Victor Garber has been nominated for six Emmy, four Tony, and three Screen Actors Guild awards, winning the latter for Argo. His extensive television credits include featured roles on Alias, The Slap, The Flash, The Orville, Tales of the City, Power, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Power Book II, and Family Law. He has appeared in such films as Sleepless in Seattle, Titanic, Legally Blond, Milk, Argo, and Happiest Season. His stage work includes the original casts of Godspell, Sweeney Todd and Noises Off, Tony-nominated roles in Deathtrap, Little Me, Damn Yankees, and Lend Me a Tenor. Additional Broadway credits include Arcadia; Art; Present Laughter; and Hello, Dolly!
Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the story collection Music For Wartime as well as the novels The Hundred-Year House and The Borrower. Her work was chosen for The Best American Short Stories in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 and appears regularly in publications such as Harper's, Tin House, Ploughshares, New England Review, and Ecotone. The recipient of a 2014 NEA Fellowship, Makkai has taught at Northwestern University, the Tin House Writers' Conference, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Yxta Maya Murray is a writer and law professor living in Los Angeles. Her novels include The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Kidnapped, The King’s Gold: An Old World Novel of Adventure, and The Queen Jade: A Novel, and others. She has won a Whiting Award and an Art Writers Grant, and she has been a finalist for the ASME Award in Fiction. Her art criticism can be found in Artforum, ARTnews, Artillery, and other periodicals.
Tanis Parenteau’s stage credits include The Winter’s Tale and Powwow Highway at HERE Arts Center, Glenburn 12 WP and Miss Lead at 59E59 Theaters, Smoke with the Signature Theater, Sacagawea: Bird Woman at Urban Stages, Material Witness at La MaMa, Stand-Off at HWY #37 with Up Next and Labyrinth Theater, Manahatta with the Public Studio at The Public Theater and Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Sliver of a Full Moon at New York University, Harvard, Yale, and the White House’s United State of Women Summit. Her film, television, and webseries credits include Billions, Tribal, Gossip Girl, Designated Survivor, House of Cards,Blood Lineage, and A Big Black Space.
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, and The Wife, which was adapted to film in 2018, starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce. She was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017, and has also published books for young readers, most recently a picture book, Millions of Maxes. Wolitzer is a faculty member in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a one-year, non-credit intensive in the novel. She is excited to be the new host of the literary radio show and podcast Selected Shorts.
CREDITS
“The Briefcase” by Rebecca Makkai. Copyright c 2008 by Rebecca Makkai. First appeared in New England Review. Used by permission of the author.
“Paradise” by Yxta Maya Murray. First published in The Southern Review, vol. 56, no. 3. Copyright © 2020 by Yxta Maya Murray. From The World Doesn’t Work That Way, But It Could, University of Nevada Press, 2020. Used by permission of the author.
