Stephanie Foo is the author of the NYT Bestseller, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma. Nell's Humor Writing Residency for Ladies, and elsewhere. Homes ( The Unfolding), Jennifer Michael Hecht ( The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives), Melissa Lozada-Oliva ( Dreaming of You, CANDELARIA), Ali Solomon ( I Love-ish New York City), and Elissa Bassist ( Hysterical) and Stephanie Foo ( What My Bones Know). There will also be a Q & A and maybe a seance.Įlissa Bassist edits the “Funny Women” column on The Rumpus and teaches humor writing at The New School, 92NY, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, St. Join us for a night of funny, emotional, loud-mouthed novelists, poets, memoirists, and illustrators reading from their new books: A.M. Women are great every month, but since it's Women's History Month, let's celebrate. 2023! EVENT: Hysterical Women: Readings, Jokes, and Light Witchcraft Thursday 8:00pm - 10:00pm I can’t wait for this! Click here: Hysterical Women reading March 24. People with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations or who have questions about physical access may email in advance of the event. Support the Center with your book purchase. * FOC Admission Free (Registration required)

* Public Admission $5 advance registration / $7 at the door Hecht teaches poetry at the New School University in Manhattan and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Her work has won major awards in intellectual history and in poetry. Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of three history books, including the best-selling Doubt: A History, and three volumes of poetry. By examining how people in other times have found powerful reasons to stay alive when suicide seems a tempting choice, she makes a persuasive intellectual and moral case against suicide. This transition, she movingly argues, resulted in a profound cultural and moral loss: the loss of shared, secular, logical arguments against suicide. She shows how religious prohibitions against self-killing were replaced by the Enlightenment’s insistence on the rights of the individual, even when those rights had troubling applications. From the Stoics and the Bible to Dante, Shakespeare, Wittgenstein, and such twentieth-century writers as John Berryman, Hecht recasts the narrative of our “secular age” in new terms. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

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