Bard Fiction Prize Reading
Monday, February 15, 2016
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Bard Fiction Prize recipient Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, will read from recent work.7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Kleeman received the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize for her debut novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (Harper 2015). Called “brilliant and disturbing” by the New York Times, Kleeman’s darkly allegorical satire follows a woman known only as A, who lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on a reality dating show called That’s My Partner! A eats mostly popsicles and oranges and watches endless amounts of television, often just for the commercials. B is attempting to make herself a twin of A, who in turn hungers for something to give meaning to her life, something aside from C’s pornography addiction. Meanwhile, her neighbors across the street are a family who have begun “ghosting” themselves beneath white sheets, and whose garage door features a strange scrawl of graffiti: he who sits next to me, may we eat as one.
For more information, call 845-758-7087.
Time: 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium