Author Readings and Lectures

Author: Grant Faulkner, something out there in the distance

In Conversation with ZYZZYVA's Oscar Villalon
Thursday, 2/26/2026
6:00 - 7:30
Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room A
Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room B
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

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.

 

Author Readings & Lectures

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This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

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