[Yale-readings] Queer Authors panel Wedn. 7 pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

>
>Queer Authorship:
>A Panel Discussion withT Cooper, Mattilda,
>and Felicia Luna Lemus
>
>Three queer authors with new books out this spring will headline
>Pride @Yale 2007 with a conversation/panel/reading that explores the 
>intersections of gender, transgression, race, identity, and sexuality ­ 
>both in writing and in life.
>
>• Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 7:00 pm
>• Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall
>• Reception and book signing to follow in Memorabilia Room
>• Last chance to view Yale Library’s Manuscripts and Archives exhibit 
>“These Stories Too Shall be Told” which highlights holdings on LBGT 
>culture and history ­ also in Memorabilia Room
>
>Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes, by T Cooper
>(Plume, February 2007), is a novel about:
>• pogrom-fleeing Russian Jewish immigrants
>• Charles Lindbergh
>• a transgendered Eminem-impersonator who performs at bar mitzvahs
>Time Out New York called the book: "A glorious identity-bending,
>multigenerational epic... Cooper's storytelling skills are phenomenal. 
>S/he effortlessly shifts perspectives, and throughout these experiments 
>are divine."
>
>Nobody Passes, by Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore
>(Seal Press, Jan '07), is an anthology which starts by tearing binary 
>gender norms to shreds, and then proceeds to examine the perilous 
>intersections of dentity, categorization, and community in order to 
>challenge the very notion of belonging.
>Howard Zinn called Mattilda's book "startlingly bold and provocative."
>
>Like Son, by Felicia Luna Lemus
>(Akashic, March 2007), a novel.
>Meet Frank Cruz: a post-punk, sardonic, thirty-year-old FTM who 
>unwittingly inherits his dead father's legacy, along with a crumbling 
>photograph portrait of Nahui Olin, a woman who looks like a modern riot 
>girl but who was actually a fierce member of the early-20th-century 
>Mexican avant-garde and who once brought tragedy upon the Cruz family. Set 
>amidst the outsider worlds of present-day downtown New York, 1990s Los 
>Angeles, and 1940s Mexico City, Like Son is the not-so-simple story of a 
>father, a son, and the love-blindness shared between them.
>
>
>For more information about the authors and their books:
>• www.t-cooper.com
>• www.felicialunalemus.com
>• www.mattbernsteinsycamore.com
>
>For more information on the event contact:
>Maria Trumpler maria.trumpler at yale.edu
>203-432-0847

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