Fane Productions | Jo Ann Beard | Cheri & Collected Works (FULL EVENT) @faneproductions | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
'Cheri has been living with cancer for many years. Now, she is dying.'
Join one of the most influential writers in America, Jo Ann Beard, in conversation with Catherine Taylor as she celebrates the UK release of her career-spanning Collected Works and Cheri, a heart wrenching novella.
Jo Ann Beard is a major American writer, with passionate advocates including Mary Gaitskill, Sigrid Nunez, Geoff Dyer and Jonathan Franzen. Her achievements are celebrated this month with the publication of her Collected Works, and with this rare event to catch her in conversation. Weaving a complex tapestry drawn from interviews, anecdotes, moments from Beard's own life, and sheer imagination, these extraordinary pieces are spaces you fall into and are reluctant to leave. From the intimate drama of everyday life – school crushes, dog clinics, divorce – to the terror and excitement of a fox lurking by a campsite or a live shooter on campus, Beard flawlessly distils what it means to live deeply as we hurtle through wonder and grief, love and heartbreak.
Jo Ann Beard’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays and in various other anthologies and has recently received the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2022 Award in Literature. Her novella Cheri is a masterpiece of empathy and memory that tracks a heart-breaking but glorious celebration of all the moments of beauty and pain that make an individual life, right up until the very last moments. Jo will be joined in conversation with Catherine Taylor for this event celebrating the publication of her Collected Works in the UK for the very first time. She will explore how humanity shapes her work, the inspiration behind her writing and creating the arresting and distinctive voices that populate her stories.
Don’t miss this incredibly special opportunity to join one of America’s leading voices in literature!
A Night In with Jo Ann Beard was originally broadcast on Wed 23 Aug 2023.
#JoAnnBeard #Literature #AmericanLiterature #Author #Interview #BookTube
'Cheri has been living with cancer for many years. Now, she is dying.'
Join one of the most influential writers in America, Jo Ann Beard, in conversation with Catherine Taylor as she celebrates the UK release of her career-spanning Collected Works and Cheri, a heart wrenching novella.
Jo Ann Beard is a major American writer, with passionate advocates including Mary Gaitskill, Sigrid Nunez, Geoff Dyer and Jonathan Franzen. Her achievements are celebrated this month with the publication of her Collected Works, and with this rare event to catch her in conversation. Weaving a complex tapestry drawn from interviews, anecdotes, moments from Beard's own life, and sheer imagination, these extraordinary pieces are spaces you fall into and are reluctant to leave. From the intimate drama of everyday life – school crushes, dog clinics, divorce – to the terror and excitement of a fox lurking by a campsite or a live shooter on campus, Beard flawlessly distils what it means to live deeply as we hurtle through wonder and grief, love and heartbreak.
Jo Ann Beard’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays and in various other anthologies and has recently received the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2022 Award in Literature. Her novella Cheri is a masterpiece of empathy and memory that tracks a heart-breaking but glorious celebration of all the moments of beauty and pain that make an individual life, right up until the very last moments. Jo will be joined in conversation with Catherine Taylor for this event celebrating the publication of her Collected Works in the UK for the very first time. She will explore how humanity shapes her work, the inspiration behind her writing and creating the arresting and distinctive voices that populate her stories.
Don’t miss this incredibly special opportunity to join one of America’s leading voices in literature!
A Night In with Jo Ann Beard was originally broadcast on Wed 23 Aug 2023.
#JoAnnBeard #Literature #AmericanLiterature #Author #Interview #BookTube
