Join us and essayist Kirsty Gunn for a panel discussion on essay writing, celebrating the US launch of her essay My Katherine Mansfield Project from Notting Hill Editions. Panelists include Daniel Mendelsohn and Philip Lopate, moderated by Michele Filgate.
In 2009, Kirsty Gunn returned to spend the winter in her hometown of Wellington, New Zealand, also the place where Katherine Mansfield grew up. In this exquisitely written “notebook,” which blends memoir, biography, and essay, Gunn records that winter-long experience and the unparalleled insight it allowed her into Mansfield’s fiction. Gunnexplores the idea of home and belonging—and of the profound influence of Mansfield’s work on her own creative journey. She asks whether it is even possible to “come home”—and who are we when we get there?