A Virtual Evening with Susan Minot and Francesca Marciano

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A Virtual Evening with Susan Minot and Francesca Marciano

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Books & Books and Miami Book Fair present…
An Evening with Susan Minot
In conversation with Francesca Marciano
Discussing

Why I Don’t Write

(Knopf, $25)
Sunday, August 9th, 4pm
A superb collection of short fiction--her first in thirty years and spanning many geographies--from the critically acclaimed author of Monkeys, Evening, and Thirty Girls
A writer dryly catalogs the myriad reasons she cannot write; an artist bicycles through protests in lower Manhattan and ruminates on an elusive lover; an old woman on her deathbed calls out for a man other than her husband; a hapless fifteen-year-old boy finds himself in sexual peril; two young people in the 1990s fall helplessly in love, then bicker just as helplessly, tortured by jealousy and mistrust. In each of these stories Minot explores the difficult geometry of human relations, the lure of love and physical desire, and the lifelong quest for meaning and connection. Her characters are all searching for truth, in feeling and in action, as societal norms are upended and justice and coherence flounder. Urgent and immediate, precisely observed, deeply felt, and gorgeously written, the stories in Why I Don't Write showcase an author at the top of her form.
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About the Author:
SUSAN MINOT is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter. Her first novel, Monkeys, was published in a dozen countries and won the Prix Femina Étranger in France. Her novel Evening was a worldwide best seller and became a major motion picture. She received her MFA from Columbia University and lives with her daughter in New York City and on an island off the coast of Maine.
About the Conversant:
FRANCESCA MARCIANO is the author of the novels Rules of the Wild, Casa Rossa, and The End of Manners, and the story collections The Other Language and Animal Spirit. She lives in Rome.

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