These video clips are the part of a series highlighting recent readings held by SF State’s Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives. Visit this website regularly for fresh poetic content.
Sarah Schulman relates her understanding of the suburbanization effect of the 1960s, followed by the later return to the cities of “the children of white flight,” along with the process of corporate welfare that subsidizes gentrification and displacement, as rendered in her book, The Gentrification of The Mind (University of California Press, 2013). The event took place April 7, 2016, at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University. The full program includes Schulman reading from her novel and conversing with literary critic Terry Castle and the audience.
Sarah Schulman relates an anecdote regarding the autobiographical nature of her fiction, in advance of reading from her novel The Cosmopolitans (The Feminist Press at City University of New York, 2016), April 7, 2016, at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University. The full program includes Schulman reading from her novel and conversing with literary critic Terry Castle and the audience.
Sarah Schulman and Terry Castle discuss the role of the unmarried older woman, or “spinster,” in Schulman’s novel The Cosmopolitans (The Feminist Press at City University of New York, 2016), who has “found a way out of heterosexuality,” and Castle suggests photographer Vivian Meier as a contemporary example of a “marriage resister.” The event took place April 7, 2016, at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University. The full program includes Schulman reading from her novel and conversing with Castle and the audience.