Write America: Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt & David Remnick
Join us for the thirteenth episode of Write America.
Join us for the thirteenth episode of Write America.
Writers Against Trump formed to mobilize the literary community in opposition to “the racist, destructive, incompetent, corrupt, and fascist regime of Donald Trump, and to give our language, thought, and time to his defeat in November.”
Siri will attend the Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony on October 18, 2019, to accept her Literature award.
Join Siri Hustvedt, Helen Phillips and Jason Tougaw for readings and a panel discussion.
"Mother and daughter share an incredible imagination, where the characters of Jane Austen, the notes of Nina Simone and the ideas of Simone de Beauvoir come together.
Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, three collections of essays, a work of non-fiction, and six novels, including the international bestsellers What I Loved and The Summer Without Men. Her most recent novel The Blazing World was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won The Los Angeles Book Prize for fiction. In 2012 she was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College in New York. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.