In partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium, we're streaming A Literary Examination of Power, Love, and Art with Xochitl Gonzalez. This is a live author event with an interactive Q&A session!
Xochitl Gonzalez is the New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming, which was named a best book of 2022 by The New York Times, TIME, Kirkus, Washington Post, and NPR and won the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Fiction and the New York City Book Award. Gonzalez received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and her commentary writing for The Atlantic was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Gonzalez lives in her hometown of Brooklyn with her dog Hectah Lavoe.
Join us as we chat with Gonzalez about her newest novel Anita de Monte Laughs Last. In 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City and her tragic death is the talk of the town, until it isn’t. By 1998 Anita’s name had been all but forgotten. But when Raquel, a third-year art history student, becomes romantically involved with a well-connected older art student, she finds herself unexpectedly rising up the social ranks. As she attempts to straddle both worlds, she stumbles upon Anita’s story, raising questions about the dynamics of her own relationship, which eerily mirrors that of the forgotten artist. Moving back and forth through time and told from the perspectives of both Anita and Raquel, this is sure a novel (and a conversation) that you don’t want to miss.
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