Disgust by Stephanie Grant, in conversation with Andrew Solomon

 
March 10th
7pm

 
McNally Jackson Seaport
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"When, in my twenties, I came out to my parents as a lesbian, I became an object of their disgust. As a result, I worked to eliminate disgust from my repertoire of emotions."

In this hybrid memoir, novelist Stephanie Grant works to make sense of three generations of female self-disgust in her family while considering how it challenges both the American ideal of equality and our real-life experiences of intimacy. Disgust: A Memoir is funny, tender, and rigorous in its exploration of how the most difficult emotion functions both in our private lives and our collective imaginations.

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Stephanie Grant grew up outside of Boston, MA. She received her BA from Wesleyan University, CT and studied creative writing at New York University. Grant writes about female embodiment, which is another way to say she writes about women’s and girls’ bodies, including their sexuality, genders, and race, and how their bodies are frequently the site where struggles personal and political, existential and social get expressed in American culture. Grant has taught writing at The Ohio State University, Mount Holyoke College, and American University in Washington, DC where she currently directs the MFA Program.



 

Andrew Solomon, Ph.D., is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology; winner of the National Book Award; and an activist in LGBTQ rights, mental health, and the arts. He is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia and Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale, and a former President of PEN American Center. Solomon’s best-selling Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, tells the stories of families raising exceptional children who not only learn to address with their challenges, but also find profound meaning in doing so. Far From the Tree, a documentary based on Solomon’s book, premiered at the DOC NYC festival. Solomon is also author of Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Solomon’s TED Talks have been viewed more than twenty-five million times. Andrew lives with his husband, John Habich Solomon, who keeps a tree nursery and edits books and articles, and their son in New York and London. Andrew is a dual national. He also has a daughter with a college friend.

 

 

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