​The Ruby Open Reading event is a chill, supportive place to share your work-in-progress and hear from our amazing Ruby member writers. Channel your inner beatnik and enjoy the good vibes!

​We'll have a sign-up sheet for the reading when you arrive. If you're thinking about reading (which is not a requirement for attending), please plan for 5-8 minutes of time. Polished drafts and rough messes and everything in between are welcome! ​Non-readers are welcome!

​We'll mingle a bit with potluck-style snacks and get to know each other before opening the reading, and have time after to continue conversations.

*This is an intimate gathering of Ruby members

Join us for fika, the Swedish coffee and cake break. (From Fika: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break: "Functioning as both a verb and a noun, the concept of fika is simple. It is the moment that you take a break, often with a cup of coffee, but alternatively with tea, and find a baked good to pair with it. You can do it alone, you can do it with friends. You can do it at home, in a park or at work. But the essential thing is that you do it, that you make time to take a break: that’s what fika is all about.")

Join us at 3 p.m. for the cake break. There will be cake, and we'll make small batches of tea and coffee to enjoy on the big deck. Wear layers!

Ruby member friends are welcome to join.

Come join the Ruby Writing Accountability Group! A warm and welcoming community to support each other on our projects!

​Looking for a supportive writing community without the hassle of applying for workshops and retreats? Join The Ruby’s Writing Accountability Group!

​All Rubies are welcome, whether you are journaling, just beginning to explore your writing, working on a poetry collection or zine, or grinding on the umpteenth revision of your manuscript – no matter where you are in your practice, you’ll find a friendly community here.

​The Writing Accountability Group is an accessible complement to the writing workshops, residencies, fellowships, and conferences that writers have traditionally relied upon to improve their craft and build community. Often these opportunities are pricey and time-consuming, and many have limited availability. For writers with limited time, applying for and attending these opportunities can even take time away from the writing itself! This group is our solution to these challenges.

​During the first 30-45 minutes, a Ruby member will lead a short craft or generative exercise, after which we will break and spend the remaining time working independently on our own writing (though you are always welcome to skip the exercise in favor of focusing on your writing the whole time). You can attend these sessions as often or as infrequently as you’d like; there’s no commitment to join every time.

​Our craft talks and generative exercises are wholly led by group members! In the past, we’ve had exercises around closely reading a short story, prompts to help us think about our writing from a different perspective, generative exercises using memes, and even discussions around writing goals and struggles. Leading a session is a great way to enrich our community with different craft approaches and activities that improve all of our writing – and you’ll have our support along the way! We’ll also be on hand to help you introduce the exercise once everyone gets settled in.

​Can’t join us in-person? There will be a virtual session the Last Monday of each month!

​Whenever you’re feeling discouraged with the writing or publishing process, we’re here to give you a boost!

​This is an intimate group of Ruby members**

Regardless of whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or a brand new beginner, these classes will offer a space to combine breath, movement, stillness, and surrender. The classes will be an accessible, heartful flow with some music and some silence. There will be plenty of room to dial it up or dial it down, depending on what you need from the class. I find that writing as a practice and yoga as a practice have many synergies, and I hope these classes will continue our commitment to accessible and affordable community yoga at The Ruby!

Class will be held on the 2nd floor, classic Ruby space.

About the Instructor

Marissa Mika has been on the yoga mat since 2010 and teaching since 2019. She’s studied and practiced with Yoga Like Water in London, Point Reyes Yoga in the Bay Area, and Yin Yoga with Corina Benner in Philadelphia. You can read more about Marissa and her approach to practicing and facilitating yoga here.

*This is an intimate gathering for Ruby members

Hey Rubies! This is a virtual session of the Non-Narrative Writing Group!

​This writing group is geared towards research/non-narrative writing. It's modeled off the existing writing accountability group, but with discussion about crafting arguments, data gathering and methods, tools for knowledge management, and anything else that would be useful! This is open to anyone but I'm hoping to especially bring together some of the academics, journalists, non-fic writers, at the ruby.

​As we build up this group, we're very open to suggestions and recommendations for what you'd like to do in meetings (besides write, haha) and what should we call the group!

