*This event will take place in-person at the Philosophical Research Society, located at 3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027.

Ticket price includes a copy of The Devil's Treasure and admission to the in-person event. Get your tickets here.

PLEASE NOTE: Proof of vaccination is required to attend this event. All attendees are required to wear masks while inside the auditorium.

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The Devil's Treasure (Ze Books)

“What is most amazing about Gaitskill is her ability to portray the heart of human longing and suffering, and to see in each gesture of our lives the disturbing and conflicting pool of drives that marks our every gesture.” – Sheila Heti, The Believer

“What is in the bag behind the Devil’s chair? Knowledge of some kind? Surely something a little girl did not know should be left alone."

In The Devil’s Treasure—aptly subtitled A Book of Stories and Dreams—the iconic author Mary Gaitskill has created a chimerical fiction; a hybrid novel that mines the origins of previous work to produce an entirely new story. This collage of five works (one a work in progress), interspersed with and thematically linked by a single short story, then woven together with the author's commentary, is a kind of metafictional director's cut revealing the personal and societal forces that went into each individual piece of work. The Devil’s Treasure is an ongoing, passionate exploration of core human emotions and experience, from the ideally high to the grossly, confusedly low. With the stylistic daring and preternatural acuity that has made her one of America’s most original writers, Gaitskill has created a layered vision of modern life, one in which prehistoric leviathans haunt the depths of our collective ocean at the same time that a family picnics on the beach, a podcast natters about politics and, perhaps, a curious child wanders dangerously close to the shore.
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