Lana Lin, Author at Public Seminar

Interviews

The Queer Tendency of The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam

An interview with author Lana Lin on reimagining Gertrude Stein’s modernist landmark

July 14, 2026 • by Lana Lin and Katie Pruden

Upon its publication in 1933, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas launched author Gertrude Stein into commercial success and placed her as a crucial figure of modernism. Under the guise of an "autobiography," Stein wrote about herself and the Paris salon scene through the voice of her lifelong partner, Alice ...

The Queer Tendency of The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam

Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer

May 1, 2018 • by Lana Lin

Public Seminar spoke to Lana Lin, author of Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects, about the genesis of the book, psychoanalysis, and art-making. Q&A with Lana Lin Public Seminar (PS): Why did you write Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer ? Lana Lin (LL): I had been training to become ...