Tatiana and The Russian Wolves by Stephen Evans Jordan

Thursday 10/4: Join writer, conceptual artist, and activist John Sims as he releases his multimedia poem chapbook, A Blazing Grace and the AfroDixieRemixes: The San Francisco Session. The Bindery in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m. Grande will be in conversation with Carolina De Robertis. Grande’s newest book documents her story as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer. Join Reyna Grande for the San Francisco launch of her new memoir, A Dream Called Home. (free for Mechanics’ Institute members, Alta Magazine subscribers, and friends of ZYZZYVA. Mechanics’ Institute Library in San Francisco at 6:30 p.m. Ulin will be in conversation with ZYZZYVA Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. Ulin will be discussing The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time. How does fake news affect our reading? Former LA Times book critic David L. Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto at 7 p.m. Tatiana has received the Finalist award in the 2019 Wishing Shelf Book Awards in England also a Finalist in the Independent Author Network (IAN) 2020 Book of the Year Awards for “First Novel with over 80,000 Words.” “Jordan’s book shines … the narrative should leave readers curious about the fates of the people Alexander meets on his serpentine journey.Wednesday 10/3: What was it like growing up in the shadow of Steve Jobs? Join Lisa Brennan-Jobs as she reads from Small Fry. Stephen’s first novel, Tatiana and the Russian Wolves, is the psychological journey of a young Russian émigré as he reconciles his guilt and dishonesty with his mother’s troubled past and suicide. Other stories have appeared in East Lit, an online journal. “Snake Charmed” appeared in Gem Street, an anthology of short stories published in Ireland. Inspired by Paul Theroux’s Asian collection, The Counsel’s File, Stephen has written a collection of short stories centered in Southeast Asia he won an award from Negative Capability for “Prince Charles and the Texans,” set in Singapore. He describes Chicago as the most dangerous, Singapore the cleanest.ĭespite his initial misgivings, Stephen found living in Asia fascinating, frustrating, and life threatening at times.

His banking career involved assignments in San Francisco, Jakarta, Singapore, Chicago, London, and Tanzania. Speaking good Spanish at the time, he was bewildered-but not entirely surprised-when he was assigned to the Asia Division and later transferred to Indonesia.

But practicality prevailed, and he opted for business school and joined Bank of America’s International Department. While at Stanford, Stephen discovered art history and considered a career in the arts.

Of his parents’ gifts, love of literature is his most cherished. He grew up in California’s Napa Valley in the 1950s in a family of readers-dinner-table conversations often centered on books. Stephen Jordan’s fiction is often inspired from living and working overseas combined with a passion for history.

Tatiana and The Russian Wolves by Stephen Evans Jordan