Event

Elizabeth Tallent in conversation with Shannon Pufahl

Sponsored by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler's

Thursday, November 12, 2015
7:30pm

Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Mendocino Fire: Stories

The triumphant, long-awaited return of a writer of remarkable gifts: in this collection of richly imagined storiesher first new work in twenty yearsthe master of short fiction delivers a diverse suite of stories about men and women confronting their vulnerabilities in times of transition and challenge.

"Elizabeth Tallent is, and always has been, a vivid, meticulous, and astutely inviting writer. These new stories vitally tell us how things are for us, in the most acute and memorable ways. Her ear is perfect; her gaze searing and unmistakable." -Richard Ford

With this breathtaking collection, Elizabeth Tallent cements her rightful place in the literary pantheon beside her contemporaries Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and Louise Erdrich. Visceral and surprising, profound yet elemental, Mendocino Fire is a welcome visit with a wise and familiar friend.

Elizabeth Tallent is the author of a novel, Museum Pieces, and three collections of short stories, In Constant Flight,Time with Children, and Honey, and a study of John Updike's fiction, Married Men and Magic Tricks. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, Grand Street, The Paris Review, and The Threepenny Review, and in The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Award collections.

Shannon Pufahl is a Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University, where she was previously a Stegner Fellow in fiction. She is at work on a novel set in the American West about gambling and surveillance in the post-War period, and on a collection of essays on topics ranging from John Brown to taxidermy to the nude in Western art.

The event is free - please register today.