Podcast appearances and mentions of zz packer

Acclaimed writer ZZ Packer joins Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides to discuss “Gold Coast” by James Alan McPherson.

ZZ Packer is an extraordinary fiction writer who's been working on a massive new novel for years. I talk to her about writing, process, and how to be a great fiction writer. Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Booker: Rae Holliday Engineer: Desta Wondirad Photographers: Podstream Studios The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aleksandar Hemon joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” by ZZ Packer, which was published in The New Yorker in 2000. Hemon, a winner of a MacArthur Fellowship and a PEN/W. G. Sebald Award, among others, is the author of eight books, including the novels “The Lazarus Project” and “The World and All It Holds,” the story collection “Love and Obstacles,” and two nonfiction works, “The Book of My Lives” and “My Parents: an Introduction.”Share your thoughts on The New Yorker's Fiction Podcast. As a token of our appreciation, you will be eligible to enter a prize drawing up to $1,000 after you complete the survey.https://selfserve.decipherinc.com/survey/selfserve/222b/76152?pin=1&uBRANDLINK=4&uCHANNELLINK=2

In Pretty, poet KB Brookins shines a light on their life with a remarkable queer coming-of-age memoir. Brookins joined us to talk about gender identity, resiliency and joy in the face of adversity, nonlinear storytelling and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                     New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.           Featured Books (Episode): Pretty by KB Brookins Heavy by Kiese Laymon Freedom House by KB Brookins How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer

Leo Ríos speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Lencho,” which appears in The Common's most recent issue, in a portfolio from the immigrant farmworker community. Leo talks about the process of writing and revising this story, which explores the friendship between two high school seniors in a rural community in California's Central Valley. Leo also discusses his family's generations-long history in farm labor, and how a class on reading poetry made him rethink prose writing on the sentence level. Originally from the Central Valley of California, Leo Ríos studied English at UCLA and received an MFA from Cornell University. His first published story was selected by ZZ Packer as winner of The Arkansas International's Emerging Writer's Prize. His second published story appeared in The Georgia Review and was noted as a distinguished story in The Best American Short Stories 2022. Other publications include stories in The Rumpus, The Masters Review, and Joyland Magazine. A recent recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, he currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he teaches writing at the University of Arizona. ­­Read Leo's story “Lencho” in The Common here. The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, and poems that deepen our collective sense of place. On our podcast and in our pages, The Common features established and emerging writers from around the world. Read more and subscribe to the magazine at thecommononline.org, and follow us on Twitter @CommonMag. Emily Everett is managing editor of the magazine and host of the podcast. Her debut novel is forthcoming from Putnam Books. Her stories appear in the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House Online, and Mississippi Review. She was a 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Leo Ríos speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Lencho,” which appears in The Common's most recent issue, in a portfolio from the immigrant farmworker community. Leo talks about the process of writing and revising this story, which explores the friendship between two high school seniors in a rural community in California's Central Valley. Leo also discusses his family's generations-long history in farm labor, and how a class on reading poetry made him rethink prose writing on the sentence level. Originally from the Central Valley of California, Leo Ríos studied English at UCLA and received an MFA from Cornell University. His first published story was selected by ZZ Packer as winner of The Arkansas International's Emerging Writer's Prize. His second published story appeared in The Georgia Review and was noted as a distinguished story in The Best American Short Stories 2022. Other publications include stories in The Rumpus, The Masters Review, and Joyland Magazine. A recent recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, he currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he teaches writing at the University of Arizona. ­­Read Leo's story “Lencho” in The Common here. The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, and poems that deepen our collective sense of place. On our podcast and in our pages, The Common features established and emerging writers from around the world. Read more and subscribe to the magazine at thecommononline.org, and follow us on Twitter @CommonMag. Emily Everett is managing editor of the magazine and host of the podcast. Her debut novel is forthcoming from Putnam Books. Her stories appear in the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House Online, and Mississippi Review. She was a 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Leo Ríos speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Lencho,” which appears in The Common's most recent issue, in a portfolio from the immigrant farmworker community. Leo talks about the process of writing and revising this story, which explores the friendship between two high school seniors in a rural community in California's Central Valley. Leo also discusses his family's generations-long history in farm labor, and how a class on reading poetry made him rethink prose writing on the sentence level. Originally from the Central Valley of California, Leo Ríos studied English at UCLA and received an MFA from Cornell University. His first published story was selected by ZZ Packer as winner of The Arkansas International's Emerging Writer's Prize. His second published story appeared in The Georgia Review and was noted as a distinguished story in The Best American Short Stories 2022. Other publications include stories in The Rumpus, The Masters Review, and Joyland Magazine. A recent recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, he currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he teaches writing at the University of Arizona. ­­Read Leo's story “Lencho” in The Common here. The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, and poems that deepen our collective sense of place. On our podcast and in our pages, The Common features established and emerging writers from around the world. Read more and subscribe to the magazine at thecommononline.org, and follow us on Twitter @CommonMag. Emily Everett is managing editor of the magazine and host of the podcast. Her debut novel is forthcoming from Putnam Books. Her stories appear in the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House Online, and Mississippi Review. She was a 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Holmes, the President of the Seneca Past Present Alumni Association, talks about their upcoming Hall of Fame Ceremony and the presentation of their first ever Lifetime Achievment Award to author ZZ Packer (who also joined-in on the interview)...

