Lovely words from Kevin Hunsanger of Green Apple Books on KALW about Ian Tuttle's book StretchyHead. Kevin calls this sweet collection of stories "...a cross between Richard Brautigan and Raymond Carver."
Listen to the whole show (StretchyHead is mentioned in the last ten minutes):
Today on Your Call: What are your favorite books of the year?
StretchyHead is the first release from PACBooks, a small publishing house that spun off from Portuguese Artists Colony.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Heavy
It clings around your ankles, curves your back. It's bigger and badder and you squint to peer through its density. On December 18, let Portuguese Artists Colony share your burden.
We will bring you heavy metals with their mineral certainty, the massive guitar solos, the weighty thoughts to remind you of your center of gravity. Join us in the deep of December, just days before the earth shifts its weight, wobbling back toward the longer days of light.
Featuring guest readers:
The Boston Globe has called Shawna Yang Ryan “a writer to watch.” Her debut novel, Water Ghosts, was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, a Maurice Prize winner and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award.
Kyle Thomas Smith is the author of the novel, 85A (Bascom Hill, 2010), which has received seven awards, including one from the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow Committee, which named it one of the best books of 2010. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband Julius and his cats Marquez and Giuseppe.
Suzanne Kleid returns to read the conclusion to her hilarious live writing piece inspired by the prompt, "He wore red shoes."
Live music from the unmatched Dawn Oberg.
Live writing:
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance. The live writing gets more exciting with every show. Place your bets!
Steven Paul Lansky
Kyle Thomas Smith
Eric Aragon
Janey Smith
Sunday, December 18
Fivepoints Arthouse
72 Tehama
One block south of Howard at 2nd Street
San Francisco
Show at 5:00 pm
We will bring you heavy metals with their mineral certainty, the massive guitar solos, the weighty thoughts to remind you of your center of gravity. Join us in the deep of December, just days before the earth shifts its weight, wobbling back toward the longer days of light.
Featuring guest readers:
The Boston Globe has called Shawna Yang Ryan “a writer to watch.” Her debut novel, Water Ghosts, was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, a Maurice Prize winner and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award.
Kyle Thomas Smith is the author of the novel, 85A (Bascom Hill, 2010), which has received seven awards, including one from the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow Committee, which named it one of the best books of 2010. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband Julius and his cats Marquez and Giuseppe.
Suzanne Kleid returns to read the conclusion to her hilarious live writing piece inspired by the prompt, "He wore red shoes."
Live music from the unmatched Dawn Oberg.
Live writing:
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance. The live writing gets more exciting with every show. Place your bets!
Steven Paul Lansky
Kyle Thomas Smith
Janey Smith
Sunday, December 18
Fivepoints Arthouse
72 Tehama
One block south of Howard at 2nd Street
San Francisco
Show at 5:00 pm
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Now with more
On Sunday, November 20, Portuguese Artists Colony now offers more. More live nude girls, more cleaning power, more skinned frogs and dancing soldiers, more conjugal visits, more all-night, twenty-four-hour protests, more tear gas, more than you ordered, more than you can choke down, more than any of us could have dreamed.
We're Americans, baby, we want more, and Portuguese Artists Colony is here to give it to you.
Featuring guest readers:
Ethel Rohan is the author of Hard to Say, PANK, 2011 and Cut Through the Bone, Dark Sky Books, 2010, the latter named a 2010 Notable Story Collection by The Story Prize. Her work has or will appear in BULL Fiction, The Good Men Project, The Chattahoochee Review, Los Angeles Review, and Potomac Review, among many others. She earned her MFA in fiction from Mills College, California. Raised in Dublin, Ireland, Ethel Rohan is now a resident of San Francisco, California.
Kelly Cressio-Moeller’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the following poetry journals: Rattle, Southern Humanities Review, Pearl, Melusine, the Aurorean, Switched-on Gutenberg, Pirene’s Fountain, and The Newport Review among others. She shares her deeply caffeinated life with her German husband, increasingly taller sons, and their opinionated basset hound. She has a weakness for fountain pens & purple ink. And like everyone else on the planet, she is working on a book.
