I am writing from Brooklyn after a big snow that reminds me of the snows of my childhood in Northfield, Minnesota, a small college town of about 20,000 people south of Minneapolis.
Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted which turn out to be far less stable than we imagine. On sale now.
Ghost Stories is Siri Hustvedt’s most personal book yet, a searing and intimate meditation on grief, memory, and enduring love, written in the aftermath of the death of her husband, Paul Auster.
I am writing from Brooklyn after a big snow that reminds me of the snows of my childhood in Northfield, Minnesota, a small college town of about 20,000 people south of Minneapolis.
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.