​**This is an intimate group of Ruby members

Let's close out the week together with conversation, libations (alcoholic & non-alcoholic), and refreshments!

When the weather is nice, we sometimes host on our outdoor deck.

Friends of members are welcome to join.

Hello Ruby Fermenters!

​We're back with our annual Kimjang

​Looking forward to this community Kimchi making session on Thursday, Dec 12th!

*This event is for Ruby members and their invited friends.

Join us for fika, the Swedish coffee and cake break. (From Fika: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break: "Functioning as both a verb and a noun, the concept of fika is simple. It is the moment that you take a break, often with a cup of coffee, but alternatively with tea, and find a baked good to pair with it. You can do it alone, you can do it with friends. You can do it at home, in a park or at work. But the essential thing is that you do it, that you make time to take a break: that’s what fika is all about.")

Join us at 3 p.m. for the cake break. There will be cake, and we'll make small batches of tea and coffee to enjoy on the big deck. Wear layers!

Ruby member friends are welcome to join.

​Hey Rubies! This writing group is geared towards research/non-narrative writing. It's modeled off the existing writing accountability group, but with discussion about crafting arguments, data gathering and methods, tools for knowledge management, and anything else that would be useful! This is open to anyone but I'm hoping to especially bring together some of the academics, journalists, non-fic writers, at the ruby.

​As we build up this group, we're very open to suggestions and recommendations for what you'd like to do in meetings (besides write, haha) and what should we call the group! Please bring snacks to share!

​**This is an intimate group of Ruby members

Regardless of whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or a brand new beginner, these classes will offer a space to combine breath, movement, stillness, and surrender. The classes will be an accessible, heartful flow with some music and some silence. There will be plenty of room to dial it up or dial it down, depending on what you need from the class. I find that writing as a practice and yoga as a practice have many synergies, and I hope these classes will continue our commitment to accessible and affordable community yoga at The Ruby!

Class will be held on the 2nd floor, classic Ruby space.

About the Instructor

Marissa Mika has been on the yoga mat since 2010 and teaching since 2019. She’s studied and practiced with Yoga Like Water in London, Point Reyes Yoga in the Bay Area, and Yin Yoga with Corina Benner in Philadelphia. You can read more about Marissa and her approach to practicing and facilitating yoga here.

*This is an intimate gathering for Ruby members

Join Tiffany Yu, author of the new book The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World in conversation with human rights attorney Haben Girma. We’ll discuss her process for writing the book, her aspirations for change, and her lessons for building an anti-ableist world.

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Come join the Ruby Writing Accountability Group! A warm and welcoming community to support each other on our projects!

​Looking for a supportive writing community without the hassle of applying for workshops and retreats? Join The Ruby’s Writing Accountability Group!

​All Rubies are welcome, whether you are journaling, just beginning to explore your writing, working on a poetry collection or zine, or grinding on the umpteenth revision of your manuscript – no matter where you are in your practice, you’ll find a friendly community here.

​The Writing Accountability Group is an accessible complement to the writing workshops, residencies, fellowships, and conferences that writers have traditionally relied upon to improve their craft and build community. Often these opportunities are pricey and time-consuming, and many have limited availability. For writers with limited time, applying for and attending these opportunities can even take time away from the writing itself! This group is our solution to these challenges.

​During the first 30-45 minutes, a Ruby member will lead a short craft or generative exercise, after which we will break and spend the remaining time working independently on our own writing (though you are always welcome to skip the exercise in favor of focusing on your writing the whole time). You can attend these sessions as often or as infrequently as you’d like; there’s no commitment to join every time.

​Our craft talks and generative exercises are wholly led by group members! In the past, we’ve had exercises around closely reading a short story, prompts to help us think about our writing from a different perspective, generative exercises using memes, and even discussions around writing goals and struggles. Leading a session is a great way to enrich our community with different craft approaches and activities that improve all of our writing – and you’ll have our support along the way! We’ll also be on hand to help you introduce the exercise once everyone gets settled in. If you have an idea for a future session (even if you don’t want to lead it yourself).

​Whenever you’re feeling discouraged with the writing or publishing process, we’re here to give you a boost!

