‘A new genre is born: the short selfie collection!’ – Lauren Elkin
'Book Face' © Dominic Lee, 2019
Selfies book launch: Monday 17th June.
Life imitates art! Inspired by self-portraits of women artists and characterised by Sylvie Weil’s self-deprecating humour, the episodes in this collection of literary selfies take us from Tokyo to Tel Aviv, from a 1950s Parisian school playground to Sunday lunches in leafy Vermont. There is laughter but also sorrow, love, loss and betrayal.
‘A beguiling series of vignettes, by turns wry, amusing and disturbing, inspired by self-portraits by women artists and reflecting on the images they provoke. An illuminating survey of the author’s various identities, in a fractured world, as mother, lover and writer.’ – Michèle Roberts
On June 17th, Sylvie Weil and her translator Ros Schwartz will be in conversation with Amanda Hopkinson, for an uncensored evening spilling stories, followed by a glass of wine (to be enjoyed unspilled).
Join us to celebrate the publication of this scintillating, multifaceted memoir, which can be purchased and signed by the author on the day.
17th June, 7.30pm
Institut Français du Royaume Uni
17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT
Tickets can be purchased here.
You can pre-order Selfies here
(and take a tour of our newly streamlined website while you’re at it.)
On the weekend of 22nd – 23rd June we'll be setting up shop at the Uncorrected Independent Publishers’ Fair at the Peckham Pelican, from 11am – 6pm, as part of Camberwell Arts Festival. There'll be copies of Selfies to be had, and more.
Front cover photograph: VIVIAN MAIER, Self-portrait, New York, NY, 1955 © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
This book is supported by the Institut français as part as their programmes of aid to publication, and is the recipient of a translation grant from the Centre National du Livre, in France.