Nora Boxer returns after her thrilling victory in September's live writing with her finished piece, inspired by the prompt, "His hands were in the sink."
Live music from Passenger & Pilot!
Live writing:
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance. The live writing gets more exciting with every show. Place your bets!
Pam Benjamin
Amy Cruz
Charlie Getter
Suzanne Kleid
Sunday, November 20
Fivepoints Arthouse
72 Tehama
One block south of Howard at 2nd Street
San Francisco
Show at 5:00 pm
We're Americans, baby, we want more, and Portuguese Artists Colony is here to give it to you.
Featuring guest readers:
Ethel Rohan is the author of Hard to Say, PANK, 2011 and Cut Through the Bone, Dark Sky Books, 2010, the latter named a 2010 Notable Story Collection by The Story Prize. Her work has or will appear in BULL Fiction, The Good Men Project, The Chattahoochee Review, Los Angeles Review, and Potomac Review, among many others. She earned her MFA in fiction from Mills College, California. Raised in Dublin, Ireland, Ethel Rohan is now a resident of San Francisco, California.
Kelly Cressio-Moeller’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the following poetry journals: Rattle, Southern Humanities Review, Pearl, Melusine, the Aurorean, Switched-on Gutenberg, Pirene’s Fountain, and The Newport Review among others. She shares her deeply caffeinated life with her German husband, increasingly taller sons, and their opinionated basset hound. She has a weakness for fountain pens & purple ink. And like everyone else on the planet, she is working on a book.
Nora Boxer returns after her thrilling victory in September's live writing with her finished piece, inspired by the prompt, "His hands were in the sink."
Live music from Passenger & Pilot!
Live writing:
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance. The live writing gets more exciting with every show. Place your bets!Pam Benjamin
Amy Cruz
Charlie Getter
Suzanne Kleid
Sunday, November 20
Fivepoints Arthouse
72 Tehama
One block south of Howard at 2nd Street
San Francisco
Show at 5:00 pm
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Damage and Book Launch!
On Saturday, October 15, Portuguese Artists Colony will bring damage to Litquake's infamous Lit Crawl.We are thrilled to be part of Litquake for the second year running, and our gratitude hurts. We say thank you with scars and breakage; it's not a party without torn dresses and mascara-streaked faces.
Featuring guest readers:
Sally Ashton is a poet and Editor-in-Chief of the DMQReview. She teaches creative writing and is the current Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County, blogging at poetlaureateblog.org
Louise Nayer, San Francisco author and educator, has written poetry, non-fiction and recently, Burned: A Memoir, about a tragic Cape Cod accident and family resilience.
Plus! Readings from colonists Daniel Heath, Leslie Ingham, Caitlin Myer, and Cary Tennis.
Saturday, October 15
8:30 - 9:30 pm
Heart
1270 Valencia St.
San Francisco
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And that's not all.
Portuguese Artists Colony is absolutely beside itself to announce the birth of its small press, Portuguese Artists Colony Books, with the launch of its very first book:
StretchyHead
fictional stories in real places
by Ian Tuttle
Will the cocktails break your heart?
Will the ice cream make you call your mother?
Reviews are plentiful. Menus can be found online. But there is more to dining than what arrives on the plate.
Somewhere between making eye contact with the server and figuring out the tip
we fall in love
make plans to escape
dream of other worlds.
StretchyHead brings you exquisite moments from fictional lives, inspired by the real places in which they are set.
Join us for a good old fashioned book launch party with music and more!
Friday, October 21
8:00 pm
Fivepoints Arthouse
72 Tehama
One block south of Howard at 2nd Street
San Francisco
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Antagonist
There would be no story without us. No passions aroused, no chant for victory, no angry red welt to show Mom as evidence.
On Sunday, September 25, Portuguese Artists Colony will be the reason superheroes exist, dressed in cape and boots solely to undo our careful planning.
We'll move on anyway, nobody can stop us, we're the pretty blonde who sleeps her way onto the Dean's List, the bully who buries your lunch box, the one who watches - smiling - while you eat the cyanide-and-ground-glass pie we baked fresh, just for you.
