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SUMMARY:Anne Boyer: The Undying
DESCRIPTION:Anne Boyer discusses her new book The Undying: Pain\, Vulnerability\, Mortality\, Medicine\, Art\, Time\, Dreams\, Data\, Exhaustion\, Cancer\, and Care. \nPraise for The Undying \n“The Undying is a startling\, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health\, art and science\, language and literature\, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms ‘the ideological regime of cancer\,’ Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself.” —Sally Rooney\, author of Normal People \n“Anne Boyer’s radically unsentimental account of cancer and the ‘carcinogenosphere’ obliterates cliché. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social\, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged\, beautiful\, and brilliant work of embodied critique.” —Ben Lerner\, author of The Topeka School \n“A classic—a book that expands in all directions to fill an empty space in the literature of illness. I have long thought of Boyer as a genius against genius\, speaking from the sea of people in a voice that cannot help but be heard above the others\, it is so clear and strong. And The Undying is a book that is beautifully against: against cancer\, against easy metaphors\, above all against ‘the pink ribbon on the for-sale sign on the mansion.’” —Patricia Lockwood\, author of Priestdaddy \n“This is a powerful\, timely\, and troubling book. Boyer’s unflinching account of the market-driven brutality of American cancer care sits beside some of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read.” —Hari Kunzru\, author of White Tears \n“Anne Boyer is an essential voice\, and this is an essential book: one body’s urgent attempt at finding a language to tell us what it knows.” —Jonathan Lethem\, author of The Feral Detective \nAbout The Undying \nA week after her forty-first birthday\, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care\, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. \nA twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor\, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival\, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens\, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists\, cancer hoaxers and fetishists\, cancer vloggers\, corporate lies\, John Donne\, pro-pain ”dolorists\,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy\, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture” while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde\, Kathy Acker\, Susan Sontag\, and others. \nA genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts\, The Undying will break your heart\, make you angry enough to spit\, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally\, perversely glorious.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-boyer-the-undying/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Belo Miguel Cipriani w/Caitlin Hernandez & David-Elijah Nahmod / Firsts: Coming of Age Stories by People with Disabilities
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts editor Belo Miguel Cipriani (Blind: A Memoir) for Firsts: Coming of Age Stories by People with Disabilities\, alongn with contributors Caitlin Hernandez andDavid-Elijah Nahmod. Please join us! \nTake a step back in time with some of the best writers with disabilities as they recount their first adventure\, their first heartbreak\, and the first time the unexpected treaded into their life. From body transformations to societal setbacks\, to love a airs and family trauma\, Firsts collects the most thought-provoking and exciting stories of our time by people with disabilities. Contributors include Nigel David Kelly\, Kimberly Gerry-Tucker\, Caitlin Hernandez\, Andrew Gurza\, and David-Elijah Nahmod. \n\nBelo Miguel Cipriani is an award-winning author\, prize-winning syndicated columnist\, and the CEO of Oleb Media and Oleb Books. His writing has appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, Houston Chronicle\, Connecticut Post\,HuffPost and elsewhere. Cipriani has lectured at Yale University\, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater\, University of Minnesota Twin Cities\, and is currently Community Faculty in the creative writing program at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul\, MN. Learn more at www.belocipriani.com. \nCaitlin Hernandez‘s writing focuses largely on queerness\, disability\, and the intersection thereof. A two-time Lambda Literary fellow in young adult fiction\, Hernandez has been mentored by renowned authors Emily Danforth\, Stephanie Kuehn\, Sara Ryan\, and Kiersten White. Her fiction has been published in Lambda Literary’s 2015 and 2018 Emerge anthologies\, while her nonfiction appears in the disability studies textbook Barriers and Belonging\, and the second Behind Our Eyes anthology. Caitlin lives in San Francisco where she’s a full-time resource specialist for third and fourth graders with reading and learning disabilities. In her minimal non-teaching\, non-writing time\, she may be found singing karaoke with friends\, seeking chocolate ice cream (especially with Oreo pieces\, chocolate chips\, M&Ms\, and/or hot fudge)\, flaunting her fantabulous rainbow cane\, and over-sharing about her “blind flails” and “blawkward moments” on Facebook. \nDavid-Elijah Nahmod is an American/Israeli dual national of Syrian descent who has lived in New York City and Tel Aviv. In San Francisco since 2003\, his eclectic writing career includes LGBTQ and Jewish publications\, and monster magazines. He is dedicated to raising disability and mental health awareness\, and to forwarding the cause of disability rights. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Firsts: Coming of Age Stories by People with Disabilities\, order below and put your request in the comments field; for Belo’s book\, order here and be sure to do the same.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/belo-miguel-cipriani-w-caitlin-hernandez-david-elijah-nahmod-firsts-coming-of-age-stories-by-people-with-disabilities/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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