upcoming events

Apr
14

Rivers & Tides: Film & Discussion with Jenny Odell, Zyzzyva Magazine, The Roxie, and Litquake

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with a book signing. Movie introduction starts promptly at 6, followed by a conversation at the end of the screening.

Books! Banter! Cinema!


ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid Rojas Contreras returns! A film series made for San Francisco, held at the beloved Roxie Theatre in the Mission District and co-hosted by ZYZZYVA Editor Oscar Villalon, every ZYZZYVA Movie Night will feature an acclaimed writer sharing with you one of their favorite films—along with a reading list that speaks to their selected title. ZYZZYVA Movie Night is co-presented with the Roxie and Litquake, San Francisco’s literary festival (October 9-25, 2025).

Our 2025 series kicks off on Monday, April 14, with Lauren Markham & Jenny Odell and the cult-hit documentary River and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time (2001) River and Tides examines the breath-taking outdoor sculptures of Goldsworthy, who only works with natural material and whose art (some of which can be found in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and the Presidio and at Stanford) was designed to “deteriorate.” Markham calls River and Tides “a study of reverence and impermanence that invites us to approach our art — and the world we live in — with a simultaneous diligence and improvisation, artistry and exertion, attention and whimsy, curiosity and devotion.”

The film will be introduced by Markham, whose most recent book, Immemorial (Transit Books)—a dazzling synthesis of reporting, memoir, and essay—meditates on language in the face of climate catastrophe. Following the movie, there will be a short conversation between Markham and Odell about River and Tides.

Seating is limited. Order your ticket today!

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Mar
27

A Very Public Feeling: Event with the LA Review of Books

Join Los Angeles Review of Books for A Very Public Feeling, a literary party during AWP, the biggest writer’s conference of the year. On Thursday, March 27, at 7 p.m., we invite you to join us to celebrate two of the things we love most: writing and feeling. Whether it’s crying on a park bench, taking your shoes off at TSA, or reading your poetry in front of strangers, A Very Public Feeling is the sense that being perceived is all a part of the collective soup of human experience.

Hear from LARB contributors and enjoy a drink at the Granada Buildings, a historic epicenter of creativity and the arts, and the home of LARB here in Los Angeles. With readings from LARB contributors Bryan Byrdlong, Victoria Chang, Tongo Eisen-Martin, K. Iver, Lauren Markham, Chris Molnar, Maya Popa, and Greta Rainbow.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is encouraged as space is limited. Street parking is available. The event is located about 10 minutes from the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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Mar
27

AWP Panel: Failing Again, Failing Better: The Joys of Revision (Los Angeles)

Failing Again, Failing Better: The Joys of Revision

With Chris Feliciano Arnold, Camille Rankine, Ingrid Rojas Contreras and R.O. Kwon

Must revision be all tax and toil? How might it be a process of exaltation and discovery, of further connecting with the thing we’re making to better understand what it needs of us? This cross-genre panel featuring widely published writers of poetry, memoir, journalism, essays, and fiction will engage with the challenges and demands of revision, and offer insight into their own revision strategies, including before and after samples and visual portrayals of their revision processes over time.

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Mar
2

What's Creative Nonfiction, anyway? With Ingrid Rojas Contreras at Page Street in Berkeley, CA

What's Creative Nonfiction, anyway?

Award-winning writers Lauren Markham and Ingrid Rojas Contreras explore all the shapes Creative Nonfiction can take.

From memoir to journalism to linked essays to think pieces, Creative Nonfiction can wear a lot of hats. In this conversation between two award-winning writers, a memoirist and journalist/essayist, we'll explore all the shapes Creative Nonfiction can take, including some unconventional ones, as well as how and where to get your Creative Nonfiction published.

After the craft talk, books will be for sale and prosecco will be served.

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Feb
27

Mrs Dalloways with Rachel Richardson, Berkeley, CA

Richardson and Markham come together for a lively and timely discussion of their two new books, both with themes of climate catastrophe. Click here for more details and to register for this free event.

 Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Event address: 

Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore

2904 College Avenue

Berkeley, CA 94705

https://www.mrsdalloways.com/events/rachel-richardson-smother-and-lauren-markham-immemorial-read-their-new-books

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