Hi friends - Tomorrow night I’ll be in conversation with playwright and author David Adjmi via

Hi friends - Tomorrow night I’ll be in conversation with playwright and author David Adjmi via Pilsen Community Books in Chicago. Free, you just need to register. …..Join us for an evening with David Adjmi and Suzanne Scanlon in support of David’s new memoir Lot Six.*REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT ON EVENTBRITE TO BE SENT A YOUTUBE LIVE LINK THE DAY OF THE EVENT*https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lot-six-an-evening-with-david-adjmi-and-suzanne-scanlon-tickets-112048712716In a world where everyone is inventing a self, curating a feed and performing a fantasy of life, what does it mean to be a person? In his grandly entertaining debut memoir Lot Six, playwright David Adjmi explores how human beings create themselves, and how artists make their lives into art.Brooklyn, 1970s. Born into the ruins of a Syrian Jewish family that once had it all, David is painfully displaced. Trapped in an insular religious community that excludes him and a family coming apart at the seams, he is plunged into suicidal depression. Through adolescence, David tries to suppress his homosexual feelings and fit in, but when pushed to the breaking point, he makes the bold decision to cut off his family, erase his past, and leave everything he knows behind. There’s only one problem: who should he be? Bouncing between identities he steals from the pages of fashion magazines, tomes of philosophy, sitcoms and foreign films, and practically everyone he meets—from Rastafarians to French preppies—David begins to piece together an entirely new adult self. But is this the foundation for a life, or just a kind of quicksand?Moving from the glamour and dysfunction of 1970s Brooklyn, to the sybaritic materialism of Reagan’s 1980s to post-9/11 New York, Lot Six offers a quintessentially American tale of an outsider striving to reshape himself in the funhouse mirror of American culture. Adjmi’s memoir is a genre bending Künstlerroman in the spirit of Charles Dickens and Alison Bechdel, a portrait of the artist in the throes of a life and death crisis of identity. Raw and lyrical, and written in gleaming prose that veers effortlessly between hilarity and heartbreak, Lot Six charts Adjmi’s search for belonging, identity, and what it takes to be an artist in America.DAVID ADJMI was called “virtuosic” by the New York Times and was named one of the Top Ten in Culture by The New Yorker in 2011. His plays have been produced and developed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Soho Rep, Lincoln Center, Steppenwolf and many others. He was awarded a Mellon Foundation grant, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Kesselring Prize for Drama, the Steinberg Playwright Award (the “Mimi”), McKnight and Jerome fellowships, and the Bush Artists Fellowship, among others. He is the recipient of residencies from the Dora Maar House, American Academy of Rome, the Bogliasco Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, Corporation of Yaddo, Djerassi, UCross and others. He lives in Los Angeles.SUZANNE SCANLON is the author of Promising Young Women (Dorothy, 2012), a novel-in-fragments about the life of a young woman in and out of institutions, and Her 37th Year, an Index (Noemi, 2015), a fictional memoir in the form of an index, following one year in a woman’s life. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The American Scholar, Electric Literature, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail and many other places. She teaches at The School of the Art Institute Chicago and in the University of Iowa’s Summer Writing Festival. -- source link

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