Arts Listings

Ishmael Reed, Oakland novelist and founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, will hold a conversation with Fae Myenne Ng, author of the prize-winning novel Bone, at Ng’s reading and booksigning of her newly released novel, Steer Toward Rock (Hyperion) at Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Ave., on Monday at 7:30 p.m. Admission free.  

Ng, a San Francisco native, writes of Chinatown, illegal “paper” immigrants and—in her new book—of Chinatown in the McCarthy era and the ’60s, gangsterism and the Chinese Confession program. Reed has published Ng’s stories in periodicals and has written commentaries on her work.