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Maud Casey and Stacey D’Erasmo
Thursday, April 14, 2022 Online
On Thursday, April 14, join A Public Space for a virtual event with authors Maud Casey and Stacey D'Erasmo for a conversation about Casey's most recent book, City of Incurable Women (Bellevue Literary Press).
“City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria—and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, and haunting lyrical beauty.” —Sigrid Nunez
Event Details
Thursday, April 14, 2022
7:00 p.m. ET
Online on Zoom
This event is free and open to all.
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Maud Casey
is the author of five books of fiction, most recently City of Incurable Women (Bellevue Literary Press), and the nonfiction book, The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions. She is the recipient of the Italo Calvino Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches at the University of Maryland and lives in Washington, DC.
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Stacey D’Erasmo
is the author of the novels Tea, A Seahorse Year, The Sky Below, Wonderland, and The Complicities, which is forthcoming in September; and the nonfiction book The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between. She is a former Stegner Fellow in Fiction, the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction, and the winner of an Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation. She is an Associate Professor of Writing and Publishing Practices at Fordham University.
City of Incurable Women
“City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria—and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, and haunting lyrical beauty.” —Sigrid Nunez
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