A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women

Brookline Booksmith is proud to host Siri Hustvedt for a discussion of her latest book: A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind, which was long-listed for the PEN American 2017 awards.

From prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt comes a compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, gender, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. “The novelist’s smart essays on science and the arts bridge the gap between the disciplines, inviting us to look at the world anew.” – The Guardian.

Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, three collections of essays, a work of non-fiction, and six novels, including the international bestsellers What I Loved and The Summer Without Men. Her most recent novel The Blazing World was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won The Los Angeles Book Prize for fiction. In 2012 she was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weill Medical School in New York. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.