The pod team is on summer vacation! While we rest, recharge, and record some fabulous Season 4 episodes, we hope you enjoy this rerelease from our first season.  With political and social unrest rocking his home country of Venezuela, Alejandro Puyana turned to writing as a way to process. He applied to MFA programs four times before landing an acceptance at the Michener Center for Writers. Now, you can read his work in The Best American Short Stories anthology for 2020. Alejandro and Jared talk rejection, revision, and reimagining the world through fiction. Alejandro Puyana is a second-year fellow at the Michener Center for Writers whose primary focus is fiction and secondary genre is screenwriting. His non-fiction pieces have been published in The Toast, Tin House Online, NPR, The Huffington Post; his fiction in Huizache, The Examined Life, and Idaho Review. His short story, "Hands of Dirty Children" was awarded the Halifax Ranch Prize by American Short Fiction, chosen as the winning story by ZZ Packer. That same story was then chosen by Curtis Sittenfeld to be included in the 2020 Best American Short Stories. Find him on Twitter @Puyana. MFA Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. New episodes are released every two weeks. You can find more MFA Writers at MFAwriters.com. BE PART OF THE SHOW — Donate to the show at Buy Me a Coffee. — Leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. — Submit an episode request. If there's a program you'd like to learn more about, contact us and we'll do our very best to find a guest who can speak to their experience. — Apply to be a guest on the show by filling out our application. STAY CONNECTED Twitter: @MFAwriterspod Instagram: @MFAwriterspodcast Facebook: MFA Writers Email: mfawriterspodcast@gmail.com

