Join us at our Solano store for a discussion of A New Literary History of America. We are honored to host editor Greil Marcus in conversation with Richard Hutson\, David Thomson and Ishmael Reed.
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Jesse Nathan is the author of a chapbook of poems called Dinner. He’s an editor at McSweeney’s and the managing editor of the Best American Nonrequired Reading. His writing appears widely\, including in the San Francisco Chronicle\, the Believer\, Tin House\, the Rumpus\, and elsewhere. He was born in Berkeley\, but grew up on a farm in Kansas. Now he lives in San Francisco.
Matthew Zapruder's third book of poems Come On All You Ghosts is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2010. A collaborative book with painter Chris Uphues\, For You in Full Bloom\, was published by Pilot Press in Northampton\, MA\, in 2009. He has received a William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences\, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. This spring he is a Writer in Residence at St. Mary's College\, and in fall 2010 he will be the Holloway Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley. An editor for Wave Books and a member of the permanent faculty in the low residency MFA program at UC Riverside-Palm Desert\, he lives in San Francisco.
Jessica Fisher’s first book of poems\, Frail-Craft\, won the 2006 Yale Younger Poets Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Her poems appear in such journals as The American Poetry Review\, The Believer\, The Colorado Review\, McSweeney’s\, The New Yorker\, The Threepenny Review\, and TriQuarterly\, and her translations appear in The New York Review of Books and The Paris Review. She is also co-editor\, with Robert Hass\, of The Addison Street Anthology\, which serves as a guide to Berkeley’s Poetry Walk. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Poetry and Poetics at UC Berkeley\, where she earned her Ph.D. in English\, and lives in Oakland with her husband and children.
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