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Slack Pussy
February 16, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm GMT
Session 4: American Romances (2009) by Rebecca Brown. Recommended by Lisa Cohen
This is what Cohen says:
“In Rebecca Brown’s American Romances, to be “American” (and a writer) is to be a reader: of Gertrude Stein and Oscar Wilde, of abandoned books and other losses, of the Puritans and pop music, of Ralph Ellison and B movies. It is to be guided by the power of juxtaposition; to understand that violence and intractable invisibilities are constitutive of this place; to insist that the footnotes are not an afterthought. It is to ask, repeatedly: “Who is it we’re not seeing now?” In this book, an essay is a wild thing.”
We will be reading the essay Invisible.