Book Launch: Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard, edited by professor Daniel Kane
- Date: 14 February 2025, 18:00–20:00
- Location: English Bookshop, Södermannagatan 22, Stockholm
- Type: Cultural event
- Lecturer: Daniel Kane
- Organiser: The English Bookshop
- Contact person: Veronica Granlund
Join us at the English Bookshop in Stockholm for an evening celebrating the publication of Love, Joe – The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard, edited by Daniel Kane (professor of American literature, Uppsala University).
Joe Brainard was one of the most distinctive figures on New York City’s vibrant cultural scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Widely known for his influential experimental memoir, I Remember, Brainard worked in a variety of forms, from New-York-School-aligned poetry to Pop-Art-adjacent artworks, including wild riffs on the comic strip character Nancy.
Love, Joe presents a selection of Brainard’s letters that stretch from 1959 to 1993 addressed to artists and friends such as John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Fairfield Porter, Bernadette Mayer, James Schuyler, Alex Katz, and Andy Warhol.
The letters allow readers to witness an extraordinarily fertile moment in New York’s history, when literary and visual arts intersected with happenings, proto-punk and psychedelic rock concerts, and experimental music and dance performances.
Daniel Kane will discuss the process of editing the book and the joys he experienced working on it, followed by a conversation with poet Mirjam Frosth and a general Q&A.