Jill Johnston: Lesbian Icon

nest_clock_farsight_analog Saturday, October 17, 8:00 am - Saturday, October 17, 6:00 pm

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Announcing a Livestream of this event via Instagram if you are unable to attend, starting around 6:15 on the Diamond Hollow Books Instagram page. Celebrating the Work, Life and Afterlife of Jill Johnston With Clare Croft In Conversation with Jennifer Krasinski Saturday October 17, 2026, 6PM Location: Leo Koenig, Inc., adjacent to the bookshop (11 Delaware Avenue, Andes, NY) Jill Johnston (1929-2010) was a visionary writer as well as a radical lesbian feminist and champion of the avant-garde. She wore many hats for her trade, as a critic and chronicler of books, art, dance performance and society. Early on a columnsit for the newly formed Village Voice in New York, she authored ten books, among themMarmalade Me (1971), Lesbian Nation(1974), Mother Bound (1983), Jasper Johns: Privileged Information (1996) and England's Child: The Carillon and the Casting of Big Bells (2008), Jill''s influence on artists, writers and radical thinkers has continued to expand due to subsequent publications, including the ones we're celebrating at this event. We are thrilled to welcome Clare Croft, Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan. Clare is a writer, dancer, dramaturg, and scholar with a focus on dance, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of Jill Johnston in Motion: Dance, Writing, and Lesbian Life and the editor of The Essential Jill Johnston Reader (both Duke University Press. Croft's writing has been recognized by the 2025 LAMMY committee and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Jennifer Krasinski is a writer and cultural critic, and senior editor at Bidoun. Her writing has appeared in 4Columns, Artforum, Bookforum, The New York Review and elsewhere. She is co-author with David O'Neill of The Craft of Cultural Criticism: Writing About the Arts and Why It Matters (U. Chicago Press). She's also written about Jill in Jill Johnston: the Disintegration of a Critic (Sternberg Press). In addition to the reading and conversation, a large selection of books from the eclectic working library of Jill Johnston will be available for purchase (most at very low prices, and all bearing Jill's rubber stamp in blue ink which reads "Write First. Then Live". JJ). The two Duke books will also be for sale and Clare Croft will be signing copies. Admission is Free, but please buy a book (or three!) Refreshments will be available. For more information please contact miles@ diamondhollowbooks.com Diamond Hollow's Hours: Thursday-Sunday 11-5; other times by chance or appointment. 11 Delaware Avenue, Andes, NY.347-262-4187 / biz@diamondhollowbooks.com / We Buy Books.