Monthly Book Share: Local Author Susan Gubar, 17 September | Event in Bloomington | AllEvents

Monthly Book Share: Local Author Susan Gubar

Juniper Art Gallery

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Wed, 17 Sep, 2025 at 04:00 pm

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615 W. Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN, United States, Indiana 47404

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Wed, 17 Sep, 2025 at 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm (EDT)

615 W. Kirkwood Ave, Indiana 47404

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Monthly Book Share: Local Author Susan Gubar
Book Share - Local Author
Susan Gubar
3rd Weds, Sept 17, 4-5:00pm

Join us this September as we discuss how nine women artists flourished creatively in their final acts. Local Author Susan Gubar will discuss her book, Grand Finales: The Creative Longevity of Women Artists. This book features women artists who transformed the last stage of life into a rousing conclusion. Gubar draws on their lives and works to suggest that seniority can become a time of reinvention and renewal.

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In 2008, the critically acclaimed author and scholar Susan Gubar was told by a trusted oncologist that she had only a few years left to live. Though she outlived that dire prognosis, this brush with mortality refocused her attention on the boons of a longevity she did not expect to experience. She began to think: In the last years of our lives, can we shape and change our creative capabilities?

The resulting volume, Grand Finales, answers this question with a resounding yes. Despite the losses generally associated with aging, quite a few writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, and dancers have managed to extend and repurpose their creative energies. Gubar spotlights very creative old ladies: writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, and dancers from the past and in our times.

Each of Grand Finales’ nine riveting chapters features women artists who transformed the last stage of existence into a rousing conclusion. Gubar draws on their late lives and works to suggest that seniority can become a time of reinvention and renewal. With pizzazz, bravado, and geezer machismo, she counters the discrediting of elderly women and clarifies the environments, relationships, activities, and attitudes that sponsor a creative old age.

Susan’s bio:
Susan Gubar is an acclaimed memoirist and literary critic. Together with Sandra M. Gilbert, she was awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. A Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at Indiana University, she lives in Bloomington.


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Monthly Book Share: Local Author Susan Gubar, 17 September | Event in Bloomington | AllEvents
Monthly Book Share: Local Author Susan Gubar
Wed, 17 Sep, 2025 at 04:00 pm