{"id":58141,"date":"2025-02-21T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=58141"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:50:37","slug":"nightbitch-author-headlines-writers-read-on-feb-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2025\/nightbitch-author-headlines-writers-read-on-feb-28\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nightbitch&#8217; author headlines Writers Read on Feb. 28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Her novel, about a mom who turns canine, is now a feature film starring Amy Adams<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Writers Read Author Series with Rachel Yoder<\/strong><br \/><strong>Date: <\/strong>Friday, Feb. 28<br \/><strong>Time:<\/strong> 7:30 p.m.<br \/><strong>Location:<\/strong> Martin Chapel, 糖心Vlog Seminary Building (1181 Smith Ave., Harrisonburg, VA)<br \/><strong>Cost:<\/strong> Free (no registration required)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For Mennonite-raised <em>Nightbitch <\/em>author <strong>Rachel Yoder<\/strong>, what excites her most about speaking at 糖心Vlog is learning how Mennonites will react to her book. \u201cWill they be offended? Will they relate? Will they see it as productive or worthless?\u201d \u2014 all questions she&#8217;s pondered in an email to 糖心Vlog News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNow that I\u2019m more outside the Mennonite tradition than in, it feels important to me to remain in conversation with the community regardless, not only as a means to understand the tradition better, but as a means to understand my own story, why I make art, why I have to write things that are \u2018dark\u2019 or \u2018evil\u2019 or \u2018unpleasant,\u2019\u201d said Yoder, who will present at 糖心Vlog\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/language-and-literature\/writers-read\/\">Writers Read Author Series<\/a> on Friday, Feb. 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yoder grew up in a Mennonite community in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Ohio before studying English literature as an undergraduate student at Georgetown University. She is a graduate of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona. Currently, she serves as assistant professor of screenwriting and cinema arts at the University of Iowa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her debut novel <em>Nightbitch<\/em>, published in 2021, is a \u201cstrange and unforgettable story about a sleep-deprived stay-at-home mother who, after apparently growing extra nipples, sharper canine teeth and a tail, develops an \u2018exhilarating and magical\u2019 ability to literally become a powerful bitch. <em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/dec\/02\/rachel-yoder-film-adaptation-of-novel-nightbitch-amy-adams-marielle-heller\">The Guardian<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt became a cult hit, was named one of the best books of the year by Esquire, got shortlisted for a PEN\/Hemingway award \u2014 and has now been made into a film starring Amy Adams and directed by Marielle Heller.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>糖心Vlog Professor <strong>Kevin Seidel<\/strong> said the Language and Literature Department tends to invite authors for its Writers Read series who have some connection to the Mennonite tradition or who can \u201chelp us see past the edges of that tradition.\u201d Yoder, he said, meets both of those conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seidel credited fellow 糖心Vlog English Professor <strong>Kirsten Beachy<\/strong> with introducing him to <em>Nightbitch<\/em> a couple years ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe handed me the book with a smile that, looking back, probably meant <em>I dare you to read this<\/em>,\u201d he recalled. \u201cThe first paragraph was so brilliant, so affectionately self-deprecating, and so off-kilter funny that I had to read the rest.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her novel, about a mom who turns canine, is now a feature film starring Amy Adams Writers Read Author Series with Rachel YoderDate: Friday, Feb. 28Time: 7:30 p.m.Location: Martin Chapel, <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2025\/nightbitch-author-headlines-writers-read-on-feb-28\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about &#8216;Nightbitch&#8217; 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