San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
Interior Chinatown, Tinseltown, and Other Worlds Imagined
Charles Yu and Jim Gavin
Monday, May 3 • 7pm PT
Faulkner and Fitzgerald had their brushes with Hollywood...but wait until you hear Charles Yu’s stories from the Tinseltown trenches. His National Book Award-winning novel, Interior Chinatown, drew from years in a racially blinkered industry. He’ll hilariously skewer stereotypes with Jim Gavin, whose AMC series, “Lodge 49,” beloved by Patton Oswalt and Paul Giamatti, was the most literary show about secret societies and slacker surfers to ever get greenlit. Live Q&A!