Jennifer Kabat
When Jennifer Kabat moved from London to the Catskills in 2005, she had no idea it was the site of the Anti-Rent War, an early episode of American rural populism. Wandering the mountains, and building friendships within the local community, Kabat’s book, The Eighth Moon, weaves a multilayered meditation on history, resistance, and nature in a part of upstate New York that has long been a refuge for New Yorkers in search of a rural idyll. Kabat is in conversation with festival co-director Aaron Hicklin. Presented in association with the DVAA and Radio Catskill.
Date
Jun 22, 5:30pm to 6:30pm
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Jennifer Kabat
Jennifer Kabat’s diptych The Eighth Moon and Nightshining are being published by Milkweed Editions in 2024 and 2025. She’s been awarded a Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her criticism, and the books were supported by grants from the Silvers Foundation and NYFA. Her essays and criticism have appeared in 4 Columns, Frieze, Granta, The White Review, BOMB, Harper’s, The Believer, and McSweeney’s as well as Best American Essays. She lives in rural New York, serves in her local fire department and teaches in the Design Research MA program at SVA.
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