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LESLIE JAMISON AND MAGGIE NELSON AT SKYLIGHT

This weekend at Skylight, Leslie Jamison and Maggie Nelson will discuss THE RECOVERING, Jamison’s acclaimed examination of alcoholism—her own, and that of writers such as Jean Rhys, Charles Jackson (Lost Weekend), John Berryman, Raymond Carver, and Denis Johnson.

LESLIE JAMISON and MAGGIE NELSON, Sunday, April 15, at 5 pm.

SKYLIGHT BOOKS, 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Feliz, Los Angeles.

skylightbooks.com/leslie-jamison-maggie-nelson

Jamison interviewed by Chris Kraus in Paris Review:

theparisreview.org/interview-with-leslie-jamison

Kraus interviewed by Jamison in Interview:

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Jamison’s Literary Hub interview with Kristen Martin:

lithub.com/interrogating-sentimentality-with-leslie-jamison

Leslie Jamison.

ANIMAL SHELTER

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The fifth and final issue of ANIMAL SHELTER—edited by Hedi El Kholti, Chris Kraus, and Janique Vigier—includes a story by Colm Tóibín, poems by Ariana Reines, and essays by Bruce Hainley (on Hervé Guibert), Masha Tupitsyn (on Ingmar Bergman), Jean-Louis Schefer (on Hitchcock’s Vertigo), and Natasha Stagg (“Alone at Safeway”).

ANIMAL SHELTER 5, available at Stories in Echo Park, and Oooga Booga in Chinatown.

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Image credit: Animal Shelter.

THE FILMS OF CHRIS KRAUS

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The films of Chris Kraus—the feature Gravity and Grace (1995), and the shorts In Order to Pass (1982), Terrorists in Love (1983), Foolproof Illusion (1986), Voyage to Rodez (1986), How to Shoot a Crime (1987, co-directed with Sylvère Lotringer), The Golden Bowl or Repression (1984-88), Traveling at Night (1990), and Sadness at Leaving (1992)—are now playing at Château Shatto.

CHRIS KRAUS—

IN ORDER TO PASS—FILMSFROM 1982–1995

Through June 23.

Château Shatto, Bendix Building

1206 Maple Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

Above: Chris Kraus, still from The Golden Bowl or Repression (1984-1988).

Below: Chris Kraus, still from Gravity and Grace (1995).

CHRIS KRAUS AND BRUCE HAINLEY IN ECHO PARK

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Last fall, a Boyle Heights anti-gentrification protest prevented Chris Kraus (After Kathy Acker) and Bruce Hainley (Under the Sign of [sic]: Sturtevant’s Volte-Face) from meeting as scheduled at 356 Mission to discuss Kraus’ Acker biography.

Their conversation is back on, relocated to Echo Park.

CHRIS KRAUS and BRUCE HAINLEY IN CONVERSATION, Monday, January 22, at 6 pm.

EDENDALE BRANCH—LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY, 2011 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.

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Kathy Acker in the late 1980s. Photograph by Mark Baker.

AFTER CHRIS KRAUS

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“Memoirists are seldom as precise as novelists.” — Gore Vidal*

Chris Kraus, Tisa Bryant, Anelise Chen, and Q.M. Zhang will be at USC this week for a discussion on “hybrid storytelling” and the widespread influence of Kraus’ first book I LOVE DICK (1997) since its republication a few years back.

I LOVE DICK—

FOUR WOMEN WRITERS ON HYBRID STORYTELLING

Friday, November 3, at 5:30 pm.

Doheny Memorial Library, USC

3550 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles.

See “Hybrid ‘I’: Tisa Bryant, Anelise Chen, Chris Kraus, and Q.M. Zhang in conversation,” PARIS LA 16 (2018):

*Gore Vidal, Two Sisters: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970), 213.

Above, from left: Tisa Bryant, Chris Kraus, Anelise Chen, and Q.M. Zhang at USC, November 3, 2017.

Below: Kraus.at USC, November 3, 2017.