In Conversation: Christine Hume, Laura Larson, and Sarah Minor.
Featured Book
Carousel: An Essay on Seeing
"Carousel opens as a professor begins delivering a slide lecture in a darkened room. Her students are visible on Zoom, internet in their pockets, screens on their wrists, seeing more than students ever could before. But what, in fact, do they see? In the spirit of John Berger's Ways of Seeing, Sarah Minor's Carousel considers how the pursuit of panoramic vision frames power, distorts reality, and implicates both viewer and subject. Across short, immersive sections blending history and memoir, close looking and confession, educator and writer Minor masterfully fuses the slide carousel with the lyric essay. As professor-narrator she invites us to see across time, guiding us from the Bayeux Tapestry to surrealist paintings and Instagram reels, from hot-air balloons to drone warfare and the surveillance state. In language that captures the disorientation of that other carousel, the whirling carnival ride, Minor shows how the more we strive to see, the more we ultimately reveal ourselves"--
This book will be available for purchase at the event.
Also Featured
All the Women I Know
Interlacing portraiture, collective biography, and cultural criticism, "All the Women I Know," a collaborative text-image book by writer Christine Hume and photographer Laura Larson, maps our on-going epidemic of gendered violence and erosion of bodily autonomy. The project embodies a chorus of grief, rage, and resistance by women in an alternative archive that draws on the litany as a form of complaint and lament. All the Women I Know celebrates the emancipatory potential of refusal as it takes account of our connections and differences across intersectional divides.
About This Event
Authors and artists Christine Hume, Laura Larson, and Sarah Minor will be in conversation. A Q and A and signing will follow the discussion.
Featured Authors
Minor, Sarah
Sarah Minor is the author of two previous books, Bright Archive and Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit, as well as the chapbook The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated. She teaches writing at the University of Iowa. Minor lives in Iowa City, IA.
Christine Hume
Christine Hume is a feminist writer of nonfiction and poetry with a strong interest in the intersections between social justice and art. Her essays have been published and reviewed in New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Hyperallergic, McSweeney’s, The Boston Review, Full Stop, Harper’s, Electric Literature, Disabilities Studies Quarterly, Conjunctions, Architecture and Culture, and many other venues. "All the Women I Know" (Counterpath, 2026), her sixth book, is a text image collaboration Laura Larson. Hume teaches in the Creative Writing and the College in Prison programs at Eastern Michigan University.
Laura Larson
Laura Larson is a photographer and writer based in Columbus, OH. She’s a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography and has exhibited work at such venues as Bronx Museum of the Arts, Centre Pompidou, Columbus Museum of Art, The Getty Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Wexner Center for the Arts and her exhibitions have been reviewed in Artforum, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. Her books include "Hidden Mother" (Saint Lucy Books, 2017), shortlisted for the Aperture-Paris Photo First Photo Book Prize, "City of Incurable Women" (Saint Lucy Books, 2022), and "All the Women I Know," a collaboration with Christine Hume (Counterpath, 2026).
About the Venue
57th Street Books
The South Side's neighborhood bookstore since 1983, 57th Street Books houses a substantial selection of general interest titles, including kids’ books, popular fiction, cookbooks, sci-fi, and mysteries.
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