Julia Fox presents her new york times best selling memoir “Down the Drain” Book Launch and Conversation
$39.00
Julia Fox presents her New York Times Best Selling memoir “Down the Drain”
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Join Julia Fox Thursday, October 26, for the first New York event for her critically acclaimed memoir Down the Drain.
This new publication chronicles Fox’s shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams. Fox will bring her bold, honest, and riveting storytelling to the Metrograph with a conversation moderated by artist and model Richie Shazam and audience Q&A.
About Down the Drain
Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow, and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media, where she entertains and educates her millions of followers. But all these share the trait for which she is most famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself.
This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in Down the Drain. With writing that is both eloquent and accessible, Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: her parents’ volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs “The Artist”; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son. Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn’t just capture her improbable evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience—it’s all here, in raw, remarkable and riveting detail.
More than a year before the book’s publication, Fox’s description of it as “a masterpiece” in a red carpet interview went viral. As always, she was just being honest. Down the Drain is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.
“[Fox is] an iconoclast in a generation notably lacking them.”
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
“Fox makes a case for herself as one of her generation’s most authentic storytellers…The memoir is a practice in radical transparency. While other high-profile memoir writers might carefully construct their narratives in the service of maintaining a calculated public image, Fox takes an unflinching look back at both the exhilarating and painful moments of her life, one that she has chronicled as only she can.”
—Cady Lang, TIME
About Julia Fox
Julia Fox is a multidisciplinary artist. She’s had a fashion label, published art books, and held numerous exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles. She inspired the character in her break out role in the Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems and has acted in numerous films since. She’s a fashion darling and muse and continues to inspire designers with her bold looks. She’s a strong advocate for sustainability and a do-it-yourself attitude. She cohosts a podcast called Forbidden Fruits. She is a single mom and currently lives in New York City with her son Valentino.
Tickets to this special event are $39 and include a copy of Down the Drain. This event is general admission seating, please provide your receipt at the box office for admission. Limit two tickets per member.
Julia Fox presents her new memoir “Down the Drain”
Book Launch and Conversation Moderated by artist and model Richie Shazam
Thursday, October 26, 2023
8:30 – 9:30pm
