Words to Our Now: Thomas Glave on Tour

Fiction writer and essayist Thomas Glave is on tour in support of his new book Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (University of Minnesota Press). Glave is also the author of the short story collection Whose Song? And Other Songs. Glave’s work is, in a word, provocative—he aims to provoke real change in a world increasingly given to real forms of terror. And Glave has known terror first hand, given his work as a founding member of Jamaica Forum of Lesbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays(J-FLAG).

One of the most provocative essays in Words to Our Now is “Regarding a Black Male Monica Lewinsky, Anal Penetration, and Bill Clinton’s Sacred White Anus.” I was fortunate to be on a panel with Glave a few years ago when he presented an earlier version of this essay, to an audience that was stunned silent. All of Glave’s work has that kind of power.

Here’s a recent conversation between Glave and Masani Alexis De Veaux. Glave’s West Coast tour stops are below.


LOS ANGELES, CA:
Lucy Florence Coffee House, Nov 26, 2005
6:00 PM
3351 West 43rd Street
Los Angeles
Tel. 323 293 1256

LOS ANGELES, CA:
A Different Light Bookstore, Nov 27, 2005
7:00 PM
8853 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood/Los Angeles
Tel. 310 854 6601
www.ADLbooks.com

SAN FRANCISCO, CA:
City Lights Bookstore, NOV 29, 2005
7:00 PM
261 Columbus Avenue
Tel 415 362 8193
San Francisco
www.citylights.com
CONTACT: Peter Taravalis, peter@citylights.com

SAN FRANCISCO, CA:
Alexander Book Company, NOV 30, 2005
12:30 PM
50 Second Street
San Francisco
Tel: 415 495 2992
http://alexanderbook.booksense.com
CONTACT: Bernard Henderson

SAN FRANCISCO, CA:
A Different Light Bookstore, NOV 30, 2005
7:00 PM
489 Castro Street
San Francisco
Tel 415 431 0891
CONTACT: Scott LaForce, ADLSFEvents@aol.com

STANFORD, CA:
Stanford University Bookstore, DEC 1, 2005
6:00 PM
White Plaza, Stanford
Tel 650 329 1217
Tel 800 533 2670
CONTACT: Michelle Carson, m.Carson@bookstore.stanford.org
www.stanfordbookstore.com

OAKLAND, CA:
Marcus Books, DEC 2, 2005
6:30 PM
3900 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way
Oakland
Tel: 510 652 2344
CONTACT: Blanche Richardson, blancherich@aol.com