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"content": "\u003cp>The future does not replace the present. It’s slathered on top of it, day by day, week by week, month by month, and year by year. But moment by moment, we struggle with the minutia of our lives. Our visions of the future are based firmly not on where we are headed, but instead on where we have come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Atwood understands all too well how the past infects the present. When she writes about the future, it feels real because any future she imagines consists mostly of its own past. Which is to say, our world as it is today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/atwood-maddaddam.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10990329\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/atwood-maddaddam.jpg\" alt=\"atwood-maddaddam\" width=\"225\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/atwood-maddaddam.jpg 466w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/atwood-maddaddam-400x588.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/atwood-maddaddam-408x600.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\">\u003c/a>In her \u003cem>MaddAddam\u003c/em> trilogy (\u003cem>Oryx & Crake, The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam\u003c/em>), Atwood crafts a piercing, poignant portrait of our world transformed by genetic pollution and global warming. The power of her vision stems from the fact that underneath all her invention, the skeletal remains of the present are clearly visible. In these books she embraces science fiction as extrapolation. Reading them as the world’s temperature inexorably increases, it’s hard not to feel like a frog being slowly boiled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her latest novel, \u003cem>The Heart Goes Last\u003c/em>, Atwood embraces different aspects of science fiction. First and foremost, this is what in the Golden Age of sci-fi (1938-1946) was called a “fix-up” novel. Ray Bradbury’s \u003cem>The Martian Chronicles\u003c/em> and Isaac Asimov’s\u003cem> I, Robot\u003c/em> are the best known examples of the genre — classics stitched together from previously published short fiction. Parts of \u003cem>The Heart Goes Last\u003c/em> first appeared at \u003ca href=\"http://Byliner.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Byliner.com\u003c/a>. But the final product has the weird, organic feel of all pf Atwood’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around, Atwood is not exploring the future as much as she is rewriting the present. We meet Stan and Charmaine sleeping in their car. Had things gone farther south on the economic front in 2008, it’s a scenario that might be much closer than many of us would care to admit. The crash and burn of Atwood’s “day after tomorrow” has left most of the U.S. population homeless, desperate and vulnerable. A once-working civilization has become prey to a nasty set of unseen predators we as readers know must exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/atwood-the_heart_goes_last.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10990328\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/atwood-the_heart_goes_last.jpg\" alt=\"atwood-=the_heart_goes_last\" width=\"238\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/atwood-the_heart_goes_last.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/atwood-the_heart_goes_last-400x607.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/atwood-the_heart_goes_last-395x600.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\">\u003c/a>But Stan and Charmaine are lucky: they make it in to the “Positron Project.” It turns out that all those for-profit prisons popping up around the nation in the present have engineered a post-collapse economy that offers safety in the form of a Faustian bargain. Half of the time you live in the lovely little company town of Consilience, and the other half you spend in prison as an inmate. You’re employed and safe and…in prison. And the sex robots, they can’t be bad, can they?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atwood works the Kafkaesque foreboding with impeccable prose, tightening the screws with an invisibly terrifying precision. Charmaine starts to fall for the man who lives in her house when she’s not there. Stan finds himself in limbo. It’s no metaphor, and the waiting room for hell is just about as much fun as Atwood can have. For those who expect a tour of the ninth circle, Atwood has some funny surprises in store. Eventually the tightest screws spring loose and Atwood’s penchant for dark humor and satire take center stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who look to Atwood for mere dread, which she does so well, \u003cem>The Heart Goes Last\u003c/em> may have more dimensions than they desire. 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The party doubles as a launch for \u003cem>Drinking the Devil’s Acre\u003c/em>, Duggan McDonnell’s illustrated history of cocktails from “the wild and wicked saloons of the Barbary Coast.” There will be booze, naturally. $20; \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/devil%E2%80%99s-acre-litquake%E2%80%99s-opening-night-celebrates-19th-century-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">details here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday, Oct. 9: \u003ca href=\"http://thenewparish.com/event.cfm?id=212598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lyrics Born at the New Parish\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong> The East Bay hip-hop veteran headlines a special, jazz-inflected show in Oakland, featuring Galactic’s Robert Mercurio, Ben Ellman and Corey Henry (all of whom were instrumental in the production of LB’s\u003cem> Real People)\u003c/em>; DJ Shortkut, and special guests from the Jazz Mafia, like tireless musician-about-town Adam Theis. $20; \u003ca href=\"http://thenewparish.com/event.cfm?id=212598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">details here. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIPaPiArbLI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, Oct. 10: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/409497749241235/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wing Wings Chicken Wing Eating Contest at SoMa StrEat Food Park. \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>Not like you really need an excuse to partake in — or just gawk at — this annual celebration of America’s favorite appetizer, but all funds raised at this glorious, gluttonous gathering will go to the arts education non-profit Precita Eyes. Participants are asked to raise $150 as an entry fee, but it’s free to attend, and you can count on food galore, live painting and music, kids’ activities, and a raffle from local businesses. \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/409497749241235/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, Oct. 10: \u003ca href=\"http://www.obmusicartfestival.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ocean Beach Music and Art Festival\u003c/a>. \u003c/strong>The Outer Sunset doesn’t get enough love among SF’s newest residents — but for locals, that’s just fine: it keeps the rents (almost, kinda) reasonable, and makes (free!) festivals like this one totally manageable in size and attendance. That said this is a killer lineup, with Destroyer, Down Dirty Shake, Travis Hayes and others taking over six stages. Also featured: multiple beer gardens, more food vendors than a person could ever need, a mobile petting zoo, a pumpkin patch, and a chance to stroll leisurely up and down Noriega in the sunshine. Did we mention it’s free? \u003ca href=\"http://www.obmusicartfestival.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunday, Oct. 11: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/545924935546128/\">\u003cem>Aliens\u003c/em> at the New Parkway (Bechdel Test Movie Night). \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This excellent series focusing on films that feature at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man also affords movie-goers the opportunity to take in one of the best sci-fi flicks of the last 50 years. There’s also the opportunity to learn a thing or two, if you stay for a post-film discussion with local artist and educator \u003ca href=\"http://www.cheryldunye.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheryl Dunye\u003c/a>. Need a primer on the Bechdel Test before you go? \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/09/09/bechdel-test-gets-its-own-movie-night-at-the-new-parkway/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read KQED Arts’ Sarah Hotchkiss in discussion with Dunye over here\u003c/a>. $10; \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/545924935546128/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKSQmYUaIyE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunday, Oct. 11: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1669705513249600/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1st Annual Gilman Reunion and Block Party\u003c/a>. \u003c/strong>If you’ve ever set foot inside Berkeley’s legendary punk club 924 Gilman, you know it’s so much more than a music venue. And if you haven’t? Well, no time like the present. This free event opens the space to the public, with a tour, presentations from DIY artists, musicians, food, and tables from local friend organizations like AK Press. Like all things Gilman, this one’s all-ages, to boot. \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1669705513249600/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunday, Oct. 11 – Monday, Oct. 12: \u003ca href=\"http://tickets.cafilm.org/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=161616~6c2fb93e-c4b7-4a07-8efb-9cb331051591&epguid=3e8cf7a7-5095-4a32-8cb4-f42862162ee0&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Breaking a Monster\u003c/em> at the Mill Valley Film Festival.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> There’s a seriously overwhelming slate of cinema at the Mill Valley Film Festival, but for months we’ve had our eye on this little documentary about a Brooklyn metal trio, Unlocking the Truth, who garnered international hype before they hit age 14. 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Participants are asked to raise $150 as an entry fee, but it’s free to attend, and you can count on food galore, live painting and music, kids’ activities, and a raffle from local businesses. \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/409497749241235/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, Oct. 10: \u003ca href=\"http://www.obmusicartfestival.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ocean Beach Music and Art Festival\u003c/a>. \u003c/strong>The Outer Sunset doesn’t get enough love among SF’s newest residents — but for locals, that’s just fine: it keeps the rents (almost, kinda) reasonable, and makes (free!) festivals like this one totally manageable in size and attendance. That said this is a killer lineup, with Destroyer, Down Dirty Shake, Travis Hayes and others taking over six stages. 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"title": "Punk Icon Patti Smith Releases Second Memoir, 'M Train'",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/445943695/445943696\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patti Smith has a new memoir out. And the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/books/review-m-train-patti-smith-on-all-the-roads-she-has-taken.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reviews\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.startribune.com/review-m-train-by-patti-smith/330413911/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/in-her-memoir-m-train-patti-smith-opens-up-about-her-life-and-loves/2015/09/28/a81a40ec-6159-11e5-9757-e49273f05f65_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">really\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-patti-smith-20151004-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her last memoir, \u003cem>Just Kids\u003c/em>, from 2010, chronicled her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe before he became known as one of the best and most provocative photographers of the 20th century and before she became, well, a rock goddess. \u003cem>Just Kids\u003c/em> won a National Book Award. It spent 42 weeks on the best-seller lists. Smith spent years crafting it, after promising Mapplethorpe, who was then dying of AIDS, that she’d write about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>M Train\u003c/em> is a very different project, impressionistic and digressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a mental train, a train of thought,” Smith says over coffee at New York’s Whynot Coffee. “It’s a mystery train. I just hopped on the train and see where I went every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10999493\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 391px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/M-Train-Patti-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"'M Train' by Patti Smith\" width=\"391\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10999493\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘M Train’ by Patti Smith\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sometimes her mental train took her into a meditation about a sublime cafe or a perfect cup of coffee. Or remembrances of her pilgrimages to the homes and graves of famous writers. Or how she joined an obscure society of philosophers and scientists called the Continental Drift Club. Or the time she ended up singing rock songs all night with chess prodigy Bobby Fisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wrote whatever came to mind,” she says. “It had no outline. I just wanted to keep writing and writing and writing. No editing, and just go on and on and on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What might sound like an editor’s nightmare was a dream come true to Kevin Bourke, who copy edited \u003cem>M Train\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patti Smith’s been important to me since her first albums,” he said. “Even the liner notes just introduced me to so much I hadn’t experienced before, like [Jean] Genet or [Arthur] Rimbaud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Bourke, one of the pleasures of copyediting \u003cem>M Train\u003c/em> was learning about more of Smith’s enthusiasms. Which, on any given page, might include German romanticists, the Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, detective shows or Pat Sajak. 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I can’t, that’s why we need to take care of our relationships, our bodies and our retirement plans, but also take risks while we are young and take advantage of the potential for life beyond the right now. It sounds like a cheesy retirement advertisement but life expectancy these days is about 78 years for a man and 81 for a woman. Life is long, we need to remember this and reimagine accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Have a Foundation in Community\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rooted in the Detroit community, Boggs founded the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://detroitsummer.wordpress.