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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Spanish Author Cristina Sánchez-Andrade: Events for The Winterlings

Restless is thrilled to publish the first English translation from the major Spanish novelist Cristina Sánchez-Andrade, who has been called “one of the most powerful female voices Spanish literature has produced” (La Razón).  The Winterlings (Nov. 1, 2016) is Sánchez-Andrade's enchanting breakthrough novel, mixing the magic of 1950s-era Hollywood with the eery folklore of Spanish Galicia and the lingering smoke of the Spanish Civil War. After a childhood in exile, two odd sisters, known mysteriously as “The Winterlings,” return to their grandfather’s cottage in the Galician countryside and settle into the routines of rural living. When the sisters learn of nearby filming for Pandora and the Flying Dutchman and the call for Ava Gardner lookalikes, the chance to stand in for the most beautiful woman in the world divides their once-unified passion for Hollywood cinema and acting, threatening to sunder their close relationship. Meanwhile, the insular villagers gradually reveal themselves as grotesque (albeit charming) characters: a widow in perpetual mourning, a woman who never dies and the priest who climbs a steep hill daily to give her last rites, and a dentist who plants the teeth of the deceased in his patients’ mouths. But most unsettling of all is the revelation of the perverse business arrangement the townspeople have made with the girls’ departed grandfather.

Cristina will be visiting the U.S. Catch her at one of these events.

AUTHOR EVENTS:

• November 3: Cristina Sánchez-Andrade at Wagner College

• November 3: Cristina Sánchez-Andrade at Instituto Cervantes New York with Lina Meruane (New York, NY)

• November 8: Cristina Sánchez-Andrade at Syracuse University

• November 14: Cristina Sánchez-Andrade at Instituto Cervantes Chicago (Chicago, IL)

• November 15: Cristina Sánchez-Andrade at Prairie Lights (Iowa City, IA)

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