Babylon Salon
presents a special online performance
Saturday, March 13, 2021
5pm PST / 8pm EST
featuring
(Unforgetting; #DignidadLiteraria)
"With the artistry of a poet and the intensity of a revolutionary, Lovato untangles the tightly knit skein of love and terror that connects El Salvador and the United States. This book is an eye-opener into a world Anglo-Americans have been taught is enemy territory.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
Roberto Lovato is the author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas (Harper Collins), a New York Times “Editor’s Choice” that the paper's Book Review hailed as a “powerful” nonfiction book and a “groundbreaking memoir.” Newsweek listed Lovato’s memoir as a “must read” 2020 book and the Los Angeles Times listed it as one of its 20 Best Books of 2020. Lovato is also an educator, journalist and writer based at The Writers Grotto in San Francisco, California.
As a Co-Founder of #DignidadLiteraria, he helped build a movement advocating for equity and literary justice for the more than 60 million Latinx persons left off of bookshelves in the United States and out of the national dialogue. A recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center, Lovato has reported on numerous issues—violence, terrorism, the drug war and the refugee crisis—from Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Haiti, France and the United States, among other countries.
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(Appleseed; A Tree or a Person or a Wall)
"Matt Bell's sentences are glorious: sinuous and darkly magical, they are taproots of the strange" -- Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
Matt Bell’s next novel, Appleseed, is forthcoming from Custom House in July 2021. His craft book Refuse to Be Done, a guide to novel writing, rewriting, and revision, will follow in early 2022 from Soho Press. He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur's Gate II, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Conjunctions, Fairy Tale Review, American Short Fiction, and many other publications. A native of Michigan, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.
His novel In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award and an Indies Choice Adult Book of the Year Honor Recipient, and was selected as the winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award, among other honors. Both In the House and Scrapper were selected by the Library of Michigan as Michigan Notable Books.
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(eightball; The Marco Chronicles)
"If Lucia Berlin is early Patti Smith, then Elizabeth Geoghegan is Blondie and Joan Jett and Florence and the Machine in one big literary sandwich" -- Susan Bradley Smith, The Postcult Heart
Elizabeth Geoghegan was born in New York, raised in the Midwest, and lives in Rome. She earned her MFA in Fiction from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and her MA in Creative Writing from The University of Colorado at Boulder where Lucia Berlin was her mentor. Geoghegan is the author of the story collection eightball, and the best-selling short memoir The Marco Chronicles. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, TIME, The Best Travel Writing, El Pais, Words Without Borders, BOMB, Poets & Writers, and elsewhere.
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"The Third Rainbow Girl is a haunting and hard-to-characterize book about restless women and the things that await them on the road." -- Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air
Emma Copley Eisenberg’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, Granta, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House, Guernica, The Washington Post Magazine, and others. Her first book of nonfiction is The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia which was a NYTimes notable book of 2020 and nominated for an Edgar Award. She lives in Philadelphia, where she co-directs Blue Stoop, a hub for the literary arts. Her next two books, a novel and a collection of short stories, are forthcoming from Hogarth (Penguin Random House).
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(On This Side of the World; Felix Starro)
"The Filipino immigrant story is one of courage, sacrifice, searching for identity, struggling to belong, and ultimately, redefining home—and come to think of it, isn’t that every person’s story?" -- Momar Visaya
Paulo K Tiról is a composer, lyricist and bookwriter of musical theatre from Manila, Philippines. He was in the 2019-'20 class of Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellows, and an artist-in-residence at Access Theater with director Noam Shapiro. His projects include music and lyrics for ON THIS SIDE OF THE WORLD (NAMT Festival 2020, Prospect Theater Co.’s IGNITE series, workshop production at Access Theater, all dir. Noam Shapiro); book, music and lyrics for CALLED (DGF Fellows showcase, dir. May Adrales); and orchestrations for Ma-Yi Theater Co.’s FELIX STARRO. His work has been presented at Joe's Pub, Barrington Stage, Prospect Theater Co.'s Musical Theater Lab, and more. Alongside his work in musical theatre, Paulo is also a composer of liturgical music, with work published by Oregon Catholic Press (OCP), and church music director working in New York City and Jersey City. Training: Ateneo de Manila University, Berklee College of Music, NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (full tuition scholarship), BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. He lives in Jersey City, NJ with his husband Jeremy. More at www.paulophonic.com.
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in partnership with our friends at
The Booksmith and The Bindery,
currently offering curbside pickup and in-person browsing
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Free Admission!