Heidi Julavits with Rivka Galchen and Frederic Tuten
Monday 30 April, 2012
7pm, $0
192 Books
192 10th Avenue at 21st Street
Julia Severn, a student at an elite institute for psychics, has learned her lessons too well. Her mentor, the legendary Madame Ackermann, grows jealous of her young disciple's talents, and so subjects Julia to the humiliation of reliving a painful event: her mother's suicide. As the two lock horns, and Julia gains power, Madame Ackermann launches a desperate attack that leaves Julia the victim of a crippling ailment. From the acclaimed novelist and editor of The Believer, The Vanishers is a wildly imaginative, darkly funny, and emotionally powerful novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another.
Frederic Tuten is the author of The Green Hour, Tintin in the New World, and The Adventures of Mao on the Long March, among others, and has written extensively about art, literature, and film. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Rivka Galchen is the author of Atmospheric Disturbances. She received her MD from the Mount Sinai Shool of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Galchen completed her MFA at Columbia University. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Believer, Harper's and The New Yorker. She is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award.
Frederic Tuten is the author of The Green Hour, Tintin in the New World, and The Adventures of Mao on the Long March, among others, and has written extensively about art, literature, and film. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Rivka Galchen is the author of Atmospheric Disturbances. She received her MD from the Mount Sinai Shool of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Galchen completed her MFA at Columbia University. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Believer, Harper's and The New Yorker. She is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award.