Carmen Maria Machado
I Who Have Never Known Men was first published in Belgium thirty years ago. Since being brought back into print by Bay Area publisher Transit Books in 2022, it has sparked the attention of hundreds of thousands of new readers. Award-winning author Carmen Maria Machado writes in the introduction for the new collector’s edition that it was a book that “enticed and then inflamed her” when she first came across a used copy in the nineties at a rummage sale. What she discovered—and carried with her for years—is a timeless novel of female friendship and intimacy, and the lengths people will go to maintain their humanity in the face of devastation. Join us for a conversation with Carmen Maria Machado and KQED’s Alexis Madrigal about the enduring power of this speculative feminist classic and why it has found a new moment with a new generation of readers.
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