Heather Lewis’s “Notice”
Tuesday, June 11
Doors 6:30pm
Readings 7pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives
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Please join us on TUESDAY, JUNE 11, to celebrate the publication of HEATHER LEWIS’s novel Notice—a classic text of queer trauma, in print again after two decades.
Written in the register of an emotional fugue state, Notice has been hailed as “an irreducible text, unforgettable, nearly unbearable, but never unbelievable” (the Believer). The novel was rejected by every publisher who read it during the author’s lifetime, then published by Serpent’s Tail in 2004, two years after her death. Semiotext(e) has now republished Lewis’s lost masterpiece in a second edition, with an introduction by Melissa Febos.
Hosted by HEDI EL KHOLTI and AMY SCHOLDER, the evening will feature readings by TRISH BENDIX, GRACIE HADLAND, and STEVEN REIGNS, as well as rare, recently rediscovered archival audio of Lewis herself. Doors at 6:30, readings at 7:00.
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Heather Lewis was born in 1962 and attended Sarah Lawrence College. She was the author of House Rules and The Second Suspect and contributed to several anthologies. She ended her life in 2002.