ANDREW ZORNOZA: NEWS, NOTES AND EVENTS

Andrew Zornoza reviews Lynne Tillman’s Someday This Will be Funny.

2011-03-28T11:08:00.000-07:00

“The true star of this collection is not plot or characters, it’s storytelling itself: the weird literary ventriloquism we perform as we divide out the speaking roles of our inner lives.”

AWP 2011

2011-01-31T18:03:00.000-08:00

Saturday, February 5th at Noon in the "Hoover" Room:

Teaching the Nontraditional Writer: Practical Techniques for Teaching Students Outside the Mainstream. (Andrew Zornoza, Robert Lopez, Margaret Fiore, Elise Juska) Narrative, character, metaphor, dramatic tension: many of the traditional points of “craft” can be easily shown to the student-writer already steeped in the literature of the western canon. But how do we teach writing to students who’ve taken a different path into our classrooms? This panel offers practical tips and strategies in teaching artists, ESL students, and other nontraditional writers who may lack the confidence and/or knowledge to feel empowered.

Also, Andrew will be signing books at the Tarpaulin Sky Press table, or meeting submitters with HOW journal.

Providence Reading with Matthew Derby!

2010-11-03T11:29:00.000-07:00

See Matthew Derby the author of "Super Flat Times" and the influential and helmeted inventor of meat-towers in "flesh" and "spirit" at Providence's best bookstore.

Andrew Zornoza & Matthew Derby
reading from their fictions Saturday Nov. 13, 6pm

717 Westminster Street • Providence RI • 02903 • 401.432.6222 • adabooks at ada-books dot com

http://ada-books.com/shows/

Reading Sept 19th in NYC

2010-09-16T07:41:00.000-07:00

Stories and Songs: Danny Lanzetta and Friends

This Week with Andrew Zornoza and Bryan Dunn and Matt Singer

Every Sunday in September
Googies Lounge
154 Ludlow Street (above The Living Room)
8 PM
Free
J, F to Delancey

http://www.livingroomny.com/googies

Danny Lanzetta is an exciting new spoken word artist and novelist. His dynamic words span an array of subjects, from his biting indictment of Bill O'Reilly to the forlorn and melancholy moments of everyday life. Lanzetta’s spoken rhythm record, The Story of a Minute in America, is a dizzying combination of music and word

s. And coming soon, Lanzetta's second novel: Gadfly. In a previous life, Lanzetta starred on Broadway in Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers, Les Miserables, and in off-Broadway’s critically acclaimed Falsettoland. He also appeared for two years on the CBS television series Brooklyn Bridge as Alan Silver. Among the distinguished people he has worked with include Kevin Spacey, Anthony Hopkins, Marion Ross, John Spencer, Mickey Rourke, Mercedes Ruehl and Mimi Rogers. Lanzetta has been writing seriously for over fifteen years, both poetry and prose, spurred on by his adolescent disillusionment with the acting business and a tiny high school creative writing class that co-starred a former chess champion and a classically trained singer. His debut novel, Drunken Angel, released by independently in 2002, is an American love story about those classical, but never tired themes of heartbreak and hope. Lanzetta also writes many of the lyrics for Chris Cubeta’ of Chris Cubeta and The Liars Club. He is a a college professor and is unquestionably the world’s most devout New York Knickerbockers fan.

Upcoming Reading in Philadelphia, July 17th: 6PM!

2010-07-12T18:25:00.000-07:00

Saturday, July 17, 2010, 6pm - NPP Presents: A Celebration of Tarpaulin Sky Press!! Featuring Andrew Zornoza, Gordon Massman, Jake Levine, & Kim Gek Lin Short. Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Samson Street, Philadelphia.

Author appearance in Denver at the AWP conference

2010-04-06T06:44:00.000-07:00

Genres & Generations – April 8th, 10:30PM

@Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St. Denver, CO 80203

The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) comes to town this week, bringing with it a variety of writers, from international bestsellers to amateur poets working on their first collections. Six local presses – Fast Forward Press, Monkey Puzzle Press, Tarpaulin Sky Press, Fact-Simile, Zero Ducats, and Bombay Gin – are using the opportunity to put together a unique literary event including some of the area’s most daring writers and poets at Dazzle on Thursday, April 8th.