​This is an intimate group of Ruby members**

​Join us for a gift swapping game where everyone brings an anonymous wrapped book and leaves with something new for their library!

Join us for a special literary edition of White Elephant. It's a gift- swapping game where everyone brings an anonymous, wrapped book and leaves with something new for their library! Bring a gift-wrapped new/like-new book ($30 or less) and a snack to share!

​Come join us for this beloved Ruby tradition!

​*This event is for Rubies and their invited guests!

Come join the Ruby Writing Accountability Group! A warm and welcoming community to support each other on our projects!

​Looking for a supportive writing community without the hassle of applying for workshops and retreats? Join The Ruby’s Writing Accountability Group!

​All Rubies are welcome, whether you are journaling, just beginning to explore your writing, working on a poetry collection or zine, or grinding on the umpteenth revision of your manuscript – no matter where you are in your practice, you’ll find a friendly community here.

​The Writing Accountability Group is an accessible complement to the writing workshops, residencies, fellowships, and conferences that writers have traditionally relied upon to improve their craft and build community. Often these opportunities are pricey and time-consuming, and many have limited availability. For writers with limited time, applying for and attending these opportunities can even take time away from the writing itself! This group is our solution to these challenges.

​During the first 30-45 minutes, a Ruby member will lead a short craft or generative exercise, after which we will break and spend the remaining time working independently on our own writing (though you are always welcome to skip the exercise in favor of focusing on your writing the whole time). You can attend these sessions as often or as infrequently as you’d like; there’s no commitment to join every time.

​Our craft talks and generative exercises are wholly led by group members! In the past, we’ve had exercises around closely reading a short story, prompts to help us think about our writing from a different perspective, generative exercises using memes, and even discussions around writing goals and struggles. Leading a session is a great way to enrich our community with different craft approaches and activities that improve all of our writing – and you’ll have our support along the way! We’ll also be on hand to help you introduce the exercise once everyone gets settled in.

​Can’t join us in-person? There will be a virtual session the Last Monday of each month!

​Whenever you’re feeling discouraged with the writing or publishing process, we’re here to give you a boost!

​This is an intimate group of Ruby members**

The Ruby is excited to host Graphic Lit Book Club! Whether you’re a graphic novel and graphic memoir enthusiast, you’ve always hoped to dive into the world of long-form graphic narratives, or you’re just looking for your next great read, we’re thrilled to have a space for discussing graphic literature in a cozy book club setting.

​Co-hosted by Rubies Zareen Choudhury and Rebecca Rubenstein, Graphic Lit Book Club will meet from 6:00 - 7:30 pm at The Ruby, with light snacks and tea provided.

​For our December gathering, we’ll be reading and chatting about I Thought You Loved Me by MariNaomi, a "Gen-X memoir...told in prose, collage, and sequential art, [which] explores queer culture, feminism, race, class, sex work, and the flawed nature of memory as Mari works to uncover a long-lost best friend that she can no longer remember but can’t let go." We are pleased to announce that author MariNaomi will join us in-person at The Ruby for our book club meeting!

​​​Read more about the book below, and snag your copy from a local comic book shop, an independent bookstore, or even your local library.

​About I Thought You Loved Me (from the Fieldmouse Press website):

​"Jodie was Mari’s best friend through their teens and twenties. As young Mari began to explore her identity as a bisexual, biracial outsider in a rich, white town, Jodie was her constant confidant, even kissing Mari out of the closet. The two were inseparable as they sought to gain a foothold in life and love as young feminists, Jodie an entrepreneurial sex worker, and Mari working in the boys’ club of video game development in the late ‘90s. Then, suddenly and mysteriously, Jodie ends their friendship. Years later, Mari is stunned when she discovers why.

​Now much older, Mari is ready to forgive, but her memories of Jodie seem to have vanished. Through journal excerpts, letters, conversations with friends, and cross-country travel, she pieces together lost memories from a lost friendship in an attempt at catharsis. The reader follows in real-time as the author unravels her own mystery, examining the expectations of friendship, the unreliability of memory, and the struggle to let go."

