I’m thrilled to be October’s Writer in Residence at the James Merrill House. I’ll be giving a virtual reading as part of the residency, and be joined by novelist Joanna Scott for a conversation about… TBD. Definitely not the election.

You can watch on their YouTube channel. In the meantime I encourage you to check out the James Merrill House’s shelf at Bank Square Books.

Joanna Scott is the author of ten novels, including Arrogance, a PEN-Faulkner finalist, The Manikin, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Follow Me, a New York Times Notable Book. Her most recent novels are De Potter's Grand Tour (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and Careers for Women (Little, Brown). She has also published two collections of short fiction, Various Antidotes and Everybody Loves Somebody​. Awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ambassador Book Award from the English-Speaking Union, and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Scott is the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester.