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7:00 p.m.
John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
Moderated by Max Rudin, publisher, The Library of America
Blake Bailey is the author of A
Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
and Cheever: A Life, and the editor of The
Library of America’s two-volume edition, John
Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings and
John Cheever: Complete Novels.
Photo: Donna Turner Ruhlman
Susan Cheever is the author of numerous
works of fiction and nonfiction, including American
Bloomsbury, My Name is Bill, Note Found in a Bottle,
As Good as I Could Be, Home Before Dark, and Treetops.
Her work has been nominated for the National Book Critics
Circle Award and won the Boston Globe Winship
Medal. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a director of the
Corporation of Yaddo, and a member of the Author’s
Guild. Ms. Cheever teaches at the Bennington Writing
Seminars and at The New School. She lives in New York
City.
Photo: Sigrid Estrada
James Gibbons is Associate Editor
at The Library of America. His essays and reviews have
appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Raritan, Chicago
Review, and other publications, and he writes regularly
for Bookforum.
Photo: Bryan Karl Lathrop
Brad Gooch is the author of the recently
published Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor,
the acclaimed biography of Frank O’Hara, City
Poet, and of Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual
America, among other books. The recipient of National
Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships,
he earned his PhD at Columbia University and is a professor
of English at William Paterson University in New Jersey.
Photo: Tom Ackerman
7:00 p.m.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Moderated by Harold Augenbraum, executive director,
National Book Foundation
Victor LaValle is the author of slapboxing
with jesus, a collection of stories, and two novels,
The Ecstatic and Big Machine. Among
his honors are a Whiting Writers’ Award, a United
States Artists Ford Fellowship, and the Key to Southeast
Queens.
Photo: Kate Blofson
Asali Solomon’s work has appeared
in O; Vibe; Essence; the anthology Naked:
Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips,
and Other Parts; and most recently, Heavy Rotation:
Twenty Writers on the Albums that Changed Their Lives.
She received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’
Award and was selected as one of the National Book Foundation’s
“5 Under 35” in 2007 for the stories in
her first book, Get Down. She holds a PhD in
English from the University of California at Berkeley
and an MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa, and
is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English
at Bryn Mawr College. She is currently at work on a
novel.
Photo: Patrick Hinely WorkPlay
Michael Thomas received his BA from
Hunter College and his MFA from Warren Wilson College.
Man Gone Down, his first novel, won the International
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was one of The New
York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of the
Year. He teaches at Hunter College and lives in
Brooklyn.
Photo: Ben Russell
7:00 p.m.
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
Moderated by Gerald Howard
Emily Barton is the author of two
novels, The Testament of Yves Gundron and Brookland.
The first received a blurb from Thomas Pynchon; both
were named New York Times Notable Books of the Year.
Her fiction, criticism, and essays have appeared in
numerous publications, including the Los Angeles
Times Book Review, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum,
the New York Observer, Conjunctions, Tablet magazine,
and Poetry. She received the Bard Fiction Prize
in 2002, and in 2006 received a grant from the Guggenheim
Foundation and a Literature Fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Arts. She currently serves as Distinguished
Visiting Writer at Bard College and as Lecturer in English
at Yale University. Ms. Barton lives in the Hudson River
Valley with her husband and son.
Photo: Greg Martin
Gerald Howard is a veteran book editor
in New York. His article on the publication history
of Gravity’s Rainbow and its subsequent
literary influence appeared in the summer 2005 issue
of Bookforum.
Photo: Susanne K. Williams
Robert Stone is the acclaimed author
of seven novels, including A Hall of Mirrors
(winner of the National Book Award), A Flag for
Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, Damascus
Gate, and Bay of Souls. His short-story
collection, Bear and His Daughter, was a finalist
for the Pulitzer Prize. The recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship, Stone lives with his wife in New York City.
Photo: Gigi Kaeser
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