The New Yorker Festival | Literary Society: The World in Words

With Louise Erdrich, Rachel Kushner, and George Saunders. Moderated by Deborah Treisman.

Louise Erdrich is a novelist and poet. She is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, and is the author of 15 novels, including “Love Medicine,” which received the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction; “The Round House,” which received the 2012 National Book Award for fiction; and “LaRose,” published this past May. Many of her short stories have been anthologized in the “The Best American Short Stories” and the “O. Henry Prize Stories” collections.

Rachel Kushner is the author of “Telex from Cuba,” which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and the best-selling “The Flamethrowers,” which was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award and the 2014 Folio Prize. Her collection of short stories, “The Strange Case of Rachel K,” was published in 2015. She was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2013 and was the 2016 recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Vursell Prize.

George Saunders’s first short story for The New Yorker was published in 1992; since then, he has written numerous pieces for the magazine. He is a recipient of fellowships from both the MacArthur Foundation and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His most recent short-story collection, “Tenth of December: Stories,” won the Folio Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award; his first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” will be published in February, 2017. His article “Trump Days,” about Donald Trump rallies, ran in the July 11th & 18th issue of the magazine.

Deborah Treisman is the fiction editor of The New Yorker and the host of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast. In 2012, she received the Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction.

Gramercy Theatre
127 E. 23rd St.

Tickets $45