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Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists (The Magazine of New Writing)
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An Afternoon with Granta Magazine: Best of Young American Novelists
featuring
MARK DOTEN
RACHEL B. GLASER
GREG JACKSON and
SANA KRASIKOV
This event includes a book signing
DateMay
20
Saturday
May 20, 2017 2:30 PM ET (Doors at 2:00) |
LocationCambridge Public Library
449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Tickets
This event is free; no tickets are required.
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Harvard Book Store welcomes a panel of Granta magazine's newly honored fiction writers for readings from the latest issue—the third list of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists.
Update: This event has been moved to 2:30pm.
Update: Announcing Our Presenters
Join us for readings by MARK DOTEN, RACHEL B. GLASER, GREG JACKSON and SANA KRASIKOV.
MARK DOTEN is a Minnesota-born writer currently living in Brooklyn. His debut novel, The Infernal, was published by Graywolf Press in 2015. He is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Columbia University, where he completed an MFA. He is the literary fiction editor at Soho Press and teaches in Columbia’s graduate writing program.
RACHEL B. GLASER published her first novel, Paulina & Fran, in 2015. She is the author of the story collection Pee on Water and the poetry collections MOODS and HAIRDO. She studied painting and animation at the Rhode Island School of Design and poetry and fiction at UMass Amherst. In 2013, she received the McSweeney’s Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award. She tweets as @candle_face.
GREG JACKSON has been a Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center and the MacDowell Colony, as well as a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia. He is the recipient of a 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation for his story collection Prodigals. Jackson grew up in Maine and now lives in Brooklyn.
SANA KRASIKOV is the author of The Patriots (Jan 2017), and One More Year, which was named a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, The New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, received a National Book Foundation's 5 under 35 Award, and the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker and The Atlantic and other magazines.
About Granta 139
Every ten years Granta magazine publishes a special issue of new fiction from the most exciting American writers under the age of forty.
In 1997 and 2007 Granta picked out such luminaries as Daniel Alarcón, Edwidge Danticat, Anthony Doerr, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, Nell Freudenberger, Nicole Krauss, Lorrie Moore, Yiyun Li, Karen Russell, Akhil Sharma and Gary Shteyngart.
This issue presents a distillation of another generation's preoccupations. It is an anthology of twenty fascinating writers you will be hearing more from, chosen by panel of judges who are all acclaimed writers themselves: Paul Beatty, Patrick DeWitt, A.M. Homes, Kelly Link, Ben Marcus, and Sigrid Rausing.
Books by Our Speakers
The featured book for this event is Granta 139, which will be for sale at the event for 20% off. The following titles by our presenters will also be available for purchase:
- The Infernal: A Novel, by Mark Doten
- Paulina & Fran: A Novel, by Rachel B. Glaser
- Prodigals: Stories, by Greg Jackson
- The Patriots, by Sana Krasikov
- One More Year: Stories, by Sana Krasikov
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