An eternal question: What accounts for the persistent longing for the "Father" archetype? What transformation is wished for by sons and daughters? How can the person fathers need to be in their families, in their relationships, with their partners and with their children be re-imagined today?
Join authors Michele Filgate and Isle McElroy for a Sunday brunch and live reading from What My Father and I Don't Talk About, the follow-up collection to Filgate's wildly successful What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About. The new anthology features notable writers breaking the silence on the complex—and sometimes contentious—relationships we have with our fathers. Filgate writes about how shared ADHD with her father challenged their ability to communicate. Award-winning writer Isle McElroy (People Collide and The Atmospherians) shares memories of weekends spent tagging along as their father fixed up the homes of their wealthier neighbors. Author introduction given by award-winning writer/editor and founder of Memoiring, Melisse Gelula.
Date
Jun 22, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Featuring
Michele Filgate
Michele Filgate is the editor of What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About and What My Father and I Don’t Talk About. Her writing has appeared in Longreads, Poets & Writers, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Paris Review Daily, Tin House, Gulf Coast, Oprah Daily, and many other publications. She received her MFA in Fiction from NYU, where she was the recipient of the Stein Fellowship. She teaches writing at The New School.
Isle McElroy
Isle McElroy’s debut novel, The Atmospherians, was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Their second novel, People Collide, was New York Times Critics’ Pick and named a best book of 2023 by Vulture, Vogue, Them, and NPR. Other writing appears in The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, The Cut, GQ, The Atlantic, Tin House, and elsewhere.
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