Writers' Workshop alum, Curtis Sittenfeld will read from her latest book, Show Don't Tell

A funny, fiercely intelligent, and moving collection exploring marriage, friendship, fame, and artistic ambition—including a story that revisits the main character from Curtis Sittenfeld’s iconic novel Prep

“[Sittenfeld’s] perfectly contained stories are a joy.”—Booklist, starred review

Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of seven novels: Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland, Eligible, Rodham, and Romantic Comedy, which was picked for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club. Her first story collection, You Think It, I’ll Say It, was published in 2018 and also picked for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club. Her books have been selected by The New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and People for their “Ten Best Books of the Year” lists, optioned for television and film, and translated into 30 languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Esquire, and in the Best American Short Stories anthology, of which she was the 2020 guest editor. Her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Slate, and on “This American Life.” A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Curtis has appeared as a guest on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” CBS’s “Early Show,” and PBS’s Newshour; four times been a Jeopardy! answer (see below), and once been a Word Search puzzle.

Lan Samantha Chang is the author of a collection of short fiction, Hunger, and three novels; Inheritance; All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost; and The Family Chao. She is Program Director and Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor in the Arts at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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