Virtual Event: Expanding the Canon: Posthumous Works by Women Writers

Join us virtually as we welcome Danielle Dutton, co-founder of The Dorothy Project; Barbara Epler, president of New Directions; and Mika Kasuga, executive editor at Union Square & Co., in a conversation about the pleasures, surprises, and ethics of posthumously editing and reissuing women's work. This event will be hosted on Zoom webinar and moderated by Naomi Huffman, editor of the previously unpublished novel Toad, by the late Katherine Dunn, coming from MCDxFSG books in November 2022.

In recent years, publishers have reissued new editions of books by writers like Leonora Carrington, Nataliza Ginzburg, Tove Ditlevsen, Clarice Lispector, Elizabeth Hardwick, Ann Quin, Barbara Comyns, Han Suyin, Lucia Berlin, and many, many others, allowing these writers to be embraced by critics and readers alike. The process of finding, editing, and reissuing such works by late women writers offers extraordinary opportunities to contribute to and celebrate the canon of feminist literature, but is not without challenges.