Katharine Coldiron in Conversation with Anita Felicelli at Womb House Books

Please join us at Womb House Books as Katharine Coldiron discusses her new book with author Anita Felicelli.

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Katharine Coldiron sees her life through a film projector. She watches The Sound of Music and observes that time is peculiarly preserved in a narrative film; she watches Singin' in the Rain and finds truth and falsehood layered in it like dental veneers; she watches Apocalypse Now and thinks about her father, and a certain Pulitzer-winning photograph of an American POW. Out There in the Dark is a dynamic collection of essays that blends film criticism with memoir and fiction, as well as lists, visual diagrams, and Wikipedia collaging. It plumbs deeply some of our most knotted, abstract concepts: truth, kindness, the West, the female body, war, and—inevitably—Hollywood.

Katharine Coldiron is the author of Ceremonials, Junk Film, and Wire Mothers. Her work as a book critic has appeared in the Washington Post, the Guardian, theTimes Literary Supplement, and many other places; as an essayist, in Conjunctions, Ms., Booth, and elsewhere. She and her books have been profiled in three countries on radio and television. Find her at kcoldiron.com.

Anita Felicelli is the author of , as well as Chimerica and the award-winning short story collection Love Songs for a Lost Continent. She is the books editor at Alta Journal. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, ZYZZYVA, and the New York Times (Modern Love), among other places. From 2021-2024, she sat on the board of directors for the National Book Critics Circle.

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