City Lights and Heyday Books celebrate the publication of The Last Human Bear – by Greg Sarris – published by Heyday Books.
This event will take place in Kerouac Alley, between City Lights and Vesuvio Cafe. It is free to the public. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Widely acclaimed storyteller Greg Sarris (author of Grand Avenue and Watermelon Nights) debuts his first novel in twenty-eight years with The Last Human Bear, marking the triumphant return of a writer hailed by Kirkus as “a singularly talented novelist.”
Greg Sarris is an accomplished author, university professor, and tribal leader currently serving his seventeenth term as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. His publications include Keeping Slug Woman Alive, Grand Avenue, Watermelon Nights, How a Mountain Was Made, Becoming Story, and The Forgetters. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Sundance Institute, former board chair of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, and a member of the Board of Regents for the University of California.
Oscar Villalon is the editor of ZYZZYVA, winner of a Whiting Literary Magazine Prize in 2022. His writing has been published in Stranger’s Guide, Freeman’s, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, Lit Hub, and elsewhere.