Regardless of whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or a brand new beginner, these classes will offer a space to combine breath, movement, stillness, and surrender. The classes will be an accessible, heartful flow with some music and some silence. There will be plenty of room to dial it up or dial it down, depending on what you need from the class. I find that writing as a practice and yoga as a practice have many synergies, and I hope these classes will continue our commitment to accessible and affordable community yoga at The Ruby!

Class will be held on the 2nd floor, classic Ruby space.

About the Instructor

Marissa Mika has been on the yoga mat since 2010 and teaching since 2019. She’s studied and practiced with Yoga Like Water in London, Point Reyes Yoga in the Bay Area, and Yin Yoga with Corina Benner in Philadelphia. You can read more about Marissa and her approach to practicing and facilitating yoga here.

*This is an intimate gathering for Ruby members

​Join Lizzie & Eesha for Film Club's newest event series, discussing trends in filmmaking by Asian diasporic filmmakers and how "representation" has evolved in the last thirty years! Enjoy movie screenings at The Ruby featuring refreshments and reflection together afterwards.

​Polite Society, written and directed by Nida Manzoor, is at its core a story about two sisters, packed with action and comedy and other surprising genre twists. British Pakistani teenager Ria Khan (Priya Kansara) dreams of becoming a stuntwoman, doggedly honing her skills by attempting difficult stunts and enlisting her supportive older sister Lena (Ritu Arya) to record them for her channel. Meanwhile, Lena is struggling with what to do next after leaving art school, and her mother's (Shobu Kapoor) machinations lead her to a whirlwind romance with Salim (Akshay Khanna), egged on by his mother Raheela (Nimra Bucha). When Ria suspects sinister intentions from her sister's soon-to-be in-laws, will Lena believe her? Or will Ria have to save her from herself, putting her burgeoning stage combat skills to more practical use? (Review)

​Topics to consider: sister/sibling stories, British context, Manzoor's stylistic choices, cultural pressure around marriage, Salim's intentions, nontraditional career aspirations, comparable stories (canon or contemporary)

*This is an intimate gathering of Ruby members and Ruby member friends

Naomi has had three literary agents. She's got an MFA. She's done books with big 5, small, and university presses. She's written literary, commercial, and non-fiction work. She has an unusually broad range of experience in this industry. If you have questions about how to get a book published, and, in particular, about the process of finding and pitching an agent, please come to this talk. Naomi is very frank, very uncensored, with a lot of thoughts on how to convince agents that you are the next big thing. She self-published a book on this topic, The Cynical Writer's Guide to the Publishing Industry.

Who knows how accurate any of her thoughts are! She says tons of stuff that is probably complete nonsense / totally irrelevant to the current publishing industry. She has been fired by at least two literary agents after all! But she will at least tell you what she thinks. She also wrote this text, so don't blame Peggy for this. The talk is open to Ruby members and their guests, but not to the general public.

About Naomi Kanakia 

Naomi Kanakia is the author of three YA novels, a literary novel for adults, and a work of non-fiction, the forthcoming What’s So Great about Great Books. Her stories, poetry, and essays have been published in American Short Fiction, Asimov’s, Gulf Coast, LitHub, Best Small Fictions, and others. She publishes wonderful Substack that you should definitely read, although it does publish kind of a lot, like twice a week, so it's definitely a bit of a commitment.

​Join us as we come together in support of Lamea Abuelrous, neighbor and owner of local business, Temo's Cafe. Lamea is raising funds to support her family of 10 in West Gaza so that they can relocate to safety and receive medical care. Of the 10 family members, 6 are children. They are currently living in a tent on the streets after escaping Rafah and have been sick because of contaminated food and water. Let’s come together to help them reach safety.

​This will be an intimate course capped at 15 students. Lamea will be showing us how to make several Palestinian homestyle dishes and we'll then sit down for a community feast!

​Tickets are sliding scale starting at $65 per person. Please give what you can. All proceeds will go directly to the family.

​Direct donations can also be made here. Please consider donating even if you are unable to join us.

​Looking forward to gathering as supporters, neighbors and friends!

