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A reading
On Sunday, March 26, 18 writers joined Passager on Zoom to read their poems, essays and stories related to personal trauma. The reading was followed by a conversation about writing about trauma, the process, the challenges, and the healing. Featuring guest editor Christine Lincoln. The recording is now online at Youtube, divided into two parts: Part… Continue reading A reading
Double-dipping into Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction
Flannery O’Connor is having a birthday celebration on March 25, hosted by the Andalusia Institute, a public arts and humanities institute at Georgia College dedicated to Flannery O’Connor and her interests. For the days’ activities, check it out online. I’m speaking on a panel that afternoon on Flannery O’Connor and Motherhood, and so was pleased… Continue reading Double-dipping into Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction
Bookstore Reading
Reading of Nine Lives: My Risky Road from Fifties Rebel to Feminist Critic at Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, CA, on October 8, 2025, at 6 p.m.
The Reviews
Reviews of Nine Lives are coming in. See Kirkus Book Reviews for the most recent one. I excerpt here the sentences I liked best: …Kahane’s compelling writing illuminates life during the turbulent 20th century from a female perspective often missing from history. The extensive descriptions of travel, varying from free-spirited, low-budget adventures through Europe, North… Continue reading The Reviews
Unsolicited Reviews
Just received this review from Midwest Book Review and can’t resist sending it out to friends: Synopsis: “Nine Lives: My Risky Road” by Claire Kahane is a tell-all memoir of a woman now in her eighties, who was born during the Great Depression to Jewish immigrants, and unveils to her readers the intimate self-transformations that… Continue reading Unsolicited Reviews
News Events
FORTHCOMING: Book Chat: Claire Kahane in conversation with Elizabeth Abel, John F. Hotchkis Professor of English, UC Berkeley, at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, September 17, Noon.
Book Launch
There will be a book launch of my memoir, Nine Lives: My Risky Road From Fifties Rebel to Feminist Critic, on May 28, 2025, in Buffalo, New York.
Recent literary event
It was my great pleasure to join Elizabeth Abel in a conversation about her new book, which traces echoes of Woolf in four major writers from diverse cultural contexts: Nella Larsen, James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, and W. G. Sebald. Thanks to all who attended.
A memory of Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Ferlinghetti’s recent death prompted me to remember an incident years ago when I was living in San Francisco’s North Beach. I had been driving with my friend Malcolm Braly down Columbus Avenue when suddenly we were pulled over by the police, searched, arms outstretched on either side of the car, and then Malcolm was arrested–for… Continue reading A memory of Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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