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Detroit Summer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a multi-racial, intergenerational collective working to transform communities. 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And it looks, at least, like she’s delivering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Strand season opens with \u003ci>Monstress,\u003c/i> two one-act plays of contemporary Filipino-American life in California, adapted from the short story collection of the same name by San Francisco author \u003ca href=\"http://lysleytenorio.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lysley Tenorio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the adaptations, Perloff tapped Filipino-American playwright, director and actor \u003ca href=\"http://tdps.berkeley.edu/people/sean-san-jose/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean San Jose\u003c/a>, and the Japanese-American playwright and UC Berkeley Theater Professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.philipkangotanda.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philip Kan Gotanda\u003c/a>. They’ve freely adapted two of the stories, with Tenorio’s blessing, adding some unexpected songs and music to these immigrant tales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s an edited transcript of my conversations with San Jose and Gotanda about bringing Tenorio’s stories to life on the Strand stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Philip Kan Gotanda, how did you get involved in this project?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was contacted by Carey Perloff… she came across Lysley’s short stories and was taken by them. And I read them and thought they were wonderful. And I was immediately drawn to “Save the I-Hotel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>That’s the story about a pair of elderly Filipino men living in San Francisco’s I-Hotel in the 1970’s, about their frustrated love affair and the protests that occurred when the building’s owner tried to evict all the hotel residents. So what drew you to that story?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I lived through that era. I was going to law school at UC Hastings at the time. Many of the Filipino American students there were involved in that struggle. So it’s a live historical moment for me. And I grew up in Stockton, all my friends were Filipino-Americans. So I was familiar with the foods and the smells and the culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people who were inhabiting the I-Hotel were very like my next door neighbors growing up in Stockton. So I felt immediately that I knew these two men . I could hear their voices. Which was a good sign for me if I was going to adapt them for the stage. And I told Carey this is the story I wanted to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you go about adapting a short story into a one act play? What’s the process?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well for me initially I have to have a connection to it. Then I’ll begin to feel there are certain moments that I can use those to anchor the story. In this particular story, it had to do with when the two older gentlemen were touching each other. When one was shaving the other, or helping him dress. And the key moment when there is a kiss. And for me, this is what the story is all about. It’s a love story. And so those intimate moments are the starting points, and then I grow the piece from there, and I fill in the beginning and the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sean San Jose, you picked “Monstress,” the title story from Tenorio’s collection. That’s also a love story, about a schlock filmmaker in Manila and his girlfriend and muse, who he always casts as the monstress in the films they make, and how the two follow their dreams to Hollywood.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To me what was really thrilling is that it did this fabulous thing that Tenorio does in his writing, he’s able to take events and capture the essence of the events, and of a people — who we are as Filipinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it has this beautiful sense of longing and romance and dreaming and fabulousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And meanwhile it really is veiled in this strange version of an immigration story. So to me the whole (short story) collection is variations on an immigration story. 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Sometimes that’s a narrative voice. Sometimes a writer writes with a lot of dialogue. So I immediately took to this idea of creating a community of people reliving what happened to these two lovers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there was something thrilling about the two pieces that Philip and I worked on… one is very interior (“Save the I-Hotel”) and one is very energetic and exterior (“Monstress”). And we could do them with the same company of actors, and the intention of a narrating choruses in both of them, shaping the two pieces to live as a twin bill together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you make of this classic idea that “Monstress” explores of Hollywood as a place where dreams are made and broken.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having heartache, romance and dreaming, and reality live side-by-side is very familiar to me and many immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What it reminded me of was how my mom and my aunties watched movies a lot — especially \u003cem>West Side Story\u003c/em>. We would watch it and we all knew what’s going to happen to Tony and Maria, and yet you hope for a happy ending all the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So a lot of times we retell our family histories, even though we know the ending might be sad. There’s something about the reliving and the romance of it, that appeals to me.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>“A young black man, Henry Dumas, went through a turnstile at a New York City subway station,” reads an invitation by Toni Morrison for a posthumous book-launch party she threw for Dumas in 1974, six years after he died. “A transit cop” — who was white — “shot him in the chest and killed him. Circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear. Before that happened, however, he had written some of the most beautiful, moving and profound poetry and fiction that I have ever in my life read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10990148\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-promo_wide-0cbaef6c3c8291812edd86e496c0874f33fd7dc0-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Dumas, photographed in New York in the mid-1960s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10990148\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-promo_wide-0cbaef6c3c8291812edd86e496c0874f33fd7dc0-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-promo_wide-0cbaef6c3c8291812edd86e496c0874f33fd7dc0-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-promo_wide-0cbaef6c3c8291812edd86e496c0874f33fd7dc0-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-promo_wide-0cbaef6c3c8291812edd86e496c0874f33fd7dc0-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-promo_wide-0cbaef6c3c8291812edd86e496c0874f33fd7dc0.jpg 1497w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Dumas, photographed in New York in the mid-1960s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eugene B. Redmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the nearly 50 years since Henry Dumas was killed, not much more has come to light about what happened on the night of his death. No witnesses came forward to testify. Police records were lost in a bureaucratic shuffle. Harlem, where Dumas moved as a young man after growing up in rural Arkansas, had \u003ca href=\"https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/disasters/riots-harlem_1964.html\">erupted\u003c/a> in large-scale protests over the police killings of black and brown men several times before the writer was killed. But Dumas’ death hardly made the news. With so little information to draw from, it’s as if the last pages of his life were torn out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dumas’ final scene echoed a theme he turned to again and again in his writing: violent confrontations between white men and black men. The work he left behind — short stories that range from hard realism to science fiction, an almost finished novel, volumes of poetry, and even a few accompaniments to the work of the mystical jazz legend Sun Ra — contains bitingly sharp depictions of racial tension in America that, in an almost unbelievably eerie way, speak to his own fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is, of course, a fate that many black men and women had and would suffer under dubious circumstances — from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/harlem-riots-1943-echo-today-article-1.2216788\">Robert Bandy\u003c/a> in 1935, \u003ca href=\"http://www.vice.com/read/race-riots-then-and-now-501\">James Powell\u003c/a> in 1964, 10-year-old \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/nyregion/fired-at-queens-boy-fatal-1973-police-shot-still-reverberates.html\">Clifford Glover\u003c/a> in 1973, and \u003ca href=\"http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-09-12/news/9909120226_1_officers-lawyer-chicago-police-supt-joseph-roddy\">LaTanya Haggerty\u003c/a> in 1999 to the more recent deaths of Michael Brown, \u003ca href=\"http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article15728675.html\">Janisha Fonville\u003c/a>, Eric Garner, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/01/tanisha_anderson_was_restraine.html\">Tanisha Anderson\u003c/a> and Freddie Gray, to name only a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His work and, in fact, his death, investigated and illustrated the ways in which black lives were at best peripheral to most white people — especially those running and policing the country,” says James Smethurst, a University of Massachusetts, Amherst professor who has written extensively about 1960s and ’70s black writers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of Dumas’ writing is considered to be a part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/blackarts/historical.htm\">Black Arts Movement\u003c/a> — the artistic manifestation of the Black Power struggle of the 1960s — an effort that Smethurst believes has a lot of resonance with the Black Lives Matter movement. While interest in Dumas has increased somewhat in recent years, he says, “We still have a long way to go before he gets the sort of attention he deserves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘The People Get Tired Of Dying’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the only known accounts of the night Dumas was killed comes from an obituary in \u003cem>The Amsterdam News,\u003c/em> a black-owned newspaper in New York City that was founded in 1909. “Police said Dumas and an unidentified man were scuffling in the subway when the officer walked up to them and attempted to stop the fracas,” the obit reads. “Police said Dumas, resentful at the interference, slashed the officer who shot and killed him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the benefit of photographic evidence or firsthand witnesses to accompany the official police report, it is impossible to know the full story of what happened that night. It’s also impossible to take in Dumas’ story without acknowledging that the \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/samuel-dubose-cops-corroberating-unarmed-black-death\">track record of believability\u003c/a>, when it comes to official accounts of black deaths at the hands of law enforcement, \u003ca href=\"http://kxan.com/2014/08/22/family-of-woman-shot-killed-by-bastrop-county-sheriffs-deputy-seeks-damages/\">isn’t a clean one\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dumas wrote stories that echo cases like that of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy in Cleveland who was killed \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30220700\">seconds after\u003c/a> a police vehicle pulled up to where he was playing. “When a Negro boy is shot and killed by policemen who do not check the situation before pulling their guns, the people get angry. It is a simple law of nature. … The people get tired of dying,” says one of Dumas’ characters in a short story called “Riot or Revolt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Published most recently in a 2003 collection of Dumas’ work called \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Echo-Tree-Collected-Fiction-Movement/dp/1566891493\">Echo Tree\u003c/a>, that story follows a young black man named Harold through the aftermath of violent public protest across Harlem:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“The police barricades squatted on the sidewalk surrounding each place where mobs had struck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harold stood on the ramp in the middle of Seventh Avenue and 125th Street and surveyed the area which the night before had swarmed with police and angry Harlemites. A youth had been slain by the police in Brooklyn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10990159\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/national-bookstore-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the National Memorial African Bookstore in Harlem circa 1970.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10990159\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/national-bookstore.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/national-bookstore-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the National Memorial African Bookstore in Harlem circa 1970. \u003ccite>(Jack Garofalo/Paris Match via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those who have studied Dumas’ life and work believe the fictional LeMoor Brothers’ Bookstore in that story was modeled on the real National Memorial African Bookstore, which stood a short walk from the 135th Street subway station where Dumas was killed. Owned by Lewis Michaux, a bookseller and black civil rights leader who encouraged his neighbors to read the books he stocked on African history, culture and philosophy even if they couldn’t afford to buy them, the store \u003ca href=\"https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/vaunda-micheaux-nelson/no-crystal-stair/\">attracted\u003c/a> figures like Malcolm X, Langston Hughes and Muhammad Ali.