{"id":30267,"date":"2024-12-07T23:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T21:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skb.tu-berlin.de\/?p=30267"},"modified":"2025-04-01T20:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:43:05","slug":"online-reading-love-the-world-or-get-killed-trying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skb.tu-berlin.de\/en\/online-reading-love-the-world-or-get-killed-trying\/","title":{"rendered":"Love the World or Get Killed Trying – online reading"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Swedish-US American author and SKB-member\/teacher Alvina Chamberland will be having an online reading from her English-language novel\u00a0Love the World or Get Killed Trying <\/em>and doing a Q&A about the writing process and themes of the novel.<\/p>\n

Time and date: 19th December, 19.00-20.30<\/p>\n

Place: ZOOM – meeting URL:\u00a0https:\/\/tu-berlin.zoom.us\/j\/6482888899?pwd=SWpPN2JndzlLaG80cU9aUEZpZ1dkUT09<\/a><\/p>\n

More about the novel and Alvina:<\/p>\n

Through playful poetic prose, sharp social commentary and self-deprecating gallows humor\u00a0Love the World or Get Killed Trying<\/em>\u00a0dives into the mind of\u00a0Alvina, a\u00a0trans woman\u00a0on the eve of turning\u00a030. The reader is invited to follow her journey through the breathtaking wilderness of Iceland and busy city boulevards of Berlin and Paris as she\u00a0probes questions of eternity, sexuality, longing,\u00a0death,\u00a0love, and how hard it\u00a0is\u00a0to remain soft when you\u2019re a ceaseless target of\u00a0straight\u00a0men\u2019s secret lust\u00a0and open disgust. This\u00a0novel tackles universal issues through a trans woman\u2019s specific lens \u2013 insisting\u00a0on\u00a0these experiences\u00a0speaking\u00a0to far more than just issues of sexuality and gender.<\/p>\n

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Reaching\u00a0its climax through an urgent wildfire scream-of-consciousness, cry-of-love-manifesto,\u00a0Love the World or Get Killed Trying<\/em>\u00a0is a raw and vulnerable work of\u00a0magical brutalist\u00a0autofiction;\u00a0abstract in the sense of poetically digging beneath the surface, and experimental in the sense of trying to find out new things and\u00a0express them in new ways, while concretely asserting\u00a0that if trans women one day collectively outed every man who seeks them out, a full-blown revolution would ensue by nightfall.<\/p>\n

More info in this interview in Vogue:\u00a0https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/alvina-chamberland-love-the-world-or-get-killed-trying-interview<\/a><\/p>\n

If you wish to buy the book in advance, it is available in many Berlin bookstores including Dussmann, Shakespeare and Sons, Ivallans Books, BuchBund, Ocelot, Autoren Buchhandlung, and She Said. It can also be ordered online via either the publisher or Amazon:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.hetmoet.com\/product-page\/love-the-world-or-get-killed-trying-alvina-chamberland<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Love-World-Get-Killed-Trying\/dp\/9083384136<\/a><\/p>\n

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Alvina Chamberland is a Swedish-US American author of predominantly literary autofiction novels, residing between Athens and Berlin.\u00a0Love the World or Get Killed Trying<\/em>\u00a0(2024) is her English language debut novel.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swedish-US American author and SKB-member\/teacher Alvina Chamberland will be having an online reading from her English-language novel\u00a0Love the World or Get Killed Trying and doing a Q&A about the writing process and themes of the novel. 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