Thursday, March 19, 7:00  pm
ALOUD: Three Lives from LA:

Vanessa Place, Janet Sarbanes, Veronica Gonzalez

Three emerging women writers discuss  using nontraditional forms for an unconventional city, writing a polyvocal landscape  for a polyvocal world, publishing with an independent press, and why women write  LA better than anybody. The event is moderated by Brighde Mullins.

Veronica Gonzalez’s  fiction has been published or is forthcoming in many literary magazines and  anthologies, including Bomb, The Massachusetts Review and  Juncture: 25 Very Good Stories and 12 Excellent Drawings,  an innovative cross-genre anthology she co-edited for Soft Skull Press. twin  time: or, how death befell me, her first novel (Semiotext(e)), received  the 2008 Premio Aztlan Literary Award for fiction.

Vanessa Place is  a writer and lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is the author  of Dies: A Sentence, a 50,000-word, one-sentence  novella; the post-conceptual novel La Medusa,  and Notes on Conceptualisms, in collaboration  with appropriation poet Robert Fitterman. Her nonfiction book, The  Guilt Project: Rape and Morality will be published in 2010.

Janet Sarbanes is  the author of the short story collection Army of One.  She has also published articles on the role of aesthetic practice in utopian  and subcultural social formations, most recently in Popular Music and Society,  Afterall and Utopian Studies. An excerpt from her newly completed  novel, Wendy’s America: The Adventures of the President’s  Daughter, appeared in the summer 2008 issue of Black Clock.

Central Public Library
5th & Flower
Mark Taper Auditorium
Los Angeles, CA