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not unlike Dumas’ LeMoor, Michaux had a lot to say about black Americans’ struggle for power. “We’ve been neglected for three hundred years,” he\u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1966/09/03/the-professor-4\"> told\u003c/a> a \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> reporter in 1966. “As much as I hate to see what’s going to happen, I believe that when the Negro knocks this time and nobody open the door, he’s just going to knock it right down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “Riot or Revolt,” city officials stop in to speak to the owners of LeMoor Brothers’ Bookstore, which had been left untouched by the looters who ravaged nearly every other store on the street. The officers want to know what made his shop so exceptional, but its owner, Micheval LeMoor, takes issue with the fact that city officials seemed to visit Harlem only when its frustrated residents reached a breaking point:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“You want to come visit here and get the notions about things being better, while right now some disrespectful guardian of the citizens beats a black man’s head in. It doesn’t matter if he’s guilty or not anymore. Your honor, what you are facing is the full anger of a man who has been under attack for years. Unless you call off the attackers, be they merchants, disrespectful policemen, or the American majority, then the black minority is going to tear your house down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>While “Riot or Revolt” may have been closely inspired by actual people if not actual events, other Dumas stories are imaginative forays into allegorical fables and otherworldly realms. Dumas’ vast range captivated many of his fellow writers, before and after his death. The poet and civil rights activist \u003ca href=\"http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/haki-madhubuti\">Haki R. Madhubati\u003c/a> called him “a poet of complex melodies,” and Amiri Baraka called him an “Afro-surreal expressionist” who delivered “a new blackness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10990160\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-books-800x385.jpg\" alt=\"Three of the published works of Dumas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"385\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10990160\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-books.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-books-400x193.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three of the published works of Dumas. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Eugene B. Redmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was impressed with his boldness of language and his boldness of breadth,” Maya Angelou said in a 1988 interview published in an issue of the \u003cem>Black American Literature Forum\u003c/em> dedicated entirely to Dumas’ work. “Dumas continued to set us up for the loneliness, aloneness, and desperation, sometimes even desolation. But he never leaves us there. With him as our guide, we’re always brought through to a better place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Part Invitation, Part Consolation’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Dumas died, just a few of his poems and short stories had been published in small literary journals, geared toward a black audience. Writers and critics who knew him say he would have followed the uphill trajectory of his friends — including Robert Pinsky and Baraka — had he lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he would’ve been a lot more famous in some respects if he had been able to live and write for 50 more years,” says Smethurst, the University of Massachusetts professor. “What if Toni Morrison had died after she wrote \u003cem>The Bluest Eye\u003c/em> and only had a few stories?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Morrison played a role in inspiring what Smethurst calls the “cult” of Dumas. She first encountered Dumas in the form of a slim collection published posthumously by Southern Illinois University, where he taught an experimental program during the last year of his life. Then an editor at Random House and the author of \u003cem>The Bluest Eye\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Sula,\u003c/em> Morrison was struck by the circumstances of Dumas’ death and wanted to publish more of his writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Random House had recently committed itself to publishing more minority writers. Through her position there, Morrison would shepherd through the work of several of the era’s most notable black writers and activists, from Toni Cade Bambara and Gayle Jones to Angela Davis and Huey P. Newton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she knew that generating attention for Dumas, a writer who was not only practically unknown but also deceased, would not be easy. To create hype for the collections she wanted to release — a book of poetry titled \u003cem>Play Ebony Play Ivory\u003c/em> and a short story collection called \u003cem>Ark of Bones\u003c/em> — Morrison organized a release event with a glamorous guest list comprising the most renowned black writers of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was thirty-three years old when he was killed,” Morrison wrote in the announcement for the party, a note that was \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/magazine/the-radical-vision-of-toni-morrison.html&assetType=nyt_now?&assetType=nyt_now\">described\u003c/a> as “part invitation, part consolation” in a recent \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> profile of Morrison. “But in those thirty-three years he had completed work the quality and quantity of which are almost never achieved in several lifetimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Creative Writing Slave’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10990162\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-teen.jpg\" alt=\"Dumas, when he was a high school student in New York.\" width=\"400\" height=\"498\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10990162\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dumas, when he was a high school student in New York. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Eugene B. Redmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1934, Dumas was born to Appliance Porter, a 19-year-old housekeeper in Sweet Home, Ark., a small town just outside Little Rock. His father, Henry Dumas Sr., or “Big Henry” as he was called, was largely absent from the life of his son, and his mother worked long hours. With his parents often away, Dumas spent much of his time in the fields where his aunts and uncles picked cotton, milked cows and shared stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his cousins were busy playing sports, Dumas’ family recalled to Dumas biographer Jeffrey B. Leak, he preferred to spend his time examining insects or developing skits in which he played all the roles. When Dumas was 10, he and his family followed the course taken by thousands of other black families during the first part of the 20th century by \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\">moving north\u003c/a>. Dumas brought with him to Harlem an intellectual curiosity that impressed his teachers at his integrated Manhattan high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may have been there that Dumas’ individual struggles became part of a more complex struggle: one in which black people searched for belonging in spaces where they were neither warmly welcomed nor explicitly barred. It’s unclear when he began to take up writing seriously, but his move to a more racially diverse environment may have had something to do with it. Beneath his senior photo in the 1953 High School of Commerce yearbook someone — perhaps even Dumas himself — chose to inscribe this description of him: “Creative writing slave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief stint at the City University of New York that ended with what Leak notes might have been “a crisis of confidence,” Dumas joined the U.S. Air Force within a year of his high school graduation. Tours of Saudi Arabia and Mexico deepened his interest in sketching worlds that blurred black-and-white interpretations of race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the age of 21, Dumas returned to the U.S., in 1955, and married Loretta Ponton, a beautiful young secretary he had met by chance on a snowy evening on the street in New York just before enlisting. The daughter of a Baptist deacon, Loretta held strong Christian values and a traditional sense of familial responsibility. While Dumas shared her beliefs during the early years of their marriage, he would veer from them in coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of just a few black students at Rutgers University, where Dumas studied from 1958 to 1965 and where the couple’s two sons were born, Dumas’ commitment to his writing, curiosities about the Nation of Islam, engagement with the civil rights movement, plus alcohol and drug use began to drive a wedge between him and Loretta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also had several affairs with white women. Lois Wright (nee Silber), with whom he had an affair that lasted three years, recalled in a letter to Dumas’ friend and fellow poet Jay Wright (whom she would later marry) that the two could only venture out to select spots in New York; the jazz clubs Dumas frequented weren’t welcoming to Wright, and she resented Dumas’ friends for referring to her as “the white chick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Dumas, crossing racial divides represented possibility and opportunity for both himself as a black man, but also from an imaginative standpoint,” Leak, whose biography of Dumas, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Man-Life-Henry-Dumas/dp/0820328707\">Visible Man\u003c/a>, came out last year, said in an interview. “I think he thought that if you can cross boundaries in the social realm, then you can cross other boundaries in the literary realm. In both spaces, he found it to be even more complicated than he had anticipated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dumas explores those complexities in “Will The Circle Be Unbroken?,” a short story in which three white musicians and critics want to enter a black jazz club, arguing they should be let in because they know a lot about the genre. The black patrons finally agree to let them in, but warn that use of an ancient, rare horn may be too intense for their “uninitiated” ears. The music “vibrated the freedom of freedom” for its black listeners, but when the set ends, consternation rises when the three white people are found dead. They had been slain by music that wasn’t meant for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many, the story offers a look at some of the central questions of the civil rights movement: What did it mean to be black? How could black identity adapt to an integrated world? What racial boundaries should remain unbroken?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an essay on the story for a 1988 issue of the \u003cem>Black American Literary Forum\u003c/em> dedicated to Dumas’ work, an acquaintance of Dumas’ put it this way: “Black people had a feeling of always being on stage for white folks.” Dumas’ story on the jazz club held that the work of black artists should be guarded and protected, a notion that still resonates in a world where it’s been said many times that \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/emaoconnor/rue-just-perfectly-defined-cultural-appropriation\">black cultural products are valued while black lives are not\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jazz And Honey\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10990163\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-wedding.jpg\" alt=\"Dumas and his wife, Loretta Dumas (Ponton), on their wedding day.\" width=\"400\" height=\"488\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10990163\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dumas and his wife, Loretta Dumas (Ponton), on their wedding day. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Eugene B. Redmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On no one, perhaps, has Dumas made a greater impression than Eugene Redmond. An \u003ca href=\"http://eugenebredmond.com/home/\">accomplished poet\u003c/a> in his own right, Redmond has spent the past four decades editing and promoting the work of Dumas, even though the two men knew one another for only just under a year. Redmond met Dumas when the older writer came to teach English at an experimental college at the University of Southern Illinois in Redmond’s hometown of East St. Louis in 1967. “We bonded quickly,” Redmond told me in a phone interview from the house of Loretta, Dumas’ widow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 77-year-old has served for decades as the literary executor of Dumas’ estate and was staying with Loretta for an annual commemoration of Dumas’ life and work that he helps organize every year on the anniversary of the shooting. Bringing together Dumas’ friends and family over poetry readings and jazz performances, Redmond, a Pushcart Prize recipient and the author of 25 books of poetry, has carried the torch for Dumas alongside his own teaching and writing career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time I stepped into a classroom after I met him, I had a turntable,” said Redmond, who said he picked up on Dumas’ tradition of playing music 15 minutes before each of his classes began. “Every class that I taught, I published the students in a spiral-bound or saddle-stitched booklet. I got that from him.” Redmond fondly recalls eating raw honey and listening to jazz with Dumas, to whom he attributes his love of some of the era’s greatest musicians, from Miles Davis to John Coltrane. “At the time,” Redmond said, “he seemed to be at the farthest most forward point of what black expression, black culture, and black people were all about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his day-to-day life, Dumas insisted on making space for himself — and forcing others to acknowledge his right to exist. “He would even walk around East St. Louis and other places, and ask, ‘Do you see me? Feel my arm. I’m here, ain’t I?'” said Leak, who conducted many interviews with those close to Dumas for his book. “His point was: We’re not invisible. The idea is a direct corollary to Black Lives Matter, the idea that flesh and blood do matter, and we’re going to insist on being seen and being heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redmond hopes the Black Lives Matter movement will help introduce Dumas to a whole new audience and help bolster the foundation that the movement rests upon. “You gotta have someplace to come from before you know where you’re going,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Beenish Ahmed covers international affairs for ThinkProgress. She’s also the founder of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thealignist.com/\">THE ALIGNIST\u003c/a>,\u003cem> a new media venture aimed at bringing literature into conversation with current events. Follow her on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/beenishfahmed\">Twitter\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“A young black man, Henry Dumas, went through a turnstile at a New York City subway station,” reads an invitation by Toni Morrison for a posthumous book-launch party she threw for Dumas in 1974, six years after he died. “A transit cop” — who was white — “shot him in the chest and killed him. Circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear. Before that happened, however, he had written some of the most beautiful, moving and profound poetry and fiction that I have ever in my life