Events in March 2023
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- Between Worlds: A Conversation with Stephanie Barbé Hammer
Between Worlds: A Conversation with Stephanie Barbé Hammer
Between Worlds: A Conversation with Stephanie Barbé Hammer
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March 5, 2023Conversations at the Culver
Between Worlds: A Conversation with Stephanie Barbé Hammer
Location: Downtown Riverside
1:30-3:00 PM
Doors open at 1:00 PM
Free and open to the public.
The veil between the real and the surreal is thin wherever Hammer’s writing goes. Where do her ideas come from? How does publishing a book change her relationship with it? Why magical realism? In conversation with Cati Porter, Stephanie Barbé Hammer will share her secret alchemy for making magically real books.
The world of Stephanie Barbe Hammer’s writing is inhabited by the ghosts of Houdini and David Foster Wallace and Eva Gabor, magical talking tattoos, the trees of the Pacific Northwest, and swimming and puppets, among other things. The veil between the real and the surreal is thin wherever Hammer’s writing goes. Where do her ideas come from? How does publishing a book change her relationship with it? Why the fascination with magical realism? In conversation with Cati Porter, Stephanie will share her secret alchemy for making magically real books.
Books will be available for sale and signing.
Stephanie Barbé Hammer is a seven time Pushcart Prize nominee in fiction, nonfiction and poetry and is the author of two poetry collections (How Formal? City Slicker: Encounters with the Outside), two novels (The Puppet Turners of Narrow Interior; Pretend Plumber), a novelette (Rescue Plan), and a how to write magical realism craft book (Delicious Strangeness).
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- An Evening with Hong-My Basrai and Behind the Red Curtain
An Evening with Hong-My Basrai and Behind the Red Curtain
An Evening with Hong-My Basrai and Behind the Red Curtain
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March 23, 2023An Evening with Author Hong-My Basrai and Behind the Red Curtain
Riverside Civil Rights Institute
3933 Mission Inn Avenue
Riverside, CA 92501
6:00-7:30 PM
Free and open to the public. All are welcome.
Join Inlandia at the Civil Rights Institute for an evening with Hong-My Basrai, author of Behind the Red Curtain, a Memoir. Learn Hong-My’s story of living in fallen Saigon under communism, and how she and her family survived following the end of the Vietnam War.
Books will be available for sale and signing. Refreshments will be served.
Born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam, Hong-My Basrai (née Lê Thị) is fluent in Vietnamese and French. From a very young age, Hong-My has demonstrated a propensity for literature and love of languages. Transplanted at age twenty-two to Southern California, she picked up English and improvised upon the borrowed language to make it her own. She holds a Chemical Engineering degree and some degrees of self-taught English.
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- Inlandia + RCC’s MUSE at Back to the Grind!
Inlandia + RCC’s MUSE at Back to the Grind!
Inlandia + RCC’s MUSE at Back to the Grind!
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March 30, 2023Inlandia + RCC’s MUSE at Back to the Grind!
3575 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92501
6:30-8:30 PM
Featuring Romaine Washington, with guest poets
Special guest Typewriter Muse
Open Mic to follow
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Each spring, students at Riverside City College release a new edition of MUSE, a diverse collection of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction/memoir, art, and short interviews. First published in 1986, the journal welcomes contributions from new, emerging, and established writers and artists from RCC, our region, and around the world. Join Inlandia, Romaine Washington, students, and others at Back to Grind to celebrate the 2023 launch of MUSE!