Join us for the launch of The Ginny Suite (Montez Press, 2024) by Stacy Skolnik, a novel which asks how much—and who—we’re willing to sacrifice in the name of progress. The evening features a reading of The Ginny Suite by Stacy Skolnik alongside readings by Christiane Blattman, Annee Grøtte Viken and Tessel Veneboer.

Schedule
19:30-21:00 Readings

About The Ginny Suite
A mysterious global syndrome is affecting women, causing symptoms of submissiveness and aphasia. While the number of sufferers grows, so does our protagonist’s paranoia—of the media, her doctors, and her husband. In the age of misinformation, AI, and surveillance technology, The Ginny Suite asks how much—and who—we’re willing to sacrifice in the name of progress.

"The Ginny Suite is formally innovative, a great read. Stacy Skolnik recasts the subject of the internet into telling particulars in her affecting choreography of memes/screens/women/men."
— Constance DeJong, author of Modern Love

Find the book here: https://rile.space/books/the-ginny-suite

About Stacy Skolnik
Stacy Skolnik is the author of the novel The Ginny Suite (2024) and the poetry collection mrsblueeyes123.com (2019). In her writing, humiliation, self-disgust, domination, attraction, vulnerability, and desire array themselves into commentary on the ballooning economy of attention and representation and the construction of personae. She is a co-founder and co-director of Montez Press Radio, the Lower East Side-based broadcast and performance platform.

About the contributors
Tessel Veneboer is a PhD candidate at Ghent University writing a dissertation on Kathy Acker, sexual politics, and literary form. As part of the Sex Negativity research group she organizes the We Have Never Had Sex seminar series at the University of Amsterdam. Her critical work has been published in the Dutch Review of Books, De Witte Raaf, Boundary 2 Journal, and the Journal of Lesbian Studies. 

Christiane Blattmann is an artist who lives in Brussels. She is also a founding member of Montez Press. 

Annee Grøtte Viken is a writer, artist, artisan and restoration architect that lives and works in Brussels and her hometown in Norway. She teaches creative writing at ArtEZ in The Netherlands and works with fiction as a tool for approaching, understanding and making space across fields with special attention to architecture, future heritage, ecology and craftsmanship in order to question what it means to belong, dwell and connect in an over-saturated world.