Featuring guest readers:
Will Boast’s story collection, Power Ballads, won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award. He’s had work in Best New American Voices 2009, Narrative, Glimmer Train, The Southern Review, The American Scholar, and Salon. A former Stegner Fellow, he’ll be travelling to the UK this fall as a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia. When in San Francisco, he moonlights as a performing musician.
Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and been given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals by the age of 25. He has also written for AlterNet, The Bold Italic, McSweeney's, and Mother Jones. He is the managing editor of The Rumpus.
Tim Bauer returns to read his winning piece from last month's amazing live writing, inspired by the prompt: "She had his head."
Live music from our friends Pocket Full of Rye.
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance. The live writing is always a treat and a surprise. Place your bets!
Nora Boxer (2010 Keene Prize for Literature)
Cynthia Cady (Pints & Prose)
Janine Kovac (Writing Mamas)
M. da Silveira Serpa (Presence/Presença)
Sunday, August 25
Fivepoints Arthouse
72 Tehama
One block south of Howard at 2nd Street
San Francisco
Show at 5:00 pm
On Sunday, September 25, Portuguese Artists Colony will be the reason superheroes exist, dressed in cape and boots solely to undo our careful planning.
We'll move on anyway, nobody can stop us, we're the pretty blonde who sleeps her way onto the Dean's List, the bully who buries your lunch box, the one who watches - smiling - while you eat the cyanide-and-ground-glass pie we baked fresh, just for you.
Featuring guest readers:
Will Boast’s story collection, Power Ballads, won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award. He’s had work in Best New American Voices 2009, Narrative, Glimmer Train, The Southern Review, The American Scholar, and Salon. A former Stegner Fellow, he’ll be travelling to the UK this fall as a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia. When in San Francisco, he moonlights as a performing musician.
Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and been given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals by the age of 25. He has also written for AlterNet, The Bold Italic, McSweeney's, and Mother Jones. He is the managing editor of The Rumpus.
Tim Bauer returns to read his winning piece from last month's amazing live writing, inspired by the prompt: "She had his head."
Live music from our friends Pocket Full of Rye.
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance. The live writing is always a treat and a surprise. Place your bets!
Nora Boxer (2010 Keene Prize for Literature)
Janine Kovac (Writing Mamas)
M. da Silveira Serpa (Presence/Presença)
Sunday, August 25
Fivepoints Arthouse
72 Tehama
One block south of Howard at 2nd Street
San Francisco
Show at 5:00 pm
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Toothless
You wonder if it's a sign of age, that sense of powerlessness, sitting on the edge of the bed, your hands dangling between your knees. You used to believe you could take anyone on, fast and vicious, they wouldn't know what hit them. Not like everything came down to a fistfight, we aren't savages, but it showed when you did your PowerPoint presentation for the board, when you strutted down the street in your new heels.
You were a mean and ruthless god.
But now, your shoulder hurts when you lift your arm to point, and you know in your bones that when it came to a barfight, your teeth would be the ones decorating the floor.
On Sunday, August 28, Portuguese Artists Colony will guide you to the hidden power in your obsolescence.
Featuring guest readers Jonathan Hirsch and Olga Zilberbourg
nic alea returns with nic's winning piece from last month's live writing - Portuguese Artists Colony's first ever tie, won in a sudden death round!
Live music with Brooke D.
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance. The live writing is always a treat and a surprise. Place your bets!
Tim Bauer
Hunter Gatewood
Matthew Siegel
Alia Volz
Sunday, August 28
Fivepoints Arthouse
72 Tehama
One block south of Howard at 2nd Street
San Francisco
Doors open at 4:30 pm
Show at 5:00 pm
You were a mean and ruthless god.
But now, your shoulder hurts when you lift your arm to point, and you know in your bones that when it came to a barfight, your teeth would be the ones decorating the floor.
On Sunday, August 28, Portuguese Artists Colony will guide you to the hidden power in your obsolescence.
Featuring guest readers Jonathan Hirsch and Olga Zilberbourg
nic alea returns with nic's winning piece from last month's live writing - Portuguese Artists Colony's first ever tie, won in a sudden death round!
Live music with Brooke D.
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance. The live writing is always a treat and a surprise. Place your bets!
