Laura Chow Reeve with Jane Wong — 'A Small Apocalypse: Stories'
Schedule
Tue Oct 01 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, United States, Washington 98115 | Seattle, WA
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A gorgeously wrought exploration of what it means to exist in the in-between.Third Place Books is delighted to welcome Laura Chow Reeve for a conversation on her debut short story collection, A Small Apocalypse, joined in conversation by Jane Wong. This event is free and open to the public.
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About A Small Apocalypse. . .
In her debut short-story collection A Small Apocalypse, Laura Chow Reeve examines cultural inheritance, hybridity, queerness, and the stickiness of home with an eye for both the uncanny and the realistic: human bodies become reptilian, queer ghosts haunt their friends, a young woman learns to pickle memories, and a theater floods during an apocalyptic movie marathon. The characters in A Small Apocalypse weave in and out of its fourteen stories, confronting their sense of otherness and struggling to find new ways of being and belonging. Heavily steeped in the swampy, feral heat of Florida, these stories venture beyond the problems of constructing an identity to the frontier of characters living their truth in a world that doesn’t yet have a place for them.
Praise for A Small Apocalypse. . .
“This debut collection functions as an exploration of radical subversiveness—of race and ethnicity, of gender and sexuality, of models of family and community, even of species. Lines blur, categories coalesce, and hybridity reigns supreme."
—Kirkus
“Anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, will find this work to be resonant, poignant, and, perhaps, startlingly cathartic.”
—Booklist
“A Small Apocalypse is queer Florida at its absolute finest. Laura Chow Reeve has written a group of stories that astonish, mesmerize, and amaze in equal measure. I enjoyed every moment. A smashing collection!”
—Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth
“The stories in A Small Apocalypse all feel wildly different—Laura Chow Reeve’s debut offers readers real range—but they are also united beautifully by their thematic territory, by the author’s distinctive way of seeing, and by the vividly conveyed and evocative Floridian setting. I love this collection.”
—Clare Beams, author of The Illness Lesson
Laura Chow Reeve is the author of the short story collection A Small Apocalypse. Her writing and graphic work can be found in The Offing, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Catapult, Joyland, and elsewhere. She is a winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and was a Blackburn Fellow at the Randolph College MFA program. She lives in Richmond, VA.
Jane Wong is the author of the memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City (Tin House, 2023). She also wrote two poetry collections: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James, 2021) and Overpour (Action Books, 2016). A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room, Artist Trust, Hedgebrook, UCross, Loghaven, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and others. An interdisciplinary artist as well, she has exhibited her poetry installations and performances at the Frye Art Museum, Richmond Art Gallery, and the Asian Art Museum. She grew up in a take-out restaurant on the Jersey shore and is an Associate Professor at Western Washington University.
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6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, United States, Washington 98115Event Location & Nearby Stays:
