The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story: a Reading and Conversation from the Anthology with Nathan Englander, Ken Liu, and Julie Otsuka, hosted by anthology editor John Freeman
This event is free and open to the public, though registration is required. Registration link: https://nyu.zoom.us/.../tJ0rduqqqD0oGdwuxsS2Snolf2_GfICMx3Km
NATHAN ENGLANDER is the author of The Ministry of Special Cases, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Dinner at the Center of the Earth (Knopf) He also translated The New American Haggadah. His latest novel, kaddish.com, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in March 2019, and was longlisted for the Wingate Prize, 2020. Englander has been longlisted for the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize honoring a mid-career writer.
A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, KEN LIU (http://kenliu.name) is the author of the Dandelion Dynasty, a silkpunk epic fantasy series (starting with The Grace of Kings), as well as The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories.
JULIE OTSUKA is the author of When the Emperor Was Divine, winner of the 2003 American Library Association Alex Award, and The Buddha in the Attic, the winner of the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The Buddha in the Attic was an international bestseller and the winner of the prestigious Prix Femina étranger 2012, and the Albatros Literaturpreis 2013. Otsuka’s next novel, The Swimmers, is forthcoming from A.A. Knopf.
JOHN FREEMAN is the editor of Freeman's, a literary annual of new writing, and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing, as well as Tales of Two Americas, an anthology about income inequality in America, and Tales of Two Planets, an anthology of new writing about inequality and the climate crisis globally. He is also the author of two poetry collections, Maps and The Park. His work is translated into more than twenty languages, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. The former editor of Granta, he teaches writing at New York University.
