The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name Is Lucy Barton talks with Alexander Chee (The Queen of the Night) about her latest novel, a return to the world of Lucy Barton in which the mysteries of marriage, family secrets, and the quiet forces that hold us together—even after we’ve grown apart—are explored. Featuring a reading from the novel by J. Smith-Cameron (Succession).
Special bonus: Tickets come with a copy of Oh William!
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Praise for My Name Is Lucy Barton: “Writing of this quality comes from a commitment to listening, from a perfect attunement to the human condition, from an attention to reality so exact that it goes beyond a skill and becomes a virtue.” — Hilary Mantel
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THE ARTISTS (in alphabetical order)
Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. A contributing editor at The New Republic and an editor at large at VQR, his essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, The Sewanee Review, and The Best American Essays 2016 and 2019. He is a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction, the recipient of a Whiting Award, a NEA Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, and Leidig House, among others. Chee teaches at Dartmouth College.
J. Smith-Cameron can be seen as Gerri on HBO’s Succession. In January 2019, she was nominated for an Indie Spirit Award for her performance in Andrea Risborough’s film Nancy. Additional film credits include Christine; Like Sunday, Like Rain; and Margaret, for which she won Best Supporting Actress award for the International Cinephile Society. Her television credits include roles on Sundance’s Rectify and HBO’s True Blood. In the theater, she has appeared in numerous productions on Broadway and off. Highlights include Our Country's Good, for which she received a Tony nomination; Sarah, Sarah (Drama Desk nomination); Fuddy Meers (Outer Critics and Drama Desk nominations); and As Bees in Honey Drown (Obie Award, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics nominations).
Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. Oh William! was published on October 19th.
At the Thalia Book Club, readers and writers meet for intimate conversations about compelling new books and favorite classics in fiction, essay, biography and more. Evenings include an actor performing an excerpt, an interview, and a conversation with the audience.
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