The Sun is a Joke
Saturday, December 6 | 4-5:30pm
Location: Slash (1150 25th St, Building B, San Francisco)
Free event
Join us for an evening of readings given by writers in the Bay area to celebrate the closing reception of Like a City.
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist and poet from Los Angeles. They are the author of The Easy Body (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017) and La Movida (Nightboat Books, 2022), and are the recipient of a 2025 San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award in Poetry and a 2025-26 San Francisco Arts Commision Grant. They’re currently at work on a novel involving the Central American solidarity movement, skyjacking, Norteño & country western music, custody battles, armed cells, motherhood, anti-zionism, farmworkers, displacement, and lesbians on and around 1970s Valencia Street.
Brittany Newell is a writer and performer living in San Francisco. Her debut novel Oola was published in 2017 at the age of 21 in the US, UK, and Germany. You can find her written work in Granta, N+1, The New York Times, McSweeney’s, and others. Her second novel Soft Core was published by Farrard, Straus & Giroux in February 2025 in the US, UK, and France. She is currently at work on a third novel about love addiction, emotional vampires, and cannibalism.
Brontez Purnell is the author of 7 books, including 100 Boyfriends, which won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction, was long-listed for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, and was named an Editors’ Choice by The New York Times Book Review. The recipient of a 2018 Whiting Tennessee Williams Award for Fiction and the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Award for Risk Taking In Art, he was named one of the thirty-two Black Male Writers of Our Time by T: The New York Times Style Magazine in 2018. Purnell is also the front man for the band the Younger Lovers and a renowned performance artist and zine-maker. He holds an MFA in Art from the University of California in Berkeley. Born in Triana, Alabama, he has lived and made art in Oakland, California, for two decades.
rel robinson (b. 1995, Los Angeles) is an artist based in San Francisco. Working in and around photography, fiber, research, text, and archival methodologies, her practice superimposes the affectual and the abject and aims to develop a language with the ephemeral. Most recently, she has exhibited at Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato; Anthony Maier, Mill Valley; Anglim Trimble, San Francisco; BRIDGE, Delhi, India; Los Angeles Melrose Botanical Garden, Los Angeles; Glogauair, Berlin, Germany; Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA; Delaplane, San Francisco, CA; Et al., San Francisco, CA; and staircase, San Francisco, CA. She holds a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute, is a MFA candidate at UC Berkeley, and is the founder of conventional projects, an artist-edition publication. She lives and works in San Francisco.