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Forbes Library welcomes Emma Copley Eisenberg for discussion of her book "Housemates" as well as embodiment and fat liberation in fiction. She will be joined in conversation by Susan Stinson. Emma Copley (pronounced cop-ley) Eisenberg is the author of the nationally bestselling novel Housemates and the narrative nonfiction book The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and was nominated for an Edgar Award, a Lambda Literary Award, and an Anthony Award, among other honors. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, McSweeney’s, VQR, American Short Fiction, and other publications. Raised in New York City, she lives in Philadelphia, where she co-founded Blue Stoop, a community hub for the literary arts.
Susan Stinson’s novels are Martha Moody, Spider in a Tree; Fat Girl Dances with Rocks, and Venus of Chalk, recently re-released as e-book from Small Beer. Belly Songs: in celebration of fat women is a chapbook of poetry and essays. She has received the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Award from Lambda Literary, among other honors. Her work has appeared in anthologies from Ballantine Books, Scholastic Books and is forthcoming in The Portable Feminist Reader, ed. Roxane Gay (Penguin Classics). She has taught at Smith and Amherst College and loved being Writer in Residence at Forbes Library back in the day.
Books will be available for sale by Broadside Bookshop.
This event will be livestreamed via Forbes Library's YouTube channel:
See full event details on our website: https://forbeslibrary.libcal.com/event/12932631
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20 West St, Northampton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01060
