Colin Winnette will appear in-conversation with Kate Folk, the Spring Writer-in-Residence at the Center of Literary Arts for San Jose State University on May 7 @ 7PM.
More details: https://www.clasanjose.org/kate-folk
The 44th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award Celebration on May 2, 2024 will honor this year’s distinguished books and authors: Jamel Brinkley, Henry Hoke, Claire Jiménez, Alice McDermott, and Colin Winnette.
This literary evening will feature presentations by the judges; original readings by the winner and four finalists; and a celebration of David Baldacci, the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion.
Tickets are available here: https://www.penfaulkner.org/2024-pen-faulkner-award-celebration/
On April 18, there will be a one-time, site-specific performance of USERS, a short play based on the novel USERS by Colin Winnette.
Seating is extremely limited — get your tickets now: users.brownpapertickets.com
Details:
USERS
Adapted by Colin Winnette
Directed by Satya Bhabha
4/18 @ 6:30pm (sharp)
1911 Alta St.
LA, CA
90031
Parking may be limited so plan to arrive early or take a ride share.
Starring:
George Basil as Miles 1
Tyler Parks as Miles 2
John Fleck as Miles 3
Lindsey Garrett as Claire
Syra McCarthy as Lily
BIOS:
GEORGE BASIL is an American actor known for his work in Crashing (2017), Flaked (2016) and Werewolves Within (2021).
SATYA BHABHA is a director, writer, and performer born in London and based in Los Angeles. His work blurs the line between performance and reality, often drawing inspiration from historical figures or classic texts. Satya has worked with theatres such as The Public Theatre, St Anns Warehouse, The Signature Theatre, Shakespeares Globe in London, and the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles. He trained at Yale, where he was awarded the Sudler Prize for the Arts, and got his start working with the Olivier Award winning immersive theatre company SHUNT. His widely varied work ranges from writing and directing the 48-hour luxury travel adventure The Headlands Gamble, which was featured in The New York Times and likened by Bloomberg to walking around inside the worlds most assiduously designed movie, to adapting and directing a radically modernized production of Molieres Tartuffe skewering religious hypocrisy in the #MeToo era at The Echo Theatre in LA. In 2023 he premiered his original performance piece TRUE STORY in Copenhagen, which has subsequently performed in festivals throughout Europe, as well as in New York and LA. He is the artistic director of Public Assembly is a non-profit theatre company dedicated to the mission of reinventing community theatre in LA and beyond. Satya also directs television and film, having premiered projects at TIFF, SXSW, and Palm Springs. He has directed for networks such as Showtime, Apple, HBOMax, Hulu, and Amazon.
JOHN FLECK is an American actor and performance artist known for his work in Waterworld (1995), Falling Down (1993) and Velvet Buzzsaw (2019).
LINDSEY GARRETT PEAR has happily come out of acting retirement for this convivial occasion. Thanks to Satya Bhabha and Colin Winnette.
SYRA MCCARTHY is Syra (sigh-ruh) is a 52 half Filipino, half New Zealander first generation American. Say it five times fast. What she lacks in physical size she makes up for in imagination. A director as well as an actor she uses both identities like Batman and Bruce Wayne working to keep the city of Gotham safe. Moving with grace between different styles of film from cinematic surrealism to smart quirky comedyMcCarthy approaches filmmaking with a stylistic flair that subverts expectations. Directing for brands like Google, Angi, Olly, Scotch-Brite, Fords Gin, and Square, her work was recently featured in the New York Times . (Insert another appealing accolade here). Syra is also the co-creator or Soft Hold Collective, a Bay Area film directory highlighting female & non-binary talent behind the camera. When she is not on set, you can probably find her camping in the forest with her cat Ringo.
TYLER PARKS is an American actor, singer-songwriter, and dancer best known for his appearances on Westworld (HBO) , Ride (Helen Hunt), and The Perfect Sacrifice.
COLIN WINNETTE is the author of several books. His latest novel USERS was a Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, a New York Times Editors Choice Pick, a New Yorker Best Book of 2023, and was called the first great novel about virtual reality by The Nation.
Powell’s Books @ 7pm
1005 W Burnside St
Portland, OR
Colin Winnette will celebrate the paperback launch of USERS with Laura Gibson, Kevin Maloney, and Willy Vlautin.
Green Apple Books on the Park (9th ave)
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - 7:00pm
Colin Winnette will celebrate the paperback launch of USERS with performances by April Magazine, Kate Folk, Daniel Pearce, Natalie So, and Suzanne Wang.
RSVP here: https://thethirdplace.is/event/colin-winnette/rsvp
Franklin Park Reading Series @ 8pm
618 St. Johns Place, between Franklin and Classon Aves
Colin Winnette will be reading at the Franklin Park Anniversary Show with Hernan Diaz, Sloane Crosley, and more!
Hidden Palace Series
FS Upstairs Tavern
3 W 23rd St
Thursday, March 7th, 7pm
Dora Malech, Kelsey Norris, Alexander Sammartino, and Colin Winnette
Booksmith at 7pm
1727 Haight Street
SF, CA
Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 7:00pm
Colin Winnette will appear in conversation with Blake Butler, discussing Butler’s new memoir “Molly.”
Blake Butler is the author of nine book-length works, including Alice Knott (Riverhead), 300,000,000 (Harper Perennial), Sky Saw (Tyrant Books), There is No Year (Harper Perennial), Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books), and Ever (Calamari Press), as well as the nonfictional Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia (Harper Perennial). His short fiction, interviews, reviews, and essays have appeared widely, including in The Believer, The New York Times, Bomb, Bookforum, and as an ongoing column at Vice. In 2021, he was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. He is a founding editor of HTMLGIANT.
