QUEERING THE QUEER MEMOIR
About this Event
We all know that queer lives are as varied and complex as the world itself. But what about queer narrative? On the second day of The Rough Notes Festival authors Chloé Caldwell, Henry Hoke, Eliot Glazer, Hugh Ryan, and Temim Fruchter explore the craft of queer personal nonfiction, discussing the expectations that surround queer narrative and how, in one’s own craft, an author can harness or upend established patterns to create stories that reflect the truth of lived experience—no matter how messy, contradictory, or motley.
ABOUT THE ROUGH NOTES FESTIVAL
Presented by Kinderhook Books, the three-day event is, at its core, a literary festival—but it also celebrates the craft of writing in all its forms: songwriting, stand-up comedy, screenwriting, art, design, and more.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
CHLOÉ CALDWELL
Chloé the author of the national bestseller, Women, which The Atlantic called a “frenetic cult classic.” Her most recent book, Trying, released last summer from Graywolf Press. She is also the author of the books I’ll Tell You In Person, The Red Zone, and Legs Get Led Astray. Chloé’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, MSNBC, The Cut, The Believer, The Strategist, Vogue, Bon Appétit, Vice, Longreads, Nylon, The Rumpus, The Sun, and half a dozen anthologies including Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NYC and Without A Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, and Sluts.
ELIOT GLAZER
Eliot is a comedian, actor, podcaster, musician, and writer for beloved TV shows including New Girl, Younger, and Broad City, on which he played "Eliot" in his most challenging role to date. He lives in Los Angeles. Published by Gallery Books, his first book The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay comes out on August 11.
HENRY HOKE
Henry is an editor at The Offing and the author of five books. His most recent novel Open Throat—a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction—was adapted for the stage at Little Island in New York City. The First Girl in Hell, a western, is coming in 2027 from FSG and Granta.
HUGH RYAN
Hugh is an award-winning historian, and the author of the recent memoir My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond, as well as When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) and The Women's House of Detention (2022). He holds an MFA from Bennington College, where he also teaches, and is a Lead Historian at the new American LGBTQ+ Museum.
TEMIM FRUCHTER (moderator)
Temim is a queer nonbinary anti-Zionist Jewish writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland, and is the recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Vermont Studio Center, and a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. She is co-host of Pete’s Reading Series in Brooklyn. Her debut novel, CITY OF LAUGHTER, a New York Times Editors’ Pick, came out on Grove Atlantic in 2024.
Where is it happening?
USD 19.28
