redeye-anna-pulley-fellatio-fairer-sex-20150106-column.html\">dating column\u003c/a>, or chronicling the experience of \u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/10/im-always-the-wallflower-at-the-orgy.html\">being shy at orgies\u003c/a>. No matter how foreign a topic might seem, Pulley has always managed to tease out the universal threads that make us human: our weaknesses, our funny parts, our endearing (and not so endearing) peculiarities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check Pulley’s \u003ca href=\"http://annapulley.com/\">website\u003c/a> or her haiku-laden\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lezbianna/\"> Instagram\u003c/a> to keep up with her latest.[contextly_sidebar id=”dS6d2CF2xMurCCV273DRWhEYjW2prQBO”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What neighborhood do you live in?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Describe yourself in one word? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Succinct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What did you do last night? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Took a walk around Lake Merritt with my partner, ate Arizmendi pizza, and binge-watched Season 5 of \u003cem>Girls\u003c/em>. Wild nights over here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What can’t you live without? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Words. Touch. Coffee. Kissing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11800930\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Pulley\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Pulley. \u003ccite>(Photo: Travis Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you could travel any where in the world, where would it be?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m pretty into the idea of visiting Iceland lately. Or Brazil. Or Kelsey’s never been to Paris, so maybe there. Or Ireland. Ooh, and Japan! My travel to-do list is long. We went to Bali last September and had an amazing time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is your personal hero? Why? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have so many. My mom is a big one. She’s an author as well, and wrote three books on Native American beadwork. I aspire to spread her generosity, kindness, and love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helen Keller is another personal hero. I’m going through a period of finally dealing with my own hearing loss, and am looking to others who are hard of hearing or deaf to see how they carry on, and her life story immediately came to mind. Everyone should read Keller’s autobiography, which is free on Kindle, and goes far beyond what we’re taught in school about her. Her belief in herself was unassailable. I carry a quote of hers around with me: “I know I shall not fail.” It’s simple but her conviction floors me every time. I try to live out the truth of those words, even when I feel like I’m drowning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11800931\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/teacat_w_WM-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration from 'The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)' by Kelsey Beyer.\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/teacat_w_WM-450x600.jpg 450w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/teacat_w_WM-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/teacat_w_WM.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration from ‘The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)’ by Kelsey Beyer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kelsey Beyer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you find your creative voice? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By trying and failing over and over again. Eventually that failing becomes “experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is something most people don’t know about you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was 20, I got my pilot’s license. I’d spent a year and thousands of dollars learning how to fly planes. I was nervous on the day of my flight exam, for all the normal reasons you’d be nervous to go up in a tiny two-seater Cessna with a stranger and have him cut the engine mid-flight to test what you’d do in an emergency. But I was most nervous about my hearing, which has never been good, and which is pretty essential when doing things like landing planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d landed on the runways of Ryan Airfield hundreds of times (there are only four options, it’s not terribly complicated) and yet my nightmare came true. I misheard the directions from the tower and tried to land on the wrong runway. The kind of mistake that could get you killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I passed the test, though. And I never flew again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11800933\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Pulley\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-2-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Pulley. \u003ccite>(Photo: Travis Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you do when you feel uninspired/blocked/etc?[contextly_sidebar id=”Io8p3qVAA1EGTbMBpkVLWu7SFSXKDJnq”] \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I read the inspiring works of others. Often Adrienne Rich, Cheryl Strayed, Jeanette Winterson, or Jenny Lawson if I’m trying to be funny. Works like a charm. If I’m on a deadline, I’ll just start writing anyway, even if I don’t particularly have anything to say. For me, the “block” is often my own resistance or fear or insecurity to doing the work. So to push past that and do it anyway is 90 percent of the battle. If all else fails, I go for a walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s your biggest ‘learning moment,’ and what did you you take from that experience? