Loudermilk Reading/Signing with Lucy Lives

When:
Thursday, May 09, 2019 7:00p -
8:30p

Where:
Trident Booksellers & Cafe
338 Newbury St.
Boston, MA 02115

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Alcohol, Art, Food, Nightlife

Event website:
https://www.tridentbookscafe.com/event/loudermilk-readingsigning-lucy-lives

About the Book


It's the end of summer, 2003. George W. Bush has recently declared the mission in Iraq accomplished, the unemployment rate is at his highest in years, and Martha Stewart has just been indicted for insider trading. Meanwhile, somewhere in the Midwest, Troy Augustus Loudermilk (fair-haired, statuesque, charismatic) and his companion Harry Rego (definitely none of those things) step out of a silver Land Cruiser and onto the campus of The Seminars, America's most prestigious creative writing program, to which Loudermilk has recently been accepted for his excellence in poetry.


Loudermilk, however, has never written a poem in his life.


Wickedly entertaining, beguiling, layered, and sly, Loudermilk is a social novel for our time: a comedy of errors that deftly examines class, gender, and inheritance, and subverts our pieties about literature, authorship, art-making, and the institutions that sustain them.


About the Author


Lucy Ives is the author of the novel, Impossible Views of the World. Her writing has appeared in Art in America, Artforum, The Baffler, frieze, Granta, Lapham's Quarterly, Vogue, and at newyorker.com. For five years she was an editor with the online magazine, Triple Canopy. A graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she holds a PhD in comparative literature from New York University. She currently teaches in the Image Text interdisciplinary MFA program at Ithaca College, as well as at NYU's Center for Experimental Humanities. She is the recipient of a 2018 Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

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