read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10990148\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-promo_wide-0cbaef6c3c8291812edd86e496c0874f33fd7dc0-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Dumas, photographed in New York in the mid-1960s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10990148\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-promo_wide-0cbaef6c3c8291812edd86e496c0874f33fd7dc0-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-promo_wide-0cbaef6c3c8291812edd86e496c0874f33fd7dc0-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-promo_wide-0cbaef6c3c8291812edd86e496c0874f33fd7dc0-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-promo_wide-0cbaef6c3c8291812edd86e496c0874f33fd7dc0-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-promo_wide-0cbaef6c3c8291812edd86e496c0874f33fd7dc0.jpg 1497w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Dumas, photographed in New York in the mid-1960s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eugene B. Redmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the nearly 50 years since Henry Dumas was killed, not much more has come to light about what happened on the night of his death. No witnesses came forward to testify. Police records were lost in a bureaucratic shuffle. Harlem, where Dumas moved as a young man after growing up in rural Arkansas, had \u003ca href=\"https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/disasters/riots-harlem_1964.html\">erupted\u003c/a> in large-scale protests over the police killings of black and brown men several times before the writer was killed. But Dumas’ death hardly made the news. With so little information to draw from, it’s as if the last pages of his life were torn out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dumas’ final scene echoed a theme he turned to again and again in his writing: violent confrontations between white men and black men. The work he left behind — short stories that range from hard realism to science fiction, an almost finished novel, volumes of poetry, and even a few accompaniments to the work of the mystical jazz legend Sun Ra — contains bitingly sharp depictions of racial tension in America that, in an almost unbelievably eerie way, speak to his own fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is, of course, a fate that many black men and women had and would suffer under dubious circumstances — from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/harlem-riots-1943-echo-today-article-1.2216788\">Robert Bandy\u003c/a> in 1935, \u003ca href=\"http://www.vice.com/read/race-riots-then-and-now-501\">James Powell\u003c/a> in 1964, 10-year-old \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/nyregion/fired-at-queens-boy-fatal-1973-police-shot-still-reverberates.html\">Clifford Glover\u003c/a> in 1973, and \u003ca href=\"http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-09-12/news/9909120226_1_officers-lawyer-chicago-police-supt-joseph-roddy\">LaTanya Haggerty\u003c/a> in 1999 to the more recent deaths of Michael Brown, \u003ca href=\"http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article15728675.html\">Janisha Fonville\u003c/a>, Eric Garner, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/01/tanisha_anderson_was_restraine.html\">Tanisha Anderson\u003c/a> and Freddie Gray, to name only a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His work and, in fact, his death, investigated and illustrated the ways in which black lives were at best peripheral to most white people — especially those running and policing the country,” says James Smethurst, a University of Massachusetts, Amherst professor who has written extensively about 1960s and ’70s black writers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of Dumas’ writing is considered to be a part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/blackarts/historical.htm\">Black Arts Movement\u003c/a> — the artistic manifestation of the Black Power struggle of the 1960s — an effort that Smethurst believes has a lot of resonance with the Black Lives Matter movement. While interest in Dumas has increased somewhat in recent years, he says, “We still have a long way to go before he gets the sort of attention he deserves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘The People Get Tired Of Dying’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the only known accounts of the night Dumas was killed comes from an obituary in \u003cem>The Amsterdam News,\u003c/em> a black-owned newspaper in New York City that was founded in 1909. “Police said Dumas and an unidentified man were scuffling in the subway when the officer walked up to them and attempted to stop the fracas,” the obit reads. “Police said Dumas, resentful at the interference, slashed the officer who shot and killed him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the benefit of photographic evidence or firsthand witnesses to accompany the official police report, it is impossible to know the full story of what happened that night. It’s also impossible to take in Dumas’ story without acknowledging that the \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/samuel-dubose-cops-corroberating-unarmed-black-death\">track record of believability\u003c/a>, when it comes to official accounts of black deaths at the hands of law enforcement, \u003ca href=\"http://kxan.com/2014/08/22/family-of-woman-shot-killed-by-bastrop-county-sheriffs-deputy-seeks-damages/\">isn’t a clean one\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dumas wrote stories that echo cases like that of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy in Cleveland who was killed \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30220700\">seconds after\u003c/a> a police vehicle pulled up to where he was playing. “When a Negro boy is shot and killed by policemen who do not check the situation before pulling their guns, the people get angry. It is a simple law of nature. … The people get tired of dying,” says one of Dumas’ characters in a short story called “Riot or Revolt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Published most recently in a 2003 collection of Dumas’ work called \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Echo-Tree-Collected-Fiction-Movement/dp/1566891493\">Echo Tree\u003c/a>, that story follows a young black man named Harold through the aftermath of violent public protest across Harlem:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“The police barricades squatted on the sidewalk surrounding each place where mobs had struck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harold stood on the ramp in the middle of Seventh Avenue and 125th Street and surveyed the area which the night before had swarmed with police and angry Harlemites. A youth had been slain by the police in Brooklyn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10990159\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/national-bookstore-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the National Memorial African Bookstore in Harlem circa 1970.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10990159\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/national-bookstore.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/national-bookstore-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the National Memorial African Bookstore in Harlem circa 1970. \u003ccite>(Jack Garofalo/Paris Match via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those who have studied Dumas’ life and work believe the fictional LeMoor Brothers’ Bookstore in that story was modeled on the real National Memorial African Bookstore, which stood a short walk from the 135th Street subway station where Dumas was killed. Owned by Lewis Michaux, a bookseller and black civil rights leader who encouraged his neighbors to read the books he stocked on African history, culture and philosophy even if they couldn’t afford to buy them, the store \u003ca href=\"https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/vaunda-micheaux-nelson/no-crystal-stair/\">attracted\u003c/a> figures like Malcolm X, Langston Hughes and Muhammad Ali.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not unlike Dumas’ LeMoor, Michaux had a lot to say about black Americans’ struggle for power. “We’ve been neglected for three hundred years,” he\u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1966/09/03/the-professor-4\"> told\u003c/a> a \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> reporter in 1966. “As much as I hate to see what’s going to happen, I believe that when the Negro knocks this time and nobody open the door, he’s just going to knock it right down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “Riot or Revolt,” city officials stop in to speak to the owners of LeMoor Brothers’ Bookstore, which had been left untouched by the looters who ravaged nearly every other store on the street. The officers want to know what made his shop so exceptional, but its owner, Micheval LeMoor, takes issue with the fact that city officials seemed to visit Harlem only when its frustrated residents reached a breaking point:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“You want to come visit here and get the notions about things being better, while right now some disrespectful guardian of the citizens beats a black man’s head in. It doesn’t matter if he’s guilty or not anymore. Your honor, what you are facing is the full anger of a man who has been under attack for years. Unless you call off the attackers, be they merchants, disrespectful policemen, or the American majority, then the black minority is going to tear your house down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>While “Riot or Revolt” may have been closely inspired by actual people if not actual events, other Dumas stories are imaginative forays into allegorical fables and otherworldly realms. Dumas’ vast range captivated many of his fellow writers, before and after his death. The poet and civil rights activist \u003ca href=\"http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/haki-madhubuti\">Haki R. Madhubati\u003c/a> called him “a poet of complex melodies,” and Amiri Baraka called him an “Afro-surreal expressionist” who delivered “a new blackness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10990160\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-books-800x385.jpg\" alt=\"Three of the published works of Dumas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"385\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10990160\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-books.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-books-400x193.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three of the published works of Dumas. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Eugene B. Redmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was impressed with his boldness of language and his boldness of breadth,” Maya Angelou said in a 1988 interview published in an issue of the \u003cem>Black American Literature Forum\u003c/em> dedicated entirely to Dumas’ work. “Dumas continued to set us up for the loneliness, aloneness, and desperation, sometimes even desolation. But he never leaves us there. With him as our guide, we’re always brought through to a better place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Part Invitation, Part Consolation’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Dumas died, just a few of his poems and short stories had been published in small literary journals, geared toward a black audience. Writers and critics who knew him say he would have followed the uphill trajectory of his friends — including Robert Pinsky and Baraka — had he lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he would’ve been a lot more famous in some respects if he had been able to live and write for 50 more years,” says Smethurst, the University of Massachusetts professor. “What if Toni Morrison had died after she wrote \u003cem>The Bluest Eye\u003c/em> and only had a few stories?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Morrison played a role in inspiring what Smethurst calls the “cult” of Dumas. She first encountered Dumas in the form of a slim collection published posthumously by Southern Illinois University, where he taught an experimental program during the last year of his life. Then an editor at Random House and the author of \u003cem>The Bluest Eye\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Sula,\u003c/em> Morrison was struck by the circumstances of Dumas’ death and wanted to publish more of his writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Random House had recently committed itself to publishing more minority writers. Through her position there, Morrison would shepherd through the work of several of the era’s most notable black writers and activists, from Toni Cade Bambara and Gayle Jones to Angela Davis and Huey P. Newton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she knew that generating attention for Dumas, a writer who was not only practically unknown but also deceased, would not be easy. To create hype for the collections she wanted to release — a book of poetry titled \u003cem>Play Ebony Play Ivory\u003c/em> and a short story collection called \u003cem>Ark of Bones\u003c/em> — Morrison organized a release event with a glamorous guest list comprising the most renowned black writers of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was thirty-three years old when he was killed,” Morrison wrote in the announcement for the party, a note that was \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/magazine/the-radical-vision-of-toni-morrison.html&assetType=nyt_now?&assetType=nyt_now\">described\u003c/a> as “part invitation, part consolation” in a recent \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> profile of Morrison. “But in those thirty-three years he had completed work the quality and quantity of which are almost never achieved in several lifetimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Creative Writing Slave’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10990162\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-teen.jpg\" alt=\"Dumas, when he was a high school student in New York.\" width=\"400\" height=\"498\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10990162\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dumas, when he was a high school student in New York. