New Fiction: A Reading: Ellis Avery on The Last Nude, Michael Sledge on The More I Owe You: A Novel and Adam Braver on Misfit
Sunday, Nov. 18, 11:00 a.m., Room 8501 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Ellis Avery
Ellis Avery’s novel The Last Nude (Riverhead Books; $25.95) resurrects the gold era of 1920s Paris. The city has become the cultural hub of the interwar era, a destination for expatriate writers and deposed nobility, sexual outcasts, and striving socialites. When a 17 year old beauty from New York’s Lower East Side—on the run from an arranged marriage—models for the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka, one of the most famous works of the Jazz Age, Beautiful Rafaela, is born. So is their love affair. “. . . a riveting lesbian love story of heart-stopping passion, rapture, and stunning duplicity. . .”—Booklist, starred review. Avery’s debut novel was The Teahouse Fire, which won the Stonewall Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and has been translated into five languages.
Michael Sledge
The dark side of Poet Elizabeth Bishop’s seemingly idyllic life the Brazil of the 1950s and ‘60s are the subject of Michael Sledge’s debut novel, The More I Owe You (Counterpoint, $15.95). Bishop lives in a glass house with her lover, the dazzling, aristocratic architect Lota de Macedo Soares. As her reputation soars, Bishop battles alcoholism and the pressures of her status as one of modernism’s most prominent writers. “Sledge's cinematic novel is as lush and fecund as the jungle itself.”—Booklist. Sledge is the author of the memoir Mother and Son.
Adam Braver
Fact, legend, and fiction blend in Adam Braver’s novel Misfit (Tin House, $15.95). The story centers on the last weekend of Marilyn Monroe’s life, which she spent at Frank Sinatra’s resort in Lake Tahoe. Braver takes significant moments in Monroe’s life—her childhood, her marriages with Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, her studies with Lee Strasberg and her role in the movie The Misfits—and reveals how they influenced her tragic end. “His Marilyn will break your heart.”—Ann Hood. Braver is also the author of Mr. Lincoln’s Wars, Divine Sarah, and Crows Over the Wheatfield.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8501 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
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