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To accompany happy hour on a full moon, a portal of interspecies entanglement opens. Helen Shewolfe Tseng will give a performance talk and preview of her forthcoming book project, Trickster at the End of a World, a visual narrative into the tall grasses of uncertainty and the spaces between realms, guided by coyotes and in search of things lost. (Thank you to the San Francisco Arts Commission for supporting this project's development.)

Let's close out the week together with conversation, libations (alcoholic & non-alcoholic), and refreshments!

When the weather is nice, we sometimes host on our outdoor deck.

Friends of members are welcome to join.

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With a combination of strategic use of color, delicate line work, and a healthy dose of humor, cartoonist Agnes Lee interprets what’s known in Buddhist tradition as the bardo, the 49 days between death and rebirth, through the journey of her protagonist, Kit. Lee (who’s known for her winsome “Metropolitan Diary” NYT column) will take us inside her creative process, introduce us to her characters—and maybe even share some of the food that plays a key role in the graphic novel. Attendees are invited to bring something to eat that evokes a memory. Let’s share food and stories!

About Agnes Lee

Agnes Lee grew up in the Bay Area and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Art Center College of Design. She is a former Chronicle Books fellow and was an Art Director at the The New York Times for several years where she began illustrating the Metropolitcan Diary column. She now lives in Portland, OR, with her partner and cat. In addition to art, she loves the outdoors and playing ultimate frisbee.

About Litquake

Litquake’s diverse live programs aim to inspire critical engagement with the key issues of the day, bring people together around the common humanity encapsulated in literature, and perpetuate a sense of literary community by providing a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing. Because we believe in literature as a public good, we work to produce events that are accessible to all.

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Regardless of whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or a brand new beginner, these classes will offer a space to combine breath, movement, stillness, and surrender. The classes will be an accessible, heartful flow with some music and some silence. There will be plenty of room to dial it up or dial it down, depending on what you need from the class. I find that writing as a practice and yoga as a practice have many synergies, and I hope these classes will continue our commitment to accessible and affordable community yoga at The Ruby!

Class will be held on the 2nd floor, classic Ruby space.

About the Instructor

Marissa Mika has been on the yoga mat since 2010 and teaching since 2019. She’s studied and practiced with Yoga Like Water in London, Point Reyes Yoga in the Bay Area, and Yin Yoga with Corina Benner in Philadelphia. You can read more about Marissa and her approach to practicing and facilitating yoga here.

*This is an intimate gathering for Ruby members

Our November book is Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner. The book is available at local bookstores, the library, and on Bookshop.org.

This event is open to Rubies and hosted transfemme, women, and nb friends of Rubies.

About Creation Lake

Creation Lake is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics, bold opinions, and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France.

“Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader.

Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct. First, these contacts want her to incite provocation. Then they want more.

In this region of centuries-old farms and ancient caves, Sadie becomes entranced by a mysterious figure named Bruno Lacombe, a mentor to the young activists who communicates only by email. Bruno believes that the path to emancipation from what ails modern life is not revolt, but a return to the ancient past.

Just as Sadie is certain she’s the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.

Written in short, vaulting sections, Rachel Kushner’s rendition of “noir” is taut and dazzling. Creation Lake is Kushner’s finest achievement yet as a novelist, a work of high art, high comedy, and unforgettable pleasure.

About Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner is the author of the New York Times bestseller Creation Lake, her latest novel, The Hard Crowd, her acclaimed essay collection, and the internationally bestselling novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K. She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, and was twice a finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award in Fiction. Creation Lake was also longlisted for the National Book Award. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books are translated into twenty-seven languages.

Join us for fika, the Swedish coffee and cake break. (From Fika: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break: "Functioning as both a verb and a noun, the concept of fika is simple. It is the moment that you take a break, often with a cup of coffee, but alternatively with tea, and find a baked good to pair with it. You can do it alone, you can do it with friends. You can do it at home, in a park or at work. But the essential thing is that you do it, that you make time to take a break: that’s what fika is all about.")

Join us at 3 p.m. for the cake break. There will be cake, and we'll make small batches of tea and coffee to enjoy on the big deck. Wear layers!

Ruby member friends are welcome to join.

