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Our Work and Why We Do It: In the Offing

Kelly Link is the author of Get in TroubleMagic for Beginners, and Stranger Things Happen. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press, and has taught at several colleges and universities. She received a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2018. Link currently lives in Northampton. 

 

 

Abbey Mei Otis is the author of the story collection Alien Virus Love Disaster, nominated for the 2019 Philip K. Dick Award. This will the first reading from the book in the Northeast!

 

 

 

Jordy Rosenberg is the author of the novel Confessions of the Fox, named a New York Times Editor's Choice selection, shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and recognized by The New Yorker, the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Kirkus Reviews, LitHub, Electric Literature and the Feminist Press as one of the Best Books of 2018. Jordy is a professor of 18th-century Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Critical Theory at UMass Amherst. 

 

Event is free, books will be available for purchase, and the space is wheelchair accessible.

 

Our Work and Why We Do It is the Forbes Library’s Writer in Residence reading series. This series is interested in exploring the ways in which the written word may create and sustain social worlds through inquiry, practice, experimentation, story and lyric. The dynamic of the public library, open and variegated in its uses, is the ideal space for these questions, as it can so directly reflect the desires of a community that contributes to it's thriving, operating as an archive of those needs. Regardless of genre, this series believes in the potential for deliberation that writing may produce, a space within the information saturated world we share where we might consider possibilities and deeper questions just beyond what we know.

The series features writers of prose, poetry, nonfiction, and memoir, and beneath these broad categories, constellations of subgenres and forms. The series is motivated by an interest in understanding how writing relates to work, to a sense of a collective project that seeks to respond to the political and social forms that produce it. Against dithering, the series hopes to affirm the role of creative written work as a measure of response to the exigencies that shape our world.

Curated and moderated by Forbes writer in residence Art Middleton, the series meets in the Coolidge Museum. 

 

Date:
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 Show more dates
Time:
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Coolidge Museum
Categories:
  Adult Events     Author Events     Recurring Events  

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