Join Missouri Humanities and the Lebanon-Laclede County Library on Tuesday, October 1 at 6pm for "21st Century Missouri Gothic: The Novels and Films of Gillian Flynn" with Associate Professor of English in the Department of Languages and Literature at Drury University, Katherine Gilbert.
During the presentation, Gilbert will discuss best-selling author Gillian Flynn and her roots--Flynn, a native of Kansas City, Missouri sets her gothic thrillers in rural Missouri and Kansas.
She will explain how Flynn takes the Gothic novel, a genre going back to the eighteenth century in Europe, and mixes it with the Southern gothic of nineteenth-century American writers like Edgar Allen Poe. Flynn then gives it her own 21st century Missouri twist--drawing on the landscape and history of Missouri and Kansas to frame families generational secrets and layering a rugged Missouri over a Gothic underbelly, surprising and thrilling readers and viewers with unexpected plot twists.
This event is FREE and recommended for adults and registration is not required.