Episode 181 Notes and Links to Ramona Reeves' Work       On Episode 181 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Ramona Reeves, and the two discuss, among other things, Ramona's early reading and literary likes and inspiring works and writers, her journey to MFA and her stellar collection, Mobile, Alabama's impact on her work, and issues and themes of class, old versus new, loss and trauma, racism, and regrowth in her story collection, as well as reflections on pessimism/optimism in her work. Ramona is a native of Mobile, Alabama. Her linked short story collection It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories won the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was published by University of Pittsburgh Press last fall.  She spent a decade in the Northeastern U.S. where she wrote freelance articles, proofread for a men's fashion weekly, and performed production roles for Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, and Esquire before moving into technical editing and writing. She eventually moved to Texas for several years before leaving to pursue her MFA in fiction. She has since returned and is nearing completion on a novel. Ramona has served as a board member for A Room of Her Own (AROHO), moderated and appeared on panels at conferences, taught college-level writing courses, and served as an associate fiction editor for Kallisto Gaia Press. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Southampton Review, Pembroke, Bayou Magazine, New South, Superstition Review, Texas Highways and other publications. She's won the Nancy D. Hargrove Editors' Prize, been a resident at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and is a Community of Writers alum.   Buy It Falls Gently All Around   Ramona Reeves' Website   Interview for Chicago Review of Books Regarding Her Collection     At about 2:05, Ramona discusses that night's Sergio Troncoso Award she'll be receiving    At about 3:00, Ramona describes her experience working as a writer   At about 5:00, Ramona gives background on her reading life, including how her grandmother influenced her writing and literary life; she shouts out Beverly Cleary and the Bible as formative    At about 7:45, Pete wonders about Ramona's connections to Southern writers and Mobile's cultures   At about 10:05, Ramona responds to Pete's questions about any influence she received from Flannery O'Connor   At about 11:30, Ramona shouts out ZZ Packer, Jesmyn Ward, and Tim Gatreaux as current writers    At about 13:30, Ramona recounts the journey to her becoming a writer; she highlights Antonya Nelson's huge contribution in guiding her to New Mexico State; Pete shouts out Antonya Nelson's In the Land of Men, and Ramona, Female Trouble    At about 16:25, Pete asks about thematically-linked short stories and seeds for Ramona's collection, as well as if/how the book followed Ramona's life; she cites a class given by Robert Boswell   At about 19:00, Pete shouts shouts a challenging high school teacher and reading list   At about 20:15, Ramona responds to Pete's question about charting time in a short story collection and the “spaces” in between   At about 22:20, Pete outlines the first story of the collection and the two characterize Babbie and Rowan individually and in their relationship    At about 25:50, Pete lays out the plot and characters, mainly Donnie, from the collection's second story, and Ramona expands on his encounter with a physic     At about 28:35, Ramona speaks to the influences that yoga had on her writing of the book   At about 30:10, Pete and Ramona discuss ideas of lineage, class, and history that are at the heart of the book   At about 32:10, Ramona cites Mobile's history with Mardi Gras and “mystic societies”   At about 34:15, The two talk about the role race and racism play in the cultures and places described in the story collection; Ramona highlights Ramona Brown's Descendant, a documentary that comments on the previously-mentioned topics   At about 35:00, Ideas of trauma and loss and miscarriage are discussed; Pete compliments a scene from the story, moving in its depiction of multiple generations experiencing and processing loss, and Ramona responds to this by connecting class and loss   At about 38:55, Ideas of class and decorum are discussed, including Donnie's uncomfortable laughs throughout the book, and Pete and Ramona share their experiences with this type of laughing    At about 42:00, The two discuss religion and ways   At about 43:15, The two analyze an important scene and the ways in which racism was covered in the collection    At about 45:30, The two talk about themes of rebirth, recovery, and growth, and the baptismal as new birth/new life   At about 46:20, Pete cites Fay as a sympathetic character and an interesting one; Ramona talks about her writing towards happy endings   At about 48:30, Ramona gives kudos for Deesha Philyaw's work with happy endings    At about 49:05, Ramona ruminates on Pete's asking if this collection is an optimistic one   At about 50:30, Ramona discusses her exciting new novel project   At about 51:30, Pete and Ramona shout out former guest Rus Bradburd      You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. 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Ursa Short Fiction Podcast Returns with the 20th Anniversary Celebration of ZZ Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Ursa Short Fiction, named by Apple Podcasts as one of its "Shows We Love" for 2022, is returning for Season Two on March 29, with a very special episode celebrating the 20th anniversary of DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE, the acclaimed short story collection by ZZ Packer that has inspired so many writers and kicked off a renaissance for short fiction.  Co-hosts Deesha Philyaw (THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES) and Dawnie Walton (THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV) go in-depth with Packer about the origin of her collection and the writers who inspired (and continue to inspire) her own work.  *** DEESHA: So many of our interviews and stories have led us to this very exciting moment. In all of the conversations we've had here on Ursa Short Fiction, there are a few books and a few writers who keep coming up over and over again as a source of inspiration. So many of us read these stories and it opened us up to what was possible with short fiction. DAWNIE: I know exactly what you mean, and I also know exactly who you're talking about. DEESHA: That's right. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by ZZ Packer, first published in 2003. We are now here celebrating the 20th anniversary of this wonderful collection by talking to ZZ Packer. We're gonna learn about her journey as a writer and who inspired her work, which in turn, inspired so many of us. *** Ursa Short Fiction is returning with a star-studded list of writers — including Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Dantiel W. Moniz, Jonathan Escoffery, Sidik Fofana, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, and Denne Michele Norris, among many others — as well as both original audio stories and modern classics.  Follow Ursa Short Fiction on Instagram! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our Season Two premiere, co-hosts Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton talk with the beloved ZZ Packer, author of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, a collection first published in 2003 that went on to inspire countless writers. Packer talks about how she found her voice, style, and authenticity as a young, Black, female writer who hadn't even planned on becoming a writer. She addresses ideas of navigating both physical and figurative spaces and learning how to find a place in the literary world. Reading List: Authors, Stories, and Books Mentioned Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (ZZ Packer) Zora Neale Hurston Toni Morrison Flannery O'Connor James Alan McPherson (Elbow Room and Hue and Cry) Lorrie Moore Stuart Dybek Percival Everett James Baldwin Anton Chekhov Edward P. Jones (Lost in the City and The Known World) Alice Munro Imani Perry Bryan Stevenson (Just Mercy) Edwidge Danticat Read more from Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton:  The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (Deesha Philyaw) The Final Revival of Opal & Nev (Dawnie Walton) Ursa Short Fiction is 100% independent and supported by our listeners. Become a Member today to help us keep going: ursastory.com/join  Episode editor: Kelly Araja Associate producer: Marina Leigh Producer: Mark Armstrong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://ursastory.com/join

Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton are joined by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author of the short story collection The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You. That acclaimed 2021 book includes “Ghetto University,” the story we featured previously on the show.  Ruffin talks about the inspiration he takes from his native New Orleans, and his journey from a “three-piece suit-wearing, BMW-driving lawyer” to putting all of his energy into becoming a writer and telling the stories he was meant to tell. Read the full transcript. About the Author  Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You, a New York Times Editor's Choice that was also longlisted for the Story Prize. His first book, We Cast a Shadow, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the PEN America Open Book Prize. Ruffin is the winner of several literary prizes, including the Iowa Review Award in fiction. A New Orleans native, Ruffin is a professor of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University, and the 2020-2021 John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. Episode Links and Reading List:  “Ghetto University” (Ursa)  The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You (One World, 2021) We Cast a Shadow (One World, 2020) “Leaving the Law Behind for My Dream Job” (Oldster, 2021) About Maurice Carlos Ruffin Maurice Carlos Ruffin's newsletter  New Stories from the South (edited by ZZ Packer, 2008) More from Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton:  The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, by Deesha Philyaw The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, by Dawnie Walton   Support Future Episodes of Ursa Short Fiction Become a Member at ursastory.com/join. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://ursastory.com/join

BAPC x Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Reggie and Akili breakdown the #ReadWithBAPC Pick for the month of July - Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer. Join The Fellowship—BAPC's Patreon Community https://www.patreon.com/booksarepopculture Follow BAPC on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/booksarepopculture Shop BAPC's Bookshop: https://www.bookshop.org/shop/booksarepopculture

On June 2 at 7 p.m. at the Austin Central Library, the Library Foundation and the PEN America Austin Chapter are partnering to host a discussion about The 1619 Project and free speech. I interviewed Timothy Staley, Executive Director of the Library Foundation and Jennifer M. Wilks, an English professor and director of the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas, who will moderate the discussion.  The program, entitled The 1619 Project: Who's Afraid of Black Books?, will feature two contributors to The 1619 Project: acclaimed author ZZ Packer and award-winning poet Danez Smith.  More information on the event is available at https://austinlibrary.org/at-central/.Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWeb site: https://diversevoicesbookreview.wordpress.com/ 

On this episode of the Afronauts Podcast, we'll discuss: Our culture in our writing on Writing While Black The Story Grid Method on Craft Country Hopeful Sci-Fi on Black Spec-Fic Recs The spooky, the strange, and the surreal on Genre Galaxies Comfort books, writer's survival kits, and healthy ways to decompress on Black Joy Crew “Brownies” by ZZ Packer can be found in the short story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere - https://bookshop.org/books/drinking-coffee-elsewhere/9781573223782 For more info on the Story Grid Method, check out the links below:  5 Commandments of Storytelling: What They Are and How to Use Them - https://storygrid.com/5-commandments/ An Editor's Six Core Questions - Story Grid - https://storygrid.com/an-editors-six-core-questions/ View the episode transcript at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TltnqKWo5lbwnMgiHVhD67bOy53gSmcVdAoRy_bL_wU/edit?usp=sharing For a link to our Discord Community, follow us on social media and send us an email at afronautspodcast@gmail.com! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/afronauts-podcast/message

With political and social unrest rocking his home country of Venezuela, Alejandro Puyana turned to writing as a way to process. He applied to MFA programs four times before landing an acceptance at the Michener Center for Writers. Now, you can read his work in The Best American Short Stories anthology for 2020. Alejandro and Jared talk rejection, revision, and reimagining the world through fiction. Alejandro Puyana is a second-year fellow at the Michener Center for Writers whose primary focus is fiction and secondary genre is screenwriting. His non-fiction pieces have been published in The Toast, Tin House Online, NPR, The Huffington Post; his fiction in Huizache, The Examined Life, and Idaho Review. His short story, "Hands of Dirty Children" was awarded the Halifax Ranch Prize by American Short Fiction, chosen as the winning story by ZZ Packer. That same story was then chosen by Curtis Sittenfeld to be included in the 2020 Best American Short Stories. Find him on Twitter @Puyana. MFA Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. New episodes are released every two weeks. You can find more MFA Writers at MFAwriters.com. Twitter: @MFAwriterspod Instagram: @MFAwriterspodcast Facebook: MFA Writers Email: mfawriterspodcast@gmail.com