Powell's and Rain Taxi

2010-03-30T06:41:00.000-07:00

"Where I Stay" is featured over at the great Powell's Books (the world's largest independent bookstore) here in their 'Review of the Day' column. The review is reprinted from critic John Madera article in the latest issue of RainTaxi Review of Books. A snippet of that: " . . .superfluous exposition is replaced by evocative gestures, bland dialogue surrenders to resonant internal monologue. Consider Where I Stay a road map that carefully marks its scorched landscapes and anonymous small towns while also pointing out the desultory crew of squatters, border guards, prostitutes, drug dealers -- transitory figures all -- who live hardscrabble lives within them. As such, Zornoza is as much a novelist as he is a cartographer of loneliness, doubt, and fear. . . ."

The author on Cat Power, The Frogs, Elliott Smith and more. . . .

2010-03-09T08:43:00.000-08:00

Andrew Zornoza talks about the music behind "Where I Stay" at Largehearted Boy. . . .

Parson's Book Fair; "Where I Stay" Booksigning

2010-02-24T11:29:00.000-08:00

Parsons-wide Book Fair

Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
2 West 13th Street, on Wednesday
March 3rd from 12-7 PM.
Reception at 5 PM.

The first Parsons-wide book fair will present recently-published books written, edited, or featuring work by more than 40 full-time and part-time faculty members, representing each of Parsons’s five schools. Publications range from illustrated children’s books and limited edition artist’s books to exhibition catalogs, reference books, textbooks and scholarly monographs. This event has been organized by ADHT’s Laura Auricchio with assistance from Jennifer McHugh and in collaboration with Barnes and Noble. Free and open to the public.The first Parsons-wide book fair will be held in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center’s “Crit Space,” located on the ground floor of 2 West 13th Street, on Wednesday, March 3rd from 12-7 PM. A reception will begin at 5 PM.

The fair will present recently-published books written, edited, or featuring work by more than 40 full-time and part-time faculty members, representing each of Parsons’s five schools. Publications range from illustrated children’s books and limited edition artist’s books to exhibition catalogs, reference books, textbooks and scholarly monographs.

Visitors will also be able to view the “Storyteller” exhibition, in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center’s Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, throughout the course of the fair.

This event has been organized Laura Auricchio with assistance from Jennifer McHugh and in collaboration with Barnes and Noble. Free and open to the public.

KGB Bar Reading!

2010-01-29T10:52:00.000-08:00

Andrew Zornoza & Risa Miller
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th StreetNew York City, NY
February 21, 2010
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Risa Miller: a graduate of Goucher College, with an MFA from Emerson College. She is the recipient of the PEN New England Discovery Award. She’s taught fiction writing at the University of Massachusetts and currently on the writing faculty at Emerson College and on the graduate writing faculty at Bar Ilan University. She is the author of the highy aclaimed Welcome to Heavenly Heights. She reads from her latest novel My Before and After Life.

Andrew Zornoza is the author of the novel Where I Stay. His short fiction and essays have appeared in magazines such as, Gastronomica, Sleepingfish, CapGun, and Matter Magazine, among others. Born in Houston, Texas, he has taught at Gotham Writers’ Workshop and in Parsons Design & Technology MFA program. He is a contributing editor to the arts journal Helping Orphans Worldwide (H.O.W.). He currently lives in New York City.

Blake Butler and Bookslut

2010-01-13T09:33:00.000-08:00

Among January's featured articles, Blake Butler talks to author Andrew Zornoza about how he writes, Chris Farley, and post 9/11 America.

Interview with Molly Gaudry

2010-01-13T09:25:00.000-08:00

Interview with author Andrew Zornoza @ Keyhole Magazine, conducted by Molly Gaudry, author of We Take Me Apart.

2010-01-03T12:41:00.000-08:00

‘First Book’ Authors: Panel Discussion at the Wilton Library

Tuesday January 19, 7-8:30 pm
Three new authors with recently published first books talk and read from their works and discuss their writing process and publication experiences. The three authors are: Emily Arsenault, whose book The Broken Teaglass was accepted for publication while she was working at the Wilton Library; Andrew Zornoza, with Where I Stay and Joshua Gaylord, Hummingbirds. Talk moderated by local documentary filmmaker and writer Megan Smith-Harris. No charge. Registration recommended.

137 Old Ridgefield Road
Wilton, CT 06897-3000
(203) 762-3950

No Tells, tells

2009-12-08T14:40:00.000-08:00

"Where I Stay" is selected as one of the best poetry books of 2009 by No Tells writer Julie Babcock.

"Zornoza drives a transcendently blurry line between poetry, prose, and art. This book is going to haunt me for a long time."

It is also a pick for No Tells holiday shopping guide. See here to find author Kim Gek Lin Short's other suggestions.

Poet Steven Karl also picks "Where I Stay" as one of his top three books of 2009. Read more of his picks over at HTML Giant.

