Event Description
Join Porter Square Books: Boston Edition for a celebration and exploration of the work of Kathryn Davis. The Kathryn Davis Sympoisum is a gathering of readers, critics, writers, & scholars featuring presentations of essays on Davis’s work and a conversation between Kathryn Davis and Kelly Link.
The event will be livestreamed via Crowdcast. Click here to register for the virtual event.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
An absolutely singular voice in American literature, whether she's writing about robots and wizards, coming of age in an isolated home, navigating a labyrinth, Marie Antoinette, the permeable borders between worlds, or even the events of her own life, you always know when you are reading a book by Kathryn Davis. But for all the strangeness that populates Davis's work, there is also always a tenderness. Davis's work constantly reckons with the ways in which the world harms all of us who move through it, while also seeking and exploring all the ways we can heal.
Essays will be presented from 6PM-7PM. The conversation between Kathryn Davis & Kelly Link and a Q&A with presenters and audience members will be from 7PM-8PM. A signing will follow.
List of presenters to come later.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Kathryn Davis is the author of eight novels and a memoir. She has received the Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. She teaches at Washington University, and lives in Vermont and St. Louis, Missouri.
Kelly Link is the author of White Cat, Black Dog; Get in Trouble, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction; Magic for Beginners; Stranger Things Happen; and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have been published in The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She is a MacArthur “Genius” fellow and has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press and co-edits the occasional zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. She is also the co-owner of Book Moon, an independent bookstore in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
This class will take place in-person at our Center for Creative Writing in Boston's Seaport neighborhood.
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Space Accessibility:
Our space is ADA accessible with automatic door openers, ADA-compliant restrooms, desk and table spacing, braille signage, and elevator. Our classrooms can be equipped with ALS for hard of hearing individuals. We cannot guarantee a scent-free environment. For more accessibility requests, please contact our Operations team at [email protected] or (617) 695-0075.