The Loft Literary Center
1011 South Washington Avenue
Target Performance Hall | Open Book, 2nd Floor
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
$15 Regular | $10 Member
Join us at the Loft Literary Center for this latest installment of their Big Ideas series, featuring Daniel Mallory Ortberg. Book sales provided by Milkweed Books. LEARN MORE.
Fairy Tales were meant to function as a moral compass. But on closer inspection, are they even moral? Archetypes and stereotypes abound, and the stories are often terrifying, traumatizing, and worse. Daniel Ortberg’s latest The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror leans into the darkness and asks: what happens when you give a classic tale a contemporary makeover? In this collection, Ortberg subverts tales like A Little Mermaid, Cinderella, and Beauty and the Beast, to ask more meaningful questions and re-calibrate the compass.
Big Ideas is a series from the Loft that puts literature at the center of dynamic conversations and brings together readers and writers to explore ideas relevant to our society today. Pay-what-you-can tickets are available 30 minutes prior to the event on a first-come, first-served basis (even for sold out events). No one turned away for lack of funds. To guarantee admission, you can purchase tickets ($15 general/$10 Loft members) in advance through the Loft’s website. Doors open 30 minutes before the event. Seating is general admission (not assigned).
DANIEL MALLORY ORTBERG is Slate’s “Dear Prudence.” He has written for the New Yorker, New York magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, and the Atlantic. He is the co-creator of The Toast, a general-interest website geared toward women. Daniel is the author of Texts from Jane Eyre and The Merry Spinster.