Public Reading with Authors Natasha Stagg and Robert Dewhurst

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Natasha Stagg, cover, Surveys, 2016 | Robert Dewhurst. Photo: Dorothea Lasky

With great enthusiasm Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is honoured to host the inimitable writer, critic and publisher Chris Kraus as principal faculty for Session I of our 2017 Summer Institute research program (June 13-29).

For the inaugural public program, on Friday, June 16, Kraus has invited two Los Angeles-based writers Natasha Stagg and Robert Dewhurst to give readings of their recent writing.

For this presentation Stagg will orate a passage from her inaugural novel, Surveys. Published in 2016 by Semiotext(e), Surveys is a wry first-person account of twenty-three-year-old Colleen’s sudden rise to fame in the era of social media set in the context of urban Los Angeles.

Dewhurst will present a selection of his unpublished, and currently untitled critical biography of John Wieners (1934–2002), poète maudit of the Black Mountain and Beat generation.

Natasha Stagg was the editor for V Magazine and has most notably published Surveys a novel with Semiotext(e) in March of 2016. She has written for Texte Zur Kunst, Dis Magazine and Kaleidoscope. She received her MFA from the University of Arizona.

Robert Dewhurst is currently based in Los Angeles, having received his PhD from SUNY Buffalo in English. He is a poet and the publisher of the chapbook imprint Scary Topiary Press and was the publisher of Wild Orchids Journal.