Wed November 7, 2018
Micah Perks / True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
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The Bindery hosts a special evening with Micah Perks for her linked story collection True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. Joining her are Kate Schatz (Rad Girls Can) and Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Lava Falls). Save the date!
Magical and funny, profound and seductive, the linked stories inTrue Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California.
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Micah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two other novels, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here, and a memoir, Pagan Time. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, The Toast, OZY and The Rumpus, amongst many journals and anthologies. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com.
Kate Schatz is the New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z, Rad Women Worldwide, Rad Girls Can, and the illustrated journal My Rad Life. She’s a writer, activist, public speaker, and educator, who’s been passionate about both writing and politics since she was a kid. She’s a co-founder of Solidarity Sundays, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups, and she lives with her kids, cats, and partner on the island of Alameda. More at radgirlscan.com.
Lucy Jane Bledsoe's most recent novel, The Evolution of Love, came out in May 2018, and her collection of short fiction—a novella and stories at the intersection of wilderness, family, and survival—will be released in September 2018. Her work has won many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, the American Library Association Stonewall Award, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships.
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Magical and funny, profound and seductive, the linked stories inTrue Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California.
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Micah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two other novels, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here, and a memoir, Pagan Time. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, The Toast, OZY and The Rumpus, amongst many journals and anthologies. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com.
Kate Schatz is the New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z, Rad Women Worldwide, Rad Girls Can, and the illustrated journal My Rad Life. She’s a writer, activist, public speaker, and educator, who’s been passionate about both writing and politics since she was a kid. She’s a co-founder of Solidarity Sundays, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups, and she lives with her kids, cats, and partner on the island of Alameda. More at radgirlscan.com.
Lucy Jane Bledsoe's most recent novel, The Evolution of Love, came out in May 2018, and her collection of short fiction—a novella and stories at the intersection of wilderness, family, and survival—will be released in September 2018. Her work has won many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, the American Library Association Stonewall Award, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships.
The Bindery hosts a special evening with Micah Perks for her linked story collection True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. Joining her are Kate Schatz (Rad Girls Can) and Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Lava Falls). Save the date!
Magical and funny, profound and seductive, the linked stories inTrue Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California.
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Micah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two other novels, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here, and a memoir, Pagan Time. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, The Toast, OZY and The Rumpus, amongst many journals and anthologies. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com.
Kate Schatz is the New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z, Rad Women Worldwide, Rad Girls Can, and the illustrated journal My Rad Life. She’s a writer, activist, public speaker, and educator, who’s been passionate about both writing and politics since she was a kid. She’s a co-founder of Solidarity Sundays, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups, and she lives with her kids, cats, and partner on the island of Alameda. More at radgirlscan.com.
Lucy Jane Bledsoe's most recent novel, The Evolution of Love, came out in May 2018, and her collection of short fiction—a novella and stories at the intersection of wilderness, family, and survival—will be released in September 2018. Her work has won many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, the American Library Association Stonewall Award, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships.
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Magical and funny, profound and seductive, the linked stories inTrue Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California.
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Micah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two other novels, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here, and a memoir, Pagan Time. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, The Toast, OZY and The Rumpus, amongst many journals and anthologies. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com.
Kate Schatz is the New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z, Rad Women Worldwide, Rad Girls Can, and the illustrated journal My Rad Life. She’s a writer, activist, public speaker, and educator, who’s been passionate about both writing and politics since she was a kid. She’s a co-founder of Solidarity Sundays, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups, and she lives with her kids, cats, and partner on the island of Alameda. More at radgirlscan.com.
Lucy Jane Bledsoe's most recent novel, The Evolution of Love, came out in May 2018, and her collection of short fiction—a novella and stories at the intersection of wilderness, family, and survival—will be released in September 2018. Her work has won many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, the American Library Association Stonewall Award, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships.
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