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Roy Parvin, Author of In the Snow Forest, To Appear in SF Friday, March 8 7 PM - 9 PM FREE ----> Event Description <----------------------------------------------- Roy Parvin, 2001 Best American Short Stories-Selected Author of In the Snow Forest, To Appear in San Francisco at Thought Magazine Author Series San Francisco, California— At 7:00 pm on Friday, March 8 at the literary- themed Hotel Rex (562 Sutter Street), Thought Magazine will present Northern California based Roy Parvin, author of In the Snow Forest and The Loneliest Road in America. During the final event of the Thought Magazine Author Series, along with discussing his two story collections, Parvin will speak about his life as an author. For the author lecture series, which provides a literary salon atmosphere, The Hotel Rex’s restaurant lobby bar will be open for drinks and light food. Books will be available for sale and signing after the event, which will conclude with an audience question and answer session. Roy Parvin’s work has been selected for the 2001 Best American Short Stories Anthology. He has also won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction. His new collection of three novellas, In the Snow Forest, is both a Book Sense 76 and Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. His essays and reviews have appeared in such publications as Northern Lights and The San Francisco Chronicle. The Los Angeles Times calls Parvin’s In the Snow Forest “A stunning triptych….Parvin’s characters have a subtle American craziness, a wildness and reachable-ness….but he writes about their sweetness and potential in a hopeful, surprisingly generous way.” Set in the dangerously beautiful landscapes of Montana, Wyoming and northern California, always in late fall, the novellas in Roy Parvin’s breathtaking new work introduce us to a cast of varied characters for whom even the famed big skies of America’s West aren’t big enough. These are people who are running away, who are alone in the world, who are trying to lose themselves, and who occasionally wind up, instead, finding something they never expected. As time closes in on them they look outward and, in Parvin’s compassionate prose, they become men and women of uncommon grace. The mountains of Montana beckon an ex-convict, a man who looks “like trouble, even with his glasses.” He steals a car on the East Coast and drives west in an attempt to “find a place that sounded like everything hadn’t yet been decided, where there might still be some time left.” In the Trinity Alps of northern California, where “disappearances were a fact of the woods almost as much as the trees,” an out-of-work logger embarks on an odd and affectionate love affair with a woman whose tragic secret looms in the mountains around them. A cross-country train ride becomes a transforming pilgrimage for a woman whose ex-husband has recently taken his own life. The narratives of In the Snow Forest unfold with the convincing vitality of myths, giving mappable histories to forgotten communities, and lending elegant voice to the quiet spirits present in the great white woods. A thoroughly fresh voice and a rarely observed rural world come together in Parvin’s extraordinary debut collection, The Loneliest Road in America (Chronicle Books). The stories revolve around a small town in the mountains of Northern California and the people who live there or flee. The characters exist on the fringes of mainstream society: a solitary marijuana grower who must deal with an intruder in his garden, a mystical Native American whose camp is about to be destroyed by loggers, a wanderer who finds a mentor in the wilderness, and other beautiful and haunting men and women. Calling Parvin’s The Loneliest Road in America an “awe-inspiring debut” and “unforgettable collection,” in a starred review Publishers Weekly says: “Parvin's stories possess a lyrical, mesmerizing quality, hypnotizing in its sweeter moments, haunting when bitter. But the delicately spun prose never takes away from the fact that these are stories about everyday people on the rough edge of civilized life. Parvin's characters confront head-on the deaths of loved ones, the destruction of dreams, and continue on with their lives as best they can.” The goal of Thought Magazine, a non-profit, semi-annual literary journal, and its free Author Speaker Series, which features authors of newly released books, is to spread Thought Magazine’s love of writing and to establish a community of authors and readers in the San Francisco Bay Area. The series of events, with Roy Parvin’s March 8 appearance being the final event of the season, ran from January to March, with a list of authors including: Jo Hammett, who reminisced on her father Dashiell Hammett, T.R. Pearson who told the hilarious tale of six years during the 1990’s when he avoided life as a novelist, Brad Thor, who, with an animated speaking style, shared his luck-filled journey of finding a publisher and Gerald Nicosia who eloquently lectured on the lives of Vietnam Veterans. All events, including this final one, are held at 7 pm at the Hotel Rex. More information is available by visiting: www.thoughtmagazine.org or by calling (650) 344-1288. Found in bookstores throughout the Bay Area, Thought Magazine is comprised of poetry, fiction, and essays by authors around the globe. Among them are Bay Area authors Norman Zelaya and Jordan Vezina as well as nationally recognized poet Corrine De Winter. The next issue to be released in April, features an interview with 2001 National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon, author of Among the Missing, and Ron Carlson, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award. The magazine funds a community service program, which supports writing classes in shelters, hospitals, recovery centers and senior homes. For information: www.thoughtmagazine.org or Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 650-344-1288 ----> Venue Info <------------------------------------------------------ Hotel Rex 562 Sutter Street San Francisco 415-433-4434 www.thehotelrex.com Downtown San Francisco, two blocks from Union Square, parking at Sutter Street Garage, Crown Hotel Garage. 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