{"title": "Celia Paul’s Objects of Desire, with Jarrett Earnest", "start": "2026-11-18T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "price": "", "price_from": "29.95", "price_to": "29.95", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting", "literature/memoir"], "description": "Rizzoli Bookstore hosts a conversation between painter Celia Paul and Jarrett Earnest, host of the New York Review of Books podcast Private Life, celebrating Paul's new book Objects of Desire: An Artist in Venice. The book records her time alone in Venice on an artist's residency, her perceptions of the city, and her preoccupations with female desire and love, mortality, and memory. 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It celebrates Shuling Guo's exhibition Temple II, paintings that bring together the female body, botanical forms and devotional imagery as a language shaped by motherhood, memory and loss. Writers and artists come together in conversation through the reading and a reception in the gallery space. 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Writer Kate Zambreno leads a conversation about her book Foam and Eve Babitz's Slow Days, Fast Company. Anyone who bought the books at Black Spring Books is automatically on the RSVP list; others must RSVP to attend. Kate Zambreno is the author of acclaimed books including Drifts, To Write As If Already Dead, and Heroines, and Eve Babitz (1943–2021) wrote fiction and nonfiction including Sex and Rage and L.A. Woman.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/books-in-orbit-with-kate-zambreno-51353/", "official_url": "https://www.blackspringbookstore.com/events/books-in-orbit-with-kate-zambreno", "image": ""}]}