Shapiro and Zornoza: November 16, 2009, New York, NY

2009-10-31T20:45:00.000-07:00

Fiction Forum

with Susan Shapiro and Andrew Zornoza
6:30 p.m. @ the Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street, Room 510
Admission: $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
Moderated by Luis Jaramillo, associate chair, The New School Writing Program.

Shapiro's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, and The Village Voice. She is the author of the memoirs Only as Good as Your Word and Lighting Up as well as Five Men Who Broke My Heart, which was optioned for a feature film. Speed Shrinking is her first novel.

Zornoza is a writer and visual artist from Houston. He is the author of the novel Where I Stay. His fiction and essays have appeared in magazines such as Gastronomica, Sleepingfish, Confrontation, and CapGun. He has taught at The New School University, Gotham Writers' Workshop and the ASA Institute. He lives in New York City.

Upcoming NYC Reading

2009-09-11T12:12:00.000-07:00

September 25 // 7:30 PM\

Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!
The Earshot Reading Series
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg

Rose Live Music 345 Grand Street (b/w Havemeyer & Marcy)Brooklyn, NY 11211(718) 599-0069

Sarah Sarai, Andrew Zornoza, Paul Hlava, Nicole Feldman, Justin Boening

New interview, review and more. . . .

2009-08-27T11:42:00.000-07:00

TBA, two author readings in New York City, September 25th in Williamsburg for the Earshot series and November 16th with Susan Shapiro (Five Men Who Broke My Heart) at Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street

Author interview here, from Chicago's Bookish Us.

And a new review, by Marc Schuster, "As haunting as it is gritty, Where I Stay has the feel of an impressionist watercolor . . . Indeed, I hesitate to simply call it a book; its ambitions, beautifully realized, make it a hybrid of textual and visual arts. Like all of my favorite works of art, Where I Stay has the capacity to evoke something akin to an out of body experience, to propel the reader into unfamiliar territory. . . ."

Reviews of "Where I Stay"

2009-08-04T09:37:00.001-07:00

Early reviews of Where I Stay have been rolling in. More to come,

Here's Blake Butler at HTML Giant: "Refreshing, pitch-perfect kind of steering that is innovative not only for the genre it might get called into, but for experiential and language-focused texts of every stripe."

click here for the full review. . . .

Sebald scholar Terry Pitts:

"There are a few snapshots of people, none of whom receive the heroic treatment of Walker Evans’ sharecroppers. Only the occasional landscape image offers a possible solace – the open sky, the sunset, the forests that consume the old shacks and abandoned automobiles. . . .

click here for the full review. . . .

Cynthia Reeser, critic at New Pages:

"The movement of people and lives; chance meetings between strangers destined never to cross paths again; moments that can never be recreated; the uncertainty of people, place, relationships – all collide across culture and class, gender and race to form an anthem of displacement. The author deftly – and in spite of himself, seamlessly – weaves common threads that, by the end of the book, form a recognizable whole. Where I Stay is a story of a search for a home, for permanence, and ultimately for meaning."

read the full review. . . .

and, finally, poet Steven Karl at Lovers' Last Go Around:

"Both Peet and Zornoza’s books are examples of not submitting to a status quo in literature, instead they use the traits once synonymous with Wong Kar-wai: originality, vision, risks, and experimentation to give you back this country as it is: flawed, fractured, hypocritical, greedy, beautiful, breathtaking, mesmerizing. . . ."

read the full review. . . .

BOOK LAUNCH!

2009-07-07T12:04:00.000-07:00

Come celebrate with Andrew Zornoza
Please come join me, the author, for a party to celebrate the official launching of my new novel "Where I Stay."
Host:WHERE I STAY: A NOVEL
Time:7:30PM Wednesday, July 1st
Location:Abilene's Bar

Reading, Wednesday June 24th

2009-06-14T18:27:00.000-07:00

The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Andrew Zornoza, Rachel Sontag, and Kerry Cohen to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 P.M.

More details, here.

And for more information on the Guerrilla Lit Reading series, see: http://guerrillalit.wordpress.com/

New Book is Here!

2009-06-11T07:45:00.000-07:00

Andrew Zornoza's new novel "Where I Stay" is now available from Tarpaulin Sky Press! Get an early copy here.

Lance Olsen calls it . . . "A gifted journey through borderlands between text and image, glassy prose and suggestively indirect prose poem, facts and fictions, sanity and the other thing, but most of all those borderlands crossed and recrossed on the West's back roads—the kind that always exist just off the grid, just below the radar, and always in beautiful pieces."

