Anne Finger Residency
Friday, October 4th, 2019
5:30pm – 6:30pm
Anne Finger, Author will read a completed essay from that collection, “Walking to Abbasanta,” which concerns a trip she made to Sardinia.
While in residency, Anne Finger will be working on an essay for her book-length creative non-fiction collection, “Perhaps in Lhasa”. This work explores the influence of disability on the life and work of the great Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci. This particular essay concerns his relationship with his wife, Julka Schucht and two of her sisters, Eugenia and Tatiana, as well the relationships among the sisters—and how that tangled web has been normalized by biographers. Both his wife and his sister-in-law, Eugenia, had significant disabilities . The title is taken from a love letter by Julka.
Anne Finger
Author
Anne Finger is a writer of both fiction and creative non-fiction. Her most recent book, a novel, is A Woman, in Bed (Cinco Puntos, 2018). She has also published short story collections and memoirs. Currently, she is the Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Her work explores disability in a broad social context.