Speaking Desire: Saskia Vogel and Kate Feld

Join writers Saskia Vogel and Kate Feld for an intimate conversation exploring sex, the self and the turbulent social debate around women and desire. In Saskia Vogel’s debut novel, Permission, a group of lost souls inhabiting the fractured and shifting landscape of Southern California find, in the erotic, a kind of sacred space. (Lit Hub: ‘If Joan Didion had written about the BDSM community in LA, it may have felt a bit like Permission’.) The talk will then open up to a symposium about the plurality of love, alternative lifestyles and owning desire in a society that sees it as subversion.

Higher ticket price includes an artisan cocktail designed especially for this evening by NQ private members bar, The Daisy. Tickets strictly limited as this is a small capacity event.

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Saskia Vogel is from Los Angeles and lives in Berlin, where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. She has written on power and sexuality for publications such as Paris Review Daily, The White Review, Sight and Sound, and The Offing. Previously, she worked as Granta magazine's publicist and as an editor at the AVN Media Network, where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products.

Permission, Dialogue Books - publication date 7 March 2019.

Kate Feld writes short fiction, essays, poetry and work that sits between forms. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including The Letters Page, The Stinging Fly, The Lonely Crowd and Hotel. She is a Lecturer in Journalism at The University of Salford, the founding director of creative nonfiction project The Real Story and co-hosts literary podcast The End of All Things.