About this Event
Co-presented with The Roxie and ZYZZYVA
Andrew Sean Greer is a Pulitzer Prize winning author whose humor, warmth, and candor could ignite a room from the page. For this special Litquake Festival installment, Greer introduces Amarcord, the dramatic comedy directed by Roberto Fellini, for this ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee.
Fellini recreates his hometown of Rimini in this carnivalesque film, where the director satirizes his childhood. TIME magazine says: “Fellini is so bountiful with incident and observation that he makes most other filmmakers seem stingy.” Winner of an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Amarcord remains one of the director’s best-loved creations, beautifully weaving together Giuseppe Rottuno’s colorful cinematography, Danilo Donati’s extravagant costumes and sets, and Nino Rota’s nostalgia-tinged score.
Greer’s latest novel Villa Coco reaches a magical and madcap tone that is in kin with this Fellini film. In Villa Coco, a young man takes an unspecified job with a charismatic elderly Baronessa at her crumbling villa in the Tuscan hills. David Sedaris says: “No one writing in English is funnier or more charming than Andrew Greer.”
ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee was created and is produced by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. Co-hosted by ZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon. Doors at 12:00pm for book sales/signing. $16
Book sales for this event coordinated by Dog Eared Books
About the Participants
Andrew Sean Greer is the author of eight works of fiction, including the bestsellers Less and its companion Less Is Lost. Greer has taught at a number of universities, including Stanford and the Iowa Writers Workshop, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, a judge for the National Book Award, and a winner of the California Book Award and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. He is the recipient of a NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He lives in San Francisco and Italy. His latest novel is Villa Coco.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It won a California Book Award. Her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was a National Bestseller, and a recipient of a California Book Award. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and ZYZZYVA, among others. She lives in California.
Event Venue
Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, United States
