"Story Telling" Series at Hosfelt Gallery, SF October 29, 2008

As part of the exhibition “Vocabularies of Metaphor: More Stories,” Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco is pleased to host a series of evenings of writers reading their short stories.

October 29: Barry Gifford has received awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. David Lynch’s film Wild at Heart, which was based on Gifford’s novel, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990, and his novel Perdita Durango was made into a feature film by Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia in 1997. With Lynch, he co-wrote the film Lost Highway (1997); he also co-wrote City of Ghosts (2003) with director Matt Dillon, as well as the libretto for Ichiro Nodaira’s opera Madrugada (2005). His books include The Phantom Father, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Wyoming, which has been adapted for the stage and film and named a Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year; The Sinaloa Story; The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room; Do the Blind Dream?; the story collection The Stars Above Veracruz; and The Cavalry Charges(essays). His work has appeared in Punch, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Sport, the New York Times, El Pais, El Universal, La Republica, Brick, Projections, La Nouvelle Revue Française and many other publications. He’ll be reading something from his most recent book, Memories from a Sinking Ship.

The “Story Telling” program was curated by longtime arts and literary editor for San Francisco magazine,Pamela Feinsilber, who is now working on assorted arts ventures, among them consulting on literary and nonfiction manuscripts and proposals, leading a monthly book group and author discussion at Book Passage, and freelance writing and editing. Her essay “The Long and Short of Lit,” championing the short story, appeared in the July issue of San Francisco magazine and led to an hour-long discussion on Michael Krasny’s KQED-FM radio program Forum.

Hosfelt Gallery San Francisco is located at 430 Clementina Street, between Howard & Folsom and 5th and 6th streets. Hours are Tuesday – Saturday 11-5:30. For more information, call 415.495.5454 or visit www.hosfeltgallery.com

Each event will begin at 6.30 p.m. and there will be no admittance after 7 p.m.

Official Website: http://www.hosfeltgallery.com