This week we welcome Dr. Shannon Dobranski, Director of Pre-Graduate and Pre-Professional Advising at Georgia Tech. Shannon shares her insights on how students might prepare for their long-term plans early on, as well as her own path to her alma mater. More on our guest: https://career.gatech.edu/shannon-dobranskiTrinity College (San Antonio): https://www.trinity.edu/ Read the blog: b.gatech.edu/3jxQEJBLearn more about ZZ Packer: bit.ly/3lgve44Meet Betty! https://bit.ly/3nqg9yx

ZZ Packer joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Who Will Greet You At Home,” by Lesley Nneka Arimah, which appeared in a 2015 issue of the magazine. Packer’s story collection, “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” was published in 2003.

If you enjoy this episode, consider subscribing to our newsletter at NaplesWritersWorkshop.com For daily writing tips, industry news, and great short fiction, join our Facebook group at Facebook.com/groups/NaplesWritersWorkshop In this episode, we discuss “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” by ZZ Packer. What can we learn from such a strongly character-driven story? How does story relate to character? […]

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December 11, 2018 at the LIC Reading Series at LIC Bar in Queens, NY Panel discussion from our event on December 11, 2018, featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (FRIDAY BLACK), Hannah Lillith Assadi (SONORA), and Keith Gessen (A TERRIBLE COUNTRY). Find more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/213310262886900/ About our readers: NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH has an MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Esquire, Guernica, Printer’s Row, and the Breakwater Review, where ZZ Packer awarded him the Breakwater Review Fiction Prize. He was selected by Colson Whitehead for the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35.” He lives in Syracuse. FRIDAY BLACK is his first book.   HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI was raised in Arizona and now lives in Brooklyn. She received her MFA in fiction from the Columbia University School of the Arts. Her first novel SONORA (Soho 2017) received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In 2018, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree. Her second novel THE STARS ARE NOT YET BELLS is forthcoming from Riverhead.   KEITH GESSEN was born in Moscow and grew up outside of Boston. He is a founding editor of n+1 and a contributor to the London Review of Books and the New Yorker. He has translated Svetlana Alexievich and Ludmilla Petrushevskaya from Russian and is the author of the novels All the Sad Young Literary Men and A Terrible Country. - - - This event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Thank you to our local sponsors: LIC Bar, Astoria Bookshop, Sweetleaf Coffee, Gantry Bar LIC, and LIC Corner Cafe. Learn more at licreadingseries.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

December 11, 2018 at the LIC Reading Series at LIC Bar in Queens, NY Readings from our event on December 11, 2018, featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (FRIDAY BLACK), Hannah Lillith Assadi (SONORA), and Keith Gessen (A TERRIBLE COUNTRY). Find more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/213310262886900/ About our readers: NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH has an MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Esquire, Guernica, Printer’s Row, and the Breakwater Review, where ZZ Packer awarded him the Breakwater Review Fiction Prize. He was selected by Colson Whitehead for the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35.” He lives in Syracuse. FRIDAY BLACK is his first book.   HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI was raised in Arizona and now lives in Brooklyn. She received her MFA in fiction from the Columbia University School of the Arts. Her first novel SONORA (Soho 2017) received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In 2018, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree. Her second novel THE STARS ARE NOT YET BELLS is forthcoming from Riverhead.   KEITH GESSEN was born in Moscow and grew up outside of Boston. He is a founding editor of n+1 and a contributor to the London Review of Books and the New Yorker. He has translated Svetlana Alexievich and Ludmilla Petrushevskaya from Russian and is the author of the novels All the Sad Young Literary Men and A Terrible Country. - - - This event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Thank you to our local sponsors: LIC Bar, Astoria Bookshop, Sweetleaf Coffee, Gantry Bar LIC, and LIC Corner Cafe. Learn more at licreadingseries.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Haiiii! All we gotta say is "sky's out, thighs out" cuz we're starting our Summer Short Series! This week, your favorite nerds talk about ZZ Packer's short story "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere"! Get comfortable as we go through the plot summary and later discuss the clumsy process of coming out, navigating Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), and our own personal tales from college in our most personal episode to date! Plot Summary: 2:34 - 15:19 Discussion: 15:28 - 54:04 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome novelist ZZ Packer, the author of a story collection, “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and editor of “New Short Stories from the South.” Born in Chicago and raised in Atlanta and Louisville, Packer has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, Tulane, Stanford and Johns Hopkins. When is stability at duty and when is it a trap? This was the thought provoking and insightful question delivered in the New York Times Magazine last year. “The reality is that our instability often reveals much more profound ruptures and that the obvious kind of civility, the civility of niceness is only the most superficial marker of much deeper moral obligations,” Packer wrote. “This indeed demands us to differentiate between the civility of manners and that of morals after all,” she so compellingly writes, “Deep down we probably all know it's not just civility we're missing, but decency.” 

