MAKE Literary Production’s 5th annual Lit & Luz Festival of Language, Literature, and Art, themed “Assembly,” is an ambitious exchange between Mexico City and Chicago. The week-long festival takes place at over a dozen arts venues and universities throughout Chicago, October 13th-20th. The following March, a similar series of events are held in Mexico City. Programs include readings, conversations, and our signature event, the “Live Magazine Show”—which makes its Museum of Contemporary Art debut this year. #litluz / www.litluz.org

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Join us for a reading with the amazing Julián Herbert, followed by an interview conducted by author and musician Tim Kinsella.

Auditorium 244, The Spertus Lounge.

Praise for Tomb Song:

“This novel sprawls, but never loses sight of the human connection at its core—and it’s all the more moving as a result.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

“Simultaneously gorgeous and dirty, [Herbert] brings us poignant moments of beauty.”—Washington Independent Review of Books

“Herbert takes a deep dive into an emotional, interconnected story on death, family, love and ambition, resulting in a work that is at once personal and universal.”—Cedar Rapids Gazette

“At once a thrilling document of lives spent along the margins, and a bright burst of formal reinvention, Tomb Song remains elegiac and life-affirming.”—BOMB

Join us for a reading and conversation with Julián Herbert, who the L.A. Times called “one of the most innovative prose stylists of our time.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Julián Herbert (b. 1971, Mexico) is a writer, musician, and distinguished professor who has won many prizes in his career as a novelist such as the Premio Nacional de Literatura Gilberto Owen in 2003, the Premio Jaén de Novela Inédita 2011 for Canción de tumba (an elegy for his mother, translated and published in 2018 by Graywolf Press as Tomb Song) and the Premio de Novela Elena Poniatowska in 2012. He studied Spanish Literature at the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. His first novel, Un mundo infiel, was released in 2004 after trying his luck with four collections of poetry.

El mexicano Julián Herbert (1971) es escritor, músico y profesor distinguido con varios premios a lo largo de su carrera como novelista como el Premio Nacional de Literatura Gilberto Owen en 2003, el Premio Jaén de Novela Inédita 2011 por Canción de tumba (una elegía a su madre) o el Premio de Novela Elena Poniatowska en 2012. Estudió literatura española en la Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. Su primera novela llegaría en 2004, Un mundo infiel, tras probar suerte con cuatro poemarios.

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