Soft Core with Brittany Newell and Maria Silk
Sunday, July 13, 2025 | 3-4pm
Slash (1150 25th St, Building B, San Francisco, CA)
Free event, no RSVP required
Slash and the San Francisco Art Book Fair present a conversation between San Francisco writer and performer Brittany Newell and artist Maria Silk. Newell and Silk, who are longtime collaborators, will discuss Newell’s most recent novel Soft Core (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2025). Soft Core is a love story centered on Ruth, a stripper who lives in San Francisco with her ex-boyfriend Dino until she comes home from the club one day and finds that he has disappeared. The book tracks Ruth’s everyday life and emotional landscape as she looks for Dino and becomes increasingly unmoored from reality.
Following a reading from the novel, Newell and Silk will draw on their own shared experience as performers in the City’s drag scene to connect the book to larger topics related to performance, nightlife, and San Francisco. The conversation will be followed by a book signing.
*For inquiries about accessibility or to request an accommodation, please email ana@slashart.org.