About this Event
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Mark Alice Durant joins us in Remington to read from and discuss his new book Summer of the White Fox, and After, in conversation with Jeannie Vanasco, author of memoirs Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl and The Glass Eye.
ABOUT SUMMER OF THE WHITE FOX, AND AFTER
For six weeks, in the summer of 2019, a mysterious creature appeared every evening in
Durant’s Baltimore neighborhood. Was it a biological anomaly, an apparition, a
portentous sign, or all the above? The visitation of this ghostly entity prompted a season
of reverie; in the dimming twilight, as the vulpine creature darted in and out sight, Durant
reconsidered his own life narratives, and questioned his insatiable desire to
photographically capture the otherworldly visitor.
In 2020, as the COVID pandemic forced a global redefinition of our notions of personal
safety and collective responsibility, Durant faced his own serious health crisis as well as
the illness and death of beloved family members. Durant’s episodic account of his
hospitalizations and his dwindling ability to understand what was happening to and
around him is as vivid as it is harrowing. Grief, fear, tenderness, wonder, dark humor,
and the comforts of art and nature are inextricably bound in this photographic and
narrative exploration of trauma and mystical transience.
Summer of the White Fox, and After will be available for purchase at the event!
Mark Alice Durant is an artist, writer based in Baltimore. His previous books include
Maya Deren, Choreographed for Camera and 27 Contexts: An Anecdotal History in
Photography. He is a professor in the Visual Arts Department at UMBC. Durant is the
editor / publisher of Saint Lucy Books.
Jeannie Vanasco is the author of the memoirs Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was
a Girl—which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice and a best book of 2019
by TIME, Esquire, Kirkus, among others—and The Glass Eye, which Poets &
Writers called one of the five best literary nonfiction debuts of 2017. Her third book, A
Silent Treatment, is forthcoming. Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, she lives in
Baltimore and is an associate professor of English at Towson University.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Greedy Reads Remington, 320 West 29th Street, Baltimore, United States
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