Reminder: Stephen Beachey reads at The Booksmith @ Thu Apr 11, 2013 7:30pm - 8:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » Stephen Beachey reads at The Booksmith At The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, Thursday April 11 at 7:30 PM Stephen Beachy reads from and discusses SOME PHANTOM / NO TIME FLAT, two novellas now available in one volume. (Actually, they've always been available in one volume, insofar as they've been available.) The unrooted characters of these lyrical and haunting novellas find themselves in lives resembling a film, or several films, glimpsed in between fitful dreams. In Some Phantom, an unnamed woman arrives in a strange city, fleeing a violent incident in her past. As she explores the city, takes a job with disturbed children, and fears her old life catching up with her, she must decide whether her increasing paranoia is a form of madness or lucidity. A marriage of The Turn of the Screw and Carnival of Souls, Some Phantom poses questions about the line between madness and memory, between fantasy and abuse. These questions are further elaborated in No Time Flat -- a distorted reflection, an evil twin, the puzzle inside the puzzle. Wade is a dreaming boy living an isolated existence on the American plains. Between the silences of his elderly parents and the permutations of his own fantasy life, Wade's childhood becomes a kind of eternity. Haunted by mysterious strangers and by a shooting at his elementary school, he finally escapes into an adult life of aimless wandering. Through these desolate landscapes of fleeting connections, lost children, and unformulated crimes, a nuanced and unsparing vision of contemporary America begins to emerge. Stephen Beachy is the author of the novels The Whistling Song, Distortion and most recently boneyard, in collaboration with Jake Yoder, a disturbed Amish boy who may not actually exist. His fiction has appeared in BOMB, The Chicago Review, Best Gay American Fiction, Blithe House Quarterly, SHADE, and elsewhere. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, the anthology Love, Castro Street, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and a recipient of the James Michener Award. He is the Prose Editor of the journal Your Impossible Voice, which will debut in the fall of 2013, and he teaches in the University of San Francisco's MFA in Writing program Also reading this evening is Alvin Lu, the author of the novel The Hell Screens, about which The New York Times wrote "This devilish puzzle of a novel ... will appeal to anyone who loves the cat-and-mouse games of Nabokov, the playful elegance of Borges or the rarefied dreamscapes of Calvino." Lu's writing also appears in the anthologies San Francisco Noir and "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards": On the Work of Johan Grimonprez. When Thu Apr 11, 2013 7:30pm – 8:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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