Book Club: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Book Club
Sun
27
Sun 27 Jul 1:00 PM
Arc Cinema
Allocated Seating
106 Mins | Book Club at the NFSA
July
2018 | DCP | US | D: Marielle Heller
BOOK CLUB AT THE NFSA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CANBERRA WRITERS FESTIVAL
Once a successful biographer, Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) has fallen on hard times, until she discovers she can make money forging letters by literary greats like Dorothy Parker and Noël Coward. Helped by her friend Jack (Richard E Grant) she embarks on her criminal career.
Based on Lee Israel’s memoir, the film explores friendship, identity and loneliness.
“The miracle is Melissa McCarthy, whose tortured portrait of disgraced celebrity author and convicted forger Lee Israel is the consummate performance of her career and the crowning achievement of her life.” – The Observer
The screening will be followed by a discussion on literary frauds with publisher and literary critic Geordie Williamson in conversation with Kate Evans, co-host of ABC Radio National’s The Bookshelf.
ABOUT GEORDIE WILLIAMSON
Geordie Williamson is the publisher of the Picador imprint at Pan Macmillan. He has been chief literary critic of The Australian newspaper since 2008 and is author of the forthcoming 'writers on writers' monograph: 'On Alexis Wright', published by Black Inc. For some years he worked as an antiquarian bookseller in London.
ABOUT KATE EVANS
Kate Evans is the co-host (with Cassie McCullagh) of ABC Radio National’s weekly review program and podcast, The Bookshelf, and one of the hosts of the ABC’s 2025 Top 100 Books of the Twenty-first Century. She’s a frequent literary interviewer at writers festivals and has a PhD in history.
Please note: This discussion will be recorded and may be distributed or broadcast at a later date.
BOOK CLUB AT THE NFSA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CANBERRA WRITERS FESTIVAL
Once a successful biographer, Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) has fallen on hard times, until she discovers she can make money forging letters by literary greats like Dorothy Parker and Noël Coward. Helped by her friend Jack (Richard E Grant) she embarks on her criminal career.
Based on Lee Israel’s memoir, the film explores friendship, identity and loneliness.
“The miracle is Melissa McCarthy, whose tortured portrait of disgraced celebrity author and convicted forger Lee Israel is the consummate performance of her career and the crowning achievement of her life.” – The Observer
The screening will be followed by a discussion on literary frauds with publisher and literary critic Geordie Williamson in conversation with Kate Evans, co-host of ABC Radio National’s The Bookshelf.
ABOUT GEORDIE WILLIAMSON
Geordie Williamson is the publisher of the Picador imprint at Pan Macmillan. He has been chief literary critic of The Australian newspaper since 2008 and is author of the forthcoming 'writers on writers' monograph: 'On Alexis Wright', published by Black Inc. For some years he worked as an antiquarian bookseller in London.
ABOUT KATE EVANS
Kate Evans is the co-host (with Cassie McCullagh) of ABC Radio National’s weekly review program and podcast, The Bookshelf, and one of the hosts of the ABC’s 2025 Top 100 Books of the Twenty-first Century. She’s a frequent literary interviewer at writers festivals and has a PhD in history.
Please note: This discussion will be recorded and may be distributed or broadcast at a later date.
July