Carmen Maria Machado on "I Who Have Never Known Men"

Writer Carmen Maria Machado discusses “I Who Have Never Known Men”, a 1995 novel by Jacqueline Harpman that was republished in 2022 to great acclaim.  It’s a work of speculative dystopian fiction about a group of women who are apparently the only survivors of a global catastrophe.  Machado wrote the introduction for the new edition, and on December 12, 2025, she came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to talk with KQED’s Alexis Madrigal about the book and its connections to her own work.