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
McNally Jackson Seaport with Photographer Nan Goldin
4 Fulton St, New York, NY 10038
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