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Books & Breakfast with Dani Shapiro
Literary Affairs welcomes back Dani Shapiro, best-selling novelist and memoirist, returning to discuss her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love.
Kirkus Review said, To write openly about an enduring intimate relationship requires courage and tact; its a balancing act that can trip up the most seasoned of writers, not to mention potentially damage the sacred bond at stake.
In Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage Dani Shapiro gracefully mines her memories, her marriage and her evolving self to give an honest and insightful account of an examined life.
Please join us for an exclusive Books & Breakfast event at the Hotel Bel Air on Monday, May 8. A candid conversation between Dani Shapiro and Julie Robinson will explore Marriage, Life and the Art of the Memoir.
The morning will include a continental breakfast, Q&A and book signing.
WHEN: Monday, May 8
10:30am-12pm
WHERE: Hotel Bel Air
TICKETS: $55
NO REFUNDS
ABOUT THE BOOK
Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time--abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning--a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become.
What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make lifelong commitments in the face of identities that are continuously shifting, and commit ourselves for all time when the self is so often in flux? What happens to love in the face of the unexpected, in the face of disappointment and compromise--how do we wrest beauty from imperfection, find grace in the ordinary, desire what we have rather than what we lack? Drawing on literature, poetry, philosophy, and theology, Shapiro writes gloriously of the joys and challenges of matrimonial life, in a luminous narrative that unfurls with urgent immediacy and sharp intelligence. Artful, intensely emotional work from one of our finest writers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DANI SHAPIROis the author of the memoirs Still Writing, Devotion, and Slow Motion and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, One Story, Elle, Vogue, The New York Times Book Review, the op-ed pages of The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times and has been broadcast on This American Life. Shapiro was recently Oprah Winfreys guest on Super Soul Sunday. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia, NYU, the New School, and Wesleyan University; she is cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. Shapiro lives with her family in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
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LocationHotel Bel Air (View)
701 Stone Canyon Road
Beverly Hills, CA 90077
United States
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