March 18th: Lucy Ives in conversation with Shiv Kotecha and Robert Glück
Presented by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery, Lucy Ives will discuss her new book Cosmogony: Stories with Shiv Kotecha and Robert Glück
The live event will stream directly on this page on Thursday, March 18th at 6pm EST. There is no login or rsvp required. A recording will be posted shortly afterwards.
Lucy Ives - Cosmogony: Stories (Soft Skull Press, 2021)
There are analogies between being female and being left-handed, I think, or being an animal.
An energetic, witty collection of stories where the supernatural meets the anomalies of everyday life–deception, infidelity, lost cats, cute memes, amateur pornography, and more.
A woman answers a Craigslist ad (to write erotic diaries for money). A woman walks onto a tennis court (from her home at the bottom of the ocean). A woman goes to the supermarket and meets a friend’s husband (who happens to be an immortal demon). A woman goes for a run (and accidentally time travels).
Cosmogony takes accounts of so-called normal life and mines them for inconsistencies, deceptions, and delights. Incorporating a virtuosic range of styles and genres (Wikipedia entry, phone call, physics equation, encounters with the supernatural), these stories reveal how the narratives we tell ourselves and believe are inevitably constructed, offering a glimpse of the structures that underlie and apparently determine human existence.
Photo credit: Andrew Brucker
Lucy Ives is the author of the novels Impossible Views of the World and Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World, as well as the editor of The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader. Ives's writing has appeared in Art in America, Artforum, The Believer, frieze, Granta, and Vogue, among other publications. She received a 2018 Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.
Photo credit: Mary Manning
Shiv Kotecha writes poetry, fiction, and criticism. He is the author of two books, The Switch (Wonder) and EXTRIGUE (Make Now Books), and a contributing editor for frieze magazine. He lives and works in New York.
Robert Glück is the author of more than ten books of poetry and prose, including Reader (Lapis Press, 1989), and, with Bruce Boone, La Fontaine (Black Star Series, 1981). With Camille Roy and Gail Scott, he edited the anthology Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative (Coach House Books, 2004), which was based on Narrativity, an online journal they edited. Glück founded the San Francisco-based New Narrative movement with Bruce Boone, Camille Roy, and others in the early 1980s in reaction to Language poetry. New Narrative writing celebrates LGBTQ identity, autobiography, poetic disjunction, critical theory, gossip, pop culture, fable, and sexuality. Glück served as the co-director of Small Press Traffic, a nonprofit literary organization at the center of innovative and experimental writing in San Francisco, California, founded in 1974. He is an emeritus professor at San Francisco State, where he was the director of the Poetry Center. He lives in San Francisco.