John and Andy are joined by writer and editor Nikesh Shukla to discuss Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, ZZ Packer's groundbreaking collection of stories, first published in 2003. Andy also talks about Lissa Evans's new novel Old Baggage, while John has been reading Problems by Jade Sharma.

For our first event of 2017, we were joined by John Freeman, Aleksandar Hemon and ZZ Packer for a discussion of how literature in the United States could be impacted by four years of President Donald Trump.

Merritt Tierce was born and raised in Texas. She worked in various secretarial and retail positions until 2009, when she moved to Iowa City to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop as the Meta Rosenberg Fellow. After graduating in 2011 with her MFA from Iowa, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and she is a 2013 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Author. Merritt’s first published story, Suck It, was selected by ZZ Packer to be anthologized in the 2008 edition of New Stories from the South, and her first book, Love Me Back, was published by Doubleday in 2014, to wide acclaim. Merritt lives near Dallas with her husband and children. www.merritttierce.com More about First Draft at aspenpublicradio.org/programs/first-draft

Acclaimed author ZZ Packer (Drinking Coffee Elsewhere) has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a Whiting Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is currently at work on a novel, Thousands, about the Buffalo Soldiers, which was excerpted in The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 Fiction Issue. In conversation with Sarah Ladipo Manyika, and recorded live during Litquake 2013, at Museum of the African Diaspora. 

Acclaimed author ZZ Packer has been the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a Whiting Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere won the Commonwealth First Fiction Award and an ALEX award, and was selected for the Today Show Book Club by John Updike. She is currently at work on a novel, Thousands, about the Buffalo Soldiers, which was excerpted in The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 Fiction Issue. Here, we present Packer reading from Thousands, followed by a wide-ranging conversation with author and professor Sarah Ladipo Manyika. ZZ Packer’s stories and nonfiction have appeared in Harper’s, Story, Ploughshares, Zoetrope All-Story, and The New York Times Magazine. She was recently named a professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. Sarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and her writing includes essays, academic papers, reviews and short stories. Her first novel is In Dependence (Legend Press, London; Cassava Republic Press, Abuja). She teaches literature at San Francisco State University. This program is co-presented by MoAD and Litquake.

ZZ Packer reads Stuart Dybek's "Paper Lantern," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "Paper Lantern" was published in the November 27, 1995, issue of The New Yorker, and was reprinted in "The Best American Short Stories 1996." ZZ Packer is the author of the short-story collection "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere."

“A fierce, beautiful tour de force . . . a heroine for the ages . . .Luckett is a writer to watch and admire.” –ZZ Packer in O Magazine After leaving the corporate world, Jacqueline Luckett took a creative writing class on a dare (from herself) and began writing short stories and poetry and never looked back. SEO + Publicity + Social Media = ?

Author ZZ Packer discusses her new book "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" with host Kecia Lynn.

Author ZZ Packer discusses her new book "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" with host Kecia Lynn.

Named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, ZZ Packer has received a Commonwealth Club Fiction Award, Wallace Stegner and Guggenheim Fellowships, and a Whiting Award.  Her acclaimed 2003 collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere features eight stories whose subjects range from Girl Scouts to expatriates in Japan.  Originally from Chicago, Packer is currently writing a novel set in the post-Civil War period.

Named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, ZZ Packer has received a Commonwealth Club Fiction Award, Wallace Stegner and Guggenheim Fellowships, and a Whiting Award.  Her acclaimed 2003 collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere features eight stories whose subjects range from Girl Scouts to expatriates in Japan.  Originally from Chicago, Packer is currently writing a novel set in the post-Civil War period.

English professor emerita Diane Middlebrook interviews guest reader Adam Johnson, Jones Lecturer in the Program in Creative Writing at Stanford, about Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by ZZ Packer.

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Riverhead) With her extraordinarily confident language, newcomer ZZ Packer confronts issues of race, class and education that have flummoxed more-experienced writers...