Event Factory A Novel 1st Edition Renee Gladman by Renee Gladman 9780984469307, 0984469303 instant download after payment.

“[The Ravicka] books are absurd & surreal, & are stabilized by an eerie interior logic: Think The Phantom Tollbooth for adults.” — The Atlantic

“Event Factory is a profound study of the architecture of being, knowledge, memory, & desire.” — John Madera, Review of Contemporary Fiction

A “linguist-traveler” arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the inhabitants to flee. Although fluent in the native language, she quickly finds herself on the outside of every experience. Things happen to her, events transpire, but it is as if the city itself, the performance of life there, eludes her. Setting out to uncover the source of the city’s erosion, she is beset by this other crisis—an ontological crisis—as she struggles to retain a sense of what is happening.

Event Factory is the first in a series of novels (also available are the second, The Ravickians; the third, Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge; & the fourth, Houses of Ravicka) that Renee Gladman is writing about the invented city-state of Ravicka, a foreign “other” place fraught with the crises of American urban experience, not least the fundamental problem of how to move through the world at all.

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Renee Gladman was born in Atlanta in 1971. She received a B.A. in philosophy from Vassar College, & a Master’s in poetics from New College of California. She is the author of seven works of prose & one collection of poetry. A new novel, Morelia, & a collection of essay-fictions, Calamities, are forthcoming in 2015. Since 2005, she has operated Leon Works, an independent press for experimental prose & other thought-projects based in the sentence, making occasional forays into poetry. A 2014-15 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, she lives in Providence, RI, with the poet-ceramicist Danielle Vogel.