New Fiction: Alan Cheuse on Paradise (or) Eat Your Face, Anthony C. Winkler on God Carlos and Paul Lisicky on Unbuilt Projects
Sunday, Nov. 18, 2:00 p.m., Room 8301 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Alan Cheuse
From Alan Cheuse comes Paradise, or, Eat Your Face: A Trio of Novellas (Santa Fe Writer’s Project, $15.00): a travel writer takes an exotic journey to Bali, a recent stroke victim enters into a politically incorrect love story, and an author grapples with art and life. Cheuse, National Public Radio’s longtime “voice of books,” is the author of five novels, four collections of short fiction, the memoir Fall Out of Heaven, and the collection of travel essays, A Trance After Breakfast.
Anthony Winkler
Anthony Winkler’s historical novel God Carlos (Akashic Books, $15.95) explores the Spanish brutality against native Indians in 16th-century Jamaica. Expecting to make landfall in paradise after over a month at sea, the crew of the Santa Inez instead find themselves in the middle of a timid, innocent people. The European newcomers do not find gold, only the merciless climate that fosters deadly diseases. "A tale of the frequently tragic--and also comic--clash of races and religions brought on by colonization . . .”—Shelf Awareness. Born in Jamaica, Winkler is the author of several novels, including The Painted Canoe, The Lunatic, Crocodile, Dog War, and his autobiography, Trust the Darkness: My Life as a Writer.
Paul Lisicky
What happens to us when someone we care about loses her language, memory, identity? That question leads Paul Lisicky to God, sex, family, childhood, and adulthood in his latest story collection, Unbuilt Projects (Four Way Books, $16.95). “If there’s a place for poetry and prose to co-habitate, it’s here in Lisicky’s world . . .”—D.A. Powell. Lisicky is the author of Lawnboy, Famous Builder, and The Burning House. He is a recipient of awards from the National Endownment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, and the Fine Arts Word Center in Provincetown. He is currently the New Voices Professor in the MFA Program at Rutgers-Camden. His memoir, The Narrow Door, will be published in 2014.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8301 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
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