What Flows, What’s Hidden

Join Chiara Barzini and Kate Schatz at Clio's for an intimate conversation anbout water, bodies, and cities.

Barzini's Aqua is a genre-bending work of memoir, travel, and cultural history, tracing how water reshaped Los Angeles, the history of film, and the American imagination. Schatz's Where the Girls Were is a haunting historical novel set inside a San Francisco maternity home in 1968 where young women were sent away to disappear.

Together, these books explore what is hidden, controlled, displaced, and erased—whether they be water, bodies, cities, or stories. Moderated by anthropologist Cari Borja, this evening explores how writers draw courage from one another, how cities script our inner lives, and how history lives inside the body.

Chiara Barzini is an award-winning Italian screen and fiction writer. She writes and translates both in English and Italian and is the author of the short story collection Sister Stop Breathing (Calamari Press, 2012) and the novel Things That Happened Before the Earthquake (Doubleday, 2017) which was a Best Book of the Year for Vogue, Esquire, Elle, Bustle, and the Guardian, and a best summer book for The New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, BBC, and Oprah! magazine. Her fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. She has a regular column in Repubblica and is a Literature Advisor at the American Academy in Rome.

Kate Schatz is a New York Times bestselling author, public speaker, writing teacher, and queer feminist parent who's been talking, writing, and teaching about race, gender, social justice, and equity for many years. Her books include the novel Where the Girls Were and Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book (with W. Kamau Bell), along with the "Rad Women" book series (including Rad American Women A-Z, Rad Women Worldwide, and Rad American History A-Z), which have sold over 300,000 copies and been translated into four languages and Rid of Me: A Story, published in 2007 as part of the cult-favorite 33 ⅓ series. Her writing has also appeared in print in places like Buzzfeed, LENNY, Joyland, Oxford American, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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