Small Press Traffic presents an evening with Christine Imperial and Lara Mimosa Montes, two writers whose books challenge allegiances of form and language. Confronting fantasies of interiority within colonial genres, their writing asks: What fictions do we enter, and how — when the self is already mistaken, translated, in detour?

Mimosa Montes’s The Time of the Novel (Wendy’s Subway, 2025) and Imperial’s Mistaken for Empire: A Memoir in Tongues (Mad Creek Book’s Gournay Prize, 2023) will be sold on a sliding scale.

Arrive early to check out the incredible shows up at @etalgallerysf: Hermana / Hermano / Hermanx, organized by Esteban Raheem Abdul Raheem Samayoa and Victor Saucedo, and a solo exhibition by Kate Rhoades, The Chicken Bit the Dust.