Colin Winnette is the Writer in Residence at the Center for Literary Arts (San Jose)
This includes a public reading and Q&A, joined by Kate Folk
Thursday, November 16, 12:00 PM
MLK Library, Room 225
General Admission: Free
Colin Winnette will appear in conversation with Molly McGhee to discuss her debut novel Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind at Green Apple Books on the Park on Wednesday, Nov 8 at 7PM.
Read about the event: https://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-molly-mcghee-colin-winnette
Learn about the book, one of “The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2023” as per The Observer.
Buy Users too while you’re at it.
Colin Winnette will appear as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival on October 1st, 2023.
He will be reading and signing his new novel Users.
For more information, visit the BBF website.
On Saturday, September 9, Babylon Salon proudly presents our Fall 2023 performance featuring Beth Winegarner (San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries), Terry Tierney (Lucky Ride), Doug Henderson (The Cleveland Heights Sci-Fi & Fantasy Role Playing Club), Colin Winnette (Users), and Danielle Truppi (Happy Endings Reading Series).
Come on out for drinks at 5pm in the outdoor covered patio in the back! Reading starts promptly at 5:30pm. As always, admission is free.
The Sycamore is located at 2140 Mission St in San Francisco (near 16th St Mission BART).
In partnership with our friends at The Booksmith, 1727 Haight Street.
7/13 - 7pm @ The Booksmith
Colin Winnette will celebrate the launch of RIPE with author Sarah Rose Etter.
Event details and registration here: https://www.booksmith.com/event/sarah-rose-etter
Sat, May 6 @ 11:30am - Brower Center - Tamalpais Room
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Akil Kumarasamy, Josh Riedel, Allie Rowbottom, Nina Schuyler, Colin Winnette
“The sun was setting over the vast, sprawling city as the Book Festival kicked off its first session of the evening. A diverse group of authors had gathered to discuss their latest works, each bringing their own unique perspective and voice to the literary world.” If you like the sound of that session description, perhaps your friendly book festival staff should be worried—it was written by an AI-fueled chatbot in the style of Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001. Novelists’ jobs might be safe—for now—but the authors in this session aren’t afraid to use their fiction to contend with the looming future of tech. Akil Kumarasamy (Meet Us by the Roaring Sea), Josh Riedel (Please Report Your Bug Here), Nina Schuyler (Afterword), Allie Rowbottom (Aesthetica), and Colin Winnette (Users) explore virtual reality, aesthetic procedures, dating apps, and, yes, AI—but their new novels, like so much timeless fiction, are really about the pricelessness of human connection. Moderated by Noah Stern, this provocative discussion will equip attendees for a bold new future—or at least be prepared with a good book at the ready.
Book signing information: Bookshop West Portal, at the venue
With the support of SACHI
Moderator: Noah Stern
More info: https://www.baybookfest.org/session/fiction-and-tech/
Mysterious Galaxy
w/ Julia Dixon Evans
7PM
Mysterious Galaxy
3555 Rosecrans St, Suite 107
San Diego, CA 92110
Skylight Books
w/ Alissa Nutting
7PM
Skylight Books
1818 N Vermont Ave
LA, CA
POWERHOUSE
w/ Benjamin Samuel (Managing Editor of BOMB Magazine)
7PM
POWERHOUSE
28 Adams St
Brooklyn, NY
https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-book-launch-users-by-colin-winnette/
Gallery Bookshop
w/ TBD
6PM
Gallery Bookshop
319 Kasten St #270
Mendocino, CA 95460
Celebrate the launch of USERS by Colin Winnette
w/ special guests TBD
7:30PM
Booksmith
1727 Haight St
San Francisco, CA 94117
Happy Endings
w/ TBD
Special event: The Launch of The Ghost Lover™.
7PM
Make-Out Room
3225 22nd St
SF, CA
Colin Winnette will be returning to the Literary Death Match stage as part of this year’s Litquake.
Colin will interview NY Times best-selling author Esmé Weijun Wang about her work on Friday (3/18) at 7pm PT at the Center for Literary Arts in San Jose!
This event is free, open to the public, and will be live-streamed.
https://events.sjsu.edu/event/cla_presents_esme_weijun_wang
Watch This One is a monthly film/literature series for people who love both, or either. Featured authors introduce a film of their choosing, then we watch it.
For our inaugural event, Carmen Maria Machado will introduce a film of her choosing. For updates, to RSVP, and to learn the name of the selected film, join our mailing list at: https://tinyletter.com/watchthisone
Colin Winnette will talk with Andre Perry at San Francisco’s City Lights Books about Perry’s new memoir Some of Us are Very Hungry Now, forthcoming from Two Dollar Radio.
Colin will join former contributors to The Believer magazine for a reading at the Mechanics’ Institute.
Contributors include Jeff Chang, Esme Weijun Wang, Steve Silberman, Jesse Nathan, and Anisse Gross. Hosted by Theodore Gioia.
Colin will host the launch of Sarah Rose Etter’s debut novel The Book of X.
Featuring readings from Sarah Rose Etter, Tommy Pico, and C Pam Zhang. Music by Gregory DiMartino.
The Bindery SF, 7PM.
Colin Winnette will appear in conversation with Barbara Bourland, in support of her new novel FAKE LIKE ME.
Barbara Bourland is the author of the critically acclaimed I'll Eat When I'm Dead, an Irish Independent Book of the Year. Bourlandis a former freelance writer and web producer for titles at Condé Nast and Hearst, among others. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and their dogs. Her second novel Fake Like Me was written with support from The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY, whereBourland was a resident over the winter of 2017-2018.
Colin Winnette will appear in conversation with debut-novelist and National Book Award Longlister Daniel Gumbiner, to discuss his novel The Boatbuilder.
Arques Boatbuilding School
600 Gate 5 Road
Sausalito, CA
