Almost Nothing, Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth -
Sat, Sep 06
|Head Hi
Book Launch & Conversation with author Nora Wendl, Paul Lisicky and Olga Touloumi
Time and Location
Sep 06, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Head Hi, 146 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA
About the event
Join Head Hi, author Nora Wendl, Paul Lisicky, and Olga Touloumi for the launch of Almost Nothing, Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth, a creative nonfiction biography of the Edith Farnstworth House and its central figures. The event will feature a conversation, book signing, and celebration.
More about the book:
The iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth’s role as Mies’s collaborator and antagonist while falsely portraying her as the architect’s angry ex-lover.
Nora Wendl’s audacious work of creative nonfiction explodes the sex-and-real-estate myth surrounding the Edith Farnsworth House and its two central figures. An eminent physician and woman of letters, Farnsworth left a rich trove of correspondence, memoirs, and photographs that Wendl uses to reconstruct her voice. Farnsworth’s memories and experiences alternate with Wendl’s thoughts on topics like misogyny and professional ambition to fashion a…
Gerard & Kelly, Modern Living, 2017. Performance view: Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, presented 
Nora Wendl, Glass House (Beth), 2015, C-print. 
Unidentified Woman (likely Jenny Geering), Edith Farnsworth House, c. 1954. Courtesy Newberry Librar 
Women at a picnic in coastal Maine: M.G.P. (Mary “Polly” Porter, Alicia Rosenbaum, Dorothy Blake, Ed 
Edith Farnsworth, Edith Farnsworth House, 1969. Courtesy Farnsworth family and Newberry Library.