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Eugene B. Redmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1934, Dumas was born to Appliance Porter, a 19-year-old housekeeper in Sweet Home, Ark., a small town just outside Little Rock. His father, Henry Dumas Sr., or “Big Henry” as he was called, was largely absent from the life of his son, and his mother worked long hours. With his parents often away, Dumas spent much of his time in the fields where his aunts and uncles picked cotton, milked cows and shared stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his cousins were busy playing sports, Dumas’ family recalled to Dumas biographer Jeffrey B. Leak, he preferred to spend his time examining insects or developing skits in which he played all the roles. When Dumas was 10, he and his family followed the course taken by thousands of other black families during the first part of the 20th century by \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\">moving north\u003c/a>. Dumas brought with him to Harlem an intellectual curiosity that impressed his teachers at his integrated Manhattan high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may have been there that Dumas’ individual struggles became part of a more complex struggle: one in which black people searched for belonging in spaces where they were neither warmly welcomed nor explicitly barred. It’s unclear when he began to take up writing seriously, but his move to a more racially diverse environment may have had something to do with it. Beneath his senior photo in the 1953 High School of Commerce yearbook someone — perhaps even Dumas himself — chose to inscribe this description of him: “Creative writing slave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief stint at the City University of New York that ended with what Leak notes might have been “a crisis of confidence,” Dumas joined the U.S. Air Force within a year of his high school graduation. Tours of Saudi Arabia and Mexico deepened his interest in sketching worlds that blurred black-and-white interpretations of race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the age of 21, Dumas returned to the U.S., in 1955, and married Loretta Ponton, a beautiful young secretary he had met by chance on a snowy evening on the street in New York just before enlisting. The daughter of a Baptist deacon, Loretta held strong Christian values and a traditional sense of familial responsibility. While Dumas shared her beliefs during the early years of their marriage, he would veer from them in coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of just a few black students at Rutgers University, where Dumas studied from 1958 to 1965 and where the couple’s two sons were born, Dumas’ commitment to his writing, curiosities about the Nation of Islam, engagement with the civil rights movement, plus alcohol and drug use began to drive a wedge between him and Loretta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also had several affairs with white women. Lois Wright (nee Silber), with whom he had an affair that lasted three years, recalled in a letter to Dumas’ friend and fellow poet Jay Wright (whom she would later marry) that the two could only venture out to select spots in New York; the jazz clubs Dumas frequented weren’t welcoming to Wright, and she resented Dumas’ friends for referring to her as “the white chick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Dumas, crossing racial divides represented possibility and opportunity for both himself as a black man, but also from an imaginative standpoint,” Leak, whose biography of Dumas, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Man-Life-Henry-Dumas/dp/0820328707\">Visible Man\u003c/a>, came out last year, said in an interview. “I think he thought that if you can cross boundaries in the social realm, then you can cross other boundaries in the literary realm. In both spaces, he found it to be even more complicated than he had anticipated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dumas explores those complexities in “Will The Circle Be Unbroken?,” a short story in which three white musicians and critics want to enter a black jazz club, arguing they should be let in because they know a lot about the genre. The black patrons finally agree to let them in, but warn that use of an ancient, rare horn may be too intense for their “uninitiated” ears. The music “vibrated the freedom of freedom” for its black listeners, but when the set ends, consternation rises when the three white people are found dead. They had been slain by music that wasn’t meant for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many, the story offers a look at some of the central questions of the civil rights movement: What did it mean to be black? How could black identity adapt to an integrated world? What racial boundaries should remain unbroken?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an essay on the story for a 1988 issue of the \u003cem>Black American Literary Forum\u003c/em> dedicated to Dumas’ work, an acquaintance of Dumas’ put it this way: “Black people had a feeling of always being on stage for white folks.” Dumas’ story on the jazz club held that the work of black artists should be guarded and protected, a notion that still resonates in a world where it’s been said many times that \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/emaoconnor/rue-just-perfectly-defined-cultural-appropriation\">black cultural products are valued while black lives are not\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jazz And Honey\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10990163\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/dumas-wedding.jpg\" alt=\"Dumas and his wife, Loretta Dumas (Ponton), on their wedding day.\" width=\"400\" height=\"488\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10990163\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dumas and his wife, Loretta Dumas (Ponton), on their wedding day. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Eugene B. Redmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On no one, perhaps, has Dumas made a greater impression than Eugene Redmond. An \u003ca href=\"http://eugenebredmond.com/home/\">accomplished poet\u003c/a> in his own right, Redmond has spent the past four decades editing and promoting the work of Dumas, even though the two men knew one another for only just under a year. Redmond met Dumas when the older writer came to teach English at an experimental college at the University of Southern Illinois in Redmond’s hometown of East St. Louis in 1967. “We bonded quickly,” Redmond told me in a phone interview from the house of Loretta, Dumas’ widow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 77-year-old has served for decades as the literary executor of Dumas’ estate and was staying with Loretta for an annual commemoration of Dumas’ life and work that he helps organize every year on the anniversary of the shooting. Bringing together Dumas’ friends and family over poetry readings and jazz performances, Redmond, a Pushcart Prize recipient and the author of 25 books of poetry, has carried the torch for Dumas alongside his own teaching and writing career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time I stepped into a classroom after I met him, I had a turntable,” said Redmond, who said he picked up on Dumas’ tradition of playing music 15 minutes before each of his classes began. “Every class that I taught, I published the students in a spiral-bound or saddle-stitched booklet. I got that from him.” Redmond fondly recalls eating raw honey and listening to jazz with Dumas, to whom he attributes his love of some of the era’s greatest musicians, from Miles Davis to John Coltrane. “At the time,” Redmond said, “he seemed to be at the farthest most forward point of what black expression, black culture, and black people were all about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his day-to-day life, Dumas insisted on making space for himself — and forcing others to acknowledge his right to exist. “He would even walk around East St. Louis and other places, and ask, ‘Do you see me? Feel my arm. I’m here, ain’t I?'” said Leak, who conducted many interviews with those close to Dumas for his book. “His point was: We’re not invisible. The idea is a direct corollary to Black Lives Matter, the idea that flesh and blood do matter, and we’re going to insist on being seen and being heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redmond hopes the Black Lives Matter movement will help introduce Dumas to a whole new audience and help bolster the foundation that the movement rests upon. “You gotta have someplace to come from before you know where you’re going,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Beenish Ahmed covers international affairs for ThinkProgress. She’s also the founder of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thealignist.com/\">THE ALIGNIST\u003c/a>,\u003cem> a new media venture aimed at bringing literature into conversation with current events. Follow her on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/beenishfahmed\">Twitter\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Henry+Dumas+Wrote+About+Black+People+Killed+By+Cops.+Then+He+Was+Killed+By+A+Cop&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003caside class=\"event-info alignright\">\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/the-do-list/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/thedolist_icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/alternative-press-expo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Event Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch2>Alternative Press Expo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cdiv class=\"event-desc\">Comics, zines, graphic novels galore!\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"event-dates\">\n\u003ch4>Oct. 3-4, 2015\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"event-venue\">San Jose Convention Center\u003c/div>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/alternative-press-expo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details and tickets\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In 1994, Dan Vado, owner of the comics and graphic novel publishing house \u003ca href=\"http://www.slgcomic.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slave Labor Graphics\u003c/a>, set out to do something heroic for the little guy. He founded the \u003ca href=\"http://www.alternativepressexpo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alternative Press Expo\u003c/a> (APE) in San Jose, a comic art fair connecting the indie publishers of comics, graphic novels and zines with the people who appreciate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to send a message that just because you may be a small publisher without a lot of funding doesn’t mean you aren’t serious about your business,” says Vado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that pre-internet time, self-produced comics were rarely seen at the large-scale comics conventions that came with hefty exhibitors fees. Vado wanted to provided a different kind of platform for these artist storytellers; he envisioned a fair without curatorial limitations .\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10977034\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 510px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10977034\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/JhonenVasquezJHM.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.\" width=\"510\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/JhonenVasquezJHM.jpg 574w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/JhonenVasquezJHM-400x502.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/JhonenVasquezJHM-478x600.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Jhonen Vasquez and SLG Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Immediately after APE began, Vado realized the expo would require financial support to grow. Vado’s personal funds were already allocated towards his own publishing company, so he amicably handed the event (and corresponding financial liability) over to \u003ca href=\"http://www.comic-con.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comic-Con\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vado continued to help produce the expo for the next four years, until Comic-Con moved it to San Francisco. Fifteen years of successful growth later, when given the opportunity to “take APE back,” Vado agreed to grab the reins once more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend, APE returns to the South Bay, where Vado hopes to make the event self-sustainable and increasingly relevant for the digital age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“APE has an opportunity to be a bigger deal here in San Jose than it ever was in San Francisco because there’s so much happening all at once up there and it’s too expensive,” says Vado. “APE coming to San Jose is almost a parable for what’s going on in San Francisco with the artists being pushed out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10977036\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 416px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10977036\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Jason-Shiga_demon.jpg\" alt=\"Demon by Jason Shiga\" width=\"416\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Jason-Shiga_demon.jpg 468w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Jason-Shiga_demon-400x615.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Jason-Shiga_demon-390x600.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demon by Jason Shiga \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alternative Press Expo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The question now is: \u003cem>What is APE an alternative to?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vado is quick to respond: “Perhaps it’s an alternative to \u003cem>insincerity\u003c/em>. I like to think that everyone that’s there is committed to their work on a personal level, regardless of where it’s coming from or if they’re being published by someone bigger… If you’re into working with us, we’re here to back you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His philosophy pays off. Over \u003ca href=\"http://www.alternativepressexpo.com/#!exhibitors/c1icp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">250 vendors\u003c/a> have booked space at the expo, making this year’s event a full house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vado has already made some subtle but significant changes to the event. Each vendor will have a 10 by 10-foot booth rather than the typical 6-foot table, allowing them to be more creative with the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time ever, educators, librarians and retailers can sign up for free entry and attend professional development workshops on how comics and graphic novels can be utilized in the classroom. Vado also set up \u003ca href=\"http://www.alternativepressexpo.com/?gclid=COT5tffTkMgCFQaNaQodm34E8w#!guests/cee5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">panel discussions\u003c/a> at local businesses outside the San Jose Convention Center so people can explore local arts and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10977038\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 427px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10977038\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/ShoMurase_RedRiding_Sho.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/ShoMurase_RedRiding_Sho.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/ShoMurase_RedRiding_Sho-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration by Sho Murase \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alternative Press Expo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>APE’s continued existence may be due in part to our craving for the tangible in a digital age. A web comic scrolling across a screen doesn’t provide the same satisfaction as a cliffhanger at the bottom of a page — and the split second of anticipation you experience as you turn that page to find out what happens next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>APE also allows people to get together in real spaces around shared interests. Watching an artist talk at you on YouTube is far less memorable than speaking with an artist in person about their story inspirations while they autograph your book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vado aims for APE to be a platform for people who want a physical representation of their work, and an immersive experience for the audience. “When you put people in a group environment, you put civility back into the experience. 