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ANDREA DWORKIN LAUNCH AT SKYLIGHT

Andrea Dworkin—second wave feminism’s most controversial figure—was embraced and disowned across the political spectrum.

“Reading her now, beyond the anti-porn intransigence she’s both reviled and revered for, one feels a prescient apocalyptic urgency, one perfectly calibrated, it seems, to the high stakes of our time. In the #MeToo era, women’s unsparing public testimony—in granular detail and dizzying quantity—is at the heart of a mainstream cultural reckoning with sexual violence and harassment. ” — Johanna Fateman, on Dworkin

A new collection of Dworkin’s writing—Last Days at Hot Slit, edited by Fateman and Amy Scholder, and published by Semiotext(e)—will launch this weekend at Skylight with readings by Ryka Aoki, Christina Catherine Martinez, Jibz Cameron (aka Dynasty Handbag), Anna Joy Springer, and Nao Bustamante.

JOHANNA FATEMEN and AMY SCHOLDER—LAST DAYS AT HOT SLIT launch

Sunday, April 7, at 5 pm.

Skylight Books

1818 North Vermont, Los Feliz, Los Angeles.

From top: Andrea Dworkin; book jacket image courtesy Semiotext(e); police mugshot from Dworkin’s arrest at an anti-war protest, New York City, 1965

DAVID ULIN IN CONVERSATION

David Ulin’s new introduction and afterword to his THE LOST ART OF READING—BOOKS AND RESISTANCE IN A TROUBLED TIME bring “fresh relevance to this insightful rumination on the act of reading—as a path to critical thinking, individual and political identity, civic engagement, and resistance.”

This week at Skylight, Ulin will discuss the book and the issues that led to its composition.

 

DAVID ULIN, Tuesday, September 4, at 7:30 pm.

SKYLIGHT BOOKS, 1818 North Vermont Avenue,

Los Angeles.

skylightbooks.com/david-ulin

Image credit above: Sasquatch Books.

Below: David Ulin. Photograph by Noah Ulin.

 

LESLIE JAMISON AND MAGGIE NELSON AT SKYLIGHT

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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:

interviewmagazine.com/chris-kraus

Jamison’s Literary Hub interview with Kristen Martin:

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

 

Leslie Jamison.

ABSTRACT FIGURATION

Earlier this year, former Interview editor and Vanity Fair special correspondent Bob Colacello made his curatorial debut with THE AGE OF AMBIGUITY: ABSTRACT FIGURATION/FIGURATIVE ABSTRACTION at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in St. Moritz.

The catalogue—published by Schnabel, with text by Colacello—is an 82-page hardcover featuring work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Jeff Elrod, Jacqueline Humphries, Rashid Johnson, Adam McEwen, Sterling Ruby, Borna Sammak, Jonas Wood, Vito’s father Julian Schnabel, and Bob’s former employer Andy Warhol.

“As the 21st century grapples its way through its second decade, America seems to have entered what may be called The Age of Ambiguity, a time when everything is fluid and nothing concrete, and confusion overwhelms certainty… It is said that the best artists are the antennae of their society, the prophets of their era. Is it any wonder, then, that many younger American painters and sculptors have long abandoned the bygone absolutisms of Minimalism on one hand and Hyper-Realism on the other and are making works today that hover in a hard to define space that might be called Abstract Figuration or Figurative Abstraction?” — Bob Colacello*

BOB COLACELLO, THE AGE OF AMBIGUITY (Vito Schnabel, 2017). Edition: 1000.

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

BOOK SOUP, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood.

ART CATALOGUES, LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

vitoschnabel.com/fr/publications/the-age-of-ambiguity

vitoschnabel.com/fr/projets/group-show7/artworks?view=slider

* artnet.com/galleries/vito-schnabel/the-age-of-ambiguity-curated-by/

Top: Exhibition catalogue. Bottom: The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Landscape with Travelers Resting, 2015. Both images courtesy of the Vito Schnabel Gallery.

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PARTY FOR McSWEENEY’S 50TH

Join Kevin Moffett, Corinna Vallianatos, Sarah Walker, Carson Mell, and Brian Everson (who will all give readings) at the release party for Issue 50 of McSWEENEY’S, the quarterly founded in 1998 by Dave Eggers. The new issue—in a hardcover book format—includes contributions by Carrie BrownsteinChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Thomas McGuane, Sheila HetiKevin Young, Jonathan Lethem, Lydia Davis, Sherman Alexie, Etgar Keret, Diane Williams, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman, and Steven Millhauser.

McSWEENEY’S 50th ISSUE PARTY, Tuesday, August 29, 2017, at 7:30 pm.

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

skylightbooks.com/event/mcsweeneys-50th-issue-release-party

McSweeney’s, issue 50.

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