Evenings with an Author: Nancy K. Miller in conversation with Celeste Schenck

Hosted by The American Library in Paris, this event will be a conversation between members of two generations of feminist critics on the topic of female friendship. Nancy K. Miller, a memoirist and American feminist critic of French literature and I will engage in conversation about her most recent book,My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism. 

Nancy K. Miller–memoirist and feminist critic—is author and editor of more than a dozen books, including But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People’s Lives and Breathless: An American Girl in Paris. Her most recent book is the memoir My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism. She teaches life writing and cultural criticism at the Graduate Center, City University
of New York, where she is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature. (Author photo by Marcia Ciriello)

My Brilliant Friends is the group portrait of three women’s friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Nancy describes her relationships with well-known writers and literary critics Carolyn Heilbrun, Diane Middlebrook, and Naomi Schor. Through the stories of their intertwined lives and books, Miller illuminates the powerful ties between women in love and work, aging and loss, illness and death. Inspired in part by the heroines of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, My Brilliant Friends explores the emotional and intellectual complexities of women’s bonds at a particular historical moment.

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