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At LongHouse: Woman as Artifact

Tue, 06/25/2024 - 13:22

A novel written almost entirely in museum wall labels? If that piques your interest, head for LongHouse Reserve on Saturday at 4 p.m. for its LongHouse Talks series. The guest will be Christine Coulson, whose novel “One Woman Show” NPR called “Wildly original . . . tiny but powerful.”

Ms. Coulson had been writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 25 years when she had the idea to use the museum’s strict label format to describe people as intricate works of art. The result is a novel that imagines a privileged 20th-century woman as an artifact, an object prized, collected, and critiqued.

“ ‘One Woman Show’ revolves around the life of Kitty Whitaker as she is defined by her potential for display and moved from collection to collection through multiple marriages,” says the publisher, Simon and Schuster.

Ms. Coulson will discuss her book with Susan Morrison, who has been the articles editor of The New Yorker for 27 years and was a former editor in chief of The New York Observer.

Tickets are $35, $25 for members.

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