I’m moderating an online panel with three greats at this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival. Here’s the official festival description:
LIVE WEBINAR - OUTCASTS AND OUTSIDERS
Children required to be mature beyond their years, adults seeking lives worth writing about, and other fascinating characters populate the exciting novels and stories of these award-winning authors. Join Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet (A Children’s Bible), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist Héctor Tobar (The Last Great Road Bum), and best-selling author Lidia Yuknavitch (Verge) to learn about the challenges and possibilities of life on the margins. Moderated by Ryan Chapman, author of Riots I Have Known.
Lydia Millet has written more than a dozen books of literary fiction, including, most recently, A Children’s Bible. Her story collection Fight No More received an Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019. Other titles include the novels Sweet Lamb of Heaven (2016) and Mermaids in Paradise (2014). Millet has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and various other honors and works as a writer and editor at the Center for Biological Diversity, an organization dedicated to fighting climate change and species extinction.
Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and novelist. He is the recent author of The Last Great Road Bum, the New York Times bestseller Deep Down Dark, and more. Tobar has also written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, L.A. Noir, and more. The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of Los Angeles, where he lives with his family. Visit his website at https://www.hectortobar.com/ or follow him on Twitter @TobarWriter.
Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award, the novel Dora: A Headcase, and a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories Of Violence (Routledge). Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. The Misfit's Manifesto, a book based on her recent TED Talk, was published by TED Books. Her newest book is Verge.