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Please do join us for a night of conversation and celebration of the writer Vivian Gornick.
This evening we will explore the wonderful book The Odd Woman and the City – a perennial classic but published for the first time in the UK by Daunt Books Publishing. There is something here for everyone, as the memoir covers so many rich topics, including self-discovery, friendship and the dilemma of connection in a fast-paced world.
Vivian Gornick is a memoirist, journalist, and essayist based in New York. In 1969 she started writing for The Village Voice writing polemical, feminist articles and coming into her own unique voice. Her essay collections and memoirs include Fierce Attachments and Approaching Eye Level.
Set in New York, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance meetings, and ever-changing relationships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city that has done the same.
We are thrilled to be joined by writer, and fan, Amy Key who wrote the foreword to this lovely new edition. Amy is a poet and writer; the author of the brilliant memoir Arrangements in Blue.
Amy will be discussing Gornick’s work with writer and translator Lauren Elkin. Lauren is the author of several books, most recently the novel Scaffolding. Previous books include Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art, No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute, and Flâneuse: Women Walk the City. As a translator her work includes Simone de Beauvoir’s previously-unpublished novel The Inseparables, her writings on books, art, and culture have appeared in a variety of publications including the London Review of Books, the New York Times and Granta.
Ticket price includes a glass of wine or a soft drink.