Mexican literature, music and performance evening 6 September 2013

Take a trip Down Mexico Way Friday 6 September 8pm-1am Rich Mix, Bethnal Green, London Tickets £4, book online Take a journey into the weird and wonderful worlds of Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos and DBC Pierre.  Both writers will give readings from their new works and explore the influence Mexico has had on them, sharing the music, art and places that have inspired them. Hosted by Shane Solanki with music from DJs Moshi Moshi Records.   Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973 and wrote Down the Rabbit Hole - shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2011 and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2012. His latest work Quesadillas, a comic novel about screwed-up families and politics in Mexico, has received an English PEN award. DBC Pierre won the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread First Novel Award for his debut, Vernon God Little. His latest work, Petit Mal, drawing on memoir and fiction, takes us further into the imagination of one of the most radically original prose stylists of the past decade. Michael McClatchey and Stephen Bass are founders of Moshi Moshi Records whose releases include Bloc Party, Hot Chip, Kate Nash, Florence and the Machine, Disclosure, Sweet Baboo, Tilly and the Wall and Slow Club. Presented by English PEN and And Other Stories See our Facebook page for updates on the event

The debut collection of short fictions, philosophical vignettes, and aphoristic interludes from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. Accompanied by dozens of full-colour illustrations and photographic 'evidence', the stories here inhabit worlds defined by appetite, excess and transcendence. Anarchy in Mexico – a comic novel about screwed-up families and politics. With Quesadillas, Juan Pablo Villalobos serves up a wild banquet. Anything goes in this madcap Mexican satire about politics, big families, and what it means to be middle class. ‘Villalobos has come to stay – and to say loud and clear that in Mexico almost anything is possible.’ El Periódico de Catalunya