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And most kids, if they’re lucky, have made it through the tumultuous transitions wrought by puberty, with a new body and altered, hormonal brain in tow. Still, you are nowhere near — at least this is how it feels when you’re deep in the muck — to finishing high school and entering the adult world. \u003cem>Dryland\u003c/em>, the debut novel from Sara Jaffe, a fiction writer and musician who lives in Portland, fully captures that adolescent irritation, and the strange sensation of floating above your own teenage life. The novel is a seamless, dreamy, gray ride through a few months in the life of Julie Winter, a high school sophomore who lives in the Pacific Northwest (probably Portland, though that’s never explicitly stated) who is on a semi-sleepwalking journey between childhood and young adulthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie lives in a suburban, unchallenged home environment with her mother and fa\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/dryland.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10984224 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/dryland.jpg\" alt=\"dryland\" width=\"180\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>ther. Her brother, a former high school swimming champion with Olympic aspirations and a secret, has disappeared. Maybe to San Diego. Maybe to Berlin. His once-a-year phone calls reveal nothing much about his current life. It’s the early 1990s, and Julie spends Saturdays at the River Market, scoping Guatemalan bags and contemplating clove cigarettes with her best and oldest friend Ericka. To Julie, Ericka has become almost alien in her lust for skater boys and dreams of ascending out of the yearbook captioning ghetto and into greater high school fame. When Julie embarks on a reluctant friendship with Ben, an old friend of her brother’s, she uncovers an entry point into another way of living, not to mention the rock band My Bloody Valentine’s 1991 album \u003cem>Loveless\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, \u003cem>Dryland\u003c/em> is more a novel of feeling than plot. While grounded in quotidian life in a way reminiscent of Haruki Murakami’s style — think lots of coffee drinking and descriptions of chicken dinners — the book somehow floats above everything. It gives the sensation of being of the earth, water, and sky all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Julie decides to become a swimmer herself to mixed success, the book’s prose really hits the sweet spot. My favorite moment arrives when Julie dives into the pool at her first swimming practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“My body sailed. It flew. To call what was happening swimming would be to render mechanical what felt, in the feeling – the being – of it, like sugar, like a dream. The floor of the pool was toothpaste blue and my shadow was that cool, fast color. My body sailed. My first head-lift to take a breath, already halfway down the lane. Breathe and duck and back under, smooth, there could have been nobody else in the pool. The pool could have been surrounded by everyone – Alexis, Coach – watching me shuttle, sail, unaware with their watching. Something brushed the bottom of my foot and I shoot it off and thought of seaweed, as if I were not only weightless but poolless, as if what I’d felt was the touch of the chorusing flotsam that surrounded and supported me.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Later, when Julie realizes, sort of, that she has a crush on the girls’ swim team captain Alexis, Jaffe treats a potential “coming out” story with a light, deft hand, never explicitly stating that Julie has suddenly realized she is gay. It’s all in the moment, just as it is in real life: little moments adding up to a life lived. There aren’t any grand realizations or declarations of love. That writerly choice by Jaffe ends up being as satisfying as any dramatic arc of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara Jaffe \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/radar-queer-reading-series-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appears \u003c/a>at the RADAR queer reading series on Oct. 14 at 6pm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Lori Ostlund Does \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Litquake\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/loriostlund-e1443471613300.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10984140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/loriostlund-e1443471613300.jpg\" alt=\"loriostlund\" width=\"105\" height=\"158\">\u003c/a>Lori Ostlund is a fiction writer and teacher who lives in San Francisco. Her first collection of stories, \u003cem>The Bigness of the World\u003c/em>, received the Flannery O’Connor \u003cem>Award for Short Fiction\u003c/em>, \u003cem>the California Book Award for First Fiction,\u003c/em> and the \u003cem>Edmund White Debut Fiction Award.\u003c/em> Her new novel \u003cem>After the Parade\u003c/em>, out Sept. 21, received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist. \u003cem>Publishers Weekly has called her prose “smart, resonant, and imbued with beauty.” \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My approach to Litquake is to balance new (to me) voices with the known. I’m a fan of \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/barely-published-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barely Published\u003c/a>, which introduces emerging local writers and is curated by James Warner, a great supporter of other writers. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/mfa-mixer-20-litquake-edition-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MFA Mixer\u003c/a>, Castro Reading, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/826-valencia-student-reading-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">826 Valencia Student Reading \u003c/a>at LitCrawl on Oct. 17 all look appealing. In the known camp are \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/original-shorts-love-hate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Original Shorts: Love-Hate\u003c/a>, offering four writers whose work I already know and admire—Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Jason Friedman, Molly Giles, and Ethel Rohan—and two more whose work I am open to knowing and admiring. Then there’s the \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/come-down-yall-press-53-reading-bay-area-authors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press 53 Reading\u003c/a> (LitCrawl). Press 53, a wonderful, North Carolina-based press, has a strong stable of writers in the Bay Area, including some favorites: Meg Pokrass, Grant Faulkner, and Jane Ciabattari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am especially interested in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/writing-cultural-identity-chinelo-okparanta-and-vu-tran-conversation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conversation\u003c/a> between Chinelo Okparanta (\u003cem>Under the Udala Trees\u003c/em>) and Vu Tran (\u003cem>Dragonfish\u003c/em>) because I keep hearing great things about their recently released novels.\u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/new-voices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> New Voices\u003c/a> includes Angela Pneuman, who had a terrific story in the \u003cem>2012 Best American Short Stories\u003c/em> and Val Brelinski, with her intriguingly entitled \u003cem>The Girl Who Slept with God\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/let%E2%80%99s-get-uncomfortable-and-talk-about-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let’s Get Uncomfortable and Talk about Race \u003c/a>has the double appeal of best Litquake title and a wonderful moderator, \u003cem>ZYZZYVA\u003c/em>’s Oscar Villalon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything is better with poetry and with wine, so I’m delighted to see these two brought together in \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/flight-poets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flight of Poets\u003c/a> on Oct. 16. I have a reading that night, but wish that I could be there to hear Indigo Moor’s poetry again and taste the wine that the sommelier pairs with it. Finally, I’m intrigued by \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/bay-area-poets-picking-poets-reading-and-discussion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Poets Picking Poets\u003c/a> on Oct. 11 because it includes Dean Rader, who is always funny and writes poetry that perfectly balances the cerebral and emotional, and because of the concept — a lineup created by one poet tagging the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More Litquake Picks from \u003cem>The Spine\u003c/em> \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so much to choose from, it’s hard to narrow down the best events at this year’s festival to only a handful. Litquake’s opening night on Oct. 9 offers a fun celebration of “famous and unhinged” 1800s-era San Francisco that includes\u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/devil%E2%80%99s-acre-litquake%E2%80%99s-opening-night-celebrates-19th-century-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> sea shanties \u003c/a>performed by singers from the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. On Oct. 10 at Z Below, Heidi Julavits and Vendela Vida, founding editors of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.believermag.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Believer\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/literary-partnership-vendela-vida-and-heidi-julavits-conversation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discuss \u003c/a>their recent books, collaborations among female friends, and their experiences as editors. San Rafael offers its own day-long version of Litquake on Oct. 11. Check the \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/event-series/litquake-san-rafael\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event site\u003c/a> for a list of the readings. Chris Abani’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/conjoined-twins-and-reflections-humanity-chris-abani-conversation-sarah-ladipo-manyika\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conversation\u003c/a> with Sarah Ladipo Manyika about race, culture and identity promises to be fascinating. On that same night, two Pulitzer Prize winners, including San Francisco’s Adam Johnson, will talk \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/bridge-between-fiction-and-non-adam-johnson-and-tj-stiles-conversation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about\u003c/a>, among other things, uh . . . the Pulitzer Prize. On Oct. 14, Ruben Martinez and Alia Volz are part of a roster of writers appearing at \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/no-burritos-night-huizache-magazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No Burritos\u003c/a> sponsored by \u003ca href=\"http://huizachemag.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>Huizache\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, a magazine of Latino literature out of Centrovictoria at the University of Houston. On Oct. 16, San Francisco poet laureate Alejandro Murguia, along with Penelope Houston and others, celebrate the 24th Street corridor/Calle 24 otherwise known as “Bookstore Row” because of the concentration of bookstores: Adobe Books, Alley Cat Books, and the Modern Times Bookstore Collective. For a complete list of Litquake 2015 events, go \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/event-series/litquake-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/the-spine/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Spine\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a new book column covering the literary scene of the Bay Area in reviews, interviews, guides, event previews and more. Guiding us is award-winning writer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/author/lclark/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leilani Clark\u003c/a>, who’s contributed to Mother Jones, Civil Eats, Time Magazine, the Rumpus and the North Bay Bohemian, in addition to KQED. Running biweekly, \u003c/em>The Spine\u003cem> is your smart check-in on what’s happening in the region’s book world.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Review: \u003cem>Dryland\u003c/em> by Sara Jaffe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sophomore year is a strange time in the life. You aren’t a newbie to high school. And most kids, if they’re lucky, have made it through the tumultuous transitions wrought by puberty, with a new body and altered, hormonal brain in tow. Still, you are nowhere near — at least this is how it feels when you’re deep in the muck — to finishing high school and entering the adult world. \u003cem>Dryland\u003c/em>, the debut novel from Sara Jaffe, a fiction writer and musician who lives in Portland, fully captures that adolescent irritation, and the strange sensation of floating above your own teenage life. The novel is a seamless, dreamy, gray ride through a few months in the life of Julie Winter, a high school sophomore who lives in the Pacific Northwest (probably Portland, though that’s never explicitly stated) who is on a semi-sleepwalking journey between childhood and young adulthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie lives in a suburban, unchallenged home environment with her mother and fa\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/dryland.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10984224 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/dryland.jpg\" alt=\"dryland\" width=\"180\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>ther. Her brother, a former high school swimming champion with Olympic aspirations and a secret, has disappeared. Maybe to San Diego. Maybe to Berlin. His once-a-year phone calls reveal nothing much about his current life. It’s the early 1990s, and Julie spends Saturdays at the River Market, scoping Guatemalan bags and contemplating clove cigarettes with her best and oldest friend Ericka. To Julie, Ericka has become almost alien in her lust for skater boys and dreams of ascending out of the yearbook captioning ghetto and into greater high school fame. When Julie embarks on a reluctant friendship with Ben, an old friend of her brother’s, she uncovers an entry point into another way of living, not to mention the rock band My Bloody Valentine’s 1991 album \u003cem>Loveless\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, \u003cem>Dryland\u003c/em> is more a novel of feeling than plot. While grounded in quotidian life in a way reminiscent of Haruki Murakami’s style — think lots of coffee drinking and descriptions of chicken dinners — the book somehow floats above everything. It gives the sensation of being of the earth, water, and sky all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Julie decides to become a swimmer herself to mixed success, the book’s prose really hits the sweet spot. My favorite moment arrives when Julie dives into the pool at her first swimming practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“My body sailed. It flew. To call what was happening swimming would be to render mechanical what felt, in the feeling – the being – of it, like sugar, like a dream. The floor of the pool was toothpaste blue and my shadow was that cool, fast color. My body sailed. My first head-lift to take a breath, already halfway down the lane. Breathe and duck and back under, smooth, there could have been nobody else in the pool. The pool could have been surrounded by everyone – Alexis, Coach – watching me shuttle, sail, unaware with their watching. Something brushed the bottom of my foot and I shoot it off and thought of seaweed, as if I were not only weightless but poolless, as if what I’d felt was the touch of the chorusing flotsam that surrounded and supported me.