Virtual | Literary | Talks
Sigrid Nunez
- 7:30PM
VIRTUAL
Event includes closed captioning
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Presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation
Join Sigrid Nunez for an evening of intimate discourse and reflection at this digital event, rescheduled from last spring due to the shutdown.
Nunez has published eight novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, and The Friend, which was a New York Times bestseller and won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel, What Are You Going Through, was published by Riverhead Books in 2020. Her other honors include four Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and the Rome Prize in Literature. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories 2019 and four anthologies of Asian American literature. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Nunez lives in New York City.
Purchase copies of Sigrid Nunez's books from Greenlight bookstore here
This program includes closed captioning. If there is anything we can do to make this program as accessible to you as possible, please let us know. Contact BAM at accessibility@BAM.org with any questions, suggestions, or for additional information.
Leadership support for off-site programs provided by:
Leadership support for BAM Access Programs provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation
Support provided by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
BAM's in-house caterer and longtime partner crafts a series of specialty cocktails (with zero proof versions) just for Eat, Drink & Be Literary. Cheers!
Deborah Treisman is the fiction editor at The New Yorker. She is the host of that publication’s award-winning fiction podcast, the editor of the anthology 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker, and the recipient of the 2012 Maxwell Perkins Award for Distinguished Contribution to Fiction.
You are invited to a free virtual conversation with a Greenlight Bookstore staff member reflecting on the evening’s discussion and diving deeper into The Friend by Sigrid Nunez.
