March 29, 2016 at 7 pm, Balch Auditorium, Scripps College
“One of the most original and wonderfully weird prose stylists of our time.” – Kate Zambreno, author of Green Girl
No one writes quite like Danielle Dutton. With an archly comic voice, dazzling smarts, and inspirations that deftly blend visual art, poetry, and fiction, Dutton is always game for reinventing the narrative. Now, she turns her prodigious and bewitching writerly talents to a surprising heroine. In Margaret the First, Dutton dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, a 17th-century duchess, who wrote and published poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science fiction at a time when being a writer was not an option for women. Join Dutton for a reading from Margaret the First and a conversation about women in publishing with Los Angeles-based writer, Amina Cain.
Dutton’s fiction has appeared in a variety of publications, including Harper’s Magazine, BOMB, Fence, and Noon. She authored of a collection of hybrid prose pieces, Attempts at a Life and S P R A W L, is a finalist for the Believer Book Award, and collaborated with Richard Kraft on Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera, in 2015. Dutton founded Dorothy, a small press and publishing project named after her great aunt Dorothy Traver, a librarian and author. She is on faculty at Washington University in St. Louis.
This Scripps Presents program is made possible by the Alexa Fullerton Hampton ’42 Endowed Speaker Fund.
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