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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Wendy C. Ortiz
DESCRIPTION:Author Wendy C. Ortiz joins us to present her newly reissued books\, Excavation\, Bruja\, and Hollywood Notebook. A darkly vibrant and daring memoir\, Ortiz’s Excavation (Northwestern University Press) challenged the standard telling of abuse narratives when first published in 2014; over a decade later\, it remains deeply prescient. Set in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley in the late 1980s\, the narrative follows the spiraling entanglement between Ortiz and her eighth-grade English teacher as she becomes both victim to and participant in a simultaneously predatorial and impassioned relationship. Dubbed a “dreamoir\,” Bruja (Northwestern) is a bold and harrowing journey through the dream worlds of Ortiz. Sister memoir to Hollywood Notebook\, it catalogs the happenings of the night: strange visions of the past warped by present-day inklings; animals running loose\, never where they should be; familiar nature and architecture made malleable and new. A daylight traipse through early-aughts Los Angeles\, Hollywood Notebook (Northwestern) encapsulates the powerful feelings and hopeful futures of twentysomething Ortiz. In this boundary-defying sister memoir to Bruja\, Ortiz navigates internal maps as she traverses external palm-treed streets\, moving through her youthful twenties and into the pensiveness of her thirties. Ortiz will be joined in conversation by Emilly Prado\, author of Funeral for Flaca.
URL:https://emillyprado.com/event/in-conversation-with-wendy-c-ortiz/
LOCATION:Powell’s City of Books\, 1005 W Burnside St\, Portland\, Oregon\, 97209\, United States
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