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The Feminist Future of Fiction: A Brooklyn Book Festival Panel with R.O. Kwon, Lydia Kiesling, and Alexia Arthurs at Borough Hall

Join us for a Brooklyn Book Festival panel featuring R.O Kwon, Lydia Kiesling, and Alexia Arthurs, in conversation with novelist and Books Are Magic co-owner Emma Straub! They will discuss their razor-sharp debuts, writing while female, the state of American letters, and anything else they damn well please.

R. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian, Vice, Buzzfeed, Time, Noon, Electric Literature, Playboy, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Omi International, the Steinbeck Center, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea, she has lived most of her life in the United States.

Lydia Kiesling is the editor of The Millions. Her debut novel, The Golden State, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Slate, and The New Yorker online, and have been recognized in The Best American Essays 2016. Kiesling lives in San Francisco with her family.

Alexia Arthurs is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. How To Love a Jamaican is her debut book. Arthurs has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Vice, The Paris Review, and Granta, among other publications. She was awarded the Paris Review’s 2017 Plimpton prize for her short story “Bad Behavior.”

Emma Straub is from New York City. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Modern Lovers and The Vacationers. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published by Tin House, The Paris Review Daily, Time, Slate, and The New York Times, and Rookie. She lives with her husband in Brooklyn, where she co-owns Books Are Magic.

This event is free and will take place at Borough Hall (209 Joralemon St, Brooklyn, NY 11201). Let us know you’re coming on Facebook.











When: Sun., Sep. 16, 2018 at 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Join us for a Brooklyn Book Festival panel featuring R.O Kwon, Lydia Kiesling, and Alexia Arthurs, in conversation with novelist and Books Are Magic co-owner Emma Straub! They will discuss their razor-sharp debuts, writing while female, the state of American letters, and anything else they damn well please.

R. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian, Vice, Buzzfeed, Time, Noon, Electric Literature, Playboy, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Omi International, the Steinbeck Center, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea, she has lived most of her life in the United States.

Lydia Kiesling is the editor of The Millions. Her debut novel, The Golden State, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Slate, and The New Yorker online, and have been recognized in The Best American Essays 2016. Kiesling lives in San Francisco with her family.

Alexia Arthurs is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. How To Love a Jamaican is her debut book. Arthurs has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Vice, The Paris Review, and Granta, among other publications. She was awarded the Paris Review’s 2017 Plimpton prize for her short story “Bad Behavior.”

Emma Straub is from New York City. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Modern Lovers and The Vacationers. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published by Tin House, The Paris Review Daily, Time, Slate, and The New York Times, and Rookie. She lives with her husband in Brooklyn, where she co-owns Books Are Magic.

This event is free and will take place at Borough Hall (209 Joralemon St, Brooklyn, NY 11201). Let us know you’re coming on Facebook.

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