The Secret to Superhuman Strength: A Conversation with Alison Bechdel
Boston
Boston, MA, USA
New York
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Description
BILL BLUMENREICH PRESENTS IN CONJUNCTION WITH BROOKLINE BOOKSMITH.
A virtual event in conversation with Stacy Schiff.
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Please note that books will be shipped after the event on May 10th - there is no guarantee your book will arrive by the event date.
There is a ticket option for INTERNATIONAL PURCHASERS ONLY - who would like to attend the virtual event but does not include a copy of the book.
*Please note that this show will take place over Zoom*
Fun Home author and MacArthur Genius Award
winner Alison Bechdel and Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff will appear in
conversation about Bechdel’s new book,
The Secret to Superhuman
Strength
. Bechdel’s quest for this elusive secret leads her not just
through a succession of fitness fads and exercise exploits, but into
the more immaterial realms of creativity, loss, desire, addictive behavior,
mortality, the problem of the self, and, for good measure, the nature of
the universe. On her circuitous path, she enlists the aid of literary
figures from the Transcendentalists and the British Romantics to Jack
Kerouac. This deeply-layered graphic memoir charts one person’s lifelong
effort, as diverting as it is dogged, to get the mind and body on the same
page.
ALISON BECHDEL's cult following for her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For expanded
wildly for her best-selling memoirs,
Fun
Home
, adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, and Are You My Mother? Her
many honors include being named a MacArthur Fellow and Cartoonist Laureate
of Vermont.
Stacy
Schiff
is the author, most recently, of Cleopatra and The
Witches: Salem, 1692
, both #1 bestsellers. Writing in The Wall
Street Journal
, Brad Gooch has called her “perhaps the most seductive
writer of nonfiction prose in America in our time.” A former Guggenheim
Fellow, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir
Nabokov)
.
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Start:
2021-05-10T19:00:00-04:00
End:
2021-05-10T20:00:00-04:00
Category
Performances
Tickets
Virtual Access ONLY (FOR INTERNATIONAL PURCHASERS ONLY)
15.0
USD
100
Virtual Access + Signed Book
35.0
USD
200
Virtual Access + Book + Signed Bookplate
35.0
USD
300
