Two contributors to our groundbreaking series The Face, Tash Aw and Chris Abani, appeared on BBC Radio 4's Open Book program to discuss their contributions and the challenge of writing about their own faces.
Listen to the interview (segment two) here.
Juan Villoro is not only one of Mexico’s most prolific, celebrated authors, he’s also one of Latin America’s leading authorities on soccer. We're delighted to be publishing his thrilling, funny, and insightful essays on football, collected in God Is Round: Tackling the Giants, Villains, Triumphs, and Scandals of the World’s Favorite Game (April 19, 2016). As Francisco Goldman put it in The New Yorker, Villoro “has assumed the Octavio Paz mantle of Mexican public wise man of letters (though with none of Paz’s solemnity, for Villoro is boyishly effusive, brimming with laughter and cleverness… and, of course, Villoro, the author of the book God Is Round, may be the most fútbol-obsessed man alive).”
Juan Villoro will be coming to New York in April to launch the book and to participate in the PEN World Voices Festival. Catch him at one of the events below.
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February 28: Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle, WA)
April 25 - May 1: Featured Author at PEN World Voices Festival (New York, NY):
April 25: “Opening Night: The Drug Edition,” with Boris Akunin, Anne Enright, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Marlon James, Paul Muldoon, Cristina Rivera-Garza, and Olga Tokarczuk (New York, NY)
April 26: “Reckoning Mexico,” with Cristina Rivera-Garza, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Claudio Lomnitz, Valeria Luiselli, and Guillermo Osorno (Brooklyn, NY)
April 27: “Mexico in Two Acts,” with Sabina Berman, Héctor Aguilar Camín, Jennifer Clement, and Claudio Lomnitz (New York, NY)
Our original series of personal nonfiction The Face has launched to applause! Alternately philosophical, funny, personal, political, and poetic, these short memoirs by Ruth Ozeki, Chris Abani, and Tash Aw offer unique perspectives on race, culture, identity, and the human experience. Check out excerpts in of Tash Aw's book in The New Yorker, of Chris Abani's in Warscapes, and of Ruth Ozeki's on Literary Hub, and reviews of all three books in The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Kirkus, and more to come. Be sure to catch the authors in person at these live events, below!
Buy Ruth Ozeki's The Face: A Time Code from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes | Kobo | IndieBound
Buy Chris Abani's The Face: Cartography of the Void from: Amazon | iTunes | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | IndieBound
Buy Tash Aw's The Face: Strangers on a Pier from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound
February 24: Chris Abani at Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
March 1: Chris Abani with Yusef Komunyakaa at Global Poetry Spring Reading at NYU (New York, NY)
March 3 - 5: Ruth Ozeki at Whatcom Reads (Bellingham, WA)
March 31: Tash Aw at the Select Centre (Singapore)
April 1: Chris Abani with Susan Orlean, Danez Smith, and Lena Waithe in Literary Death Match at Theatre at Ace Hotel (Los Angeles, CA)
April 3: Chris Abani with Nayomi Munaweera and Mark de Silva at The Last Bookstore (Los Angeles, CA)
April 4: Ruth Ozeki at Smith College (Northampton, MA)
April 6 - 9: Chris Abani at African Literature Association Conference (Atlanta, GA)
April 7: Ruth Ozeki at Kenyon College (Gambier, OH)
April 30: Chris Abani at Chicago Public Library Poetry Fest (Chicago, IL)
May 20 – June 5: Ruth Ozeki at Hedgebrook (Seattle, WA)
June 5: Ruth Ozeki at The Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle, WA)
June 13: Chris Abani at the House of SpeakEasy at Joe's Pub (New York, NY)
September 22: Ruth Ozeki with Eileen Myles, Porochista Khakpour, Anna March, and Alexandra Kleeman at BookCourt (Brooklyn, NY)
