Join us for a "Lit Chat" with Santa Cruz based author Paul Skenazy as he discusses his new novel Still Life. Lit Chat is at the Catamaran studio and is part of First Friday open studios at the Tannery Arts Center. The reception is from 5:30-6:00 and will be held outdoors in the courtyard. Then join us inside for the presentation and reading 6:00 - 6:30, but be prepared to wear a mask. Book signing will follow in the courtyard from 6:30-7:00.

Still Life is a stunning novel about the power of art, the complexity of relationships, and the transfiguration of cast offs, all seen through the recomposition of a broken life. Skenazy writes with mysterious clarity and extraordinary compression; the novel shimmers with intelligence and grace. —-Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen

Paul Skenazy grew up in Chicago and studied at the University of Chicago and Stanford University. He taught literature and writing for thirty-five years at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His short novel, Temper CA (2019), won the Miami University Press Novella Contest. His stories and essays have recently appeared in Catamaran Literary Reader, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Santa Cruz, California with his wife, the poet Farnaz Fatemi.