Fiction writer Grant Faulkner teamed with photographer Gail Butensky to create a truly unique book; something out there in the distance is a "flash novel" made up of short-short stories in conversation with photographs about two lovers on a reckless, searching road trip through the American West. Dawn is a photographer who captures desert landscapes and is fleeing from a terminal illness. Jonny drives just to drive, running away from the end of time or running toward the end of time, looking for a home even as his restlessness overtakes him.
It's a photo book. It’s a novel. It’s both.
Oscar Villalon will be in conversation with Grant Faulkner about the book, and Grant will also do a reading in accompaniment with the photos from the book.
Villalon is the editor at the San Francisco literary journal ZYZZYVA, winner of a Whiting Literary Magazine Prize in 2022. His writing has been published in Stranger’s Guide, Freeman’s, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. He lives with his family in San Francisco.
LOCATION:Main Library - Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room A CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER:-PT1440M ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Event Reminder - Author: Grant Faulkner, something out there in the distance END:VALARM END:VCALENDAR