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Mar 2024
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101: Fernanda Eberstadt

The Architecture Foundation
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Fernanda Eberstadt is a New York born writer living in Europe. She has published five novels and two books of non-fiction, the latest of which is BITE YOUR FRIENDS: STORIES OF THE BODY MILITANT.


"Art lies in the cracks, the deep tremors, the dysfunctions, in the gap between our own broken capabilities and the unpoliced world we’re hoping to create" – FE


Scaffold is an Architecture Foundation production, hosted by Matthew Blunderfield. 




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