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
Dorothy Parker
Foreword by Sloane Crosley
“Does anyone know how hard it is to be that funny? . . . Read her book reviews. Read them now and see how good they are.” —Fran Lebowitz
“In Parker’s hands, the humble book review becomes an instrument as expressive as a lyric poem.” —Nicholas Frankel, The Wall Street Journal
Dorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing.
Djuna Barnes
Edited and with a foreword by Merve Emre
“Like a dark lesbian genius rolling in a giant heap of damp, dead leaves.” —Eileen Myles
“This supple collection from Barnes shaves the themes of lost innocence, unrequited love, and death of her modernist masterwork, Nightwood, into febrile confessions . . . These memorable sketches unfurl a barbed wisdom of the grave.” —Publishers Weekly
The best of Djuna Barnes’s dark, droll, incisive short fiction, spanning her all-too-brief career, edited and introduced by Merve Emre.
Caroline Blackwood
Foreword by Heidi Julavits
“The Stepdaughter is the perfect book for people who find Joan Didion too even-keeled, Renata Adler too fair-minded . . . In its own way, it’s a perfect novel . . . Blackwood’s best book . . . It deserves to be a cheeky summer hit.” —Gideon Leek, Los Angeles Review of Books
A wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Caroline Blackwood’s “quite brilliant” debut (The Times).