Literary Pub(lishing) Crawl and Book Signing

LITERARY
PUB(lishing)
CRAWL
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
3:30 p.m. | Beckman 404
Come hear how four writers came to do what they do. The writers offer advice about developing a
career as a writer, words that are often, in turns, encouraging, philosophical, and sensible.
Refreshments will be served. For more information: 714-532-6027 | mellswo@chapman.edu
Ryan Gattis
Pico Iyer
Writer & educator
Author of All Involved:
A Novel of the 1992 L.A. Riots
Longtime essayist for Time magazine
Author of The Art of Stillness
Janna Levin
Gordon McAlpine
Professor of physics and astronomy
Author of A Madman Dreams of
Turing Machines
Past chair of Chapman University MFA
Author of Woman With a Blue Pencil
Ryan
Gattis
Ryan Gattis is a writer & educator. His most recent
book, All Involved: A Novel of the 1992 L.A. Riots, is
grounded in 2.5 years of research & background
spent with former Latino gang members, firefighters,
nurses, & other L.A. citizens who lived through it. The
novel has won the American Library Association’s
Alex Award & the Lire Award for Noir of the Year in
France. Set to be translated into 11 languages, it has
been called “a high-octane speedball of a read” by The
New York Times & its film rights have been acquired by
HBO. Gattis lives and writes in Los Angeles, where he
is a member of the street art crew UGLARworks & a
founding board member of 1888, a Southern
California literary arts non-profit.
Janna
Levin
Janna Levin is a professor of physics and astronomy
at Barnard College of Columbia University. She is also
director of sciences at Pioneer Works, a center for arts
and sciences in Brooklyn. Janna has contributed to an
understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra
dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of
spacetime. Her previous books include How the
Universe Got Its Spots and a novel, A Madman Dreams
of Turing Machines, which won the PEN/Bingham
Prize. She was recently named a Guggenheim fellow,
and she is a Chancellors Fellow at Chapman
University. Her new book, Black Hole Blues and Other
Songs from Outer Space, will be published on March
29, 2016 by Knopf.
Pico
Iyer
Pico Iyer is a longtime essayist for Time magazine, a
frequent contributor to the New York Times and
author of 10 books. As a Chapman University
Presidential Fellow, he visits campus annually to
discuss his work and travels. In his most recent visit to
campus, Mr. Iyer explored the idea that many people
have multiple places they call home, several lives and
even different versions of themselves in a talk entitled
"Global Souls: New Selves, Homes and Dreams in the
New Millennium." Pico Iyer was born in Oxford,
England in 1957, to parents from India, and educated
at Eton, Oxford and Harvard. Since 1986 he has been
writing books and since 1992 he has been based in
rural Japan with his longtime sweetheart, while
spending part of each year in a Benedictine
hermitage in California.
Gordon
McAlpine
Gordon McAlpine is a native Californian who
attended the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the
University of California, Irvine. He is the author of a
number of books, the most recent being the Edgar
Award nominated Woman With a Blue Pencil – “a book
that Kafka, Borges, and Nabokov, as well as Dashiell
Hammett, would have appreciated,” according to
Joyce Carol Oates. He is also the author of Hammett
Unwritten; The Way of Baseball, Finding Stillness at 95
MPH; Joy in Mudville; the young adult trilogy The
Misadventures of Edgar and Allan Poe, and others. He
has chaired the MFA Program at Chapman University
and has taught fiction writing classes at U.C.L.A. and
U.C. Irvine.