A event on Wednesday 31st July. The event starts at 18:30.
Tender Buttons LIVE at Storysmith
Poet and writer Ralf Webb will be making a triumphant return to Storysmith to mark the release of his new non-fiction book, Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America.
After a sold-out live episode of the Tender Buttons podcast earlier this year with Marianne Brooker, we are delighted to welcome back Jack and Jess for another very special recorded conversation!
Tickets include a glass of wine. Pre-order your copy of Strange Relations (rrp £20) for a special discounted price with your ticket, then collect on the night!
Time & Place:
Wednesday 31st July 2024, 6:30pm
Storysmith, 236 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1JD
About Ralf Webb:
Ralf Webb is a poet, writer and editor based in Bristol. His debut collection of poems, Rotten Days in Late Summer was published by Penguin in 2021, and was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection. Webb’s poetry and critical writing has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Fantastic Man, and The Poetry Review. He currently manages a creative writing mentorship programme in collaboration with Folio and First Story, which supports school-age writers from low-income backgrounds.
About Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America
In October 1960, James Baldwin and John Cheever spoke on a panel together at San Francisco State College. The troubled state of American society was under discussion, which Baldwin incisively diagnosed as a ‘failure of the masculine sensibility’. Strange Relations explores this crisis in mid-century masculinity and the lives and works of four bisexual writers who fought to express and embody alternate possibilities.
Building on Walt Whitman’s philosophy of the love between men, Ralf Webb considers the ways in which Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers, as well as Cheever and Baldwin, resisted in their art, as well as in their relationships, the damaging expectations of contemporary gender and sexuality. With a curious, intelligent and sensitive gaze, Ralf Webb sheds new light on each writer. Together, these artists offer a powerful and moving argument for a transformative new masculinity, grounded in fluidity, love and intimacy.
About Tender Buttons
Tender Buttons is a Bristol-based podcast chatting to writers and artists about their ideas, process and politics, hosted by writers Jessica Andrews and Jack Young.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Poet and writer Ralf Webb will be making a triumphant return to Storysmith to mark the release of his new non-fiction book, Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America.
After a sold-out live episode of the Tender Buttons podcast earlier this year with Marianne Brooker, we are delighted to welcome back Jack and Jess for another very special recorded conversation!
Tickets include a glass of wine. Pre-order your copy of Strange Relations (rrp £20) for a special discounted price with your ticket, then collect on the night!
Time & Place:
Wednesday 31st July 2024, 6:30pm
Storysmith, 236 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1JD
About Ralf Webb:
Ralf Webb is a poet, writer and editor based in Bristol. His debut collection of poems, Rotten Days in Late Summer was published by Penguin in 2021, and was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection. Webb’s poetry and critical writing has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Fantastic Man, and The Poetry Review. He currently manages a creative writing mentorship programme in collaboration with Folio and First Story, which supports school-age writers from low-income backgrounds.
About Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America
In October 1960, James Baldwin and John Cheever spoke on a panel together at San Francisco State College. The troubled state of American society was under discussion, which Baldwin incisively diagnosed as a ‘failure of the masculine sensibility’. Strange Relations explores this crisis in mid-century masculinity and the lives and works of four bisexual writers who fought to express and embody alternate possibilities.
Building on Walt Whitman’s philosophy of the love between men, Ralf Webb considers the ways in which Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers, as well as Cheever and Baldwin, resisted in their art, as well as in their relationships, the damaging expectations of contemporary gender and sexuality. With a curious, intelligent and sensitive gaze, Ralf Webb sheds new light on each writer. Together, these artists offer a powerful and moving argument for a transformative new masculinity, grounded in fluidity, love and intimacy.
About Tender Buttons
Tender Buttons is a Bristol-based podcast chatting to writers and artists about their ideas, process and politics, hosted by writers Jessica Andrews and Jack Young.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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