. . . Super Flat Times author Matthew Derby says,

"Consider Andrew Zornoza's "Where I Stay" a loose retelling of Werner Herzog's 1974 march from Munich to Paris to try to save a dying friend—only set in the arid, ominous nowherescape of the contemporary Southwest and composed by a strung-out W.G. Sebald. Zornoza dedicates the book to "all those he's lied to" before prosecuting a narrative in stark photographs and crisp, lurid text that will make you wish we had more liars like him in the world."

. . . and Edmund White award winner Martin Hyatt says,

Andrew Zornoza writes with the precision of a poet and delicately creates a haunting, glowing world of dreams and beauty. The language and images of "Where I Stay" make you want to step inside the pages, to travel down the road with the author. Books like this remind us of what true art really looks like.

See (http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/Zornoza/index.html) for more.

Reading Saturday May 30th In NYC

2009-05-25T19:12:00.000-07:00

THE ENCLAVE XXII: THE FESTIVAL OF CRACKED CODES (an afternoon of Punk
Literature)

FEATURING: MICHAEL MUHAMMAD KNIGHT, CRISTY C. ROAD & ANDREW ZORNOZA

Saturday, May 30th @ 3 PM
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street
New York City
Free

MICHAEL MUHAMMAD KNIGHT’s work has been censored, boycotted,
confiscated, and threatened with legal action. He is the author of The
Taqwacores, Blue-Eyed Devil, The Five Percenters, and Impossible Man,
and his novel Osama Van Halen is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press
this spring. He is a frequent speaker at colleges and academic
conferences. The feature film adaptation of The Taqwacores is
currently in post-production, and a documentary about the taqwacore
movement his novel created is also nearing completion. His travelogue
Journey to the End of Islam is forthcoming from Soft Skull in December
2009. He lives in New York state.

CRISTY C. ROAD is a writer and illustrator who’s obsessed with human
imperfection and deconstructing the norms which have sheltered her
world. Aside from illustrating for countless record covers, book
covers, radical organizations, and magazine articles; Road published
an independent zine, Greenzine for ten years, and has released three
books - “Indestructible”, a graphic memoir about being a teenage
Latina, queer punk in High School; and Distance Makes the Heart Grow
Sick”, a postcard collection. She recently released “BAD HABITS”, an
Illustrated love story about a faltering human heart's telepathic
connections to the destruction of New York City. She currently
hibernates in Brooklyn, NY.

ANDREW ZORNOZA is a writer and visual artist born in Houston, Texas.
He is the author of the photo-prose novel, "Where I Stay," (Tarpaulin
Sky Press, 2009). His fiction and essays have appeared in magazines
such as, Sleepingfish, Confrontation, Porcupine Literary Arts, CapGun,
H.O.W and Matter Magazine, among others. He can be found teaching
writing at The New School University and fiction at Gotham Writer's
Workshop.

"Language constitutes a set of codes and social agreements. Speaking
nonsense does not per se break down the codes; speaking precisely that
which the code forbids breaks the code." - ????

Know where this quote comes from? Stop by Cake Shop on the 30th and
find out. You're invited in.

The Enclave is a writers’ collective based out of New York City that
aims to present innovative writing to the public. We host monthly
readings at Cake Shop in the Lower East Side. Our next reading will be
held Saturday June 27th @ 4pm and will feature Paul Ford, Doree
Shafrir and Marty Beckerman. For more information on this reading and
other upcoming Enclave events go to: myspace.com/enclavianmatter.

Restaurant Roundup

2009-05-10T18:59:00.000-07:00

The spring issue of Gastronomica is out! Andrew's "Restaurant Round-Up" graces the final pages as the fiction selection for this edition. RR is the story of a food critic wandering a post-apocalyptic New York trying to keep the city gastronomically relevant while making peace with the past. It's an ode to a world to short-lived for the likes of Dom DiFara, the Second Avenue Deli, Delmonico's, Taqueria CanCun, and Spumoni Gardens. . . .

Upcoming Events

2009-03-19T20:27:00.000-07:00

Upcoming New York Events with the author.

May 13. Silent Auction and Launch for H.O.W. (Helping Orphans Worldwide) Magazine at the Bowery Poetry Club (380 Bowery). 7:00PM. With music from Drug Rug and readings by Sam Lipsyte and Eileen Myles.

May 24 440 Gallery at 4:40 PM.
Reading with the artist Shanee Epstein at the 440 Gallery.

May 29 Enclave Reading Series at The Cake Shop. Andrew reads with Michael Muhammed Knight, author of The Taqwacores. And Christy C. Road author of Bad Habits.

