An evening of fiction with Jeff Alessandrelli and friendsThird Place Books is delighted to welcome Fonograf Editions director and co-editor Jeff Alessandrelli, Laura Paul of Sublunary Editions and Asterism Books, and poet, essayist, and teacher Jay Aquinas Thompson to our Ravenna store! Alessandrelli will be presenting his new novel, And Yet, with additional readings from Laura and Jay. This event is free and open to the public.
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About And Yet. . .
An innovative work of fiction, Jeff Alessandrelli's And Yet interrogates contemporary shyness, selfhood and sexual mores, drawing out the particulars of each through historical references, cultural commentary, and the author's own restless imagination. And Yet builds off the work of authors as disparate as Michel Leiris, Marguerite Duras, and Kobo Abe, while alluding to the work of Susan Sontag, Young Thug, Young Jean Lee, Cesare Pavese, Sylvia Plath, and Louise Gl ck, among others. With its nameless protagonist simultaneously proud and afraid of his daunting interiority, And Yet's form morphs, cracks, and continuously tries to repair itself while becoming a nuanced story of our times. "Love is a thing full of anxious fear. Especially when what you ultimately love and fear is your self," writes Alessandrelli, and And Yet draws such a notion down, out and around again, arriving at its own idiosyncratic answers by the end of the book.
Praise for And Yet. . .
"And Yet asks, What might be gained or lost from living one’s life via text instead of directly participating in the world? Through aphorism, anecdote, observation, and narrative, Alessandrelli examines the complex entanglements of sexuality and desire. A profound and concise work of self-construction."
—Patrick Cottrell, author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
"Composed in delicately and suggestively connected fragments, Jeff Alessandrelli’s And Yet is a lyrical yet probing investigation of the nature of modern intimacy, full of heart but always meticulously thoughtful."
—Joe Moran, author of Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness
Jeff Alessandrelli is the author of four books, most recently the poetry collection Fur Not Light. Work by him has been published in The American Poetry Review, BOMB, Chicago Review, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, Fence, and elsewhere. In addition to his writing, he also directs and co-edits the nonprofit book press/record label Fonograf Editions.
Laura Paul is a writer and artist who has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Comics Journal, Pangyrus, minor literature[s], Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, and other outlets. Her work has been exhibited at the Armory Center for the Arts, Open Space for Arts and Community, Other Places Art Fair, LA Zine Fair, and West Hollywood Book Fair. She earned her B.A. in Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington and her Master's in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA. She lives in Seattle, where she works as a publisher and book distributor for Sublunary Editions and Asterism Books. To find out more visit: laurapaulwriter.com.
Jay Aquinas Thompson (they/he) is a poet, essayist, and teacher and the author of the memoir The Resurrection Appearances: Fragments of a Daybook (Gold Line Press). They have recent work in New Delta Review, Neon Door, Essay Daily, Adroit, Guesthouse, and Poetry Northwest, where they're a contributing editor. They've been awarded grants and fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, the Community of Writers, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and King County 4Culture. They live with their child in Seattle, where they teach creative writing to public school students and incarcerated women. Substack: @jayaquinas, IG: @freshwater_merman
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6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, United States, Washington 98115
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