Joanna Walsh presents "My Life as a Godard Movie," with Amina Cain

Joanna Walsh joins us to present her new book-length essay "My Life as a Godard Movie" - out now from Transit Books as part of their Undelivered Lectures series - in conversation with Amina Cain. This virtual event took place on Zoom. To purchase a copy of the book: www.communityb...
About the book:
A book-length essay on beauty and revolution as seen through the work of Jean-Luc Godard.
As Joanna Walsh watches the films of Jean-Luc Godard, she considers beauty and desire in life and art. “There’s a resistance, in Godard’s women,” writes Walsh, “that is at the heart of his work (and theirs).” She is captivated by the Paris of his films and the often porous border between the city presented on screen and the one she inhabited herself. With cool precision, and in language that shines with aphoristic wit, Walsh has crafted an exquisitely intimate portrait of the way attention to works of art becomes attention to changes in ourselves. Taut and gem-like, "My Life as a Godard Movie" is a probing meditation by one of our most observant writers.
"My Life as a Godard Movie" is part of the Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books.
About our guests:
Joanna Walsh is a multidisciplinary writer, artist and arts activist. The author of eleven books including "Hotel," "Vertigo," "Worlds from the Word's End," "Break*up," and "Girl Online," she also writes for performance, visual art and digital narrative, often working with programming and AI. She is a UK Arts Foundation fellow, and the recipient of the Markievicz Award in the Republic of Ireland. She founded and ran #readwomen (2014-18), described by the New York Times as “a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers” and currently runs @noentry_arts.
Amina Memory Cain is the author of the novel "Indelicacy," a New York Times Editors’ Choice and finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, published in 2020 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and two collections of short stories, "Creature" and "I Go To Some Hollow." Her new book, "A Horse at Night: On Writing," is out now with Dorothy, a publishing project in the US and Daunt Books in the UK.