Alice McDermott reading and discussion with Deborah Treisman – Eat, Drink & Be Literary at BAMcafé

Presented by the National Book Foundation and BAM

The National Book Award-winning writer McDermott delves into her latest novel, Someone, among others, with The New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.

Alice McDermott is the National Book Award-winning author of After This, Child of My Heart, Charming Billy, At Weddings and Wakes, and, most recently, Someone (which was shortlisted for this year’s National Book Awards for Fiction). Her short stories and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Ms., The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among others. McDermott is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. She teaches at the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and lives with her family outside Washington, DC.