Christine Schutt & Diane Wiiliams
Monday 17 December, 2012
7pm, $0
192 Books
192 10th Avenue at 21 Street
Please join 192 Books, Christine Schutt (Prosperous Friends), and Diane Williams (Vicky Swanky is a Beauty for a reading and conversation.
Described by John Ashbery as “pared down but rich, dense, fevered, exactly right and even eerily beautiful,†Christine Schutt’s prose has earned her comparisons to Emily Dickinson and Eudora Welty.
Her newest, Prosperous Friends, tracks a young couple lost in a game of psychosexual brinkmanship. Like Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, Schutt’s portrait of a young couple in ruins is exquisitely beautiful, stunningly resonant, and so minutely and vividly observed you feel devastated at its close. With Prosperous Friends, Schutt takes her place among the best writers of our time.†—Kate Walbert
Diane Williams is credited with having redefined the short story. In her latest book, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty (recently reissued by McSweeney’s in paperback), Vanity Fair contends that these new stories “emit an unsettling brilliance, becoming, on repeated readings, even stranger and more revelatory.â€
Described by John Ashbery as “pared down but rich, dense, fevered, exactly right and even eerily beautiful,†Christine Schutt’s prose has earned her comparisons to Emily Dickinson and Eudora Welty.
Her newest, Prosperous Friends, tracks a young couple lost in a game of psychosexual brinkmanship. Like Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, Schutt’s portrait of a young couple in ruins is exquisitely beautiful, stunningly resonant, and so minutely and vividly observed you feel devastated at its close. With Prosperous Friends, Schutt takes her place among the best writers of our time.†—Kate Walbert
Diane Williams is credited with having redefined the short story. In her latest book, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty (recently reissued by McSweeney’s in paperback), Vanity Fair contends that these new stories “emit an unsettling brilliance, becoming, on repeated readings, even stranger and more revelatory.â€