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Dodie Bellamy and Anthony Huberman in conversation
February 27, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

Dodie Bellamy and Anthony Huberman in conversation celebrating the release of
Dodie Bellamy Is On Our Mind
Edited by Jeane Gerrity and Anthony Huberman
published by Semiotex(e) Books, distributed by The MIT Press
Examining the genre-bending writing of Dodie Bellamy, whose work has focused on sexuality, politics, feminism, narrative experimentation, and all things queer.
Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind is the first major publication to address Bellamy’s prolific career as a genre-bending writer. Megan Milks made several trips to San Francisco in order to spend time with Bellamy and craft a provocative and fascinating profile of the writer. Originally delivered as a lecture at the Wattis Institute, Andrew Durbin’s text takes the form of a personal essay, expertly weaving anecdotes of his own encounters with Bellamy’s writing with insights into broader themes in her work. Academic Kaye Mitchell takes a close look at the role of shame and its relationship to femininity in particular texts by Bellamy. And Bellamy and her late husband Kevin Killian offer deeply personal, emotionally wrenching ruminations on topics from the mundane (drawing) to the profound (mortality). These texts, alongside archival photos and a complete bibliography make, this book an important compendium on Bellamy.
Dodie Bellamy has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1978. A vital contributor to the Bay Area’s avant-garde literary scene, Bellamy is a novelist and poet whose work has focused on sexuality, politics, feminism, narrative experimentation, and all things queer. In her words, she champions “the vulnerable, the fractured, the disenfranchised, the fucked-up.”
Anthony Huberman is the Director and Chief Curator of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco and Founding Director of the Artist’s Institute in New York.
Details
- Date:
- February 27, 2020
- Time:
- 7:00 pm
- Website:
- http://www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=3572
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- City Lights Bookstore
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- (415)-362-8193
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- City Lights
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