Christine Schutt is the author of three short story collections, "Nightwork,” "A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer,” and the forthcoming "Pure Hollywood” (Grove, March 2018). Her first novel, "Florida,” was a National Book Award finalist; her second novel, "All Souls,” a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. Her novel, "Prosperous Friends,” was noted in The New Yorker as one of the best books of 2012. Her stories have appeared in NOON, Granta, Harper's, Oxford American, Fence, and other publications. Leni Zumas is the author of the new novel "Red Clocks" (Little, Brown, January 2018); the story collection "Farewell Navigator" (Open City, 2008); and the novel "The Listeners" (Tin House, 2012), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Collagist, Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art, The Elephants, GOOD, jubilat, New Orleans Review, Open City, Quarterly West, Salt Hill, Tin House, Two Serious Ladies, and elsewhere.
Fiction Reading: Christine Schutt and Leni Zumas
