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zaum Events Calendar
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
 We are delighted to announce that Sonoma State University's Gillian Conoley will be reading from her newest collection of poetry, The Plot Genie. This event will be held at Sonoma State in the Schultz Information Center, Room 3001, at 5:30 p.m.
Gillian Conoley is a professor of English and Sonoma State's Poet-in-Residence and the editor of Volt.
Our zaumbie M. Bryn Schut had the pleasure of interviewing Gillian for zaum's blog. Read the interview.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
 Renowned author Yiyun Li will be reading at Sonoma State in the Schultz Information Center, Room 3001, at 6:00 p.m.
Yiyun Li was born in Beijing and came to the U.S. in 1996. She is winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, Guardian First Book Award, and California Book Award. The title story of her critically acclaimed short story collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, was made into a film by Wayne Wang. The Vagrants, her debut novel, was just released in February 2009. Publisher's Weekly called The Vagrants a "magnificent and jaw-droppingly grim novel centering on the 1979 execution of a Chinese counterrevolutionary in the provincial town of Muddy River and spiraling outward into a scathing indictment of Communist China...Li records these events dispassionately and with such a magisterial sense of direction that the reader can't help being drawn into the novel, like a sleeper trapped in an anxiety dream."
Yiyun Li teaches at UC Davis.
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
 Founder of literary magazine ZYZZYVA Howard Junker will be appearing at Sonoma State in the Schultz Information Center, Room 3001, at 6:00 p.m.
Howard Junker founded ZYZZYVA, the renowned literary magazine for West Coast writers, twenty four years ago. Despite a brief, scary moment during which he announced a possible retirement—resulting in much public outcry—he is back, and going strong.
Mr. Junker has written for Architectural Digest, Art in America, Artforum, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, The Nation, Newsweek, Playboy, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and Vogue. He has appeared in the films The Werewolf of Washington, and I am a Sex Addict. He lives in San Francisco with his wife.
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
The zaum Gala
As celebration and to intriduce the new issue of zaum, the zaumbies will be hosting a gala at The Villa in Santa Rosa, California.
Always a good time and a chance to hobnob with other writers and the staff of zaum, the gala will feature music, readings from the newest issue, and a silent auction to beneft the literary magazine.
For more information or to donate to the silent auction, please contact the webmaster.
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