BODIES & THE LITERARY LANDSCAPE

Saturday, November 2, 2024 - 1:30 p.m. @ The Pit LA

Join Los Angeles Review of Books at LITLIT for “Bodies and the Literary Landscape,” a panel conversation on how the publishing industry’s attitude towards bodies has shifted in a myriad of ways in the past decade. From feminist body horror to fat representation to stories of chronic illness and mental health, form and genre play a key role in how writers explore self and subject. Join writers Sarah Rose Etter, Sarah LaBrie, and Emma Specter, in addition to editor Allison Miriam Woodnutt, as they discuss with LARB Editor-in-Chief Medaya Ocher the interplay between the body as metaphor and as storytelling mode.

This panel is made possible with the support of the Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Sarah Rose Etter is the author of Ripe (Scribner), and The Book of X (Two Dollar Radio), winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award. Her short fiction collection, Tongue Party, was selected by Deb Olin Unferth to be published as the winner of the 2011 Caketrain Award.

Sarah LaBrie is a writer from Houston and the author of the memoir No One Gets to Fall Apart (HarperCollins). Her libretti have been performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Apollo Theater. She was most recently a producer on the HBO and Starz television show Minx, and she also wrote for Blindspotting (Starz), Made for Love (HBO Mas), and Love, Victor (Hulu/Disney+). Her fiction appears in Guernica, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Joyland, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She’s held residencies at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Ucross.

Emma Specter (she/they) is a Vogue culture writer and consummate New Yorker in Los Angeles whose debut reported memoir, More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing and the Lust for “Enough,” is out now from HarperCollins. When she’s not writing, she enjoys walking the Silver Lake Reservoir with a little beverage, trawling estate sales for unnecessary purses, and continuing her hubristic quest to bake the best bagel L.A. has ever seen.

Allison Miriam Woodnutt (née Smith) is an acquiring editor and the publishing & publicity manager for Unnamed Press as well as a co-founder of Smith & Taylor Classics. She graduated with a bachelor of arts in English & creative writing from the University of Southern California and went on to earn her master’s in 18th and 19th century literature from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Before Unnamed, she worked in libraries and bookshops.

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Medaya Ocher is the Editor in Chief of Los Angeles Review of Books.