POSTPONED: Rita Mae Reese

Note: This event is postponed from March 23 to April 28.

press release: Author Rita Mae Reese  will discuss with us French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil... 

   * WHO “can be read both as feminist and anti-feminist, both as Jewish and anti-Semitic (or at least as anti-Judaic)...”

   * WHO “is a radical liberal who has recently been claimed as an inspiration to the far-right party in France.”

   * WHO “is seen as a radical liberal and moral giant, and also as a pathetic neurotic who starved herself to death.”

   * WHO just “five weeks before her death... wrote to her mother: ‘I...have a growing certainty that there is a deposit of pure GOLD in me which ought to be passed on. The trouble is that I am more and more convinced...that there is no one to receive it....’” 

“Was there GOLD there, and if so, are we ready to receive it and use it to tackle some of the most difficult problems facing us in 2020?”

BRIEF BIO: Rita Mae Reese is the author most recently of The Book of Hulga. Her work has won numerous awards, including a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Stegner Fellowship and a “Discovery”/ The Nation award. She designs Lesbian Poet Trading Cards for Headmistress Press and is the Literary Arts Director at Arts + Literature Laboratory in Madison.