Literature and Music — A Good Combination  – Eugene Weekly

Writing a novel is a lonely job, so it’s only natural that writers want to release some pent-up energy.

For Pedro Hoffmeister, it includes rock climbing and music. For Willy Vlautin, that includes being a founding member of bands like Richmond Fontaine and He’s The Delines.

But both men are accomplished writers with new books, read their novels at Tsunami Books on March 22nd, signed the books and, yes, entertained the audience with a short concert accompanied by guitar and violin. Entertain.

The new Hoffmeister american afterlife, a suspense thriller based on Eugene. Awarded the Oregon Literature and Arts Fellowship in 2006 for her Forfiction, she imagines a powerful earthquake that hits the city, and Cielo, a teenage narrator, is left to fend for herself amidst the ruins and succumbs to a cult. attempts to find the immigrant Mexican mother who participated in the .

Hoffmeister’s predecessor, who co-created the Integrated Outdoor Program at South Eugene High School, including novels too shattered to repair, this is the part that makes you laugh and the end of boys. he says Eugene Weekly,”american afterlife was the first novel I completed after a traumatic brain injury from a car accident, and I struggled to put all the pieces and timelines together in my head. However, I am grateful to have had a wonderful and encouraging editor, and am currently writing the third volume of my trilogy. What’s Gone Is GoneMy editor is currently editing the second volume of the trilogy. infinite universe (Scheduled to be released next year)

Vlautin reads from his new novel night always comeswhich publisher weeklyin a starred review, noted that the memo “sings in perfect prose, [protagonist] Lynette’s desperation is palpable. Vlautin is the perfect blend of Raymond Carver and Jim Thompson. ”

A native of Nevada, Flotin is a three-time Oregon Book Award winner and inductee into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. He is also a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist.his novel rely on pete It was made into a movie in 2018, starring Steve Buscemi, Chloe Sevigny, Charlie Plummer, and Travis Fimmel.

Writers and singer-songwriters Pedro Hofmeister and Willy Vlautin will read their latest novel at Tsunami Books, 2585 Willamette Street, on Wednesday, March 22 from 7-9 p.m. , sing folk songs. free.

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