DescriptionThis joint reading was recorded live at the 2006 New Yorker Festival in New York City. Monica Ali was born in Bangladesh and grew up in England. Her debut novel, Brick Lane, was short listed for the Man Booker Prize and nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her second book, Alentejo Blue, a collection of interlinking stories, came out in June; part of it originally appeared in the January 23rd, 2006, issue of The New Yorker . Aleksandar Hemon was born in Sarajevo. He was stranded in the United States during the siege in 1992 and began writing in English three years later. He has published the story collection The Question of Bruno and the novel Nowhere Man, and has received a MacArthur Fellowship.
DescriptionThis joint reading was recorded live at the 2006 New Yorker Festival in New York City. Andrea Lee has been a contributor to The New Yorker for more than 20 years. Her books include the memoir Russian Journal, which was nominated for a National Book Award; the novel Sarah Phillips ; and the story collection Interesting Women . Parts of all three books first appeared in The New Yorker . Her novel Lost Hearts in Italy was published in June 2006. T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of 11 novels, including World's End and Drop City, and eight story collections, including Tooth and Claw, whose title story appeared in The New Yorker and was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2004 . His novel Talk Talk came out in July 2006.
DescriptionThis joint reading was recorded live at the 2006 New Yorker Festival in New York City. Uwem Akpan, a native of Nigeria, was ordained a Catholic priest in 2003. He made his fiction debut in The New Yorker in 2005. His New Yorker story "My Parents' Bedroom" appeared in the June 12th issue. He is currently at work on a collection of stories about children in various countries in Africa. Louise Erdrich 's many books include the novels Love Medicine, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Painted Drum, which came out in 2005. She has also published a number of poetry collections, children's books, and a memoir about early motherhood.
DescriptionThis joint reading was recorded live at the 2006 New Yorker Festival in New York City. Antonya Nelson 's books include the novels Living to Tell and Nobody's Girl, and the novella and story collection Some Fun, which came out in March 2006; parts of it first appeared in The New Yorker . She has received three O. Henry Prizes, a Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has been a contributor to the magazine for 15 years. Thomas McGuane has written 11 novels, including Nobody's Angel, Nothing but Blue Skies, and The Cadence of Grass ; two story collections; three books of nonfiction on life in the outdoors; and several screenplays. His latest story collection, Gallatin Canyon, was published in July 2006; parts of it, including the title story, originally appeared in The New Yorker .
DescriptionThis joint reading was recorded live at the 2006 New Yorker Festival in New York City. Donald Antrim is the author of the novels Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers, and The Verificationist . He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction in 2002. His most recent book, The Afterlife, a memoir about his relationship with his late mother, came out in June 2006; parts of it first appeared in The New Yorker . Tobias Wolff 's many books include the novel Old School, parts of which originally appeared in The New Yorker ; a novella, "The Barracks Thief", which won a PEN/Faulkner Award; three short-story collections; and two memoirs, This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War . His New Yorker story "The Deposition" ran in the February 6th, 2006, issue.
DescriptionThis interview was recorded live at the 2006 New Yorker Festival in New York City. Calvin Trillin has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1963, the year the magazine published "An Education in Georgia", his account of the desegregation of the University of Georgia. His work for the magazine ranges from comic verse and "Casuals" to a wide variety of nonfiction. He is the author of 24 books, including About Alice, which comes out in December 2006. Mark Singer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1974. His books include Funny Money, which first appeared in the magazine in serialized form, and three collections of his New Yorker pieces. His collection Character Studies: Encounters with the Curiously Obsessed came out in 2005.
DescriptionThis joint reading was recorded live at the 2006 New Yorker Festival in New York City. Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States at the age of 23. She began writing in English while pursuing graduate study in immunology at the University of Iowa, where she later studied at the Writers' Workshop. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the inaugural Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and emigrated to the United States at the age of 12. Her books include the story collection Krik? Krak!, which was a National Book Award finalist, and the novels Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Farming of Bones, and The Dew Breaker, parts of which originally appeared in The New Yorker .
