The New York Times best-selling Bay Area author Jasmin Darznik returns to The Commonwealth Club to discuss her much-anticipated new novel, The Bohemians, a book that imagines the friendship between photographer Dorothea Lange and her Chinese American assistant in 1920s San Francisco. Darznick's new book captures a glittering and gritty 1920s San Francisco, with a cast of interesting characters, including cameos from such legendary historic figures as Frida Kahlo, Ansel Adams and D.H. Lawrence. The novel is a vivid and absorbing portrait of the past; it also connects with our complicated present, as anti-immigration sentiment, anti-Asian violence, corrupt politicians and a devastating pandemic bring tumult to San Francisco. The book is perfect for anyone who cares about San Francisco history, especially those captivated by Lange's photography. Darznik will be in discussion with Bay Area author Julia Flynn Siler. Jasmin Darznik's debut novel, Song of a Captive Bird, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice book and a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Darznik is also the author of The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her books have been published in 17 countries and her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, among others. NOTES Part of our Good Lit series, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation. APRIL 13, 2021 SPEAKERS Jasmin Darznik Novelist; Professor; Author, The Bohemians Julia Flynn Siler Journalist; Author, The White Devil's Daughters -www.commonwealthclub.org/covid19support -Subscribe for more Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/commonwealthclub -Upcoming events: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events -Become a Member: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/membership -Donate Now: https://support.commonwealthclub.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=298 -Watch & Listen https://www.commonwealthclub.org/watch-listen -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecommonwealthclub/ -Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cwclub/ -Twitter https://twitter.com/cwclub

Join contemporary poet Tess Taylor and author Jasmin Darznik as they discuss and read from their recent works inspired by the life and work of New Deal photographer Dorothea Lange. Moderated by art historian Dr. Sally Stein. About the Speakers: Jasmin Darznik is the New York Times bestselling author of The Bohemians, a novel that imagines the friendship between photographer Dorothea Lange and her Chinese American assistant in 1920s San Francisco. Her debut novel, Song of a Captive Bird, was a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” book and a Los Angeles Times bestseller. She is also the author of The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her books have been published in 17 countries and her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, among others. Tess Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Misremembered World, The Forage House, and Work & Days. In spring 2020 she published two books of poems: Last West, part of Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, at the Museum of Modern Art, and Rift Zone, from Red Hen Press, hailed as “brilliant” in the Los Angeles Times and named one of the best books of 2020 by the Boston Globe. Taylor has served as an on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s "All Things Considered" for over a decade. She is currently on faculty at Ashland University’s Low-Res MFA Creative Writing Program. Dr. Sally Stein, professor emerita, department of art history, UC Irvine, is an independent scholar based in Los Angeles who researches and writes about photography and its relation to broader questions of culture and society. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black-and-white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, and even actions as consumers and citizens. Her most recent publication is the monograph Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender: Reconsidering Dorothea Lange’s Iconic Portrait of Maternity (London: MACK, 2020). This program was presented at the Getty Center and Online on Saturday, April 23, 2022, https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3492.html. Subscribe to the Getty Museum YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/gettymuseum?sub_confirmation=1 #GettyMuseum #DorotheaLange #Literature

Jasmin Darznik, author of the New York Times bestselling book The Good Daughter, reads and discusses her new novel Song of a Captive Bird. This story is based on the life of Iran’s most iconic and controversial female poet Forough Farrokhzad. She was a revolutionary, Sylvia Plath-like figure who gave Iranian women permission to be bold, angry and rapturous. Check out more books by Jasmin Darznik in our online catalog: https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=jasmin+darznik&searchType=author