An Evening with Donna Minkowitz
Discussing Her New Book, Donnaville
DONNAVILLE is set in Donnaville, the author's mind reimagined as a psychofantastic hamlet in a mythological Hudson Valley. The city is outwardly verdant, pleasant, and attractive to visitors, but at its center lies a dark and malevolent prison that most residents prefer not to think about. Some of Donnaville's townsfolk run the prison, others are incarcerated there, and still others are trying to burn the whole place down and liberate Donnaville from the clutches of the morally ambiguous Magna Mater. It's a bit Wizard of Oz, a bit Mad Max, and a whole lotta fantastic fun!
Donna Minkowitz has been a columnist at the Village Voice, and has also written for the New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Slate, Salon, and New York magazine. Minkowitz is the recipient of a GLAAD Media Award, the Exceptional Merit Media Award, an NLGJA Award for Outstanding Journalism, and an Art Omi residency fellowship. She currently writes a Substack called Rough Tongue, described as “urgent, sexy, tender, left-wing essays.” Her first memoir, Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me about Sex, God, and Fury, won a Lambda Literary Award.
