Magic City Books - Mary Jo Bang and Francine Prose Virtual Event

Magic City Books was proud to welcome two Modern Masters for an exclusive virtual event on Monday August 30, 2021. Mary Jo Bang, poet and translator of Purgatorio by Dante and Francine Prose, author of the new novel The Vixen were in conversation about allegory and morality.

THE VIXEN is a dazzling novel set in the glamorous world of 1950s New York publishing, the story of a young man tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg–an assignment that will reveal the true cost of entering that seductive, dangerous new world.

Francine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction including, the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.

PURGATORIO is the extraordinary continuation of Mary Jo Bang's journey with Dante, which began with her transformative version of Inferno. In Purgatorio, still guided by the Roman poet Virgil, Dante emerges from the horrors of Hell to begin the climb up Mount Purgatory, a seven-terrace mountain with each level devoted to those atoning for one of the seven deadly sins.

Mary Jo Bang has published eight poetry collections, including A Doll for Throwing and Elegy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a new translation of Dante’s Inferno. She teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis.

Both THE VIXEN by Francine Prose and PURGATORIO by Mary Jo Bang are available at Magic City Books and through our partnership with bookshop.org.

The Vixen: https://bookshop.org/a/1616/978006301...

Purgatorio: https://bookshop.org/a/1616/978164445...