Perfectly Queer Book Reading "Ancestors: Real, Imagined, & Literary"

authors Wayne Goodman, Andrew Lam, and Anand Vedawala. Join us Tuesday, September 11, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro for ancestors in stories, children's books, personal essays, and the first Gay novels in England, Russia, and the U.S. Free admission, free refreshments. Door prizes awarded promptly at 7pm.ABOUT THE AUTHORS:Over the last few years, Wayne Goodman has worked on retelling historically-significant stories from Gay Literature that were nearly lost to the public. Beginning with Vanya Says, ‘Go!’ (based on the first Russian-language Gay novel), he continued with Better Angels (based on the first American Gay novel), and recently published Fortune’s Lot (based on the first English-language Gay novel). Goodman wanted to re-introduce these tales before they were totally forgotten to time. His other books are Boromir: Serving the Tsars, Britain’s Glory, The Seed of Immortality, and The Last Great Hope. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.Andrew Lam left Vietnam with his family during the fall of Saigon 1975 at the age of 11. He was featured in “My Journey Home,” a documentary which aired in 2004. He was for 15 years the web editor of New America Media. In 2005, he published a collection of essays, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, which received the PEN Open Book Award. He was a regular contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered for 8 years. His second book, East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres, is a meditation on East-West relations, and how Asian immigration changed the West. It was named Top Ten Indies by Shelf Unbound Magazine in 2010. Birds of Paradise Lost, his third book, is a collection of short stories about Vietnamese newcomers struggling to remake their lives in the San Francisco Bay after a long, painful exodus from Vietnam and was the winner of the West Coast Pen Award in 2013 and finalist for the California Book award.A former civil engineer and animator, Anand Vedawala is an educator for San Francisco Unified School District and the executive director of San Francisco Zine Fest. Anand writes about cultural expectations, discrimination, racism, queerphobia, sexism, and classism. He's the author of several zines, including Hair, which was recently nominated for a Broken Pencil Zine Award, Hot Chachas, Cities, Sadhana, Three, and My Lovers My Amoebae. He has also published an art book based on Hot Chachas. His self-published book, 100 Years from Now Our Bones Will Be Different, with co-author and illustrator Lawrence McWilliams received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Anand is currently working on a zine about his twin nieces' American names.