Alysia Abbott reads Fairyland at City LightsAlysia Abbott Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 7:00 P.M., City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco CoSponsored by the GLBT Historical Society http://www.citylights.com/info/?fa=event&event_id=1764 Alysia Abbot in discussion with Gerard Koskovich, curator at the GLBT Historical Society discussing her new book Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father from W. W. Norton & Company Fairyland is a vibrant, poignant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and '80s San Francisco with an openly gay father. After his wife's death in 1973, poet and activist Steve Abbott comes out of the closet and moves with his three-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city bustling with gay men in search of liberation—few of whom have responsibility for a child. Steve throws himself into the city's vibrant poetry scene performing, publishing, and building a community—sharing it all with Alysia. But he struggles to make a stable home, working incessantly, falling for bad boyfriends, and constantly moving. Just when the two find happiness and Steve starts to get recognition for his work, the AIDS crisis hits. Steve, the once unlikely caregiver for his daughter, asks Alysia, at twenty-one, to care for him. Revisiting her father's journals and writings, Alysia Abbott gives us an unforgettable portrait of 1970s and '80s San Francisco as well as a moving account of a daughter's love and a father's legacy. Alysia Abbott's work has appeared in Real Simple, Salon, and Atlantic.com. She was a Nieman Affiliate at Harvard University and a contributing producer at WNYC radio. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children. Gerard Koskovich is a San Francisco–based editor, writer, historian, curator and rare book dealer and collector. His writing has appeared in the United States and Europe since the early 1980s. His entry on LGBT archives and libraries is published in LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclo- pedia (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2008). His publications also include a French-language portfolio on the GLBT Historical Society in Triangul'ère (Paris: Editions Christophe Gendron, December 2006), as well as "The 'Modest Collection' of Bud Flounders: How 5,400 Gay Novels Came to Green Library," in the fall 2005 issue of Imprint, the journal of the Associates of the Stanford University Libraries. for more info on the GLBT Historical Society visit http://www.glbthistory.org/
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Reminder: Alysia Abbott reads Fairyland at City Lights @ Wed Jun 19, 2013 7pm - 8pm (Queer Things)
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