About this Event
Third 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, , 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And Yet interrogates contemporary shyness, selfhood and sexual mores, drawing out the particulars of each through historical references, cultural commentary, and the author's own restless imagination.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.
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
About Third Place Books
Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events.
Event Venue
6504 20th Ave NE, 6504 20th Avenue Northeast, Seattle, United States
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