An evening with Brian Evenson
Litquake presents An evening with Brian Evenson Acclaimed master-storyteller Brian Evenson reads from and discusses Phantom Limb: A novel Published by Coffee House Press Master of literary horror Brian Evenson returns with a long-awaited follow-up to his 2016 novel, Last Days. After destroying the headquarters of an underground amputation cult, a burned and battered Kline finds himself in a holding cell. When he enlists the help of an ex-cop to commute his prison sentence, Kline inadvertently tangles with a schism of the very cult he sought to destroy. Can Kline investigate the sect's ritualistic murder spree without getting lured into their ranks? Frigid and precise, Phantom Limb interrogates our notions of wholeness, fate, and the lengths we are willing to go to connect with a higher power. Brian Evenson is the author and translator of numerous books of fiction and non-fiction, most recently the novel Good Night, Sleep Tight \(2024\). His penultimate collection, Song for the Unraveling of the World \(2019\), won the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award and was a finalist for the Ray Bradbury Prize. He is the recipient of numerous additional honors including the O. Henry Award, World Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award. Brian Evenson has also translated the work of Christophe Claro , Jean Frémon, Jacques Jouet, Gerard Macé, Jules Romains, amongst others. His work crosses over into multiple fields. Litquake is a project of the Litquake Foundation, a 501\(c\)3 nonprofit registered in the state of California. Litquake's diverse live programs aim to inspire critical engagement with the key issues of the day, bring people together around the common humanity encapsulated in literature, and perpetuate a sense of literary community by providing a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing. Because they believe in literature as a public good, they work to produce events that are accessible to all. Visit them at This event is made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation.