We've Got Some 'Bad Hombres' Coming into Our Country...

And they're bringing their books with them!

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As opposed to a certain presidential candidate who recently caricatured Mexican immigrants as "bad hombres," and those who quail at a future with "taco trucks on every corner," Restless has always been a fierce advocate of Latin American ideas and culture, which have been interwoven with our own for centuries. To be fair, we could see why some might fear the work of Costa Rican-born novelist Carlos Fonseca, Cuban death-metal star and sci-fi writer Yoss, and Argentinian-Spanish polymath Andrés Neuman—their books heed no borders between genres, they subvert censorship by the powerful, and they consort with all manner of dangerous "foreign" thinkers from Rabelais to Nabokov. Nevertheless, we have welcomed them in, and they'll be in San Francisco, Portland, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Baltimore, New York, Providence, Miami, Princeton, and more in the coming weeks. See below for more details! 

LIVE EVENTS FOR CARLOS FONSECA, AUTHOR OF 'COLONEL LÁGRIMAS'

• October 29: New York Festival de la Palabra (New York, NY)

• November 3: Fordham University (Bronx, NY)

• November 5-6: Texas Book Festival (Austin, TX)

• November 7: McNally Jackson Bookstore with Andrés Neuman (New York, NY)

• November 9: Rutgers University (Rutgers, NJ)

• November 10: Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

CUBAN SCIENCE FICTION ROCK STAR YOSS'S LIVE EVENTS

• October 31: New York University Bookstore (New York, NY)

• November 2: Brown University (Providence, RI)

• November 3: University of Connecticut Barnes & Noble (Storrs, CT) (Storrs, CT)

• November 14: With Ilan Stavans for the Philip K. Dick Film Festival (New York, NY)

• November 19: Yoss at the Miami Book Fair International (Miami, FL)

ANDRÉS NEUMAN PRESENTS HIS BOOK HOW TO TRAVEL WITHOUT SEEING

• October 30: Green Apple Books on the Park (San Francisco, CA)

• October 31: San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA)

• October 31: University of Portland (Portland, OR) 

• November 1: Portland State University (Portland, OR)

• November 1: Reed College (Portland, OR)

• November 1: Powell's Books (Portland, OR)

• November 2: Brazos Bookstore (Houston, TX)

• November 3: UT Dallas (Dallas, TX)

• November 5-6: Texas Book Festival (Austin, TX)

• November 7: Fordham University (Bronx, NY)

• November 7: McNally Jackson Bookstore event with Carlos Fonseca (New York, NY)

• November 9: With Carlos Fonseca at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)

• November 10: Bird in Hand, with Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)

Cuban Science Fiction Rock Star Yoss's Live Events

Cuban science fiction master Yoss has been world-making for decades, but for most U.S. readers, he may as well have inhabited one of the remote planets he writes about—until now. Yoss will be visiting the United States to participate in several festivals and talks to present his books A Planet for Rent, a colonial allegory that speaks to contemporary Cuban-American relations, and Super Extra Grande, a romping space opera following the adventures of a gigantic veterinarian who specializes in treating gigantic aliens—and saving the universe of course.

Yoss is more than just a sci-fi rockstar with a degree in biology; he has also been a real rockstar frontman in a Havana metal band and will be playing at Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends event co-hosted by BOMB Magazine at Issue Project Room. Read on for more out-of-this-world Yoss sightings.

AUTHOR EVENTS:

• September 15 : Restless and BOMB Present an evening of Cuban Heavy Metal and Sci-Fi (Brooklyn, NY)

• September 18 : Tash Aw, Yoss, and Restless at the Brooklyn Book Festival (Brooklyn, NY)

September 28: Boston University (Boston, MA)

September 30: Brookline Booksmith (Brookline, MA)

October 6: UIC's Latino Cultural Center (Chicago, IL)

• October 8: Chicago Public Library's Indie Author Day (Chicago, IL)

• October 11: Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI)

• October 12: With Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo at Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI)

• October 14: City Lit Books (Chicago, IL) (Chicago, IL)

• October 18: Diesel, A Book Store (Oakland, CA)

• October 27: UCLA (Los Angeles, CA)

• October 28: NYU's King Juan Carlos Center (New York, NY)

• October 31: New York University Bookstore (New York, NY)

• November 2: Brown University (Providence, RI)

• November 3: University of Connecticut Barnes & Noble (Storrs, CT) (Storrs, CT)

• November 14: With Ilan Stavans for the Philip K. Dick Film Festival (New York, NY)

• November 19: Yoss at the Miami Book Fair International (Miami, FL)

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Reading for Obama's Visit to Cuba: Cuban Science Fiction

It seems worth noting that on his historic visit to Cuba, President Obama's very first activity was laying a wreath at the memorial of José Martí. As the president, who was himself somewhat of a poetry snob in his younger days, must know, Cuban literature has always been closely intertwined with its politics (Martí was as much a poetic founding father as he was a military and nationalist hero), and the written word will be a significant part of fostering meaningful exchange between the long-separated Cuba and United States. In honor of the president's official visit (the first since Calvin Coolidge's in 1928), check out Restless's Cuban Science Fiction Bundle—the first two books in the groundbreaking series, Agustín de Rojas's A Legend of the Future and Yoss's A Planet for Rent, for the steeply discounted price of just $20, available only from Restless.