RSVP

Join Lizzie & Eesha for Film Club's newest event series, discussing trends in filmmaking by Asian diasporic filmmakers and how "representation" has evolved in the last thirty years! Enjoy movie screenings at The Ruby featuring refreshments and reflection together afterwards.

Mississippi Masala, directed by Mira Nair and written by Sooni Taraporevala, is a romantic classic. The film was released in 1991, and in 2022 it was recovered and restored for the Criterion Collection: "Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina (Sarita Choudhury) spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius (Denzel Washington), their passionate romance challenges the prejudices of both of their families and exposes the rifts between the region’s Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny issues of racism, colorism, culture clash, and displacement with bighearted humor and keen insight, Nair serves up a sweet, sexy, and deeply satisfying celebration of love’s power."

Topics to consider: Choice of setting, "third culture" specificity, depictions of interracial tensions & romance, how this story compares with similar ones today (also, what are similar stories being depicted today, if any?)

*This is a small gathering of Ruby members and member friends

Come join the Ruby Writing Accountability Group! A warm and welcoming community to support each other on our projects!

​Looking for a supportive writing community without the hassle of applying for workshops and retreats? Join The Ruby’s Writing Accountability Group!

​All Rubies are welcome, whether you are journaling, just beginning to explore your writing, working on a poetry collection or zine, or grinding on the umpteenth revision of your manuscript – no matter where you are in your practice, you’ll find a friendly community here.

​The Writing Accountability Group is an accessible complement to the writing workshops, residencies, fellowships, and conferences that writers have traditionally relied upon to improve their craft and build community. Often these opportunities are pricey and time-consuming, and many have limited availability. For writers with limited time, applying for and attending these opportunities can even take time away from the writing itself! This group is our solution to these challenges.

​During the first 30-45 minutes, a Ruby member will lead a short craft or generative exercise, after which we will break and spend the remaining time working independently on our own writing (though you are always welcome to skip the exercise in favor of focusing on your writing the whole time). You can attend these sessions as often or as infrequently as you’d like; there’s no commitment to join every time.

​Our craft talks and generative exercises are wholly led by group members! In the past, we’ve had exercises around closely reading a short story, prompts to help us think about our writing from a different perspective, generative exercises using memes, and even discussions around writing goals and struggles. Leading a session is a great way to enrich our community with different craft approaches and activities that improve all of our writing – and you’ll have our support along the way! We’ll also be on hand to help you introduce the exercise once everyone gets settled in.

​Can’t join us in-person? There will be a virtual session the Last Monday of each month!

​Whenever you’re feeling discouraged with the writing or publishing process, we’re here to give you a boost!

​This is an intimate group of Ruby members**

Join Asian American Women Artists Association and The Ruby for a comfort-centered watch party and potluck on election day!

Contribute a fave comfort food item and bring any emotional support items. This is a cozy community gathering where we can be together on what can be a stressful evening.

*This is an intimate gathering of AAWAA and Ruby members and their invited women-identifying and nb guests.

Center for the Art of Translation, Medicine for Nightmares, and The Ruby in San Francisco welcomes Spanish writer Layla Martínez to discuss the English release of her debut novel, Woodworm, translated by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott. She will be in conversation with Ruby Daniela Blei.

The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes. It was built by a smalltime hustler as a means of controlling his wife, and even after so many years, their daughter and her granddaughter can’t leave. They may be witches or they may just be angry, but when the mysterious disappearance of a young boy draws unwanted attention, the two isolated women, already subjects of public scorn, combine forces with the spirits that haunt them in pursuit of something that resembles justice.

In this lush translation by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott, Layla Martinez’s eerie debut novel is class-conscious horror that drags generations of monsters into the sun. Described by Mariana Enriquez as “a house of women and shadows, built from poetry and revenge, ” this vision of a broken family in our unjust world places power in the hands of the eccentric, the radical, and the desperate.

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Join for a Día de los Muertos and Halloween-themed happy hour with conversation, libations (alcoholic & non-alcoholic), and refreshments!

When the weather is nice, we sometimes host on our outdoor deck.

Friends of members are welcome to join.

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