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A Virtual Evening with Alexandra Auder & Sam Lipsyte
Books & Books presents…
A Virtual Evening with
ALEXANDRA AUDER
in conversation with
Sam Lipsyte
discussing
Don’t Call Me Home: A Memoir
(Viking, $28.00)
Wednesday, May 10th, 2023, 7 PM ET
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Books & Books is thrilled to present an evening with Alexandra Auder and Sam Lipsyte discussing Don’t Call Me Home: A Memoir (Viking, 28.00).
About the Book:
A moving and wickedly funny memoir about one woman’s life as the daughter of a Warhol superstar and the intimate bonds of mother-daughter relationships
Alexandra Auder’s life began at the Chelsea Hotel—New York City’s infamous bohemian hangout—when her mother, Viva, a longtime resident of the hotel and one of Andy Warhol’s superstars, went into labor in the lobby. These first moments of Alexandra’s life, documented by her filmmaker father, Michel Auder, portended the whirlwind childhood and teen years that she would go on to have.
At the center of it all is Viva: a glamorous, larger-than-life woman with mercurial moods, who brings Alexandra with her on the road from gig to gig, splitting time between a home in Connecticut and Alexandra’s father’s loft in 1980s Tribeca, then moving back again to the Chelsea Hotel and spending summers with Viva’s upper-middle-class, conservative, hyperpatriarchal family of origin.
In Don’t Call Me Home, Alexandra meditates on the seedy glory of being raised by two counterculture icons, from walking a pet goat around Chelsea and joining the Squat Theatre company to coparenting her younger sister, Gaby, with her mother and partying in East Village nightclubs. Flitting between this world and her present-day life as a yoga instructor, actress, mother, wife, and much-loved Instagram provocateur, Alexandra weaves a stunning, moving, and hilarious portrait of a family and what it means to move away from being your mother’s daughter into being a person of your own.
“Vibrant…. Auder’s vivid writing illuminates a deep and sparkling trove of storytelling riches…. Auder makes the most of her magnificent mess of material, celebrating her bohemian upbringing and her crazy mother in style.”
—Kirkus, starred review“Enthralling…Funny, bracing, and compulsively readable, Auder’s memoir resists juicy gossip in favor of hard-won truths. This story of fraught but unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters is a gem.”
—Publishers Weekly
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About the Author:
Alexandra Auder is a writer and actress. Born in New York City to mother Viva, a Warhol superstar, and father Michel Auder, an award-winning filmmaker who directed Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol. Alexandra has been a featured character in HBO’s High Maintenance and has acted in the films of Wim Wenders and Jodie Foster, among others.
She resides in Philadelphia with her two children and husband, filmmaker Nick Nehez, with whom she co-produces and collaborates.
About the Moderator:
Sam Lipsyte is the author of five novels and two short-story collections, including The Ask, Hark and No One Left to Come Looking for You. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, n+1, Noon, Open City, The Quarterly and Best American Short Stories, among other places. A Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the Believer Book Award, he lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.