Jul 6, 2024
Amitava Kumar is the author of several works of nonfiction and four novels. His new novel is My Beloved Life. Kumar’s novel Immigrant, Montana was on the best of the year lists at The New Yorker, The New York Times, and President Obama’s list of favorite books of 2018. His last novel A Time Outside This Time was described by the New Yorker magazine as “a shimmering assault on the Zeitgeist.” Kumar’s nonfiction books include The Blue Book: A Writer’s Journal; Every Day I Write the Book; A Matter of Rats; Lunch With a Bigot; A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm A Tiny Bomb; and Husband of a Fanatic. Kumar has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Lannan Foundation. He is currently a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library and he teaches at Vassar College. More at www.amitavakumar.com
Jul 6, 2024
Sigrid Nunez is the author of the nine works of fiction including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, The Friend, What Are You Going Through, and a new book, The Vulnerables. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. She has been the recipient of several awards, including the National Book Award for The Friend, the Rome Prize in Literature, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages. She lives in New York City.
Jul 6, 2024
Roxana Robinson is the award-winning author of six novels, including her new novel Leaving, and three short story collections. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic, Harper’s, and other publications. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacDowell Colony, and she was named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. Robinson has served on the Boards of PEN and the Authors Guild, and was the president of the Authors Guild. She lives in New York City and Connecticut, spends as much time as she can in Maine, and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College.
Jul 6, 2024
Sarah Stewart Taylor is the author of the Sweeney St. George series, set in New England, the Maggie D’arcy mysteries, set in Ireland and on Long Island, and Agony Hill, the first in a new series set in rural Vermont in the 1960s. Sarah has been nominated for an Agatha Award and for the Dashiell Hammett Prize and her mysteries have appeared on numerous Best of the Year lists. A former journalist and teacher, she writes and lives with her family on a farm in Vermont where they raise sheep and grow blueberries.
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Jul 6, 2024
Adelle Waldman is the author of the novels, Help Wanted, and The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., which was named one of that year’s best books by The New Yorker, The Economist, The New Republic, NPR, Slate, Bookforum, mes, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, among other publications. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and daughter.
