Bringing back TWO Stories on Stage favorites!
Selected stories from Peter Orner’s new short story collection
Last Car Over The Sagamore Bridge
read by Tim Kahl
and
Naomi Williams’
“Tsunami Debris“
read by Kelley Ogden
Friday, April 25, 2014
Doors open at 7, readings begin at 7:30
Peter Orner’s latest short story collection, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, was a New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and a Wall Street Journal Favorite Book for 2013. His novel Love and Shame and Love was a New York Times Editor’s Choice book. The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, set in Namibia, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Orner’s first book, Esther Stories was a Finalist for the Pen Hemingway Award and was re-issued in April, 2013. Orner’s work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney’s, and Best American Stories. He also writes the Lonely Voice column for The Rumpus, an on-line website. Born in Chicago, Peter Orner lives in San Francisco and is a Professor at San Francisco State.
Tim Kahl is the author of Possessing Yourself (CW Books, 2009) and The Century of Travel (CW Books, 2012). His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Notre Dame Review, The Journal, Parthenon West Review, and many other journals. He appears as “Victor Schnickelfritz” at the poetry and poetics blog The Great American Pinup and the poetry video blog Linebreak Studios. Tim’s involved in numerous other creative ventures: if you’re curious click, here http://www.timkahl.com. He is Vice-president and events coordinator of The Sacramento Poetry Center, and has appeared several times at Stories on Stage.
Naomi J. Williams’ first novel, LANDFALLS, a fictional retelling of the 18th-century Lapérouse expedition, is due out in the spring of 2015 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Her short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals, including A Public Space, One Story, The Southern Review, Ninth Letter, and The Gettysburg Review. She’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times and won once, and received an honorable mention in Best American Short Stories. This month’s story, “Tsunami Debris,” appeared in the Bridport Prize anthology in 2012. Naomi blogs about writing, reading, and life in general at naomijwilliams.wordpress.com.
Kelley Ogden is a Sacramento performer, writer and theater producer. She works primarily with KOLT Run Creations, the acclaimed fringe theater she co-founded with wife Lisa Thew. A multiple Elly Award winner, Kelley has performed in theaters across the country, most notably in Chicago, where she earned Chicago Theater League awards for her classical and Shakespearean work. Kelley is delighted to collaborate with Stories On Stage in their fifth season.
At the Sacramento Poetry Center
1719 25th Street, Sacramento
Doors open 7PM, readings begin at 7:30
$5 donation