Tim BauerHunter Gatewood
Matthew Siegel
Alia Volz
Sunday, August 28
Fivepoints Arthouse
72 Tehama
One block south of Howard at 2nd Street
San Francisco
Doors open at 4:30 pm
Show at 5:00 pm
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Distant Relations
Your great-uncle was known for tiny sculptures made with solder. He populated whole villages with shining, globular cowboys, barbers, farmer's wives. Your second cousin is serving time for what she calls a "misunderstanding" with a gentleman who will be able to wear pants after another surgery, we hope. You moved to another state to escape the smell that hangs around your mother's dresser, but it seems to have followed you.
You don't know what's encoded in your genes, what rubs off in email and phone calls. You can divorce and skip the country, but your in-laws stick inside your mouth, you can hear them when you open it to eat.
On Sunday, July 24th, join Portuguese Artists Colony in our search for escape from relations that cling across miles and years.
Featuring guest readers:
Jack Boulware is an author and journalist, and co-founder of San Francisco’s Litquake Literary Festival. He has written or co-written three books, most recently Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day. He was founding editor of the satirical investigative Nose magazine, and as a freelance journalist has covered stories throughout the U.S. and over 20 countries.
Chiwan Choi was born in Seoul, spent his early childhood in Paraguay, and has been in Los Angeles ever since. His first poetry collection, The Flood, was published in 2010 by Tía Chucha Press. He also runs Writ Large Press, a micro publisher featuring some of the best Los Angeles writers.
Charles Kruger, the "Storming Bohemian", splashed into the SF literary pool almost two years ago when he lost a teaching job and sought to reinvent himself in Bohemia. Since then, he has written for Litseen.com, The Rumpus and Examiner.com, and read his work aloud in a variety of low places to a variety of high people.
Charles will be reading his winning piece from last month's show, inspired by the prompt She presses the button.
Musical guest: CJ Alegre
Live writing
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance. The live writing is always a treat and a surprise. Place your bets!
Four writers compete, and one will emerge victorious.
Nic Alea (New Poetry Mission)
Connie Baechler (Halley's Confidence)
Paul Corman-Roberts (Bitchez Brew)
Meghan Thornton (The Sword in the Cellar)
Sunday, July 24
Fivepoints Arthouse
72 Tehama
One block south of Howard at 2nd Street
San Francisco
Doors open at 4:30 pm
Show at 5:00 pm
You don't know what's encoded in your genes, what rubs off in email and phone calls. You can divorce and skip the country, but your in-laws stick inside your mouth, you can hear them when you open it to eat.
On Sunday, July 24th, join Portuguese Artists Colony in our search for escape from relations that cling across miles and years.
Featuring guest readers:
Jack Boulware is an author and journalist, and co-founder of San Francisco’s Litquake Literary Festival. He has written or co-written three books, most recently Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day. He was founding editor of the satirical investigative Nose magazine, and as a freelance journalist has covered stories throughout the U.S. and over 20 countries.
Chiwan Choi was born in Seoul, spent his early childhood in Paraguay, and has been in Los Angeles ever since. His first poetry collection, The Flood, was published in 2010 by Tía Chucha Press. He also runs Writ Large Press, a micro publisher featuring some of the best Los Angeles writers.
Charles Kruger, the "Storming Bohemian", splashed into the SF literary pool almost two years ago when he lost a teaching job and sought to reinvent himself in Bohemia. Since then, he has written for Litseen.com, The Rumpus and Examiner.com, and read his work aloud in a variety of low places to a variety of high people.
Charles will be reading his winning piece from last month's show, inspired by the prompt She presses the button.
Musical guest: CJ Alegre
Live writing
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance. The live writing is always a treat and a surprise. Place your bets!Four writers compete, and one will emerge victorious.
Nic Alea (New Poetry Mission)
Connie Baechler (Halley's Confidence)
Paul Corman-Roberts (Bitchez Brew)
Meghan Thornton (The Sword in the Cellar)
Sunday, July 24
Fivepoints Arthouse
72 Tehama
One block south of Howard at 2nd Street
San Francisco
Doors open at 4:30 pm
Show at 5:00 pm
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