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Thursday, September 17
 

6:00pm PDT

ZYZZYVA Movie Night: Songs of Earth
Thursday September 17, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Roxie Theater
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Co-presented with ZYZZYVA and the Roxie

For this installment of ZYZZYVA Movie Night, Rebecca Solnit introduces Songs of Earth, a poetic, unspeakably beautiful film by director Margreth Olin, executive produced by Liv Ullman and Wim Wenders. On the screen, the great scale of majestic fjord rural landscape, which Olin’s father sets to love deeply through all seasons, is interwoven with the minute scale of human history—the tale of impoverished, rugged farmers in the region and the couple’s own marriage. Following the screening, Solnit will appear in conversation with Ingrid Roja Contreras on her latest book, The Beginning Comes After the End, where the author plays with timescale in similar ways. In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit writes into the macro-scale of the last 65 years of social progress, and what this progress means now. Co-hosted by ZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon. Doors open at 5:30pm for book sales/signing. 
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It won a California Book Award. Her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was a National Bestseller, and a recipient of a California Book Award. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and Zyzzyva, among others. She lives in California... Read More →
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Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than 25 books, including Orwell’s Roses, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. A longtime climate and human rights activist, she serves on the boards of Oil Change International and Third Act. Solnit has won numerous awards, including Yale’s Windham Campbell Literature Prize and the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Roxie Theater 3117 16th St, San Francisco
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Saturday, October 17
 

12:30pm PDT

ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee: Amarcord
Saturday October 17, 2026 12:30pm - Sunday October 18, 2026 9:00pm PDT
Roxie Theater
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Co-presented with ZYZZYVA and the Roxie

For this festival installment of our year-round film series, Andrew Sean Greer introduces a special screening of Amarcord, the dramatic comedy directed by Federico Fellini. Fellini recreates his hometown of Rimini in this carnivalesque film, where the director satirizes his childhood. Winner of an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Amarcord remains one of the director’s best-loved creations, beautifully weaving together Giuseppe Rotunno’s colorful cinematography, Danilo Donati’s extravagant costumes and sets, and Nino Rota’s nostalgia-tinged score. Following the screening, Greer will appear in conversation with Ingrid Rojas Contreras about his film selection and most recent book, Villa Coco, in which a young man takes an unspecified job with a charismatic elderly baronessa at her crumbling villa in the Tuscan hills. Co-hosted by ZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon. Doors at 12:00pm for book sales/signing. 
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It won a California Book Award. Her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was a National Bestseller, and a recipient of a California Book Award. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and Zyzzyva, among others. She lives in California... Read More →
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Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer is the author of eight works of fiction, including the bestsellers Less and its companion Less Is Lost. He lives in San Francisco and Venice, Italy. His latest novel is Villa Coco.
Saturday October 17, 2026 12:30pm - Sunday October 18, 2026 9:00pm PDT
Roxie Theater 3117 16th St, San Francisco
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