Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton are all writing artists doing brilliant work to subvert traditional paradigms of the everyday, so it comes as no surprise that a survey passed among their friends would become a massive cultural conversation including more than 600 people and spanning over 500 pages. The project is Women in Clothes, which assembles interviews, photos, illustrations, and meditations on the relationships women of all ages and backgrounds have with clothes, dressing, shopping, and style. Featuring the famous as well as the anonymous, single, married, secular, religious, rich and working classes, the book’s simple focus opens discussion of something we all have in common. To celebrate, the three authors/editors are hosting a launch that includes a clothing swap before and after the book presentation; each guest is invited to bring up to five items, and all remaining clothes will be donated to a women’s shelter. Heti is in town from Toronto, Julavits and Shapton from New York.
— Evan Karp
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