2020-2021 阅读系列

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and 凯伦·罗素

周三| 10月. 7, 2020 | 7:30–8:45 p.m. | Online/Virtual Event via Zoom

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s debut short story collection, the 纽约时报 畅销书 黑色星期五, was the most acclaimed book of short fiction of 2018. Adjei-Brenyah’s work has been published in Esquire, Guernica, The Paris Review, 和其他地方. He is the winner of PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. 

凯伦·罗素 is one of the most acclaimed short story writers of her generation. 她的小说, 也让!, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A winner of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant, her most recent book is the story collection 橙色的世界.

西格丽德涅斯 and 卡米尔肮脏的

周三| 2月. 24, 2021 | 7:30-8:45 p.m. | Online/Virtual Event via Zoom

小说作家 西格丽德涅斯 is the author of eight novels and a memoir of her time with Susan Sontag, 自始至终苏珊. 她的小说 的朋友 was the winner of the 2018 National Book Award for fiction. 她的新书， What Are You Going Through这部电影将于今年秋天上映.

诗人 卡米尔肮脏的 is the author of four books of poetry. Her debut collection of essays, Guidebook to Relative Strangers, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. She is a professor in the English Department at Colorado State University. 

This event has been made possible with the support of the Jane Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of 诗人ry.

丽贝卡 Makkai and Jorie格雷厄姆

Wednesday | March 10, 2021 | 7:30-8:45 p.m. | Online/Virtual Event via Zoom

Short Story writer and novelist 丽贝卡 Makkai’s most recent novel, 伟大的信徒， was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. It won the ALA Carnegie Medal, and the 洛杉矶时报 书奖. The author of three other books of fiction, her stories have been honored by The Best American Short Stories and Selected Shorts series. 

Jorie格雷厄姆 is, according to the 诗人ry Foundation, “one of the most celebrated poets of the post-war generation.” She has been the winner of the Pulitzer and Forward 诗人ry prizes, and she is the first woman to serve as the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. 她的新系列， 失控的, is just out this fall.

This event has been made possible with the support of the Jane Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of 诗人ry.

娜塔莉·迪亚兹 and 克里斯汀·瓦尔迪兹·奎德

Wednesday | May 5, 2021 | 7:30-8:45 p.m. | Online/Virtual Event via Zoom

诗人 娜塔莉·迪亚兹 is the author of two books of poems, including the acclaimed debut When My Brother Was an Aztec. The winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Diaz teaches the Arizona State University M.F.A. 程序. Her second collection, Postcolonial Love Poem, is out now from Graywolf Press. 

小说作家 克里斯汀·瓦尔迪兹·奎德 is the author of the short story collection 节日之夜, winner of the John Leonard Prize for debut work of fiction and a 纽约时报 著名的书. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Princeton University. 她的第一部小说， 五伤, will be published in April 2021. 

This event has been made possible with the support of the Jane Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of 诗人ry.