The Self and The World

How we see ourselves often mirrors how we see the world. In her new autofiction novel DONNAVILLE, Donna Minkowitz depicts her mind as a citystate beset with some of the same internal problems (lack of care, a terrible criminal justice system) that affect us today in the US. How can we transform our own internal structures in ways that reflect our actual politics of kindness and care?

Donna Minkowitz is the author of the memoirs FEROCIOUS ROMANCE, which won a Lambda Literary Award, and GROWING UP GOLEM, which was a finalist for a Lammy and for the Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award. Minkowitz is a former columnist for the Village Voice, and her writing has also appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Salon, Slate, and The Advocate. She is the recipient of a GLAAD Media Award, the Exceptional Merit Media Award, and the NLGJA Award for Outstanding Journalism. She writes a Substack called Rough Tongue, and her new novel DONNAVILLE was just published by Indolent Books.