Writers Speak

Jenny Erpenbeck A rare American appearance by the highly acclaimed German novelist whose novels include Visitation (2010), The End of Days (2014), and Go, Went, Gone (2017). Winner of numerous prizes, including the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (UK)...

Min Jin Lee is the author of two novels, Free Food for Millionaires (2007) and Pachinko (2017). Both books have been New York Times bestsellers. Pachinko was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, as well as one of the New York Times' 10 Best...

Hilton Als became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1994 and a theatre critic in 2002. He began contributing to the magazine in 1989, writing pieces for The Talk of the Town.  Before coming to The New Yorker, Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice...

Leslie Jamison recently published her new book, a collection of essays called Make It Scream, Make It Burn, in September 2019. She's also written a novel, The Gin Closet, a collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, and a critical memoir, The Recovering...

Hisham Matar’s new book is A Month in Siena. His critically acclaimed memoir, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between, won the Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and...

Writers Speak Speaker: Yiyun Li, Award-winning Author REGISTER FOR ZOOM LINK About the Speakers Yiyun Li is the author of six works of fiction— Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold...