Ithaca Irrealist Readings
The Ithaca Irrealist Reading Series at Liquid State Brewing began in May 2025 and has marched on from there. Join all loyal partisans of the IILF for monthly nights of good fiction, good beer, and good company!
18 August 2025, 7-9PM
Writer and Professor of Latin American Literature at Cornell. Winner of the Zinklar Prize and Ribera del Duero Prize, and shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award. Author of three short fiction collections, including You Glow in the Dark.
Writer and Professor of Latin American Literature at Cornell. Winner of the Bolivian National Book Award and the Juan Rulfo Short Story Award. Author of fourteen novels and six books of short stories, with work translated into twelve languages.
Writer of speculative fiction and poetry, appearing in Clarkesworld, Analog, Strange Horizons, Nature, and others. Her poetry has been nominated for the Dwarf Star, Rhysling, Best of the Net, and Pushcart Awards. Author of the forthcoming novella Ellipses.
The IILF
The Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front is an underground movement of literary anarchists bound by a manifesto as secret as it is perverse. Its only public (and therefore lowest ranking) member is Will McMahon.
What is irrealism?
It isn’t real, but it can hurt you.
Irrealism describes an artistic position that does not privilege the typical human conception of reality.
Is this series for literary fiction or genre fiction?
“Literary” is an adjective describing a relation to literature—the written word. “Genre” is Old French for “gender” and can, eccentrically, refer to which shelf a book is set down on for sale. We insist that any such inquiries be translated, e.g. “What is the gender of this book?”
Those abusing these words will face the revolutionary justice of the IILF.