Doors open 30 minutes before the start of the event. Join us in the
Rare Book Room for the New Republic's Salon at the Strand! Each month,
the New Republic will sit down with a lauded author to discuss their
latest work in depth, and their works in progress. Vivian Gornick, one
of America's most beloved writers, celebrates a life of passionate
reading with Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader. In nine essays that
traverse literary criticism, memoir, and biography, she muses on the
importance of reading―and re-reading―as life progresses. From
identifying with multiple characters in D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and
Lovers, to assessing womanhood in Colette’s The Vagabond and The
Shackle, to soaking in Natalia Ginzburg, “a writer whose work has
often made me love life more,” her essays are luminous hymns to the
books and writers who have shaped her life. Guided by Gornick’s
trademark verve and insight, Unfinished Business is a masterful
appreciation of literature’s power to illuminate our lives from a
peerless writer and thinker who “still read[s] to feel the power of
Life with a capital L.” Pre-order the book here for pick up at the
start of the event. Vivian Gornick is the author of several books,
including the acclaimed memoir Fierce Attachments, reissued as an FSG
Classic in 2005; the essay collections The End of the Novel of Love
and The Men in My Life, both of which were nominated for the National
Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism; and The Odd Woman and the
City, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for
Autobiography. She began her career as a staff writer for The Village
Voice in 1969, and her work has since appeared in The New York Times,
The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, and many other
publications. Laura Marsh is the literary editor of The New Republic
and co-host of the podcast The Politics of Everything. She has written
for the New York Review of Books, Dissent, Bookforum, The Times
Literary Supplement and Literary Review. Previously she was an editor
at the New York Review of Books. Admission Options: This event is free
to attend. The event will be located in the Strand's Rare Book Room,
on the 3rd floor at our store at 828 Broadway at 12th Street. Doors
open 30 minutes before the start of the event.
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