Join Siri Hustvedt and Elif Shafak for a virtual "evening of love, war, trauma, feminism, ecological renewal, and the power of art with two very engaging writers."
A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years, 1933-1943 by John Richardson (Penguin Random House) is out now and was reviewed by Siri for the New York Times.
Siri talks to The Guardian books section about becoming a feminist, growing into Gertrude Stein, and the comfort of folk tales.
Join Siri Hustvedt and Elif Shafak for a virtual "evening of love, war, trauma, feminism, ecological renewal, and the power of art with two very engaging writers."
In this conversation, hosted by Tali Lavi, Hustvedt will explore the ways being alive means re-evaluating our relationships with art, science, family, and with the world around us.
Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted—between ourselves and others, nature and nurture, viewer and artwork—which turn out to be far less stable than we imagine. On sale December 7, 2021.
Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, three collections of essays, a work of non-fiction, and six novels, including the international bestsellers What I Loved and The Summer Without Men. Her most recent novel The Blazing World was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won The Los Angeles Book Prize for fiction. In 2012 she was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College in New York. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.