Experiments in Biography

“Experiments in Biography: What – and Who – Is It For?” with authors Lisa Cohen and R. Tripp Evans

October 28, 2024

Monday, November 4, 5:30 to 7pm: Join us for a discussion with authors Lisa Cohen and R. Tripp Evans on “Experiments in Biography: What – and Who – Is It For?” 

What role can biography play in reclaiming unheard voices? How do biographers excavate queer and other other marginalized lives—when the many barriers to discovery can even include those their subjects themselves have erected? How can new forms of this genre expand its possibilities? And how do we reckon with the importance of a subject’s seemingly ephemeral contributions? Please join us for a lively discussion of these and other questions with Lisa Cohen, author of the critically acclaimed All We Know: Three Lives (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), and R. Tripp Evans, whose recently released The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024) pays tribute to Cohen’s biographical lens.

Books will be available for sale and signing thanks to our friends at Barrington Books!

This program is free and open to the public and takes place in the third floor Seminar Room; seating is limited and registration is appreciated.