Book Party: The Time of the Novel by Lara Mimosa Montes
Location
FICTION
308 Hooper Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
About the event
What is "The Time of the Novel"? Join us at FICTION for a book party celebrating the release of Lara Mimosa Montes's debut novella. With punctual offerings in prose, beat, drink, and other unknown genres by protagonists Gia Gonzales, Eugene Lim, Sara Magenheimer, Mónica de la Torre, and the author (narrator?) herself. Special non-linear plot-twists to come.
We wish you good luck with PROSE.
About the readers
Mónica de la Torre (she/her) was born and raised in Mexico City. Her full-length poetry collections include Pause the Document (Nightboat Books, 2025), Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat Books, 2020), The Happy End/All Welcome (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017), Public Domain (Roof Books, 2008), Talk Shows (Switchback Books, 2007). With artist Terence Gower, she co-authored the art book Appendices, Illustrations & Notes (Smart Art Press, 1999). Her books written in Spanish and published in Mexico include Acúfenos (Taller Ditoria, 2006) and Taller de Taquimecanografía (Tumbona Ediciones, 2011), written with the eponymous artists' collective she co-founded. Her translations from Spanish include Lila Zemborain’s Mauve Sea-Orchids (Belladonna Books, 2007; co-translated with Rosa Alcalá) and Poems by Gerardo Deniz (Lost Roads Publishers, 2000), which she also edited. As an editor, de la Torre has co-edited several anthologies, most recently, Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–1979 (Primary Information, 2020) and Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2002). She is the recipient of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts C.D. Wright Award for Poetry, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and a 2022 Creative Capital grant and teaches poetry and translation at Brooklyn College.
Gia Gonzales is a poet based in New York City, where she was born. She is the author of the chaplet From Gia Gonzales (Belladonna* Collaborative) and the chapbook RENDER SLEAZE (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs). In 2023 to 2024, she was an Emerge-Surface-Be fellow at the Poetry Project. Currently, she is an editor-at-large for Nightboat Books.
Eugene Lim is the author of the novels Fog & Car, The Strangers, Dear Cyborgs, and Search History. He works as a school librarian, runs Ellipsis Press, and lives in Queens, New York.
Sara Magenheimer is an artist preoccupied with language whose work spans filmmaking, video installation, writing, performance, collage, sound and sculpture. She is based in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Timeshare gallery, LA; the University Art Museum in Albany, NY, New Museum, NY; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, OR; The Kitchen, NY. Her videos have been widely screened including the Flaherty Seminar, Oberhausen Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the New York Film Festival, Images Festival, Anthology Film Archives, EMPAC at RPI, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She was the recipient of a 2014 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant, 2015 Artadia Award, the Prix De Varti at the 2015 Ann Arbor Film Festival, a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2020 and awarded a Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva in 2021. Magenheimer authored Notes on Art and Resistance A–Z after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In 2019 Wendy’s Subway published Beige Pursuit, Magenheimer’s first book. Magenheimer is an Associate Professor of New Media at SUNY Purchase College and faculty in the Moving Image discipline at the Bard MFA Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.
Lara Mimosa Montes is a writer, editor, and teaching artist whose practice and experiences span the fields of alternative publishing and experimental writing. She is the author of THRESHOLES (2020) and The Somnambulist (2016). Her writing has appeared in BOMB, Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of artist residencies and fellowships from MacDowell, Marble House Project, Jentel, and Headlands Center for the Arts. She is a faculty member of the Creative Writing MFA program at Pacific Northwest College of Art. She also teaches in XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement Master’s program at NYU. She was born in the Bronx.