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SUMMARY:Kate Zambreno in conversation with T Fleischmann
DESCRIPTION:discussing \nTo Write as if Already Dead \npublished by Columbia University Press \nTo Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic\, transgressive work\, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death\, Guibert documents with speed and intensity his diagnosis and disintegration from AIDS and elegizes a character based on Michel Foucault. \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nThe first half of To Write as if Already Dead is a novella in the mode of a detective story\, searching after the mysterious disappearance of an online friendship after an intense dialogue on anonymity\, names\, language\, and connection. The second half\, a notebook documenting the doubled history of two bodies amid another historical plague\, continues the meditation on friendship\, solitude\, time\, mortality\, precarity\, art\, and literature. \nThroughout this rigorous\, mischievous\, thrilling not-quite study\, Guibert lingers as a ghost companion. Zambreno\, who has been pushing the boundaries of literary form for a decade\, investigates his methods by adopting them\, offering a keen sense of the energy and confessional force of Guibert’s work\, an ode to his slippery\, scarcely classifiable genre. The book asks\, as Foucault once did\, “What is an author?” Zambreno infuses this question with new urgency\, exploring it through the anxieties of the internet age\, the ethics of friendship\, and “the facts of the body”: illness\, pregnancy\, and death. \n  \nKate Zambreno is the author of many acclaimed books\, including Drifts (2020)\, Appendix Project (2019)\, Screen Tests (2019)\, Book of Mutter (2017)\, and Heroines (2012). Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. She teaches in the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University and is the Strachan Donnelley Chair in Environmental Writing at Sarah Lawrence College. \nT Fleischmann is the author of Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through and Syzygy\, Beauty. \n  \n  \n  \nPRAISE FOR TO WRITE AS IF ALREADY DEAD:\n\n“Zambreno’s most urgent and charged work since Heroines.”\n —Brian Blanchfield\, author of Proxies: Essays Near Knowing\n\n“Here\, as ever\, Zambreno proves herself a brilliantly generous and ambitious reader\, one capable of engaging a text so acutely that the line between self and art blurs. To Write As If Already Dead is gossipy and smart\, angry and agile\, doubling and doubled—and a serious pleasure to read.”\n—Danielle Dutton\, author of Margaret the First\n\n“This book is a tour de force. I was completely awestruck by the way Zambreno enacts the concept of the title\, and by the way she writes the body\, hers and Guibert’s.”\n—Moyra Davey\, author of Index Cards: Selected Essays\n\n“Kate Zambreno stylizes a thrilling form of reading as writing and writing as reading\, one that speaks to the overlapping crises of our contemporary moment. No one thinks better and more carefully about the embodied practice of writing. She is the only person who could have written this book.”\n—Amy Hollywood\, author of Acute Melancholia and Other Essays\n\n “Guibert’s voice is restored to the present through an act of transportation that left me slightly afraid of Zambreno’s power. But then that’s why you read her\, and him: for a new awe of life.”\n—Andrew Durbin\, author of Skyland\n\n\nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-zambreno-in-conversation-with-t-fleischmann/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Courtney Cook with Mara Altman / The Way She Feels
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host a virtual event with Courtney Cook for her debut\, the graphic memoir The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces.. She’ll be in conversation with the one and only Mara Altman\, who we are delighted to welcome back. Join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order The Way She Feels here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nOrder Gross Anatomy by Mara Altman here. \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nWhat does it feel like to fall in love too hard and too fast\, to hate yourself in equal and opposite measure? To live in such fear of rejection that you drive friends and lovers away? Welcome to my world. I’m Courtney\, and I have borderline personality disorder (BPD)\, along with over four million other people in the United States. Though I’ve shown every classic symptom of the disorder since childhood\, I wasn’t properly diagnosed until nearly a decade later\, because the prevailing theory is that most people simply “grow out of it.” Not me. \nIn my illustrated memoir\, The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces\, I share what it’s been like to live and love with this disorder. Not just the hospitalizations\, treatments\, and residential therapy\, but the moments I found comfort in cereal\, the color pink\, or mini corndogs; the days I couldn’t style my hair because I thought the blow-dryer was going to hurt me; the peace I found when someone I love held me. This is a book about vulnerability\, honesty\, acceptance\, and how to speak openly—not only with doctors\, co-patients\, friends\, family\, or partners\, but also with ourselves. \n“The Way She Feels is a lifeline to anyone who’s ever felt alone.”– Piper Weiss\, author of You All Grow Up and Leave Me \n“Audaciously human and raw. The Way She Feels is a rainbow during the rain.” – Mara Altman \nAbout the authors\nCourtney Cook is a writer\, illustrator\, teacher\, and lover of naps. Courtney received an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of California\, Riverside. She grew up in Winnetka\, Illinois\, and now resides in Chicago with her cat\, Bertie. Author photo by Caity Krone. \nMara Altman enjoys writing about issues that embarrass her (e.g.\, chin hair)\, because she has found that putting shame on the page defuses the stigma\, leaving her with a sense of empowerment and freedom. Her first book\, Thanks for Coming\, an investigation into love and orgasm\, was translated into three languages. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Salon\, and New York magazine\, among other publications. Before going freelance\, Altman worked as a staff writer for The Village Voice and daily newspapers in India and Thailand. An alumna of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism\, she lives in San Diego with quite a few other hairy beings. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
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SUMMARY:Gillian Osborne Celebrating the release of Green Green Green
DESCRIPTION:Gillian Osborne reads from Green Green Green (Nightboat Books)\, a collection of hybrid essays that engage the intersection of habitats\, horticulture\, and histories both poetic and personal. \n“Gillian Osborne writes prose lithely and thinks with quickness and imagination. I think I learned something or saw something freshly on almost every page of her Green Green Green.” — Robert Hass \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Green Green Green\nFor earlier writers like Emily Dickinson and William Blake\, the green world was a space of haunted opposites: life and death\, innocence and experience\, and the sensitivities of plants. In these essays\, letters\, repetitions\, and experiments\, Gillian Osborne draws on a poetic and scientific archive spanning from the late eighteenth century to the present to explore contemporary meanings of green as both/and: environment as ailing and vital\, global and close to home. This is nature writing as reading\, and homemaking\, in vicinity with others. \nAbout Gillian Osborne\nGillian Osborne is a writer\, educator\, and aspirational gardener living in California. She is the co-editor of a collection of critical essays on modern and contemporary ecopoetics\, and teaches for the Harvard Extension School and the Bard College Language & Thinking Program.
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SUMMARY:Author Emily Henry Discussing PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION in a GGP Online Author Chat
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, June 30\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION with author Emily Henry. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81360287172\, and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nOrder your copy of PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION at http://bit.ly/ggpPeopleWeMeet\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/PeopleWeMeetAB. \nDescription\n\nNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Newsweek ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ BookPage ∙ BookBub ∙ Betches ∙ SheReads ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ and more! \nTwo best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.  \nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read\, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm\, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. \nPoppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow\, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago\, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City\, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer\, for a decade\, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. \nUntil two years ago\, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since. \nPoppy has everything she should want\, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy\, she knows\, without a doubt\, it was on that ill-fated\, final trip with Alex. And so\, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table\, make it all right. Miraculously\, he agrees. \nNow she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong? \nAbout the Author\n\nEmily Henry writes stories about love and family for both teens and adults. She studied creative writing at Hope College and the New York Center for Art & Media Studies\, and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Find her on Instagram @EmilyHenryWrites.
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