Zamora Linmark's guest appearances

Zamora Linmark

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LIVE! From City Lights

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Gina Apostol

LIVE! From City Lights welcomes award-winning author Gina Apostol in celebration of her book “La Tercera” for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. In conversation with novelist and poet R. Zamora Linmark, Apostol discusses the role of “La Tercera” as a vision of Philippine history and a narration of how the culture has changed through the newfound understandings of protagonist, Rosario Delgado. The novel is Gina Apostol’s most ambitious, personal and encompassing work yet––a story about the impossibility of capturing the truth of the past and the terrible cost to a family, or a country, that fails to try.Gina Apostol won the 2012 PEN/Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize with her book, “Gun Dealers’ Daughter.” Her first two novels, “Bibliolepsy” and “The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata,” both won the Juan Laya Prize for the Novel (Philippine National Book Award). She was writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy and a fellow at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria, Italy, among other fellowships. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review and others. She lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and grew up in Tacloban, Philippines. She teaches at the Fieldston School in New York City. You can purchase copies of “La Tercera” directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/staff-picks-archive/la-tercera/This was an in-person event hosted by R. Zamora Linmark and was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation

LIVE! From City Lights welcomes award-winning author Gina Apostol in celebration of her book “La Tercera” for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. In conversation with novelist and poet R. Zamora Linmark, Apostol discusses the role of “La Tercera” as a vision of Philippine history and a narration of how the culture has changed through the newfound understandings of protagonist, Rosario Delgado. The novel is Gina Apostol’s most ambitious, personal and encompassing work yet––a story about the impossibility of capturing the truth of the past and the terrible cost to a family, or a country, that fails to try. Gina Apostol won the 2012 PEN/Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize with her book, “Gun Dealers’ Daughter.” Her first two novels, “Bibliolepsy” and “The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata,” both won the Juan Laya Prize for the Novel (Philippine National Book Award). She was writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy and a fellow at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria, Italy, among other fellowships. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review and others. She lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and grew up in Tacloban, Philippines. She teaches at the Fieldston School in New York City. You can purchase copies of “La Tercera” directly from City Lights here: <a href="https://citylights.com/staff-picks-archive/la-tercera/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://citylights.com/staff-picks-archive/la-tercera/</a> This was an in-person event hosted by R. Zamora Linmark and was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: <a href="http://citylights.com/foundation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">citylights.com/foundation</a>

Gina Apostol in conversation with R. Zamora Linmark

From accomplished poet and author R. Zamora Linmark comes his debut YA novel, The Importance of Being Wilde At Heart (Delacorte Press / On sale August 13, 2019 / $17.99; Ages 12+), about a seventeen-year-old boy's journey through first love and first heartbreak, guided by his personal hero, Oscar Wilde. Words have always been more than enough for Ken Z, but when he meets Ran at the mall food court, everything changes. Beautiful, mysterious Ran opens the door to a number of firsts for Ken: first kiss, first love. But as quickly as he enters Ken's life, Ran disappears, and Ken Z is left wondering: Why love at all, if this is where it leads? Letting it end there would be tragic. So with the help of his best friends, the comfort of his haikus and lists, and even strange, surreal appearances by his hero, Oscar Wilde, Ken will find that love is worth more than the price of heartbreak.

From accomplished poet and author R. Zamora Linmark comes his debut YA novel, The Importance of Being Wilde At Heart (Delacorte Press / On sale August 13, 2019 / $17.99; Ages 12+), about a seventeen-year-old boy's journey through first love and first heartbreak, guided by his personal hero, Oscar Wilde. Words have always been more than enough for Ken Z, but when he meets Ran at the mall food court, everything changes. Beautiful, mysterious Ran opens the door to a number of firsts for Ken: first kiss, first love. But as quickly as he enters Ken's life, Ran disappears, and Ken Z is left wondering: Why love at all, if this is where it leads? Letting it end there would be tragic. So with the help of his best friends, the comfort of his haikus and lists, and even strange, surreal appearances by his hero, Oscar Wilde, Ken will find that love is worth more than the price of heartbreak.

R. Zamora Linmark, "THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING WILDE AT HEART"