June 26 Guerilla Reading Series. Reading with Rachel Sontag, author of the memoir, House Rules.

Read excerpts at Sleepingfish

2009-01-06T13:23:00.000-08:00

Sleepingfish, the magazine of avant-garde poetics, visual art, and experimental fiction, is hosting a sample of Andrew's work as a part of its N + 1 series. Created by Calimari Press founder Derek White, the series has published artists such as Mathias Svalina, Jimmy Chen, Fortunato Salazar, and Shane Jones. View here.

Video from Restaurant Roundup

2008-11-02T18:13:00.003-08:00

Video coverage of Andrew reading a section of his story Restaurant Roundup (about a dystopian culinary future for New York City) can be seen here. The full length event, including Arlo Crawford reading from his memoir about his father's vegetable farm, can be found here. PBS Channel 13 also rebroadcast the event, including a question and answer session.

Food Writing Forum

2008-11-02T18:13:00.001-08:00

Food Writing Forum: Gastronomica Andrew Zornoza will join Darra Goldstein and Arlo Crawford in a discussion on food, writing, and the award winning magazine, Gastronomica. Darra Goldstein is the founding editor of Gastronomica, a cookbook author, and the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Russian at Williams College. Arlo Crawford's work has appeared in the New York Times magazine (see here) and is currently working on a project about his family's farm in Central Pennsylvania. Moderated by Luis Jaramillo, associate chair of The New School Writing Program. September 9th, 6:30 p.m at Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street). $5 admission

Read "A View" in Matter Magazine

2008-11-02T18:12:00.001-08:00

"The spire was like an upside-down cone wrapped in aluminum sheathing and he saw bits of pink insulation, like pieces of cotton candy, sticking out from the seams in the aluminum. He looked all around and realized he was several stories above the ground. But he was surrounded by the house, too. There was no roof to get upon, the spire was built upon the central core of the staircase. He clung to the metal sheathing and threw both arms around the spire and climbed as high as he could. He searched the layout of the house below for some clue as to how he could find his way to the bottom—but it was no use looking at it from the outside. The land stretched for miles in all directions and the wind picked up and blew on his face. The forest grew out along the horizon like an endless, fecund, rolling ocean of life. He was afraid, but at the same time felt more alive than he ever had: he was in awe of the view and felt that he was just a tiny piece in all of it. A low cloud glided silently by and the cloud was so thick it looked like he could just step on to it. He realized how unhappy he was. His heart was pounding and he tried to picture a life that was better for himself. . . ."

Wolverine Farm Publishing has published "A View," in its latest issue of Matter Magazine. The magazine also includes an illustrated chapbook, "Tree Climbing In Fort Collins," by Charles J. Malone. Matter Magazine is available here.

New story forthcoming in Gastronomica

2008-11-02T18:11:00.001-08:00

Andrew's story, "Restaurant Round-up" (about a restaurant critic coming to grips with a post-apocalyptic New York--a future in which Manhattan is no longer one of the culinary capitals of the world) will appear in the Winter 2008/2009 issue of Gastronomica.

For more information, visit Gastronomica.

"Where I Stay" to be published in 2009

2008-11-02T18:09:00.002-08:00

Tarpaulin Sky Press, a publisher of innovative fiction, cross-genre work, trans-genre work, and other hybrid forms, will be releasing "Where I Stay," in the beginning of 2009. Tarpaulin Sky authors include Jenny Boully ([one love affair]*/The Best American Poetry 2002); Danielle Dutton (Attempts at a Life); and Joyelle McSweeney (The Red Bird/Nylund, The Sarcographer). "Where I Stay," is a photo-prose novel, the travelogue of a boy's journey away from home and into the strange, fractured world of Americans and American geography.

Capgun Release Party

2008-11-02T18:09:00.001-08:00

Capgun Release Party! Capgun is throwing a party to celebrate it's second issue, featuring the work of Lynn Xu, Andrew Zornoza, Rodolfo Hinostroza, Jackie Clark, Tao Lin, Will Hubbard, Rachel B. Glaser and more. 8:30 PM July 24th at The Royal Oak in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

"IN MEMORIAM, A LOVE LETTER TO MY GENERATION."

2008-11-02T18:05:00.000-08:00

Saturday 3:30, March 26, 2007, the Enclave reading series presents "IN MEMORIAM, A LOVE LETTER TO MY GENERATION." A rare opportunity to hear some of the east coast's newest writers on the cutting edge. Readers will include Idra Novey, Yew Leong Lee, Andrew Zornoza and more. Free and open to the public: Kenny's Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street NY, NY