Acclaimed video artist
Navid Sinaki’s debut novel,
Medusa of the Roses, is a queer love story set amid the repressive policies of modern-day Iran. Informed by Hollywood noir, Persian folktales, and Greek myth, it’s been called “stunning” by
Publishers Weekly.
Caro De Robertis’s latest novel,
The Palace of Eros, is about another pair of lovers, under threat not from the government but from the gods. Join these two accomplished novelists for a conversation about myth-inflected fiction, the queer love story as a vehicle for interrogating society, the intersections of desire and freedom, and much more. Moderated by novelist
Jasmin Darznik.
FREE, $10-15 suggested donationBook sales for this event coordinated by
City Lights.
