WRITERS SPEAK

SPEAKER: Elif Batuman

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Elif Batuman’s first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and for the Women’s Prize. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. She has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2010, and holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University. Her second novel, Either/Or, was published in 2022.... Read more about Writers Speak | Elif Batuman in conversation with Beth Blum

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SPEAKER: Carmen Maria Machado

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Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, among others. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, The Believer, Guernica, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.... Read more about Writers Speak | Carmen Maria Machado in conversation with Laura van den Berg

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SPEAKER: Bernardine Evaristo

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Bernardine Evaristo is the author of the 2019 Booker Prize-winning novel Girl, Woman, Other. Her numerous other works span the genres of fiction, verse fiction, short fiction, poetry, essays, literary criticism, and radio and theatre drama. Other fiction titles include Mr. Loverman, Blonde Roots, and Lara. Her first non-fiction book, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up, will be published in 2022 by Grove Atlantic. Her writing is celebrated for its experimentation, daring, subversion, and challenging the myths of Afro-diasporic identities and histories. A staunch and longstanding activist and advocate for the inclusion of artists and writers of color, Evaristo has initiated several successful schemes to ensure increased representation in the creative industries. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London.... Read more about Writers Speak | Bernardine Evaristo in conversation with Gish Jen

The Hauser Forum

Speakers: Alison Bechdel, Hillary Chute

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Alison Bechdel will discuss some of the strategies she has used to navigate time in her various graphic memoirs. From the simultaneity of events in the unconscious, to the time-stamped documents of evidence, to the search for patterns in random, unspooling life, to the ultimate problem of mortality, Bechdel shows her work in search of visual solutions to lost time.... Read more about The Hauser Forum | Alison Bechdel on 'The Psychochronology of Everyday Life: Time in Graphic Memoir'

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SPEAKER: Hari Kunzru

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Born in London, Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men, and White Tears, as well as a short story collection, Noise and a novella, Memory Palace. His most recent novel Red Pill was published in September 2020. He is an honorary fellow of Wadham College Oxford, and has received fellowships from the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy in Berlin. He is the host of the podcast Into The Zone from Pushkin Industries. He lives in New York City.
... Read more about Hari Kunzru in conversation with Duncan White

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SPEAKER: Rachel Kushner

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SPEAKERS: Rania Abouzeid, Alissa J. Rubin, and Robert Worth

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Three acclaimed journalists -- former Middle East bureau chief for the New York Times Robert F. Worth; award-winning film and print journalist and 2019-20 Nieman Fellow Rania Abouzeid; and award-winning former Iraq correspondent and current Nieman Fellow Alissa J. Rubin -- discuss the situation in the Middle East with former editor of the New York Times and Senior Lecturer in the English Department, Jill Abramson.... Read more about Tyrants & Rebels: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon

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SPEAKER: Alice Oswald

"With Homer" – a conversation and reading with Teju Cole

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... Read more about Alice Oswald in conversation with Teju Cole

Speaker: Claire Messud, author of Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays

Harvard Book Store's virtual event series and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University welcome eminent novelist Claire Messud—author of the acclaimed novels The Emperor's Children and The Burning Girl—for a discussion of her latest book, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays. She will be joined in conversation by André Aciman, author of the beloved novels Call Me By Your Name and Find Me. This event will be moderated by Ruth Franklin, author of the award-winning biography Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life.

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Speaker: Jill Lepore, Harvard University... Read more about Conversation on Covid-19 | Jill Lepore

Writers Speak

Speaker: Yiyun Li, Award-winning Author

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... Read more about Yiyun Li in Conversation with Claire Messud