ZYZZYVA Literary Magazine

Up for a spooky read? Enjoy "Photisms" by Juan Pablo Villalobos (originally published in Issue No. 99). And Happy Halloween!

This month's Staff Recommends is a real grab bag, featuring We Are Who We Are HBO, an Eighties movie favorite, music by Nilüfer Yanya, words on music from 33 1/3, fiction by a Nobel Prize winner, and more...!

Join us (virtually) at City Lights Booksellers & Publishers on Thur., Nov. 12 for the first of our celebrations of Issue No. 119.: the L.A. Issue. With readings from contributors Jonathan Escoffery, Wendy C. Ortiz, Siel Ju, Andrés Reconco, Kathleen Mackay, and Nina Revoyr.

Twenty-three contributors. Two covers. One singular place.... Order your copy of Issue No. 119: The L.A. Issue https://www.zyzzyva.org/pr/zyzzyva-no-119-fall-winter-2020/

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers: "Bookstores like us need your help and this holiday season is a good time to support us. More readers of good books = more engaged people, and the cycle continues. Create the good vibes. Shop early for the holidays as well!"

Join us today for our Lit Crawl San Francisco 35th Anniversary event, with Jessica Hagedorn, Anthony Marra, Charlie Jane Anders, Manuel Munoz, and Carl Phillips. Starts at 4:45 p.m. PST.

'So while people were asking what was wrong with America, how something this horrific and devastating could happen...Some of us already knew the answer'from Dana Johnson's story in the Resistance Issue. Today is the last day to purchase your copy of Issue 111 for half off...!

Join us tomorrow for our Lit Crawl San Francisco 35th Anniversary event, with Jessica Hagedorn, Anthony Marra, Charlie Jane Anders, Manuel Munoz, and Carl Phillips. Starts at 4:45 p.m. PST. See you then!

Now open for submissionsa Writer's Workshop with the one and only Dana Johnson! This Workshop will have a particular emphasis on point of view, so fiction writers will want to apply sooner rather than later: https://zyzzyva.submittable.com//point-of-view-with-dana-j

From Michelle Latiolais' review of "Straight from the Horse's Mouth" (Other Press) by Moroccan-born writer Meryem Alaoui: "The novel is a vivid, and vividly angry, first-person portrait of Jmiaa, now thirty-four, but forced into prostitution by her destitute husband before she is twenty. Jmiaa is biting, funny, oh so streetwise, and not a bit ashamed of her work. You can be ashamed for her, should you dare, but the more Jmiaa’s story unfolds, the more her spirit amazes, springing up off the page."

'I think Trump's rise reflects, among other things, a particular theme in American historyan unresolved problem that sends us into crisis again and again.'-from T.J. Stiles' essay in our Resistance Issue, currently half off until Friday: https://www.zyzzyva.org/product/zyzzyva-no-111-winter-2017/

This Saturday at 4:45 p.m. PST, join us for our special Lit Crawl San Francisco event, celebrating our 35th anniversary! With Jessica Hagedorn, Charlie Jane Anders, Manuel Munoz, Anthony Marra, and Carl Phillips.

This year, more than ever, it’s important to support the independent bookstores that help sustain our local literary community. With that in mind, we thought we would share a conversation from Issue 110 between Stephen Sparks (co-owner of Point Reyes Books) and Paul Yamazaki (lead book buyer at City Lights Booksellers & Publishers).