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Later, when Julie realizes, sort of, that she has a crush on the girls’ swim team captain Alexis, Jaffe treats a potential “coming out” story with a light, deft hand, never explicitly stating that Julie has suddenly realized she is gay. It’s all in the moment, just as it is in real life: little moments adding up to a life lived. There aren’t any grand realizations or declarations of love. That writerly choice by Jaffe ends up being as satisfying as any dramatic arc of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara Jaffe \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/radar-queer-reading-series-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appears \u003c/a>at the RADAR queer reading series on Oct. 14 at 6pm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Lori Ostlund Does \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Litquake\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/loriostlund-e1443471613300.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10984140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/loriostlund-e1443471613300.jpg\" alt=\"loriostlund\" width=\"105\" height=\"158\">\u003c/a>Lori Ostlund is a fiction writer and teacher who lives in San Francisco. Her first collection of stories, \u003cem>The Bigness of the World\u003c/em>, received the Flannery O’Connor \u003cem>Award for Short Fiction\u003c/em>, \u003cem>the California Book Award for First Fiction,\u003c/em> and the \u003cem>Edmund White Debut Fiction Award.\u003c/em> Her new novel \u003cem>After the Parade\u003c/em>, out Sept. 21, received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist. \u003cem>Publishers Weekly has called her prose “smart, resonant, and imbued with beauty.” \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My approach to Litquake is to balance new (to me) voices with the known. I’m a fan of \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/barely-published-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barely Published\u003c/a>, which introduces emerging local writers and is curated by James Warner, a great supporter of other writers. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/mfa-mixer-20-litquake-edition-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MFA Mixer\u003c/a>, Castro Reading, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/826-valencia-student-reading-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">826 Valencia Student Reading \u003c/a>at LitCrawl on Oct. 17 all look appealing. In the known camp are \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/original-shorts-love-hate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Original Shorts: Love-Hate\u003c/a>, offering four writers whose work I already know and admire—Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Jason Friedman, Molly Giles, and Ethel Rohan—and two more whose work I am open to knowing and admiring. Then there’s the \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/come-down-yall-press-53-reading-bay-area-authors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press 53 Reading\u003c/a> (LitCrawl). Press 53, a wonderful, North Carolina-based press, has a strong stable of writers in the Bay Area, including some favorites: Meg Pokrass, Grant Faulkner, and Jane Ciabattari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am especially interested in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/writing-cultural-identity-chinelo-okparanta-and-vu-tran-conversation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conversation\u003c/a> between Chinelo Okparanta (\u003cem>Under the Udala Trees\u003c/em>) and Vu Tran (\u003cem>Dragonfish\u003c/em>) because I keep hearing great things about their recently released novels.\u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/new-voices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> New Voices\u003c/a> includes Angela Pneuman, who had a terrific story in the \u003cem>2012 Best American Short Stories\u003c/em> and Val Brelinski, with her intriguingly entitled \u003cem>The Girl Who Slept with God\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/let%E2%80%99s-get-uncomfortable-and-talk-about-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let’s Get Uncomfortable and Talk about Race \u003c/a>has the double appeal of best Litquake title and a wonderful moderator, \u003cem>ZYZZYVA\u003c/em>’s Oscar Villalon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything is better with poetry and with wine, so I’m delighted to see these two brought together in \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/flight-poets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flight of Poets\u003c/a> on Oct. 16. I have a reading that night, but wish that I could be there to hear Indigo Moor’s poetry again and taste the wine that the sommelier pairs with it. Finally, I’m intrigued by \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/bay-area-poets-picking-poets-reading-and-discussion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Poets Picking Poets\u003c/a> on Oct. 11 because it includes Dean Rader, who is always funny and writes poetry that perfectly balances the cerebral and emotional, and because of the concept — a lineup created by one poet tagging the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More Litquake Picks from \u003cem>The Spine\u003c/em> \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/the-spine/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Spine\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a new book column covering the literary scene of the Bay Area in reviews, interviews, guides, event previews and more. Guiding us is award-winning writer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/author/lclark/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leilani Clark\u003c/a>, who’s contributed to Mother Jones, Civil Eats, Time Magazine, the Rumpus and the North Bay Bohemian, in addition to KQED. Running biweekly, \u003c/em>The Spine\u003cem> is your smart check-in on what’s happening in the region’s book world.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10905230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Review: ‘Better Than War’ by Siamak Vossoughi\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the title story from Siamak Vossoughi’s debut story collection, the narrator intones to an Iranian-American teenager who’s come to him for dating advice: “You’re going to have to be better than war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Love, psychic and geographical distance, spirituality, and the different ways of navigating the experience of immigrating from Iran to America are the varied forcefields that surround the characters in \u003cem>Better Than War\u003c/em>. It’s a promising debut from San Francisco-based Vossoughi, filled with quiet and deep undercurrents about the basic goodness of people, the immutability of love, and the power of learning to create your own narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stories in \u003cem>Better Than War\u003c/em> — published this month by University of Georgia Press as winner of the\u003ca href=\"http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/series/FOC\"> Flannery O’ Connor Award for Short Fiction\u003c/a> — are told by a series of erudite, heady narrators, the type that would likely trip on a crack in the sidewalk from staring at clouds, or at the very interesting man sitting at the bus stop across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vossoughi was born in Tehran, and many of the stories are embroidered with threads of the Iranian-American experience. 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While the mother cries at the thought of her daughter watching her sweep up other people’s hair in a salon, and goes mute at the dinner table for about a week, she ultimately entertains her family once again — like the passionate storyteller that she is, like the former teacher self she holds in such high esteem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Vossoughi’s writing veers towards the philosophical, with narrative structures influenced by the best of Russian literature, there are no murders of old women here, or suicides by train. On a whole, a sense of common humanity ties the book together, a sense that everyone is part of something one and the same. Strangers meet strangers and instead of feeling animosity, they embrace each other, include each other in their performances. At a bar, a man offers to fly another man to New York to see his faraway love, but only if the Giants win a particularly hopeless game. The Giants lose, and the man doesn’t end up going to New York, but everyone, at least, goes home with a sense of having connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sentiment best encapsulated by a moment from “The World is My Home,” where a young German woman takes in two young Iranian men traveling through Dresden, treating them like her own family for the entirety of their stay. After the girl confesses her dreams of a life spent gardening, reading and visiting her grandmother, the narrator muses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sometimes the world felt too big to be his home. If there were girls wondering and dreaming like that in Germany, then they were doing so everywhere. He couldn’t sit and listen to all of them. Even when he sat and listened to one of them, the world was just barely his home. It was the infinite depth of one person, more than miles they had traveled or distances between cultures — that was the greatest obstacle to the world being his home. 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The Bay Area — gateway to the Pacific Rim and perched on the edge of America — continues to offer much inspiration and exploration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you transition from journalism into fiction writing? Or have you always done both concurrently?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Stanford, I majored in English with an emphasis in creative writing, joined the school newspaper, and interned at newspapers and magazines. After graduating, I focused on journalism for a few years, and was a staff writer at the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> when I began taking evening fiction workshops. I wrote fiction before work, on weekends, and at lunch. Eventually, I left daily news to earn my MFA at UC Riverside. These days, my focus is fiction, but I regularly freelance essays and features. I’ll spend months working on a short story, years on a novel, and I deeply enjoy the quicker turnaround of journalism. 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More vividly than ever, I can imagine the generational and cultural conflicts of my characters, the clash between self and society, tradition and change. In my novel-in-progress, a Chinese factory clerk travels to America to deliver her baby, giving the child U.S. citizenship. After her married lover betrays her, she flees, setting off a hunt for her and the baby. The novel chronicles the lives of Chinese immigrants and the American-born who straddle the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What will the Rona Jaffe Foundation award enable you to do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This generous grant will allow me to pay for more childcare and scale back my freelance work while I complete my novel. Half of this year’s six winners cited childcare as an expense that the grant will cover. I’ve had many conversations with writers who are mothers of small children, about our ongoing struggle to carve out time and space. 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The seed of my novel was published in \u003ca href=\"http://www.zyzzyva.org/\">ZYZZYVA\u003c/a>, a Bay Area literary institution, and I’ve attended local creative writing conferences at Squaw Valley, Napa Valley, and Voices of our Nation (before its move to Miami.) The support of the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award and the Steinbeck Fellowship at San Jose State has been vital to this project. I also work and teach at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgrotto.org/\"> San Francisco Writers’ Grotto,\u003c/a> a wonderful group of writers, journalists, and poets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What books, articles, or other publications have inspired you lately?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laila Lalami’s \u003cem>The Moor’s Account\u003c/em>, which artfully fills in the gaps in history, bringing to life the first Arab explorer in America. Julia Scheeres’ chilling \u003ca href=\"http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/children-of-the-tribes\">exposé\u003c/a> about a religious cult in \u003cem>Pacific Standard\u003c/em> magazine. Jennine Capó Crucet’s \u003cem>Make Your Home Among Strangers\u003c/em>, a poignant and funny debut novel about a first-generation Cuban American college student. Roxane Gay’s \u003cem>Bad Feminist\u003c/em>, an entertaining and thought-provoking collection of essays. Mia Alvar’s \u003cem>In The Country\u003c/em>, haunting short stories about the Filipino diaspora. For research related to magazine assignments, I’ve been reading oral histories collected by UC Berkeley and Voices of the Manhattan Project that provide an illuminating look at America during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not-to-Miss Author Events: Sept. 16 – 30\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10951548 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round.png\" alt=\"Alcott-headshot-round\" width=\"195\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round.png 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petaluma-raised Brooklynite \u003cstrong>Kathleen Alcott\u003c/strong> is the special guest at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/oakland-celebration-fall-issue-zyzzyva\"> release party\u003c/a> for ZYZZYVA’s fall issue at Diesel Bookstore in Oakland. Other readers include Mauro Javier Cardenas, Molly Spencer and San Francisco Chronicle columnist Caille Millner… \u003cstrong>Elizabeth Egan\u003c/strong>‘s debut novel \u003cem>A Window Opens\u003c/em> is a compulsively readable glimpse into the life of a middle-class mom who leaves her part-time book editor position at a women’s magazine to work at a creepily sadistic and monolithic online company that bears a striking resemblance to Amazon. Egan \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookpassage.com/event/elisabeth-egan-window-opens\">appears \u003c/a>at Book Passage on Sept. 22… If you haven’t read \u003cstrong>Ann Beattie\u003c/strong> yet, get thee to a bookstore! And why not make it Kepler’s, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2082373\">celebrates\u003c/a> its 60th (!) anniversary this month, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1818023\">hosts\u003c/a> the prize-winning short story writer in conversation with Nick Taylor on Sept. 23… On Sept. 24, Aunte Lute Books \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1019792008051619/\">presents\u003c/a> ‘Our Indigenous Flesh,’ a reading with \u003cstrong>LeAnne Howe\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Ire’ne Lara Silva\u003c/strong>. The two writers will read from their newest books, followed by a discussion of indigenous literature, indigenous queerness, and the ‘mystique of women of color writers’… \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/GROFFBK.