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A reading of Night Night Fawn, followed by a conversation with author Jordy Rosenberg and poet Megan Fernandes (author of I Do Everything I'm Told).
Wednesday, April 15th, 2026 | 4:10pm - 6:00pm | East Gallery, Buell Hall
From the author of Confessions of the Fox comes a novel in which a yenta on her deathbed gives an unrepentant account of all her failures. Barbara Rosenberg - terminally ill, high on opioids, and trapped in a rent-cluttered apartment in the middle of Manhattan - is being cared for by an estranged transgender son whose only condition is that Barbara issue a "Marxist apology" for her life. Thus, into the canon of novels of ideas, comes Night Night Fawn, a forced 'memoir of ideas' that rockets between Barbara's glory days as a jazzercizer, her failed aspirations to be a film noir actress, and her career as the receptionist for a disreputable plastic surgeon. Along the way, Barbara issues proclamations and unhinged theories about gender, Marx, Zionism, and a long-lost bestfriendship that haunts Barbara still. Part novel, part someone's mother's unauthorized memoir - all diatribe, gutter schtick, and deranged manifesto, Night Night Fawn is a ferociously satiric and no-holds barred deep dive into some of the characteristic sociopathies of our time.
Cosponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literature, the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, the Department of History, and the Radio in the Orchard at Columbia University.
