Join me for a zoom-enabled literary-trivia game show, produced every week until I’m sued for copyright infringement. Never played? Curious? Here’s your Nerd Jeopardy primer.
The meeting ID for May 6th is 874-1530-7869. There’s a password to keep out the trolls; get it by signing up here. (Hint: the password is the surname of the Mrs Dalloway author.)
This week’s guests are Jessica Pearce Rotondi, author of What We Inherit, and Anna Solomon, author most recently of The Book of V.!
Jessica Pearce Rotondi is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Her work has been published by The History Channel, Atlas Obscura, The Huffington Post, Refinery29, and Greatist. Previously, she was Senior Lifestyle Editor at The Huffington Post and a staff member at the PEN American Center, the world’s oldest literary human rights organization. Her first job in New York City was as a book publicist at St. Martin’s Press, where she had a “room of her own” in the Flatiron Building to fill with books. Jessica is a graduate of Brown University, where she received a research grant to conduct an oral history project on World War II. "What We Inherit" is her first book.
Anna Solomon is the author of Leaving Lucy Pear and The Little Bride and a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times Magazine, One Story, Ploughshares, Slate, and more. Coeditor with Eleanor Henderson of Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers, Solomon was born and raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.