Nathalie Léger, trans. from the French by Natasha Lehrer and Cécile Menon. Dorothy,
a Publishing Project (SPD, dist.), $16 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-9973666-0-0
In Léger’s associative, meditative novel, what we can know of one another is whatever we can imagine. Asked to write a short encyclopedia entry about the American actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden, Léger’s narrator becomes “carried away,” unable...
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Nathalie Léger, trans. from the French by Amanda DeMarco. Dorothy, $16 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-948980-03-6
French writer and curator Léger’s remarkable and engrossing work, the first in a trilogy of essayistic, biographical novels focusing on the experiences of historical women (the second, Suite for Barbara Loden, was the first to be published in...
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Nathalie Léger, trans. from the French by Natasha Lehrer. Dorothy, $16 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-948980-05-0
Léger’s standout conclusion to her trilogy of meditations on the lives of women (after Exposition) shuttles between the stories of Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca, who hitchhiked across Europe in a wedding dress in 2008, and the narrator’s...
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