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SUMMARY:Marie Darrieussecq in conversation with Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:City Lights and Transit Books present Marie Darrieussecq in c
 onversation with Rita Bullwinkel Transit Books celebrates the publicatio
 n of How to Make a Woman Translated by Penny Hueston Published by Transi
 t Books and Our Life in the Forest Translated by Penny Hueston Published
  by Transit Books Marie Darrieussecq’s first book\, Pig Tales\, became a
 n overnight sensation and bestseller\, selling more than 300\,000 copies
  and translated into more than thirty languages—since then\, she has gon
 e on to publish twenty more\, including Being Here Is Everything\, a lit
 erary investigation into the life of the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker\,
  and the novels Men\, The Baby\, Our Life in the Forest\, and\, most rec
 ently\, How to Make a Woman. The New Yorker described her as France’s “b
 est young novelist\,” and she is recognized as one of the leading voices
  of French contemporary literature. Her novel Men was awarded the Prix M
 édicis and the Prix des Prix in 2013. About How to Make a Woman It is—to
  start—the 1980s\, in a small village in the French Basque Country. Rose
  and Solange are fifteen and have been friends forever\; only now Solang
 e is pregnant. A novel in two irreducible parts\, How to Make a Woman na
 rrates\, in Marie Darrieussecq’s relentless prose\, the coming-of-age of
  these two young women against the backdrop of the final decades of the 
 twentieth century: scenes and subcultures\, the AIDS epidemic\, the end 
 of history. Rose goes to nearby Bordeaux to study psychology\, maintaini
 ng an equivocal relationship with her childhood sweetheart\; Solange sha
 kes off old attachments to pursue a life on the stage and in pulsing cit
 y centers. In Bordeaux\, Paris\, London\, and Hollywood\, as they pass i
 n and out of each other’s lives\, each makes use of\, and makes\, the ot
 her in this bold novel—mischievous\, exuberant\, and radical—about sexua
 lity\, self-knowledge\, and “what is done to women in the world.” About 
 Our Life in the Forest In the near future\, our woman in the forest is n
 earing the end. She’s down an eye and a kidney\; she’s lost the use of o
 ne hand\; she knows she won’t have time to reread what she writes here. 
 Her other half\, Marie (a.k.a. Sissy)—around whom our narrator has unwis
 ely constructed her identity\, and whom she sacrificed a great deal to s
 et free—is an idiot: deeply incurious\, barely ambulatory\, and horny. I
 t’s hardly Marie’s fault (she’s a clone). But our half was hoping for mo
 re. In a torrential narrative\, with asides for barking laughter\, our w
 oman in the forest casts her single roving eye across the opaque mechani
 sms of their shared past and the strange world that made them (one that 
 is nevertheless familiar in its vices)—driven to understand and communic
 ate\, in writing\, her conditional personhood. Our Life in the Forest is
  an unrelenting novel about complicity\, love\, and the failing body: an
  irreverent and deeply compelling addition to the female apocalyptic tra
 dition. Rita Bullwinkel is the author of Headshot (2024) and Belly Up\, 
 which garnered a 2022 Whiting Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been publi
 shed in Tin House\, the White Review\, ZYZZYVA\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, V
 ice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships 
 from MacDowell\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden 
 Castle and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Her work has been translated
  into Italian\, Greek\, and Dutch. Both her fiction and translation have
  been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSwe
 eney’s\, the Deputy Editor of The Believer\, a Contributing Editor for N
 OON\, and the creator of Oral Florist. She is an Assistant Professor of 
 English at University of San Francisco where she teaches courses on crea
 tive writing\, zines\, and the uses of invented and foreign languages as
  tools for world building. This event made possible by the City Lights F
 oundation\n\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/marie-darrieussecq-in
 -conversation-with-rita-bullwinkel-tickets-2000084710209?aff=oddtdtcreat
 or\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/40bee596-7935-4562-a08e-f36a2f49
 b80e
LOCATION:Canneti's Bookshop\, Moraga Way\, Orinda\, CA 94563
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/40bee596-7935-4562-a08e-f36a2f49b80
 e
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