Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
 _**This is an offsite event held at 2220 Arts & Archives. [For tickets, click here!](https://dice.fm/event/l8nb9r-book-launch-chris-kraus-with-carolina-a-miranda-7th-oct-2220-arts-archives-los-angeles-tickets)**_ **The Poetic Research Bureau and Skylight Books presents the book launch of a new novel by Chris Kraus, _The Four Spent the Day Together,_ just out from Simon & Schuster. Following the reading Chris will be joined in conversation with Los Angeles writer Carolina A. Miranda.** On the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him. In a cold, depressed town, on the fringes of the so-called “meth community,” the three young people were quickly arrested and imprisoned. At the time of the murder, Catt Greene and her husband, Paul Garcia, are living nearby in a house they’d bought years earlier as a summer escape from Los Angeles. Locked into a period of personal turmoil, moving between LA and Minnesota—between the art world and the urban poverty of Paul’s addiction therapist jobs, the rural poverty of the icy, depressed Iron Range—Catt turns away from her own life and towards the murder case, which soon becomes an obsession. In her attempt to pierce through the brutality and despair surrounding the murder and to understand the teenagers’ lives, Catt is led back to the idiosyncratic, aspirational lives of her parents in the working-class Bronx and small-town, blue-collar Milford, Connecticut. Written in three linked parts, _The Four Spent the Day Together_ explores the tensions of unclaimed futures and unchosen circumstances in the age of social media, paralyzing interconnectedness, and the ever-widening gulf between the rich and poor. **Chris Kraus** is a writer and critic. She studied acting and spent almost two decades making performances and experimental films in New York before moving to Los Angeles where she began writing. Her novels include _Aliens & Anorexia_, _I Love Dick_, _Torpor_, and _Summer of Hate_. She has published three books of cultural criticism—_Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness_, _Where Art Belongs_, and _Social Practices_. _I Love Dick_ was adapted for television and her literary biography _After Kathy Acker_ was published by Semiotext(e) and Penguin Press. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Kraus held the Mary Routt Chair of Writing at Scripps College in 2019 and was Writer-in-Residence at ArtCenter College between 2020–2024. She has written for various magazines and has been a coeditor of the independent press Semiotext(e) since 1990. Her work has been praised for its damning intelligence, vulnerability, and dazzling speed and has been translated into seventeen languages. She lives in Los Angeles. **Carolina A. Miranda** is an independent culture writer based in Los Angeles covering visual culture, design, performance, books and digital life. Until 2024, she was a columnist at the Los Angeles Times, where she reported on a range of topics related to art and design. Her stories have appeared in the Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Alta Journal, Artnews, the New York Review of Architecture and Fresh Air. She was the recipient of the 2017 Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism and a 2024 Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.