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know that there’s a “biggest” one — every moment is a learning moment if you open yourself up to it. That said, learning that it’s okay to ask for help has been a big boon to both my creative and personal life. Like most other things, I got that advice from a book (Amanda Palmer’s \u003cem>The Art of Asking\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s your greatest achievement and how has it shaped you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing and publishing my first book — \u003cem>The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)\u003c/em>. Publishing a book has been a childhood dream, and I have never been so utterly dedicated to an object as I am to this. Plus, my partner illustrated it, so it’s taken on this symbolic outpouring of love too, which has affected our relationship in interesting ways. (We even went to couples’ therapy to deal with some of the legal and contractual parts of making a book, like total lesbians.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started writing the haiku in 2010 to overcome a bad case of writer’s block after my life fell apart — my fiancée dumped me, my dad got lung cancer, and I was struggling to survive in San Francisco on a $6/hour internship. I didn’t realize it at the time of course, but that dark period became one of the impetuses for this book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800932\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 370px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11800932\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/cats-bed_crop_w_wm.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration from 'The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)' by Kelsey Beyer.\" width=\"370\" height=\"513\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration from ‘The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)’ by Kelsey Beyer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kelsey Beyer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coffee or tea? What kind? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve come around to tea a lot, but coffee will always be my dominatrix. I like a nice medium roast please. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What neighborhood do you live in?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Describe yourself in one word? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Succinct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What did you do last night? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Took a walk around Lake Merritt with my partner, ate Arizmendi pizza, and binge-watched Season 5 of \u003cem>Girls\u003c/em>. Wild nights over here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What can’t you live without? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Words. Touch. Coffee. Kissing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11800930\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Pulley\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Pulley. \u003ccite>(Photo: Travis Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you could travel any where in the world, where would it be?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m pretty into the idea of visiting Iceland lately. Or Brazil. Or Kelsey’s never been to Paris, so maybe there. Or Ireland. Ooh, and Japan! My travel to-do list is long. We went to Bali last September and had an amazing time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is your personal hero? Why? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have so many. My mom is a big one. She’s an author as well, and wrote three books on Native American beadwork. I aspire to spread her generosity, kindness, and love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helen Keller is another personal hero. I’m going through a period of finally dealing with my own hearing loss, and am looking to others who are hard of hearing or deaf to see how they carry on, and her life story immediately came to mind. Everyone should read Keller’s autobiography, which is free on Kindle, and goes far beyond what we’re taught in school about her. Her belief in herself was unassailable. I carry a quote of hers around with me: “I know I shall not fail.” It’s simple but her conviction floors me every time. I try to live out the truth of those words, even when I feel like I’m drowning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11800931\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/teacat_w_WM-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration from 'The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)' by Kelsey Beyer.\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/teacat_w_WM-450x600.jpg 450w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/teacat_w_WM-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/teacat_w_WM.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration from ‘The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)’ by Kelsey Beyer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kelsey Beyer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you find your creative voice? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By trying and failing over and over again. Eventually that failing becomes “experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is something most people don’t know about you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was 20, I got my pilot’s license. I’d spent a year and thousands of dollars learning how to fly planes. I was nervous on the day of my flight exam, for all the normal reasons you’d be nervous to go up in a tiny two-seater Cessna with a stranger and have him cut the engine mid-flight to test what you’d do in an emergency. But I was most nervous about my hearing, which has never been good, and which is pretty essential when doing things like landing planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d landed on the runways of Ryan Airfield hundreds of times (there are only four options, it’s not terribly complicated) and yet my nightmare came true. I misheard the directions from the tower and tried to land on the wrong runway. The kind of mistake that could get you killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I passed the test, though. And I never flew again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11800933\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Pulley\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/wp-body-anna-2-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Pulley. \u003ccite>(Photo: Travis Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you do when you feel uninspired/blocked/etc?