Join us at San Francisco’s legendary City Lights for a special evening with Marie Darrieussecq and Rita Bullwinkel to celebrate the publication of How to Make a Woman and Our Life in the Forest.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Marie Darrieussecq’s first book, Pig Tales, became an overnight sensation and bestseller, selling more than 300,000 copies and translated into more than thirty languages—since then, she has gone on to publish twenty more, including Being Here Is Everything, a literary investigation into the life of the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, and the novels Men, The Baby, Our Life in the Forest, and, most recently, How to Make a Woman. The New Yorker described her as France’s “best young novelist,” and she is recognized as one of the leading voices of French contemporary literature. Her novel Men was awarded the Prix Médicis and the Prix des Prix in 2013.

Rita Bullwinkel is the author of Belly Up (2018) and Headshot (2024), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the Gordon Burns Prize, and listed for the Booker Prize and the Dublin Literary Award. The winner of a 2022 Whiting Award, she is the editor of McSweeney’s Quarterly, a Contributing Editor at NOON, and an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches courses on creative writing, zines, and the uses of invented and foreign languages as tools for world building.