Tuesday, March 31, 2026 at 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
The Poetic Research Bureau hosts a reading and book launch for Constance Debré's *Offenses*, out this month on Semiotext(e) press. Curator and writer Fiona Alison Duncan will join Constance in a Q&A after the reading. Book info at: https://www.semiotexte.com/offenses ∆ Constance Debré left her career as a lawyer to become a writer. In addition to *Love Me Tender* (Semiotext(e), 2022), she has written three other novels: *Play Boy* (Prix de la Coupole 2018), *Un peu là, beaucoup ailleurs* (winner of the 2005 Prix Contrepoint), and *Manuel pratique de l'idéal Abécédaire de survie*. Fiona Alison Duncan is an author, curator, and the founding host of Hard to Read, a literary social practice. Her books include *Ex-Best Friends* (2025), *Pippa Garner: Act Like You Know Me* (2023), and *Exquisite Mariposa* (2019), winner of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. Duncan is a founding member of the Estate of Pippa Garner. This event is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. ∆ “I find Debré's exquisite achievement not to reside in the realm of advice or guides for living. It’s in that cold sliver of voice, conducting electricity at a high voltage, sending the occasional shower of sparks off the page.” —Christine Smallwood, Bookforum “If Debré's novels were monotonously cynical or grim they would be far less pleasurable to read. They are brutal, but they are also something more—and that is very, very funny.” —Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books