Join Adele Bertei on Tour for TWIST: AN AMERICAN GIRL

 
 

Join Adele Bertei on her author tour this Spring for her searing and brilliantly original memoir, Twist: An American Girl

“One of the most original, amazing stories I've ever read” (Mary Gaitskill), iconic rock musician Adele Bertei’s memoir Twist is her harrowing and electric story of transforming trauma through art, pluck, and imagination, as told through the inimitable voice of her young alter ego, Maddie Twist.

ADELE BERTEI began playing music in Cleveland with Pere Ubu’s legendary Peter Laughner, and as an original member of the Contortions, produced by Brian Eno on No New York. She was the pioneering creator of  The Bloods—the first out, queer, all-women-rock band. Her singing and songwriting career includes recording, performing live, and writing for such diverse acts as Thomas Dolby, Tears for Fears, Culture Club, Whitney Houston, Scritti Politti, Sheena Easton, Jellybean Benitez, Lydia Lunch, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, the Pointer Sisters, and John Lurie. Bertei played a lead role in Lizzie Borden’s seminal feminist sci-fi film Born in Flames. She is the author of two previous books: Peter and the Wolves (a memoir) and Why Labelle Matters, a finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards. Twist: An American Girl is her origin story.

Events

Skylight Books with Filmmaker Lizzie Borden

1818 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Mar 14, 7 PM PST

Los Angeles, CA


Book Passage with Poet and Vocalist Nazelah Jamison

One Ferry Building 42, San Francisco, CA 94111

Mar 19, 2 PM PST

San Francisco, CA


Brazos Bookstore with ZE Books founder Michael Zilkha

2421 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX 77005

Mar 20, 6:30 PM CST

Houston, TX


Mar 23, 7 PM EST

New York, NY


Heights Arts with WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz 

2175 Lee Road, Cleveland, OH 44118

Mar 27, 7:30 PM EST

Cleveland, OH

 

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Twist: Tales of a Queer Girlhood - Adele Bertei
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