Skylight Books Author Reading Series

At Last (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Acclaimed British novelist Edward St. Aubyn (Mother's Milk, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize) will read and sign his new novel At Last.

"Sparkling... With the wit of Wilde, the lightness of Wodehouse, and the waspishness of Waugh, [St. Aubyn] wraps his fancy prose style around the self in extremis ('suffocated, dropped, born of raped as well as born to be raped"), situations more familiar to readers of Cooper or Burroughs."  --Zadie Smith, Harper's

"A miraculously wrought piece of art." --Suzi Feay, The Financial Times

"St. Aubyn's technique is to crystallise emotional intensity into sentences of arctic beauty, which can be caustically witty or brutal. His novels are uncommonly well controlled, and thus their impact is all the more powerful... In At Last this crystallisation and control are on glittering display... We have reached the pinnacle of a series that has plunged into darkness and risen towards light. At Last is both resounding end and hopeful beginning." -- Philip Womack, The Telegraph

"Ferociously funny, painfully acute and exhilaratingly written... Brimming with witty flair, sardonic perceptiveness and literary finesse." --Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times Edward St. Aubyn was born in London in 1960. He is the author of A Clue to the Exit and On the Edge, and of a series of novels about the Melrose family, the trilogy Some Hope and Mother’s Milk, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.

Photo of the author by Timothy Allen.

THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 19, 2012

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No One Is Here Except All of Us (Riverhead)

We're pleased to present debut novelist Ramona Ausubel for a reading and signing of her beautiful and riveting novel No One Is Here Except All of Us.

"Here is a world created out of the most curious and beautiful remnants of our own: opera, suitcases, letters, rivers, daughters, strangers, and shovels. Ramona Ausubel cracks open the very idea of a book and fills its shell with a thing glimmering, thrilling, and new." — Samantha Hunt, author of The Invention of Everything Else

"A special work of the imagination, an original gift, dark and light, and Ramona Ausubel colors it all with a glowing wisdom." — Ron Carlson, author of Five Skies

"A wise, compassionate book that even in its darkest turns uplifts." — Christine Schutt, National Book Award finalist for Florida and Pulitzer Prize finalist for All Souls

"Ausubel has written a riveting, otherworldly story about an all-too-real war and the transformative power of community." — Library Journal

Ramona Ausubel grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine where she won the Glenn Schaeffer Award in Fiction and served as editor of Faultline Journal of Art & Literature. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, One Story, The Paris Review Daily, and Best American Fantasy. Her work has also received special mentions in Best American Short Stories and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Ausubel was also a finalist for the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Photo of the author by Twin Lens Images.

THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 10, 2012.

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When We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova (Spinspters Ink)

Dr. Chris Freeman riffs off the style of hard-hitting PBS interview host Charlie Rose, and tosses the tough questions to Jeanne Cordova, author of When We Were Outlaws: a memoir of Love and Revolution Delve back in time to the early 1970s birth of activism in the lesbian & gay movement.   Get the nuts and bolts on... Lesbian separatism, Advocacy journalist (ala the infamous L.A. Free Press), Lesbians in the Symbionese Liberation Army, Butch daughters and their seriously confused fathers, The politics of non-monogamy (polyamory) as a multi-generational lifestyle & more...

Special guest: Art Kunkin, Founder of the Los Angeles Free Press

Dr. Chris Freeman teaches Gender Studies at USC, including, "Queer L.A." Freeman is the co-editor of the Lambda Award-winning THE ISHERWOOD CENTURY and the Lambda finalist LOVE, WEST HOLLYWOOD. Jeanne Cordova, pioneer dyke activist, queer organizer, lesbian journalist/publisher.  Author of SEXISM IT'S A NASTY AFFAIR, KICKING THE HABIT, and a contributor to LESBIAN NUNS BREAKING THE SILENCE & THE PERSISTENT DESIRE: A FEMME BUTCH READER

THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 4, 2012.

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A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar (Counterpoint)

Novelist Daniel Pyne (Twentynine Palms) launches his new novel, A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar, here at Skylight.

"Daniel Pyne's A Hole in the Ground Owned By a Liar will put to rest any idle fantasies the reader may have of setting out prospecting for gold. A harrowingly funny story of brotherly strife, amorous misconduct, and small dreams blown disastrously out of proportion. I loved it." --Scott Phillips, author of The Adjustment and national bestseller The Ice Harvest

"Smart, sexy, funny, and a brilliant storyteller. And that's just me. Wait till you read Dan . . . " --Eric Idle

Throughout his career, Daniel Pyne has moved freely between the world of television, film and books. His writing credits include The Manchurian Candidate, Fracture, Any Given Sunday, and Miami Vice. He is also author of the noir novel, Twentynine Palms (which was also made into a feature film). Pyne has a BA in Economics from Stanford University, and an MFA from UCLA’s film school, where he teaches a graduate seminar in screenwriting every winter. He lives in Los Angeles and Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife and children, two cats, two dogs, two lizards, and a turtle. For more info on Daniel Pyne, visit www.danielpyne.com.

THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 7, 2012.

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