In Fact and Fiction w/ Deborah Treisman
| Hours: | 6:30 to 8:30pm |
| Ages: | Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | Free |
| Category: | Lectures/Discussions |
In 2003, when Deborah Treisman became the magazine's youngest fiction editor ever, she built on her predecessor's achievements by bringing new voices to the fore: Miranda July, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Junot Diaz, are just some of the writers who have blossomed under Treisman's tutelage. But her work is not solely restricted to fiction.
She has also edited some of the magazine's stellar non-fiction writers, including foreign correspondent Jane Kramer, and television critic Nancy Franklin.
In this conversation, Treisman will discuss her work as an editor of fact and fiction with two of her writers, each of whom works in both genres: the Bosnian-American novelist and MacArthur fellow, Aleksandar Hemon and New Yorker staff writer, Hilton Als.
Deborah Treisman became Fiction Editor of The New Yorker after serving as Deputy Fiction Editor since 1997. Previously, she was the managing editor of Grand Street, and has been a member of the editorial staffs of The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, and The Threepenny Review. Her translations have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Harper’s, and Grand Street.
Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and three collections of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man (also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Love and Obstacles. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 2004.
Hilton Als became a staff writer at The New Yorker in October 1994. He has also written articles for the Village Voice, The New York Review of Books and was an editor-at-large at Vibe. He was awarded a Guggenheim for Creative Writing in 2000 and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2002-03. Als is the author of two books, The Women (1996) and Justin Bond/Jackie Curtis (2010) and is currently the Newhouse Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Wellesley College.
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