Corinna Vallianatos with Colin Winnette
On Thursday, February 6 at 7pm, Corinna Vallianatos will celebrate her collection, Origin Stories, with Colin Winnette at Green Apple Books on the Park (9th Ave)!
Where: Books on the Park on 9th Avenue, 1231 9th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94122
Free to Attend, Please RSVP
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About Origin Stories:
“Corinna Vallianatos can make an entire soul come shining out of the smallest phrase.”-Kevin Brockmeier
The stories in Origin Stories take as their subject the sources of love, marriage, motherhood, friendship, artistic ambition, restiveness, and shame. Their characters perceive more than they can explain, want more than they can have, and contend with the bounty and frugality of their relationships. In “This Isn’t the Actual Sea,” a woman considers that her friend’s failure and sudden success have given her the material she needs to write something of her own, if she’s willing to risk the friendship to do so. “The Artist’s Wife” describes, in a painting stowed in a bowling alley broom closet, the chasm between seeing and being seen. “Dogwood” is a piece of lyric reportage on beauty, family, and survival whose sections range from the narrator’s childhood to her son’s new adulthood. And “Origin Story” acts as an accounting of the many different states where a woman and her husband have lived, and what it is they’ve been searching for.
In this keen, meditative collection set in Southern California and Virginia, Corinna Vallianatos dramatizes the bonds of mother and child, the self-destruction of young womanhood, the thrill and bewilderment of friendship, and the power of place.
Origin Stories is filled with humor, longing, beauty, and belief.
About Corinna Vallianatos:
Corinna Vallianatos is the author of The Beforeland and My Escapee, winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2023, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. She lives in California and Virginia.
About Colin Winnette:
Colin Winnette is the author of several books, including The Job of the Wasp (an ABA Indie Next Pick) and the indie best-seller Coyote. He was a Finalist for the 2024 Pen/Faulkner Award for his latest novel Users, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick, a New Yorker Best Book of 2023, and was called the “first great novel about virtual reality” by The Nation. He lives in San Francisco and can be found online at colinwinnette.com.
