Kathryn Scanlan at the LRB Bookshop
10 June 2025, 7pm
London Review Bookshop
10 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
Twenty years ago Kathryn Scanlan (Kick the Latch, The Dominant Animal) acquired a diary at a public estate auction. It was kept by Cora E. Lacy, an eighty-six-year-old woman living in a small Illinois town, from 1968 to 1972. Scanlan began to compulsively read and reread the stranger’s diary. In the years following she edited, arranged and rearranged the diarist’s words into the composition that is Aug 9 – Fog.
Scanlan will be in conversation with Emily LaBarge, whose book Dog Days will be published in autumn 2025.
Kathryn Scanlan at the LRB Bookshop; ; 2025;
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