\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I read the inspiring works of others. Often Adrienne Rich, Cheryl Strayed, Jeanette Winterson, or Jenny Lawson if I’m trying to be funny. Works like a charm. If I’m on a deadline, I’ll just start writing anyway, even if I don’t particularly have anything to say. For me, the “block” is often my own resistance or fear or insecurity to doing the work. So to push past that and do it anyway is 90 percent of the battle. If all else fails, I go for a walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s your biggest ‘learning moment,’ and what did you you take from that experience? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know that there’s a “biggest” one — every moment is a learning moment if you open yourself up to it. That said, learning that it’s okay to ask for help has been a big boon to both my creative and personal life. 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I didn’t realize it at the time of course, but that dark period became one of the impetuses for this book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800932\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 370px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11800932\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/cats-bed_crop_w_wm.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration from 'The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)' by Kelsey Beyer.\" width=\"370\" height=\"513\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration from ‘The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)’ by Kelsey Beyer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kelsey Beyer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coffee or tea? What kind? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve come around to tea a lot, but coffee will always be my dominatrix. I like a nice medium roast please. 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(Addonizio ran with it after one of the judges of the National Book Award, for which she was nominated in 2000, referred to her as “Bukowski in a sundress.”) It’s the last night of a national writing conference and, instead of schmoozing with the literati, Addonizio is stoned and drunk, wandering, looking for a hook-up and further obliteration. Mind you, she’s not a twenty-something student; this is an award-winning novelist, poet, and writing teacher. The fact that she’s in her 50s makes the scene all the better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a fruitless search for her “supplier,” a friend who has expensive pot and alcohol, Addonizio goes in search of a free drink. She finds it along with a willing make-out partner in a guy named Ken, a refrigerator technician who’s at the bar because his sister gives him free drinks. They end up back in the hotel room Addonizio is sharing with her friend, who, regretfully I’m sure, is forced to listen to the two tumbling around until dawn. 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I couldn’t really connect that word to anything I’d ever wanted as a writer.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The passage is just one of many where Addonizio manages to turn otherwise cliché stories of conquests, affairs, and drunken bravado into something deeper. It’s a fact that writers who dwell in confession risk the subtleties of their stories getting drowned by the ego, and yet Addonizio masters the art of writing about oneself without getting swallowed by the capital I. She veers uncomfortably close at times, but with enough insight and narrative layers to keep the writing from becoming insufferable. (It also helps that she regularly deploys a laser-like sense of humor.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, “How to Date a Younger Man” starts with a semi-cloying flirtation between 53-year-old Addonizio and a 28-year-old blues guitar player with long hair and a goatee. By the end, it’s a story of unworkable love, one that we’ve all experienced, the desperate dreaming for times gone by, the hope that a relationship might somehow repair itself despite the odds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf_Gvqw8qiA&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with essays about the difficulties of the writing life, love affairs, online dating and parenthood, \u003cem>Bukowski in a Sundress\u003c/em> contains pieces about Addonizio’s mother’s decline and eventual death from Parkinson’s disease. A former tennis champion, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Betz\">Pauline Betz Addie\u003c/a> (who has since died) is confined to a nursing home, unable to do much but indulge her “unholy love” for Cheez-Its and deteriorate into death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addonizio writes: “I never imagined her like this — my slim, athletic mother. