Author Talk: Barry Gifford celebrating his new book, The Up-Down

Author Talk: Barry Gifford celebrating his new book, The Up-Down

Join the South San Francisco Public Library for an evening with noted author, Barry Gifford. The Author will be reading from his new novel, The Up –Down, from Seven Stories Press, the eighth novel in the Wild at Heart cycle that began in 1990, and the book that brings the Sailor and Lula story to its natural conclusion.

Barry Gifford’s fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have been published in twenty-eight languages. His novel Night People was awarded the Premio Brancati, established by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Alberto Moravia in Italy, and he has been the recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. His books Sailor’s Holiday and The Phantom Father were each named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times, and his book Wyoming was named a Novel of the Year by the Los Angeles Times. He has written librettos for operas by the composers Toru Takemitsu, Ichiro Nodaira, and Olga Neuwirth. Gifford’s work has appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, Punch, Esquire, La Nouvelle Revue Française, El País, La Repubblica, Rolling Stone, Brick, Film Comment, El Universal, Projections, and the New York Times. His film credits include Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango, Lost Highway, City of Ghosts, Ball Lightning, and The Phantom Father. Barry Gifford’s most recent books include Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels, Sad Stories of the Death of Kings, Imagining Paradise: New & Selected Poems and The Roy Stories. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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This free event will take place Tuesday February 26 at 6:30 p.m. at the South San Francisco Main Public Library.

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