Dangerous Women: Sloane Crosley, Merve Emre & Heidi Julavits on Dorothy Parker, Caroline Blackwood & Djuna Barnes
Join Sloane Crosley, Merve Emre, Heidi Julavits, and the staff of McNally Editions as we raise a glass to three iconic New York writers and three provocative, even scandalous works:
Constant Reader, I Am Alien to Life, and The Stepdaughter
Stay after the discussion to drink, mingle, and toast three years of McNally Editions. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Thursday, Nov 7, 6:30 PM
McNally Jackson Seaport
4 Fulton St, New York, NY 10038
Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28
$19.00
Dorothy Parker
Foreword by Sloane Crosley
Dorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing.
I Am Alien to Life: Selected Stories
$19.00
Djuna Barnes
Edited and with a foreword by Merve Emre
The best of Djuna Barnes’s dark, droll, incisive short fiction, spanning her all-too-brief career, edited and introduced by Merve Emre.
The Stepdaughter
$18.00
Caroline Blackwood
Foreword by Heidi Julavits
A wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Caroline Blackwood’s “quite brilliant” debut (The Times).