Lisa Alvarez reads “False Flag”

Tuesday, January 7, at 2 PM on KPFK on Bibliocracy: This week we simultaneously mark a maddening anniversary and celebrate joyful creative resistance with a reading of her 2021 short story “False Flag” by writer, teacher, and editor Lisa Alvarez. On January 6 four years ago a fascist mob stormed the US Capitol, with this artful work of fiction elaborating on its consequences through activism, wit, and family. Here, the author herself reads the short story, which appeared originally in the online Orange County, California literary arts and culture journal Citric Acid. Lisa Alvarez’s poetry and prose have appeared in journals including About Place Journal, Air/Light, Anacapa Review, Citric Acid, Huizache, Santa Monica Review, and in anthologies including Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (Norton) and most recently, Rumors, Secrets and Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion and Choice (Anhinga Press). A professor of English at Irvine Valley College, she co-directs the summer writers workshops at the Community of Writers in California's High Sierra. Her debut collection, Some Final Beauty and other Stories, which includes this story, is forthcoming in August 2025 from the University of Nevada Press. Play loud!

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