"A brilliant meditation on personality and place" with Daniel Alarcón

 

On Thursday, February 8th, City of Asylum will host a reading with Pen-Faulkner Award-finalist Daniel Alarcón who will be discussing his new collection The King is Always Above the People, longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction.

 

If you are unfamiliar with City of Asylum, we are an organization that helps to provide asylum to endangered writers and artists in exile. To further this mission, we host weekly events (free of charge!) that foster awareness and cultural exchange, as well as bolster a sense of community here in Pittsburgh's Northside.  

 

You can also check out the full event at: http://www.alphabetcity.org/events/daniel-alarcon/ And if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me at this email address.

 

 

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Daniel Alarcón   Thursday, February 8th 8 p.m.  City of Asylum @ Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue FREE!   Click here for free tickets!   "These stories explore immigration, family loyalty and redemption. Alarcón throws his characters into high-stakes situations to draw out humanity where it seems little hope is left."  —The Washington Post "Alarcón is an empathic observer of the isolated human, whether isolated by emigration or ambition, blindness or loneliness, poverty or war. His stories have a reporter's mix of kindness and detachment, and perhaps as a result, his endings land like a punch in the gut."  —NPR   Daniel Alarcón is a Pen-Faulkner Award-finalist and Executive Producer of NPR's Latin American Storytelling series Radio Ambulante. His new collection of stories, The King is Always Above the People, has been longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction and praised widely for its style and its incisive wisdom.      The King is Always Above the People is an urgent, essential collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys. Richly drawn and full of unforgettable characters, this incisive collection reveals experiences both unsettling and unknown, and yet always eerily familiar.   Daniel's reading will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. This reading marks the launch of our 2018 International Fiction Series, curated by City of Asylum Visiting Writer-in-Residence Porochista Khakpour. He is the third writer in The New Yorker's 2010 "20 under 40" class to read at City of Asylum, joining David Bezmozgis and Gary Shteyngart.          Click here for free tickets!     At City of Asylum, we want our events to be welcoming and accessible to all people.  All floors of Alphabet City are wheelchair accessible and there is a reserved parking spot.  Thanks to the generous support of RAD, we also have hearing assistive systems available for all programs, by advance request.  If you have questions or are in need of accommodations, please contact us.     Click here to contact us about accessibility accommodations       Copyright © 2018 City of Asylum, All rights reserved. You're receiving this email because you signed up to receive news from City of Asylum, either online or at one of our events. Our mailing address is: City of Asylum 40 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa 15212