Donnaville book launch

Donnaville

Donna Minkowitz’s hell-bent, boundary-busting novel DONNAVILLE, in which different parts of the author attack each other, bed each other, and try to save each other from a terrifying jail inside.

Can they burn the prison down? Will anyone succeed at having sex with the Divine Mother?

A multi-gender, multi-sexuality, queer as f internal quest.

Donna Minkowitz

Donna Minkowitz is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of the memoirs Growing

Up Golem and Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me

about Sex, God, and Fury. Author Mary Gaitskill has celebrated her as "original,

energetic, witty, and meaty,” and Kirkus has praised the "defiant and playful energy" of

her work. She was the Village Voice’s longtime columnist on queer politics and culture,

and a columnist for The Advocate. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times

Book Review, The Nation, Slate, and Salon, and she has frequently gone undercover to

report on the far right. Minkowitz is the recipient of a GLAAD Media Award, an

Exceptional Merit Media Award, an Art Omi residency, and an award for outstanding

journalism from NLGJA: the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. According to director

Kimberly Peirce, the movie "Boys Don't Cry" was directly inspired by Minkowitz's 1994

Village Voice article about Brandon Teena. Minkowitz hosts the Lit Lit literary open mic

series in Beacon.

in conversation with

Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh

Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh is a self trained fine art photographer living and working in Beacon, NY. S/He also writes short stories and essays. He/r essays can be found online at essaysonattentionpaid.com. He/r short stories have twice been featured in Twice Told, a local series featuring writers paired with a visual artist whose work inspires the stories of the artists. S/He has also been the featured visual artist for Twice Told. Michael reads his work from time to time at Lit Lit, a literary open mic program hosted by Donna  Minkowitz.