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Gay Noir: The Return of Henry Rios, A conversation between Michael Nava and Kevin Killian
Saturday, January 7, 2016
3 p.m.
in the Hormel LGBTQIA Center
San Francisco Main Library - Third Floor
The Henry Rios mystery novels, featuring a gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer, were awarded six Lambda Literary awards and their author, Michael Nava, was acclaimed "one of our best" mystery writers by the New York Times and awarded the Bill Whitehead Award for Lif...
::: This event is ASL-interpreted :::
Gay Noir: The Return of Henry Rios, A conversation between Michael Nava and Kevin Killian
Saturday, January 7, 2016
3 p.m.
in the Hormel LGBTQIA Center
San Francisco Main Library - Third Floor
The Henry Rios mystery novels, featuring a gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer, were awarded six Lambda Literary awards and their author, Michael Nava, was acclaimed "one of our best" mystery writers by the New York Times and awarded the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in LGBT literature in 2001. To mark the publication by San Francisco-based Kórima Press Press of Lay Your Sleeping Head, Nava's revision of the first Rios novel, (The Little Death, Alyson 1986), Nava will be in conversation with the equally distinguished gay literary icon, Kevin Killian. Nava will discuss his decision to revise the Rios novels 30 years after the publication of the first book.
About the author:
Michael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of seven novels featuring gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios which won six Lambda Literary Awards. In 2000, he was awarded the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in LGBT literature. The New York Times review of the last Rios novel called him “one of our best.” His most recent novel, The City of Palaces, was published in 2014 by the University of Wisconsin Press. The City of Palaces was a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for best gay novel and was awarded the 2014 International Latino Literary Award for best novel. His new novel Lay Your Sleeping Head, a reimagining of the first Henry Rios novel published 30 years ago, will appear in fall 2016 from Kórima Press.
About Kevin Killian:
Kevin Killian, one of the original “New Narrative” writers, has written three novels, Shy (1989), Arctic Summer (1997), and Spreadeagle (2012), a book of memoirs, and three books of stories. He has also written three books of poetry, Argento Series (2001), Action Kylie (2008), and Tweaky Village (2014). With Peter Gizzi he has edited My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2008)—for Wesleyan University Press. Wesleyan also brought out Killian and Lew Ellingham’s acclaimed biography of Spicer in 1998.
For the San Francisco Poets Theater Killian has written forty-five plays, and the anthology he compiled with David Brazil—The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945-1985—has become the standard book on the subject. Recent projects include Tagged (2013), introduction by Rob Halpern, Killian’s intimate photographs of poets, artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers and intellectuals; and forthcoming, with Dodie Bellamy, The Nightboat Anthology of New Narrative Writing 1975-1995. Recently the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection at Yale University acquired Killian’s papers for their Ameircan literature collection. He teaches writing to MFA students at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
[Accessibility note: The ASL interpreters are Debby Kajiyama and Annie Dieckman. Printed excerpts to be read by the author will be available for those who would like to follow on the page as well. Questions can be directed to Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano by emailing him at publisher@korimapress.com]