Lori Carlson-Hijuelos — A Writing Marriage
Lori Carlson-Hijuelos reads from her memoir-novel hybrid about the creative partnership and love between two writers, at Politics and Prose at The Wharf.
Why we picked this
A rare book that tries to capture what it's like to share a life and a vocation — Carlson-Hijuelos writes from inside a literary marriage in a way that illuminates both intimacy and the creative process.
Lori Carlson-Hijuelos presents A Writing Marriage: With Excerpts from Blue Antiquity, a book that defies easy categorization — part memoir, part fiction, part meditation on what it means to love someone who is also your artistic peer. Drawing on her marriage to Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos, Carlson-Hijuelos blends her own narrative voice with excerpts from a novel she began writing after his death, creating a work that explores creativity, grief, and the strange intimacy of two writers sharing a life.
Carlson-Hijuelos is an anthologist and educator who has edited several acclaimed collections of Latino literature. This book marks a significant turn inward — an act of literary mourning that is also an act of making. The embedded fiction, Blue Antiquity, becomes a way of processing what prose alone cannot hold.
The event is free and open to the public at Politics and Prose at The Wharf, 610 Water St SW, Washington DC.