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DESCRIPTION:Jaime Cortez and Camille Roy in performance and in conversation.\n\nSome 
 people have to walk around with so many sad stories. They have to get up, 
 brush their teeth, wash their face, go to work like everybody else, but 
 they’re not like everyone else. Jaime Cortez is a wise guy with a wide 
 heart, who sees what ‘no one else wants to see.’ These funny/tragic 
 tales, luminescent with love, are lanterns for our dark times. —Sandra 
 Cisneros\n\nThis is a huge book; it belongs in the canon of the best queer 
 writers. To read Honey Mine is to be inhabited by the largesse of the word 
 ‘lesbian,’ body, sex, sexuality. And by a lesbian aesthetic of human 
 relations, bookended by the author’s magnificent enduring love with her 
 late partner Angie. These fictions, in resisting…before the theorems 
 arrive… teleological primness, parade language nimble enough to absorb 
 class, cities, memory, grief, shame, without sacrificing a cornucopia of 
 pleasures. Like a tarte tatin, Honey Mine spills over with deliciousness. 
 My tactic vis a vis narrative, says Camille Roy, is really just to bring 
 abandonment into the relationship. She succeeds marvelously. —Gail 
 Scott\n\nJaime Cortez is a graphic novelist, visual artist, writer, 
 teacher, and occasional performer. Cortez has historically used art and 
 humor to explore sexuality, social justice, HIV/AIDS, and Chicano identity. 
 The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo (Black 
 Cat/Grove Atlantic, 2021) is set in a migrant workers camp near 
 Watsonville, California in the 1970s.\n\nCamille Roy’s most recent book 
 is ​Honey Mine: Collected Stories, edited by Lauren Levin and Eric 
 Sneathen (Nightboat Books, 2021). Other books include Sherwood Forest​ 
 (Futurepoem), ​Cheap Speech​, a play from Leroy Chapbooks, and 
 ​Craquer​, a fictional autobiography from 2nd Story Books, as well as 
 ​Swarm​ (fiction, from Black Star Series). She co-edited ​Biting The 
 Error: Writers Explore Narrative​ (Coach House 2005, re-issued 2010). 
 Earlier books include ​The Rosy Medallions​ (poetry and prose, from 
 Kelsey St. Press) and ​Cold Heaven​ (plays, from Leslie Scalapino’s O 
 Books). Recent work has been published in Amerarcana and at Open Space 
 (SFMOMA).\nThis in-person event is free and open to the public; audience 
 will be limited to half normal room capacity, and proof of vaccination and 
 masks are required. Video of the event will be live-streamed to our YouTube 
 channel.\n\n\nCosponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green 
 Arcade\nSupported by the National Endowment for the Arts\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/10/05/18845424.php
SUMMARY:Cortez and Roy Reading From New Books Mining Honey and Gordo
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\nSan Francisco, CA  94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/10/05/18845424.php
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