Karla Huebner's Blog, page 14
May 12, 2022
Two and a Half Weeks till Launch!
It's hard to believe, but it's now just two and a half weeks until In Search of the Magic Theater launches. On June 1st all the pre-orders will be shipped out and we'll be having a festive launch party at the Ghostlight cafe on Wayne in Dayton, Ohio. There'll be a blog tour courtesy of TLC Book Tours and lots of other fun stuff to come. 
Through the voices of two women with overlapping lives but diverging paths, Karla Huebner explores the tension between control and surrender, reason and ecstasy, dreaming and choosing. This engaging, erudite, yet accessible novel takes us on a cultural journey spanning millennia, from Greek mythology to Jimi Hendrix, from Elizabethan lyric poetry to performance art, revealing along the way the joy of self-discovery. –Julie Wittes Schlack, author of This All-at-Onceness
Set on You
Set on You, by Canadian author Amy Lea, is a 2022 Debut romcom launching May 10th. Fitness influencer Crystal Chen built her career shattering gym stereotypes and is feeling a little burnt out on men when she encounters firefighter Scott Ritchie and the two battle for gym domination. The last thing they expect is to run into each other at their grandparents’ engagement party... and later, to have to battle internet trolls!
May 10, 2022
Zoom Talk on Toyen is Today!
Don't forget, I'll be on Zoom again today, with a talk on the Czech surrealist artist Toyen sponsored by Společnost pro queer paměť (Prague Pride), Czech Fulbright, and CRAACE (Continuity/Rupture: Art and Architecture in Central Europe 1918-1939) More info on Facebook here.
Time shown on Facebook is the time in your own time zone, so for example it's at 6:30 p.m. in Central Europe and 12:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
Time shown on Facebook is the time in your own time zone, so for example it's at 6:30 p.m. in Central Europe and 12:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
Dr. Karla Huebner, author of Magnetic Woman:Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), will discuss this gender-ambiguous Czech surrealist artist, who was born Marie Čermínová (1902–80). Toyen’s early life in Prague made it possible to become a force in three avant-garde groups—Devětsil, Prague surrealism, and Paris surrealism—and also to emphasize erotic themes in many works of visual art. Dr. Huebner will focus on Toyen's construction of gender and eroticism in relation to the artist's historical context as a gender nonconforming person and probable sexual minority during the First Republic.
Karla Huebner will present her book in discussion with Anna Hájková. The event takes place in English; q&a will be held in both Czech and English.
Karla Huebner is a professor of Art History at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, whose research focuses on Czech modernism, feminism and gender, surrealism, and visual culture.
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Dr. Karla Huebner, autorka monografie "Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), promluví o genderově ambivalentní české surrealistické malířce Toyen, vlastním jménem, vlastním jménem Marii Čermínové (1902-1980). Tato umělkyně se v mládí stala významnou postavou avantgardní skupiny Devětsil a surrealistických kruhů v Praze i Paříži a v mnoha výtvarných dílech zdůrazňovala erotická témata. Dr. Huebner se zaměří na konstrukci genderu a erotiky v dílech Toyen ve vztahu k jejímu historickému kontextu coby genderově nonkonformní osoby a pravděpodobně příslušnice sexuální menšiny za první republiky. Dr. Karla Huebner svou knihu představí v debatě s Annou Hájkovou. Tato debata proběhne v angličtině, následná debata s publikem o jeho otázkách v angličtině i češtině.
Karla Huebner je profesorkou dějin umění na Wright State University v Daytonu (Ohio). Ve svém bádání se zaměřuje na modernitu, feminismus a gender v českém prostředí, jakož i n a surrealismus a vizuální kulturu.
Under Fortunate Stars
Ren Hutchings's 2022 Debut Under Fortunate Stars is a science fiction tale of space and time travel. Smuggler Jereth Keeven’s freighter breaks down in a strange rift in deep space, with little chance of rescue—until they encounter the research vessel Gallion, which claims to be from 152 years in the future. But is everything really as it seems to the crews of the two ships?
May 8, 2022
Zoom Talk on Toyen on Wednesday!
This Wednesday I'll be on Zoom again, with a talk on the Czech surrealist artist Toyen sponsored by Společnost pro queer paměť (Prague Pride), Czech Fulbright, and CRAACE (Continuity/Rupture: Art and Architecture in Central Europe 1918-1939) More info on Facebook here.
Time shown on Facebook is the time in your own time zone, so for example 6:30 p.m. in Central Europe and 12:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
Time shown on Facebook is the time in your own time zone, so for example 6:30 p.m. in Central Europe and 12:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
Dr. Karla Huebner, author of Magnetic Woman:Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), will discuss this gender-ambiguous Czech surrealist artist, who was born Marie Čermínová (1902–80). Toyen’s early life in Prague made it possible to become a force in three avant-garde groups—Devětsil, Prague surrealism, and Paris surrealism—and also to emphasize erotic themes in many works of visual art. Dr. Huebner will focus on Toyen's construction of gender and eroticism in relation to the artist's historical context as a gender nonconforming person and probable sexual minority during the First Republic.
