Soft City: Book Talk with Karen Green

PrintLegendary Norwegian pop artist Hariton Pushwagner visits Scandinavia House for the release of his only graphic novel, Soft City. Completed in 1975, lost for decades, and never before published in the United States, Soft City is a scathing masterpiece in the tradition of Brazil and A Brave New World, but with an off-kilter beauty all its own. Soft City will be published in the United States for the first time in September 2016 by New York Review Books with an introduction by American cartoonist Chris Ware.

In the novel, Pushwagner gives us an epic, exuberantly intricate vision of a single day in a world gone wrong: a brightly smiling, disturbingly familiar dystopia of towering skyscrapers, omnipresent surveillance, and endless, distant war where every face looks like the next—“Welcome to Soft City. Now don’t be late for work.”

At this special event celebrating the publication of Soft City, clips from the 2011 documentary Pushwagner, written and directed by Even Benestad and August B. Hanssen, will be shown followed by a discussion of Pushwagner and his work by Columbia University’s Karen Green.

Following the talk, Pushwagner will personalize and sign copies of Soft City, published by New York Review Books.











When: Thu., Sep. 15, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Ave.
212-779-3587
Price: Free
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PrintLegendary Norwegian pop artist Hariton Pushwagner visits Scandinavia House for the release of his only graphic novel, Soft City. Completed in 1975, lost for decades, and never before published in the United States, Soft City is a scathing masterpiece in the tradition of Brazil and A Brave New World, but with an off-kilter beauty all its own. Soft City will be published in the United States for the first time in September 2016 by New York Review Books with an introduction by American cartoonist Chris Ware.

In the novel, Pushwagner gives us an epic, exuberantly intricate vision of a single day in a world gone wrong: a brightly smiling, disturbingly familiar dystopia of towering skyscrapers, omnipresent surveillance, and endless, distant war where every face looks like the next—“Welcome to Soft City. Now don’t be late for work.”

At this special event celebrating the publication of Soft City, clips from the 2011 documentary Pushwagner, written and directed by Even Benestad and August B. Hanssen, will be shown followed by a discussion of Pushwagner and his work by Columbia University’s Karen Green.

Following the talk, Pushwagner will personalize and sign copies of Soft City, published by New York Review Books.

Buy tickets/get more info now