Mari Coates: The Pelton Papers @ Fabulosa Books

Book reading at Fabulosa Books in the Castro

A richly imagined queer historical novel based on the life of artist Agnes Pelton, whose life tracks the early days of modernism in America. Undefeated by her history — family ruination, a shrouded Brooklyn childhood, and a passionate attachment to another woman — she follows her muse to create more than a hundred luminous and deeply spiritual abstract paintings.

​Mari Coates is an MFA alumna of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and lives in San Francisco with her wife and two kitties. She has been an arts writer, a theater critic, and a senior editor at UC Press.

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