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Claire Messud in Conversation With Hilton Als

October 26, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Free
Online, N/A, Portland, OR 97207

In her fiction, Claire Messud “has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives” (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write (W. W. Norton) opens a window on Messud’s own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature. In 26 intimate, brilliant, and funny essays, Messud, author of The Emperor’s Children, reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt; and a trip to Beirut, where her pied-noir father had once lived, while he was dying. She meditates on contemporary classics from Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk, and Valeria Luiselli; examines three facets of Albert Camus and The Stranger; and tours her favorite paintings at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Together, these essays show the inner workings of a dazzling literary mind. Crafting a vivid portrait of a life in celebration of the power of literature, Messud proves once again “an absolute master storyteller” (Rebecca Carroll, Los Angeles Times). Messud will be joined in conversation by Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer and theatre critic for The New Yorker and author of White Girls.

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Date:
October 26, 2020
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Venue

Online
N/A
Portland, OR 97207

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Phone:
503-228-4651
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