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10951546\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/GROFFBK.jpg\" alt=\"GROFFBK\" width=\"273\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/GROFFBK.jpg 504w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/GROFFBK-400x298.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\">\u003c/a>That same night, legendary short story writer Joy Williams\u003ca href=\"http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-joy-williams\"> appears\u003c/a> at Green Apple Books’ Ninth Avenue store to celebrate the release of \u003cem>The Visiting Privilege\u003c/em>, a story collection spanning her entire career… And finally, \u003cstrong>Lauren Groff\u003c/strong>‘s latest ambitious novel \u003cem>Fates and Furies\u003c/em> has received accolades \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/books/review/lauren-groffs-fates-and-furies.html?em_pos=large&emc=edit_bk_20150911&nl=books&nlid=61911809&_r=0\">left\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/lauren-groff/fates-and-furies/\">right\u003c/a>. The \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> recently called her — rightfully so — “a writer of rare gifts.” Groff \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/lauren-groff-fates-and-furies\">reads \u003c/a>at Bookshop Santa Cruz on Sept. 27.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/the-spine/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Spine\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a new book column covering the literary scene of the Bay Area in reviews, interviews, guides, event previews and more. Guiding us is award-winning writer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/author/lclark/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leilani Clark\u003c/a>, who’s contributed to Mother Jones, Civil Eats, Time Magazine, the Rumpus and the North Bay Bohemian, in addition to KQED. Running biweekly, \u003c/em>The Spine\u003cem> is your smart check-in on what’s happening in the region’s book world.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10905230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Review: ‘Better Than War’ by Siamak Vossoughi\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the title story from Siamak Vossoughi’s debut story collection, the narrator intones to an Iranian-American teenager who’s come to him for dating advice: “You’re going to have to be better than war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Love, psychic and geographical distance, spirituality, and the different ways of navigating the experience of immigrating from Iran to America are the varied forcefields that surround the characters in \u003cem>Better Than War\u003c/em>. It’s a promising debut from San Francisco-based Vossoughi, filled with quiet and deep undercurrents about the basic goodness of people, the immutability of love, and the power of learning to create your own narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stories in \u003cem>Better Than War\u003c/em> — published this month by University of Georgia Press as winner of the\u003ca href=\"http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/series/FOC\"> Flannery O’ Connor Award for Short Fiction\u003c/a> — are told by a series of erudite, heady narrators, the type that would likely trip on a crack in the sidewalk from staring at clouds, or at the very interesting man sitting at the bus stop across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vossoughi was born in Tehran, and many of the stories are embroidered with threads of the Iranian-American experience. In “Take Our Daughter to Work Day,” the narrator, a former teacher in Iran, doesn’t want to bring her daughter to the hair salon in the U.S. where she now works. She wants her daughter to see the mother who lived and worked in Iran, where she believes she left her true self.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>And she thought of how her daughter would never see her where she had been most herself, where she could move with so much certainty, where she knew the ins and outs of everything — the city itself and the school and relationships and family life. She would never see her walk with the city as her background as though it was hers alone, having earned it, having earned it from another day of aiming to be exactly who she wanted to be.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yet despite its glum theme, this story, like many of the stories in \u003cem>Better Than War\u003c/em>, ends on a note of optimism. While the mother cries at the thought of her daughter watching her sweep up other people’s hair in a salon, and goes mute at the dinner table for about a week, she ultimately entertains her family once again — like the passionate storyteller that she is, like the former teacher self she holds in such high esteem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Vossoughi’s writing veers towards the philosophical, with narrative structures influenced by the best of Russian literature, there are no murders of old women here, or suicides by train. On a whole, a sense of common humanity ties the book together, a sense that everyone is part of something one and the same. Strangers meet strangers and instead of feeling animosity, they embrace each other, include each other in their performances. At a bar, a man offers to fly another man to New York to see his faraway love, but only if the Giants win a particularly hopeless game. The Giants lose, and the man doesn’t end up going to New York, but everyone, at least, goes home with a sense of having connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sentiment best encapsulated by a moment from “The World is My Home,” where a young German woman takes in two young Iranian men traveling through Dresden, treating them like her own family for the entirety of their stay. After the girl confesses her dreams of a life spent gardening, reading and visiting her grandmother, the narrator muses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sometimes the world felt too big to be his home. If there were girls wondering and dreaming like that in Germany, then they were doing so everywhere. He couldn’t sit and listen to all of them. Even when he sat and listened to one of them, the world was just barely his home. It was the infinite depth of one person, more than miles they had traveled or distances between cultures — that was the greatest obstacle to the world being his home. Yet somehow it was the greatest opportunity too.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q&A with Vanessa Hua \u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Vanessa-Hua-e1441996241905.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10951532 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Vanessa-Hua-e1441996241905.jpg\" alt=\"Vanessa Hua\" width=\"277\" height=\"231\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vanessa Hua, an Orinda-based freelance journalist and novelist, was announced this month as winner of a prestigious 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://ronajaffefoundation.org/\">Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\u003c/a>. Her work has appeared in the \u003c/em>New York Times\u003cem>, \u003c/em>The Atlantic\u003cem>, Guernica, and elsewhere. Previously, she was a staff writer at the \u003c/em>San Francisco Chronicle\u003cem>, the \u003c/em>Los Angeles Times\u003cem>, and the \u003c/em>Hartford Courant\u003cem>. She was a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing and a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award for Fiction. She reads from her latest work on Sept. 20 at the California Institute of Integral Studies as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/hazelreadingseries\">Hazel Reading Series\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can you talk a bit about your writing background, specifically as it connects to the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I grew up in the suburbs east of San Francisco, and have been writing stories since I was a child. The Bay Area — gateway to the Pacific Rim and perched on the edge of America — continues to offer much inspiration and exploration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you transition from journalism into fiction writing? Or have you always done both concurrently?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Stanford, I majored in English with an emphasis in creative writing, joined the school newspaper, and interned at newspapers and magazines. After graduating, I focused on journalism for a few years, and was a staff writer at the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> when I began taking evening fiction workshops. I wrote fiction before work, on weekends, and at lunch. Eventually, I left daily news to earn my MFA at UC Riverside. These days, my focus is fiction, but I regularly freelance essays and features. I’ll spend months working on a short story, years on a novel, and I deeply enjoy the quicker turnaround of journalism. I cherish the opportunity to satisfy my curiosity, interview fascinating sources, and to shine a light on untold stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What role does Asia and the diaspora play in your writing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the daughter of Chinese immigrants, I have long been fascinated by the complicated relationship people hold with their ancestral and adopted homelands. My fiction builds upon my years of reporting about Asia and the diaspora. I have rolled dice with factory girls in China, dined with a teenage prostitute in Burma, and flown kites with Chinese diplomats in Panama. I tailed guerilla reporters in South Korea, chatted with rebellious kitchen ladies at a dim sum palace in San Francisco, and investigated a Chinese-American fundraiser for campaign finance violations, which led to the resignation of the California Secretary of State. Motherhood has also opened my heart and my writing in ways I didn’t foresee before having my twins. More vividly than ever, I can imagine the generational and cultural conflicts of my characters, the clash between self and society, tradition and change. In my novel-in-progress, a Chinese factory clerk travels to America to deliver her baby, giving the child U.S. citizenship. After her married lover betrays her, she flees, setting off a hunt for her and the baby. The novel chronicles the lives of Chinese immigrants and the American-born who straddle the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What will the Rona Jaffe Foundation award enable you to do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This generous grant will allow me to pay for more childcare and scale back my freelance work while I complete my novel. Half of this year’s six winners cited childcare as an expense that the grant will cover. I’ve had many conversations with writers who are mothers of small children, about our ongoing struggle to carve out time and space. I’m extremely grateful to the Rona Jaffe Foundation and am humbled and honored to be counted among past winners who include luminaries such as ZZ Packer, Eula Bliss, Rachel Aviv, and Lan Samantha Chang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you love best about being a writer in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love the Bay Area’s amazing community of writers, who are supportive and whose compelling work inspires me every day. I am fortunate to have trusted friends with whom I trade manuscripts, tips, and advice. We commiserate and celebrate successes. I’ve had the pleasure of taking part in reading series such as \u003ca href=\"http://writerswithdrinks.com/\">Writers With Drinks\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.babylonsalon.com/#!\">Babylon Salon\u003c/a>, and events such as LitQuake and the Oakland Book Festival. The seed of my novel was published in \u003ca href=\"http://www.zyzzyva.org/\">ZYZZYVA\u003c/a>, a Bay Area literary institution, and I’ve attended local creative writing conferences at Squaw Valley, Napa Valley, and Voices of our Nation (before its move to Miami.) The support of the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award and the Steinbeck Fellowship at San Jose State has been vital to this project. I also work and teach at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgrotto.org/\"> San Francisco Writers’ Grotto,\u003c/a> a wonderful group of writers, journalists, and poets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What books, articles, or other publications have inspired you lately?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laila Lalami’s \u003cem>The Moor’s Account\u003c/em>, which artfully fills in the gaps in history, bringing to life the first Arab explorer in America. Julia Scheeres’ chilling \u003ca href=\"http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/children-of-the-tribes\">exposé\u003c/a> about a religious cult in \u003cem>Pacific Standard\u003c/em> magazine. Jennine Capó Crucet’s \u003cem>Make Your Home Among Strangers\u003c/em>, a poignant and funny debut novel about a first-generation Cuban American college student. Roxane Gay’s \u003cem>Bad Feminist\u003c/em>, an entertaining and thought-provoking collection of essays. Mia Alvar’s \u003cem>In The Country\u003c/em>, haunting short stories about the Filipino diaspora. For research related to magazine assignments, I’ve been reading oral histories collected by UC Berkeley and Voices of the Manhattan Project that provide an illuminating look at America during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not-to-Miss Author Events: Sept. 16 – 30\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10951548 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round.png\" alt=\"Alcott-headshot-round\" width=\"195\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round.png 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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