May 2009 – San Francisco

DEBUT LIT will host a book release party for first time authors at The Hive in San Francisco. The event for Sung J. Woo’s Everything Asian and San Francisco-based Andy Raskin’s The Ramen King and I will be held at the private art salon on Pacific Avenue and Hyde Street in the Russian Hill neighborhood.

 

Saturday, May 30

Doors open at 7 pm; reading at 7:30 pm

The Hive, San Francisco 

Pacific Avenue at Hyde (21+)

The event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase at a discounted price, and a short reading by both authors will be followed by a book signing and party.

The May event will be the West Coast launch for Woo’s book, released in mid-April by Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press. Everything Asian was called “charming” by Publishers Weekly and received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews.

 

Raskin’s book, which will be published by Gotham Books, a Penguin imprint, just in advance of the event, was recently featured by 7×7 magazine and called “hilariously candid” by Publishers Weekly and a “laugh-out-loud memoir” by Kirkus Reviews.

 

Paintings, illustrations and film installations will be on display by Bay Area artists including Jason Grohman, Rykarda Parasol and Tod Regan and book sculptures by Katya Marritz.

 

Anderson, Raskin, and Woo will also appear together on the “Drinks with Tony” radio show on Thursday, May 28, 2009, between 4 and 6 p.m. at 87.9fm, San Francisco, or streamed at Pirate Cat Radio.

 

About The Hive

 The Hive is an art salon space created by musician and artist, Rykarda Parasol. The honeycomb hideout is most often used as a recreation room for a collective of local musicians and artists as a place to congregate and create. The salon is sometimes referred to as “Small Factory” as it is often compared to Warhol’s Factory in spirit and purpose – but with fewer casualties so far. On most days, the Hive is a hangout, art salon, and studio space for private use.