Chicago’s historic Fine Arts Building and Exile in Bookville are thrilled to co-present an evening in conversation with critically acclaimed Grammy-nominated musician and author Neko Case about her new memoir The Harder I Fight the More I Love You on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, at 7 p.m. at the Studebaker Theater (410 S. Michigan Avenue). For more information and to purchase tickets, which include a pre-signed copy of the book, visit fineartsbuilding.com/events/neko-case.
Neko Case has long been revered as one of music’s most influential artists, whose authenticity, lyrical storytelling, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics, musicians, and lifelong fans. In The Harder I Fight the More I Love You, Case brings her trademark candor and precision to a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisible girl “raised by two dogs and a space heater” in rural Washington state to her improbable emergence as an internationally-acclaimed talent. The Harder I Fight the More I Love You is a rebellious meditation on identity and corruption, and a manifesto on how to make space for ourselves in this world, despite the obstacles we face.
Tickets for an evening in conversation with Neko Case at the Studebaker Theater (410 S. Michigan Avenue) on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, at 7 p.m. are $50 and include a pre-signed copy of The Harder I Fight the More I Love You. For more information and to purchase event tickets, visit fineartsbuilding.com/events/neko-case.
About the Author
Singer, songwriter, music producer, visual artist, and writer Neko Case has built a career with her distinctive style and musical versatility. In addition to her numerous critically-acclaimed and Grammy-nominated solo records, Case is a founding member of The New Pornographers. She authors the newsletter ‘Entering The Lung’ and is composing the musical theater adaptation of an Academy Award-winning motion picture.
About the Book
THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU
A MEMOIR by NEKO CASE
On Sale: January 28, 2025 • Hardcover • Grand Central Publishing • 288 pages
ISBN: 9781538710500 • $30 US / $39 CAN • Nonfiction / Memoir
Neko Case has long been revered as one of music’s most influential artists, whose authenticity, lyrical storytelling, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics, musicians, and lifelong fans. In The Harder I Fight the More I Love You, Case brings her trademark candor and precision to a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisible girl “raised by two dogs and a space heater” in rural Washington state to her improbable emergence as an internationally-acclaimed talent.
In luminous, sharp-edged prose, Case shows readers what it’s like to be left alone for hours and hours as a child, to take refuge in the woods around her home, and to channel the monotony and loneliness and joy that comes from music, camaraderie, and shared experience into art.
The Harder I Fight the More I Love You is a rebellious meditation on identity and corruption, and a manifesto on how to make space for ourselves in this world, despite the obstacles we face.
About the Fine Arts Building
The Fine Arts Building, which celebrated its 125th anniversary last year, is a home for art in all forms: from pioneers like Poetry magazine’s founding publisher Harriet Monroe, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, sculptor Lorado Taft and the Chicago Little Theatre, to the ongoing legacies of painters, musicians, booksellers, puppeteers, dancers, photographers and craftspeople who inhabit the building today, the Fine Arts Building is buzzing with more than a century of Chicago creativity and innovation. A Chicago Landmark since 1978, the building features original manually-operated elevators, Art Nouveau murals from the late 19th century and the recently renovated Studebaker Theater, one of the city’s oldest and most significant live theatrical venues. Second Fridays open studios events are free to attend from 5-9 p.m. on the second Friday of each month, and include gallery openings, special performances and artistic demonstrations. For more information, visit fineartsbuilding.com.