BLACKOUTS with JUSTIN TORRES

11:00 am - 11:45 am
| Location of Session: Latino Collection Resource Center
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 12:00 pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly, but who has haunted the edges of his life. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator exchange stories, moments of joy and oblivion, and resurrect lost loves and lives. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us: what are we to create from its gaps and erasures? An unmissable session with Justin Torres, the author of 2023 National Book Award for Fiction Winner, Blackouts.

About the Author

Photo Credit: JJ Geiger

Justin Torres

Justin Torres is the author of Blackouts, winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Fiction. He is also the author of We the Animals, which won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, was translated into fifteen languages, and was adapted into a feature film. He was named a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35,” a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times Image Magazine, and Best American Essays. He lives in Los Angeles, and teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Moderator

Yvette Benavides

Yvette Benavides is a professor of English and creative writing at Our Lady of the Lake University. She is a contributing editor at Texas Public Radio. She hosts TPR’s Book Public podcast and co-hosts The Lonely Voice with Peter Orner. She is an editor-at-large with Trinity University Press.