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tuesday, June 28: Rikki Ducornet at City Lights Books, SF \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11731521\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Brightfellow1-375x517.jpg\" alt=\"Brightfellow1-375x517\" width=\"177\" height=\"244\">Rikki Ducornet has long been known for her surreal, vivid writing. \u003cem>Brightfellow\u003c/em>, her latest novel, is no exception. The new book, out on Coffee House Press, tells the story of Stub, a wild boy who steals pies, sweaters, cocktails. He befriends Billy, becomes enchanted by someone named “Asthma,” which actually makes for a poetic first name when you think about it, and finds himself changed. I could try to describe Ducornet’s style of writing, but Michael Martone does it so well in this blurb that I defer to him:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Like an unbounded baron in the trees, like a goat boy on the loose in the groves of academe, this book inscribes a lofty scaffolding of amazing mazes, canopies of wonder. Ignited luminescence, irresistible levitation, iridescent images—the words skip like philosophic stones through a saturated and shimmering exhalation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.citylights.com/info/?fa=event&event_id=2595\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wednesday, June 29: Kim Addonizio at Diesel Books, Oakland \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11731522\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/static1.squarespace.com_.jpg\" alt=\"9780143128465_BukowskiInAS_CVF.indd\" width=\"200\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/static1.squarespace.com_.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/static1.squarespace.com_-400x613.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/static1.squarespace.com_-391x600.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">The cover of Kim Addonizio’s new memoir is a photo of the author chugging what looks to be a glass of wine, while sitting on a kitchen counter next to a bunch of liquor bottles. She wears a snug, sleeveless denim vest, lace shirt, and black ribbed tights, no shoes. Oh, and a black lace glove. Like a cross between Exene Cervenka, Lucky Star-era Madonna, and your drunk, edgy biker mama neighbor. In short, it’s a photo that tells a story in itself, and holds the promise of more drunken, lacy tales in the pages to follow. Addonizio, who lives in Oakland, titled the memoir \u003cem>Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life\u003c/em>, after a literary critic called her just that (she suspects he wasn’t being complimentary) – and despite the fact that she’s won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts, not to mention a poetry collection that was a finalist for the National Book Award. Come hear Addonizio read from essays like “How to Try to Stop Drinking So Much,” “All Manner of Obscene Things,” and “How to Fall for a Younger Man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/kim-addonizio-discusses-and-signs-bukowski-sundress\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thursday, June 30: One-Year Anniversary of Literary Speakeasy at Martuni’s Piano Bar, SF \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11731523\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gallery-1460134162-9781250072641.jpg\" alt=\"gallery-1460134162-9781250072641\" width=\"183\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gallery-1460134162-9781250072641.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gallery-1460134162-9781250072641-400x500.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gallery-1460134162-9781250072641-480x600.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\">It’s Friday and a martini sounds super good right about now. But, we’ll have to wait until later to order up some gin, vermouth, and olives, when the Literary Speakeasy kicks off on June 30. The one-year anniversary celebration features an eclectic mix of writers and musicians. Peter Bullen is best known as a Quiet Lightning Neighborhood Hero and has stories published in the Oakland Review and the LA Review of Books. Ginger Murray is a “performance storyteller” with an affinity for bad girls, thinkers,and “sublime chaos,” so expect a lively reading. Jim Provenzano won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel\u003cem> Every Time I Think of You\u003c/em> and works in LGBT media. And then there’s Anna Pulley, whose debut book\u003cem> The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)\u003c/em> got a \u003ca href=\"http://www.lennyletter.com/author/15849/anna-pulley/\">write up in Lenny Letter\u003c/a>. Literary Speakeasy is hosted and curated by James J. Siegel, and it’s free!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1183245538355399\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wednesday, July 6: Nathanial Johnson at Books Inc., Berkeley \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11731524\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/unseencitys.jpg\" alt=\"unseencitys\" width=\"175\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/unseencitys.jpg 703w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/unseencitys-400x615.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/unseencitys-391x600.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\">Nathanial Johnson wants you to look at weeds, pigeons, and to other semi-wild \u003ca href=\"http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synanthrope\">synanthropes\u003c/a> that surround city-dwelling folks at every moment with wonder rather than disgust, or even worse, a complete lack of interest. He states as much in the foreword to \u003cem>Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, The Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness\u003c/em>. And, yes, the title says it all. The Berkeley-dwelling Grist editor devotes individual chapters to the creatures and plants that live a hard-scrabble lives among humans, rarely getting the full attention Johnson thinks they deserve: pigeons (aka “low-class sky rats), weeds, squirrels, ginkgo, turkey vultures, ants, crows, snails, and bird language. He even provides practical recommendations for how any of us can turn our city walks into the call of the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.booksinc.net/event/nathanael-johnson-books-inc-berkeley\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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