Launch party for local novelist JENNIFER TSENG’s The Passion of Woo & Isolde

Some may know JENNIFER TSENG’s story “The Words ‘Honey’ and ‘Moon'” from The Papercuts Anthology: Volume 1.  Join Papercuts JP for the launch party of The Passion of Woo & Isolde & Other Stories, TSENG’s newest chapbook and winner of Rose Metal Press’s 11th Annual Chapbook Contest judged by Amelia Gray.

The Passion of Woo & Isolde & Other Stories scintillates with the thrall of the unknown and the forbidden, the immigrant and the exile. In each of these twenty-four very short fictions, novelist and poet JENNIFER TSENG explores the limits and limitlessness of our ability to see.

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Kill the Ámpaya! The Best Latin American Baseball Fiction with DICK CLUSTER

Porter Square Books hosts DICK CLUSTER for a discussion of his collection of Latin American baseball fiction, Kill the Ámpaya!  This collection features work from authors Leonardo Padura, Sergio Ramirez, Alexis Rosa Gomez and many more from countries such as Cuba, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.

A rich variety of baseball fiction exists south of the Florida Straits and the Rio Grande, but almost none available in English. This collection translates for the first time stories ranging from the highly literary to the vernacular. These inventive and entertaining stories reveal the place of baseball in Latin America.

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KATHERINE VAZ and JOAN WICKERSHAM at Porter Square Books

Porter Square Books hosts authors KATHERINE VAZ and JOAN WICKERSHAM in conversation about VAZ’s collection of short stories: The Love Life of an Assistant Animator and Other Stories.

In VAZ’s new collection of short fiction, beauty is continually and painfully present in all places–in a Thanksgiving dinner assembled by a widowed DMV worker being stalked by an irate customer; in a middle-aged Hollywood actress who captivates a young studio animator for decades; in the aftermath of an unthinkable tragedy; and in a daughter’s memories of the ethereal, melting ice sculptures made by a woman embroiled in an affair with a wealthy lawyer.  Amid their complex, turbulent relationships in a chronic state of crisis, Vaz’s wise and restless protagonists carry within them the seeds of a vanished, gracious world of urbane dinner parties and passionate affairs–a humane and cultured civilization whose flawed inhabitants are redeemed by their ability to blend the aesthetic imperative with the power to love.

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The Love Life of an Assistant Animator is currently being sold at Porter Square Books.

If you cannot attend the event, you can still get a signed copy by purchasing the book online and mentioning in the comments section at checkout that you want it signed (or personalized).  This must be completed at least 24 prior to the event.