[JFKI-News] Event - Handbook for a Future Revolution: A Novel in Progress

["Sekr. Abt. Literatur des ZI JFK" <literature@jfki.fu-berlin.de>]

Dear all,

 

The American Academy kindly invites to a literary lecture by US author Brian Evenson: Handbook for a Future Revolution: A Novel in Progress

Description:

Award-winning writer Brian Evenson reads from his novel-in-progress “Handbook for a Future Revolution,” which focuses on the relationship between a schizophrenic man and his Mormon (but doubting) uncle. The author describes how both men struggle to make sense of this illness in light of Mormon teaching and the culture of Mormon Utah. This work expands upon the themes of Evenson’s 2005 novel The Open Curtain, which approaches the apocalyptic American admixture of violence, religion, and mental illness with a destabilizing intensity.

 

When?

April 1st, 2025 at 7.30 pm

Where?

American Academy in Berlin
Am Sandwerder 17-19
14109 Berlin

The event is free. Participants are required to register here: https://www.americanacademy.de/event/handbook-for-a-future-revolution-a-novel-in-progress/. There will also be a livestream.

 

Best,

The Literature Department