Donna Tartt’s Only Manhattan Appearance for New Book with Allan Gurganus

gurganus-tarttAllan Gurganus’ new collection of novellas is Local Souls. “He does not write fiction so much as fables,” wrote James Merrill. Donna Tartt’s new novel is The Goldfinch. She “writes like someone for whom novels are literally a matter of life and death,” wrote Laura Miller. “Under the influence of her sorcery, I can just about believe it.”

Introduced by Donald Antrim and Michael Pietsch.

Arrive early and experience Love the Words—A 75th-Anniversary Exhibition of rare photos and correspondence in the art gallery.

More about Allan Gurganus and Donna Tartt

Allan Gurganus’s books include White People and Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Gurganus is a Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Adaptations of his fiction have earned four Emmys. A resident of his native North Carolina, he lives in a village of six thousand souls.

Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages.











When: Mon., Oct. 28, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: $27
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gurganus-tarttAllan Gurganus’ new collection of novellas is Local Souls. “He does not write fiction so much as fables,” wrote James Merrill. Donna Tartt’s new novel is The Goldfinch. She “writes like someone for whom novels are literally a matter of life and death,” wrote Laura Miller. “Under the influence of her sorcery, I can just about believe it.”

Introduced by Donald Antrim and Michael Pietsch.

Arrive early and experience Love the Words—A 75th-Anniversary Exhibition of rare photos and correspondence in the art gallery.

More about Allan Gurganus and Donna Tartt

Allan Gurganus’s books include White People and Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Gurganus is a Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Adaptations of his fiction have earned four Emmys. A resident of his native North Carolina, he lives in a village of six thousand souls.

Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages.

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