This event featured readings by Joshua Ferris and Brandon Taylor and a conversation with both authors moderated by Darin Strauss.
The Zoom recording of this event is viewable (with closed captioning available) here.
The New Salon: Writers in Conversation: Joshua Ferris and Brandon Taylor, hosted by Darin Strauss
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Joshua Ferris is the author of four novels, including Then We Came to the End, The Unnamed, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, and the most recent A Calling For Charlie Barnes (Little, Brown & Co, 2021), which was named a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a collection of stories, The Dinner Party. He was a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was named one of The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" writers in 2010. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour won the Dylan Thomas Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and Best American Short Stories. He lives in New York.
Brandon Taylor is the author of the novel Real Life, which has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and the short story collection Filthy Animals. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow.
Darin Strauss is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy, More Than it Hurts You, the NBCC-winning memoir, Half a Life, the comic-book series, Olivia Twist, and most recently the acclaimed novel, The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story (Random House, 2020). A recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Library Association Award, and numerous other prizes, Strauss has written screenplays for Disney, Gary Oldman, and Julie Taymor. His work has been translated into fourteen languages and published in nineteen countries, and he is a Clinical Professor at the NYU Creative Writing Program.