The Pacific Standard Fiction Series w. ANNE LANDSMAN April 29, 2008

The Pacific Standard Fiction Series: Art, Politics, and Murder
featuring Francisco Goldman, Anne Landsman, and Ceridwen Dovey

Tuesday, April 29th, 7:00 p.m.
82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York (between St. Marks and Bergen)
hosted by Garth Risk Hallberg

Books available on-site!
Drink specials to be chosen by dartboard!
Come see why New York Magazine named us "Best New Literary Event of 2008!"

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Francisco Goldman's novels, THE LONG NIGHT OF WHITE CHICKENS, THE ORDINARY SEAMAN, and THE DIVINE HUSBAND, have been finalists for honors including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. His latest book, THE ART OF POLITICAL MURDER, extends the themes of his fiction as it explores the real-life assassination of Bishop Juan Gerardi, the Guatemalan human rights leader. The Washington Post called it "a passionate cry of outrage that should be read and passed on by anyone who believes, as Goldman proves here, that truth is always more improbable than fiction." Truth; fiction...tonight, he will read a little of both.

"Goldman, a highly artistic writer of conscience, delves more deeply
into the injustices and paradoxes of Central American society with
each book.... Ultimately, he not only dramatizes the fate of one lush
but unlucky Central American country but also conjures the very spirit
of humankind in all its perfidy and splendor." -Booklist

South African-born Anne Landsman's new novel, THE ROWING LESSON, was a recent New York Times Editor's Choice. "[Its] beauty, wrote O Magazine, "is in its fluid metaphors, its urgent storytelling laced
with fragments of Afrikaans, and [its] lyric desperation." Landsman's
first novel, THE DEVIL'S CHIMNEY, was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She has contributed regularly to The Believer Magazine.

"Nothing about this curriculum vitae conveys the visceral appeal of
Anne Landsman's second novel...a book that puts readers as deep into
[its protagonist] as if he had been opened up on the table before us.
Landsman is a gambler, and here she risks everything." -The New York
Times

Ceridwen Dovey's debut novel, BLOOD KIN, will be published in 14
countries, and has been shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize
and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book. "Refreshingly
spiky and precise...startling and original," wrote Entertainment
Weekly. Dovey earned her Masters in Creative Writing at the University
of Cape Town in her native South Africa, and is currently pursuing a
Ph. D. in Social Anthropology here in the States.

"A fable of the arrogance of power, beneath whose dreamlike surface
swirl currents of complex sensuality." -J.M. Coetzee

Host Garth Risk Hallberg is the author of A FIELD GUIDE TO THE NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY. The Pacific Standard Fiction Series aims to showcase the intense and varied literary energies of Brooklyn by pairing writers from the borough and beyond. We offer fine stories and
appealing beverages in a civilized setting. For more information,
please visit www.pacificstandardbrooklyn.com.

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