Karla Huebner will present her book in discussion with Anna Hájková. The event takes place in English; q&a will be held in both Czech and English.
Karla Huebner is a professor of Art History at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, whose research focuses on Czech modernism, feminism and gender, surrealism, and visual culture.
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Dr. Karla Huebner, autorka monografie "Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), promluví o genderově ambivalentní české surrealistické malířce Toyen, vlastním jménem, vlastním jménem Marii Čermínové (1902-1980). Tato umělkyně se v mládí stala významnou postavou avantgardní skupiny Devětsil a surrealistických kruhů v Praze i Paříži a v mnoha výtvarných dílech zdůrazňovala erotická témata. Dr. Huebner se zaměří na konstrukci genderu a erotiky v dílech Toyen ve vztahu k jejímu historickému kontextu coby genderově nonkonformní osoby a pravděpodobně příslušnice sexuální menšiny za první republiky. Dr. Karla Huebner svou knihu představí v debatě s Annou Hájkovou. Tato debata proběhne v angličtině, následná debata s publikem o jeho otázkách v angličtině i češtině.
Karla Huebner je profesorkou dějin umění na Wright State University v Daytonu (Ohio). Ve svém bádání se zaměřuje na modernitu, feminismus a gender v českém prostředí, jakož i n a surrealismus a vizuální kulturu.
Our Thoth Table in Berkeley
Fellow writers Dirk van Nouhuys and Margaret C. Murray at the Thoth Writers Collective table at the Bay Area Book Festival in downtown Berkeley. Six writers, we meet via Zoom and have quite a few books to offer!
May 6, 2022
This Weekend in Berkeley!
If you're anywhere in California's Bay Area this weekend, you should head over to the Bay Area Book Festival, which takes place on Saturday, May 7th and Sunday, May 8th from 11AM to 5PM at Martin Luther King Civic Center Park in downtown Berkeley.
Once you're there, look for my writing group, the Thoth Writers Collective, booth #36, located near the Main Stage--you can examine and buy books (plus enter a raffle for the display copy of Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic!). Who are we? We're six writers currently living everywhere from Spain to California, who discuss via Zoom and e-mail. We take our name from Thoth, the ibis-headed Egyptian god who introduced writing. Members Margaret C. Murray and Dirk van Nouhuys will be staffing the booth.
Once you're there, look for my writing group, the Thoth Writers Collective, booth #36, located near the Main Stage--you can examine and buy books (plus enter a raffle for the display copy of Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic!). Who are we? We're six writers currently living everywhere from Spain to California, who discuss via Zoom and e-mail. We take our name from Thoth, the ibis-headed Egyptian god who introduced writing. Members Margaret C. Murray and Dirk van Nouhuys will be staffing the booth.
May 5, 2022
Tomorrow: Thoth at the Bay Area Book Festival
This weekend my online writing group, the Thoth Writers Collective, will have a table at the Bay Area Book Festival, so if you're in Berkeley, drop by and buy (or order) some of our books!
Mine will be on display and can be ordered; Jan Alexander, Peter de Lissevoy, Geoffrey Fox, and Margaret C. Murray will have copies available for sale. Dirk van Nouhuys will have display-only copies.
Our new banner is ready to take to the festival. I wish I could be there!
Mine will be on display and can be ordered; Jan Alexander, Peter de Lissevoy, Geoffrey Fox, and Margaret C. Murray will have copies available for sale. Dirk van Nouhuys will have display-only copies.
Our new banner is ready to take to the festival. I wish I could be there!
The Bangalore Detectives Club
The Bangalore Detectives Club, by Harini Nagendra, is a 2022 Debut mystery launching May 3rd. Set in 1920s Bangalore, it's the first in a cozy crime series that features clever detective Kaveri and her new husband Ramu. In helping a vulnerable woman linked to a murder, Kaveri finds that sleuthing isn’t as hard as it seems when you have a talent for mathematics, a head for logic, and a doctor for a husband . . . but that doesn't mean that sleuthing isn't also dangerous!
Being myself an art historian by day and a novelist at night, I'm intrigued that Harini Nagendra is a Professor of Sustainability in Bangalore whose previous books include Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities. Let's hear it for double-specialty authors!
Being myself an art historian by day and a novelist at night, I'm intrigued that Harini Nagendra is a Professor of Sustainability in Bangalore whose previous books include Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities. Let's hear it for double-specialty authors!
May 4, 2022
Our Little World
Karen Winn's 2022 Debut Our Little World launches May 3rd and is a coming-of-age story set in 1985, when Bee Kocsis, accustomed to a fairly calm middle-class life as a kid about to enter seventh grade, is caught up first in the horror and anxiety of a neighbor child's disappearance when they go to the local beach, and then in her more popular younger sister's sudden descent into illness.
I had the pleasure of reading an advance copy of Our Little World and can enthusiastically recommend its sensitive portrayal of family life and neighborhood trauma in a decade not so far past.
I had the pleasure of reading an advance copy of Our Little World and can enthusiastically recommend its sensitive portrayal of family life and neighborhood trauma in a decade not so far past.
